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David Barnes defends his British welterweight title against Northern Ireland's Glenn McClarnon on the Ricky Hatton bill in Manchester on April 3.

Bloody hell, that is poor.

And I bet you still all think he'll be fighting Jimmy Vicent !!!

Barnes will fight Vincent again when he is ready

REAL_DEAL wrote:Barnes will fight Vincent again when he is ready

Vincent has to get past Harry Dhami in an eliminator first. Jimmy, for some reason, believed he was going to get the shot at Barnes in April, but he's never been that lucky. Warren is going to secure a Lonsdale Belt outright for Barnes, then allow Vincent and Neil Sinclair to ruin each other for the vacant title...

Exactly, Bennie.
Barnes will NOT fight Vincent.

Kieran wrote:Barnes will NOT fight Vincent.

What? An overprotected allegedly fighter? Surley not :)

feel sorry for Vincent.........while Barnes can keep picking up easy victories and then wait for the right moment to avenge their last meeting.

Barnes "beat" Vincent - if he was good enough to "beat" him then, surely he's ready now.

I know he's young, but to be honest his first defence wasn't against the strongest of opposition - boardrline top ten. This is a downward step from this.

Its making a mockery of the lonsdale belt.

stujones wrote:Barnes "beat" Vincent - if he was good enough to "beat" him then, surely he's ready now.

I know he's young, but to be honest his first defence wasn't against the strongest of opposition - boardrline top ten. This is a downward step from this.

Its making a mockery of the lonsdale belt.

This fight would be accceptable as a non title marking time bout, but it represents a cheap way of heading towards securing a Lonsdale belt outright - it should not be allowed for the title.

When Jimmy accepted that step aside money he basically negated any chance he had of a timely rematch with Barnes. FW doesn't need a repeat of the palpatations Vincent gave him in the first fight..

is this for 3/4 . Bugger got ringside seats and wanted to see Barnes in a decent scrap he can be very exciting if not world class, tho the fight against vincent was a total travesty of justice on a par with de la hoya mosely.
both results sucked majorly.