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George groves says on his facebook he's fight on the huddersfield bill on Saturday, any idea who he's fighting? Says on here though that he's on the hatton Alvarez card though. Surely not another back 'injury' on the way

George is fighting tyrone nurse. easy nights work for groves

hayebomb wrote:George is fighting tyrone nurse. easy nights work for groves

Course it is; Groves is a super-middleweight and T is a lightweight!

Podmore_Birmingham wrote:

hayebomb wrote:George is fighting tyrone nurse. easy nights work for groves

Course it is; Groves is a super-middleweight and T is a lightweight!

maybe he's been eating alot of pies lately!

lefty wrote:

Podmore_Birmingham wrote:

hayebomb wrote:George is fighting tyrone nurse. easy nights work for groves

Course it is; Groves is a super-middleweight and T is a lightweight!

maybe he's been eating alot of pies lately!

Or Groves has lost an arm and a leg

Podmore_Birmingham wrote:

hayebomb wrote:George is fighting tyrone nurse. easy nights work for groves

Course it is; Groves is a super-middleweight and T is a lightweight!

totally agree, i would rather see him give kenny anderson a rematch.

hayebomb wrote:George is fighting tyrone nurse. easy nights work for groves

I would have been stunned if Chris Aston agreed to such a fight.

alexpaterson wrote:

lefty wrote:

Podmore_Birmingham wrote: Course it is; Groves is a super-middleweight and T is a lightweight!

maybe he's been eating alot of pies lately!

Or Groves has lost an arm and a leg

Now that would be interesting! A lightweight vs a one armed and one legged super-middleweight

lefty wrote:

alexpaterson wrote:

lefty wrote: maybe he's been eating alot of pies lately!

Or Groves has lost an arm and a leg

Now that would be interesting! A lightweight vs a one armed and one legged super-middleweight

Haha surely we would have to make the lightweight wear a blindfold just to make it a little more interesting!

alexpaterson wrote:

lefty wrote:

alexpaterson wrote:
Or Groves has lost an arm and a leg

Now that would be interesting! A lightweight vs a one armed and one legged super-middleweight

Haha surely we would have to make the lightweight wear a blindfold just to make it a little more interesting!

That would be some entertainment!None of this crappy mismatch lark!

hayebomb wrote:

Podmore_Birmingham wrote:

hayebomb wrote:George is fighting tyrone nurse. easy nights work for groves

Course it is; Groves is a super-middleweight and T is a lightweight!

totally agree, i would rather see him give kenny anderson a rematch.

That would be an interesting spectacle. I thought Kenny performed well in their initial encounter. I think the cut really hampered him.

Haha all we need is the power of Sky and were there!! Move aside prizefighter!

Cant see him being on but it will be brilliant if he is.

They say George Groves warms up with a fight this weekend in Huddersfield for his pending all-London showdown with reigning Olympic champion James DeGale and, if so, it is a smart move by the charismatic Hammersmith puncher who likes to keep busy and has been out since mid-November when he climbed of the floor to stop rugged Scot Kenny Anderson in six rounds. Groves will need every bit of his strength, his stamina, his sharpness and his timing against the gifted DeGale, a showdown which must happen before April 11 or DeGale gets stripped of his British super-middleweight title.
DeGale won the title with a masterly nine-round stoppage of the vastly more experienced Paul Smith in December and has now stopped his last four opponents to go to 9-0 (7) in the pros, so 25-year-old "Chunky" (because of chunky legs as a boy) is adding strength and power to his slick southpaw boxing skills. The man oozes talent, Audley Harrison, if you like, with bottle.
The fearless Groves has also raced through the pro ranks to go to 11-0 (9) - and has also stopped his last four - so both men are hitting hard, unbeaten, looking good, pushing on, and deserve every penny of their share of the astonishing £400,000 Hayemaker Promotions recently bid for this cracker.
You know, it really doesn't get much better than DeGale-Groves in current domestic boxing. "Somebody's '0' must go", as Mike Spinks once famously cracked, or should I say infamously, and Groves knows he can already beat DeGale, having done so on a thrilling decision at Brent Town Hall in 2006 in a rare battle of amateur clubmates (Dale Youth, with trainers from different clubs in the respective corners that night). It was one of those decisions that could have gone either way and proved a turning point in DeGale's life as he realised he was going down the wrong road as a boxer, missing training, getting cocky, feeling he just had to turn up to win, and he made the snap decision to totally dedicate himself to the sport and wound up with the biggest amateur prize of them all in 2008 in Beijing with the middleweight gold, while Groves, who felt he should have gone to China, turned pro with a chip on his shoulder. This is his chance to right a perceived wrong.
Groves won the Commonwealth super-middleweight title last year with a superb six-round stoppage of Ghanaian veteran Charles Adamu, who had gone the full 12 with Carl Froch (and indeed, had never been stopped before), and then came through battles to stop Mexico's Alfredo Contreras and Edinburgh's previously unbeaten Anderson, both of whom hurt the dangerous, aggressive if occasionally reckless Londoner (Anderson had him down, of course), although Groves hurt them a helluva lot more.
Groves is tough and impetuous, perhaps too tough and impetuous at still only 22 - all of which might play into the hands of the classy, counterpunching DeGale, who tried to slug it out with Groves in their amateur clash (shades of Duran-Leonard) and fought the wrong fight. Groves hits harder than DeGale, that's for sure, but DeGale holds the edges in speed, versatility and natural ability as he showed against the gutsy Smith last time out, picking him apart on Smith's own Liverpool manor. He really did box superbly.
If DeGale keeps it long, tucks up in close to smother Groves and his bombs, which he is good at these days, he will pick up the points on the outside - and the rounds - on the way to a big decision win. I doubt very much he will stop his long-time rival. Bragging rights, like this fight, will go a long, long way.

Looks like they've shipped this African in then

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_ ... &cat=boxer

13 Fight bill including Groves & Frampton starting at between 5.30 & 6. Looks like it is going to be a good night.

Bennyblanco wrote:Looks like they've shipped this African in then

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_ ... &cat=boxer

Will Degale be taking a nonsense fight in the meantime also ? very doubtful.

I just hope no injury excuses are born of it afterwards.

G0mez wrote:

Bennyblanco wrote:Looks like they've shipped this African in then

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_ ... &cat=boxer

Will Degale be taking a nonsense fight in the meantime also ? very doubtful.

I just hope no injury excuses are born of it afterwards.

I thought this immediately.It must be odds on he picks up some kind of knock.