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Fantastic Fight!!

It's available until feb 27th

I was there that night, it was a wonderful fight, If I remember rightly Naz was on the bill and came in on a flying carpet above all the fans heads, although that might have been another night.

Neary/Ward really was a cracker though, enjoyed the night.

It was the Bungu fight , the only time that the South African was stopped.

nice heads up, thanks

chinny wrote:nice heads up, thanks

Your welcome

shame i cant view it am on virgin never seen it this before only started watching boxing 3-4 years ago

youtube it then.

neary was massive :!: why did he never go to welter??& not many rock ward.

hurlock wrote:youtube it then.

neary was massive :!: why did he never go to welter??& not many rock ward.

Cracking fight, but despite some good moments - never felt like he was going to take Ward out.

stujones wrote:

hurlock wrote:youtube it then.

neary was massive :!: why did he never go to welter??& not many rock ward.

Cracking fight, but despite some good moments - never felt like he was going to take Ward out.

The third round was incredible,neary thought he'd got him and put him on the ropes relentlessly winging in vicous hooks,the way ward came back is the reason he's so well respected,one hell of a warrior

stujones wrote:

hurlock wrote:youtube it then.

neary was massive :!: why did he never go to welter??& not many rock ward.

Cracking fight, but despite some good moments - never felt like he was going to take Ward out.

did you watch it live???
because neary trained so hard to make 10st, you can see the effort he had to make getting the shot's out.it was like he was punching through treacle :!: if you have ever been weight drained you recognise it straight away.he wasnt dead at the weight he got beat fair & square.

Andypittcov wrote:

chinny wrote:nice heads up, thanks

Your welcome

nice 1 mate, they had a little taster on KOTV this week to wet the appetite, now i can watch the whole fight.

I have sky+ cannot find it on anytime though.

stujones wrote:I have sky+ cannot find it on anytime though.

It only appeared on mine today maybe yours hasn't downloaded it yet.

I filmed this show from the balconey at the arena, about 30 mins before naz's fight, security made everybody move from that area, as Naz wanted to warm up in that area, (he never did) I had to stay as I was filming from that position, it was outside the changing rooms of the 2 main events, a few minutes later this American black guy was chatting to me about the boxing, we spent about 15 mins talking about boxing, at the end he said he had to go, , I said ok, my names Eric Guy, and gave him my card, incase he wanted to buy a video (salesman in me), he said thanks, my names Puff Daddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wished I watched MTV..........................

stujones wrote:I have sky+ cannot find it on anytime though.

Same here.

King Tubby wrote:

stujones wrote:I have sky+ cannot find it on anytime though.

Same here.

It's on mine!! What more can I say!!

Ring up sky and complain

Andypittcov wrote:Fantastic Fight!!

It's available until feb 27th

That night was a good night - Frank Maloney got me a pass into that show - managed to sit next to George Foreman in between his TV work - a rather entertaining evening.

got this on DVD a few years ago. really exciting fight. there were lots of terrific battles for those bauble titles around that time, around that weight (i also like neary-scheepers, and most of the ayers-dunne-rigby battles).

the way ward went southpaw and nailed neary with the lead right hooks, made me wonder if john murray (vs meager) and anthony crolla (vs watson) had been watching this fight, in their emphatic british lightweight title winning efforts.

ERIC GUY wrote:I filmed this show from the balconey at the arena, about 30 mins before naz's fight, security made everybody move from that area, as Naz wanted to warm up in that area, (he never did) I had to stay as I was filming from that position, it was outside the changing rooms of the 2 main events, a few minutes later this American black guy was chatting to me about the boxing, we spent about 15 mins talking about boxing, at the end he said he had to go, , I said ok, my names Eric Guy, and gave him my card, incase he wanted to buy a video (salesman in me), he said thanks, my names Puff Daddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wished I watched MTV..........................

what would you had done diffrent??

yeah i watched it on there thursday night - spencer oliver looked about 10.

Classic fight a proper war. Wards showboating when he was on the ropes was class.

ERIC GUY wrote:I filmed this show from the balconey at the arena, about 30 mins before naz's fight, security made everybody move from that area, as Naz wanted to warm up in that area, (he never did) I had to stay as I was filming from that position, it was outside the changing rooms of the 2 main events, a few minutes later this American black guy was chatting to me about the boxing, we spent about 15 mins talking about boxing, at the end he said he had to go, , I said ok, my names Eric Guy, and gave him my card, incase he wanted to buy a video (salesman in me), he said thanks, my names Puff Daddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wished I watched MTV..........................

This was one of those fights that you didn't look away from - not for a second.