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Wayne Alexander
Posted: 01 Jun 2007, 06:44
by Captain Hook
Does anyone know what's happened to Wayne since that TKO loss? Has he retired....?
Posted: 01 Jun 2007, 07:02
by twenty six
No - he just won't fight Rhodes despite having called him out and SN agreeing to the fight.
Posted: 01 Jun 2007, 07:23
by oliverfennell
See the Ryan Rhodes thread - I think he's taking his time to make the right decision following what was an extremely damaging defeat.
Posted: 01 Jun 2007, 07:39
by twenty six
Hang on a second, Oliver.
Alexander called Rhodes out by contacting SN.
SN then asked Rhodes - he said yes without talking money or anything.
SN agreed to get it on ......
Then Alexander walks away.
That's not a man taking time out to regroup - he made the running then said no.
Posted: 01 Jun 2007, 07:47
by oliverfennell
I'm not disputing he may have made the initial approach, but for all we know his head could be all over the place. Who knows? Just trying to rationalise it. Boxers can behave erratically after a bad knockout. Look at Audley Harrison. He turned down offers from FW to fight on undercards because he said he was "ready, willing and able" to step back into championship class, then was offered Skelton when Sprott got injured, and turned it down.
Posted: 01 Jun 2007, 08:26
by Hagler2002
He was due to appear in the USA-UK Contender at the Metro Arena, he pulled out about 2 weeks before it was due to happen.....I had heard that he got a bit of a working over in sparring and basically walked out of training and then claimed a injury to why he could not fight, I don't think his heart is in it anymore.
Posted: 01 Jun 2007, 08:27
by Old bones Ian
Didn't Wayne pull out of the Contender show after he came off second best in a spar with Anthony Small.
Posted: 01 Jun 2007, 10:19
by Shirow
Old bones Ian wrote:Didn't Wayne pull out of the Contender show after he came off second best in a spar with Anthony Small.
Exactly. Then the last i heard (some time ago now) was that they were going to meet for his WBU bauble. Anthony fighting TBA on the July 14th O2 Arena show so who knows
Posted: 01 Jun 2007, 10:51
by boxingchat
Alexander pulls out more than the Pope.
Posted: 01 Jun 2007, 11:45
by silkov
I find Alexanders career extremely disapointing really, its hard to know where its all gone wrong... perhaps the Simon defeat put him off the rails, ...but really theres been far too much inactivity and when he has fought its been too often against journeymen that have meant nothing, ...now you'd have to say that his chance has gone and he's unlikely to ever reach his full potential... I think he could have been a decent British champ at least... its a shame to see a talented and exciting fighter simply drift through his career...