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Chisora TKO 2 Williams - Referee stops fight after second successive knockdown. Very sad for Danny he looked worse than finished. Chisora hit very hard and showed good speed but looked very uncoordinated with his punches.

After prizefighter it was obvious Danny had left his chin in las vegas 6 years ago. But great win for Del Boy, did it in style and even with the bad rep he seems a good bloke.
Another Gary Mason, or better?

decent interview by Del Boy.

the crowd seemed to respond well to Chisora. hopefully he'll get a few more good fights under his belt then fighting for European and world belts

Very mixed work from Saunders, threw 600 shots but not masses of power, apparently he hurt his left hand that was already broken.

Crowd trouble guys. Looks like Milwall but not sure.

Can't see on it tv! Was it bad?

Sam Horton looks very confident moving around real nice. DeGale looking very cheerful - as for how they look against each other physically, it's pretty even Horton a bit more wirey.

Whole fornicating place went mental. Hammers fans shouting abuse. Offenders ushered outside of Moore end. Calmed down now.

DeGale switch hitting and jabbing well from both stances, buzzed Horton a few times by counterpunching with power shots, straight counters and uppercuts. DeGale showboating with his head and upper body movement and fighting very casual possibly to the point of being reckless. Degale round but it wont last.

Poncey wrote:Whole effing place went mental. Hammers fans shouting abuse. Offenders ushered outside of Moore end. Calmed down now.

It was obvious it would happen. Were police there to sort it?

2nd Horton rocked early DeGale boxing a bit more throwing an excellent strong jab and throwing combinations when shown the opportunity. Horton down to long left hand and takes a succession of hard shots but DeGale is too wild to finish inside the round.

leforge wrote:

Poncey wrote:Whole effing place went mental. Hammers fans shouting abuse. Offenders ushered outside of Moore end. Calmed down now.

It was obvious it would happen. Were police there to sort it?

Half the staiumds allocation. They've segregated the areas now.

3rd Horton battling back but DeGale is too slick to be hit very much and Horton is very tired. Goes back to headdunting and doesn't land many punches until the end of the round when Horton is stuck on the ropes and is hit with some great punches on inside. Shows good infighting that I've not seen much of from him before.

DeGale makes Khan seem likeable.

4th Chunky is patient and marches him down, but when Horton is on the ropes he unleashes the venom, horton takes a shellacking but at times DeGale is lazy

Is there anywhere I can watch the Mitchel Katsidis fight live? Thought I'd heard it was ITV?

5th Degale throws wide uppercuts and Horton walks straight onto some hard punches..DeGale doesn't show much quality finishing until late into the round when he lands a massive 3 punch clean combo that has Horton out.. The ref keeps counting as his corner are climbing in...awful ref.

MachoMan09 wrote:Jim Watt: "DeGale is not a natural finisher..."

3 seconds later - fight over.

Jim Watt: "That finish was pure class.."

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I think that was referring to his having Horton nearly out so many times and letting him off the hook by being wild.

my take on tonight so far , del boy was always going to ko williams in my mind so was only what i expected , williams didnt look like he wanted to be in there .
Saunders looked fairly good to me despite johnny nelsons comments .
de gale looked poor tonight , in my opinion his worst performance as a pro but great finish , ref was shocking , and was a little dissapointed by chunkys entrance , seemed too tame for him , lol.

Horton didnt want to no well well done degale

bigdaddy wrote:Horton didnt want to no well well done degale

i think thats a bit harsh , i just think at the end of the day hes not at de gales level .

deadpan wrote:DeGale makes Khan seem likeable.

I've always thought Degale came across as being quite affable, even the cockiness seems tongue in cheek.

Hoplite. Dressed as a hoplite.

/pedantry

MachoMan09 wrote:Will Stacey get the anthem words wrong?

F**king awful either way.