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Missed the bill itself (with all the wooo haaa about Hatton I actually forgot there was live boxing on tonight).

Sounded like a good bill with some excellent results, if people could fill me in on the performances I would be greatful.

Hussian Osman might be the best scalp on Treymour's record, anybody know if he's eligable to fight for the British title (if he is he definately in the top ten). Did he win comfortably, Osman is always a tough cookie to crack.

Steve Murray got another much needed win, but I have read it was a another aging fight - the opponent was ambitious, so perhaps Murray can go back to where he was before Ramanov or maybe even before the Vanzie.

Michael Jennings keeps get the wins! Was he impressive this time? This guy looks a MASSIVE prospect and I hope he looked the part last night.,

And Finally, Danny Williams got a much needed confidence booster win. I did say that anything less than a 1st round stoppage against this bum would be unimpressive - but Danny got a rare (these days) early KO. Well done.

Any more info would be great.

Murray V Watson was a barn burner.... did they show it on sky???
Was a very close fight with both giving and taking HUGE shots to head and body.
Watson on the floor in the first but got up angry with himself, he then took all Murray had for 10 rounds and gave as good as he got, hurting Steve on a number of occasions...
last round Murray caught him with an absolute peach of a body shot and Watson nearly went dont, but he sucked it up and straightened himself out.... both real warriors... not sure what the official scores were but in my opinion it was very close and could have gone either way.

Teymour won quite impressively.....He won every round up till the stoppage IMO. The south paw/orthodox clash meant heads bumped occasionally and although purely accidental Osman came off worse and ended with 4 stitched over each eye I think... It was a good natured fight, both touching gloves at the start of every round.
Teymour dropped Osman in about round 4 although Hussein wasnt that hurt it was a 10-8 round.... A couple of times it looked like Teymour nearly had Osman finished but Erik knew how tough Osman is and was conscious that this was his first ten rounder and didnt want to shoot his bolt so stepped off the gas rathen than going hell for leather for the stoppage... Osman was giving away 5 lbs which is hard for anyone although his extra experience over the longer distance gave him an advantage in that department.
After the fight Osman and his friend commented that Teymour was a light heavy, he is not of course, but i think that told its own story... Osman obviously felt how strong Erik was...

I thought Jennings looked superb, very sharp and he's punching hard. Pleased for him as not too long ago he was like the forgotten prospect.

Jennings was very impressive, so much so that it wasnt a good fight as it was so one sided.....

martin Powers blew someone away on the undercard

Daniel Teasdale the much hyped "NEW NAZ" fought on the undercard, opponent was tomas da silva who took the fight on 3 hours notice and is a much smaller man... Teasdale is a sharp puncher and he left Da Silva bruised on the face... he is very easy to hit and if Da Silva was a super middle rather than a light niddle he would probably have KO'd Teasdale and looked like he had been dropped in the last although ref called it a slip. 40-36 was refs card

Kevin O Hara beat Buster Dennis on points, it was razor close for the first 2 rounds but the O Hara caught and dropped Buster in the 3rd, Dennis got up but was dropped again (although it looked like a blow to the back of the head to me) losing a round 10-7 in a 4 rounder is obviously game over and the 4th round was won by O Hara

Stu am I missing something or were you pissed up when you typed out the title of this thread?

Kilburn wrote:Stu am I missing something or were you pissed up when you typed out the title of this thread?

Kilburn, the bad thing is I hadnt noticed his typo...... only when you mentioned it did i see the error

I can only give a telly perspective:

Michael Jennings against Brett James was shown first, live on Sky. Both of them looked focussed for the job at hand, and Jennings' travelling supporters were certainly making themselves heard, jumping all over the place. During the fight itself Darke and Watt were claiming Jennings was the most improved welterweight in the country, and afterwards McGuigan gave a high review on his fight skool scorecard. Indeed, he did nothing wrong, however the quality of Brett James as opposition didn't seem to be taken into account. In the first round James tried to find his range and establish a left jab, but Jennings was too elusive and landed a few solid shots to boot. After this James seemed to go into a journeyman-esque shell for the remainder of the fight; constantly covering up and just looking to survive until the end. Perhaps he was looking for a one punch kayo, but surely he must have been aware the chances of this were slim, given how slow his punches were compared to Jennings. The outcome started to become clear as Jennings kept the pressure on throughout the whole fight, easily out-manoeuvring James with his superior footwork, and unloading combinations to body and head whenever he chose. As a result of this he looked an extremely impressive and exciting fighter. The pundits on Sky seemed to imply he was ready to mix with the creme of the crop, and the way he has been stopping opponents does suggest this, but I would give him a 7 overall compared to McGuigan's 8-9 marking, simply because of what little James brought to the fight inside the ring; okay, he had only one loss and 17 fights, but he was completely unable to exploit Jennings defence (which is probably his biggest weakness as he can still be a bit open). One other thing about Jennings is that he doesn't seem to have one-punch knockout power, as he was catching James with many full-on shots to the head, while James never even wobbled. Nevertheless, the punches were solid and accurate. It will be impressive if Jennings can maintain that sort of accuracy against a mover.


Next up was Steve Murray against Martin Watson, which Darke hyped up at the end of Jennings - James. Round one itself was explosive as a nice probing right hand from Murray landed flush on the woefully wide-open Watson, who went down. He managed to stick out the round quite impressively given that he chose to continue fighting Murray in the inside, in a slugfest. Watt repeatedly made a point of this, that this sort of fight was one Watson had never fought before and he thought it strange he would try this route against Murray. Surprisingly Watson landed the more solid blows during round 2 and cleanly took the round. From then on it was a see-saw slugfest with many of the rounds quite hard to score as they were constantly fighting on the inside the whole time, even in the centre of the ring. It became apparent as the fight wore on that Murray was the harder puncher, while Watson's punches were slow and had no snap at all. Saying that, they were solid shots and often when Murray would do his predictable bob-weave manoeuvre Watson would land 3 or 4 solid shots to both his ears. Murray also looked vulnerable to the uppercut, but that is just part and parcel of his boxing style. By the end of the fight the crowd, who had been vocal all the way, were louder than ever - especially when Murray caught Watson with a meaty body shot that made him double over briefly. He did well to stay up and last till the end. Murray rightly got the decision and Watson got the experience of 10 hard rounds. The score 96-95 was understandable, though could easily have been Murray by two points. Watson can come out of this fight a better fighter as it should give him bags of confidence knowing he can go toe-to-toe with Steve Murray and last the distance, while keeping it close. Murray, on the other hand, takes away, along with a semi-nasty cut on his eyelid, the confidence of beating an unbeaten prospect and perhaps the belief that he can win a good title in the not to distant future.


They showed Danny Williams against Ratko Draskovic next. And neither Darke nor Watt seemed genuinely excited when the one-punch knockout came. It was a clean overhand right that landed hard on Draskovic's face. He went down but managed to get to his feet around the 8 count, though was clearly either out on his feet or didn't fancy continuing, or maybe both. Either way the referee rightly stopped it. Williams got as easy a win as he could get, and neither commentator bothered with the usual boring "just how good is Danny Williams", I think people are past all that now and it's a case of "fight someone world class or bugger off". Was a pretty decent show overall and I think the crowd who was there got there money's worth, especially with Murray - Watson, which was the highlight.

Missed the bill myself but i have seen Jennings in with Sam Smith and was impressed. Wasn't this card shown on Showtime? I am interested to see what the Americans made of it all.

Kilburn wrote:Stu am I missing something or were you pissed up when you typed out the title of this thread?

Oops - I do have a legitmate excuse, my computer has been messing round (especially when I go on boxrec) sometimes the typing keys don't work. I then lose a bit of patience and type a little to quickly.