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As you all know I only joined this forum a few days ago and have a made a lot of unnecessarry noise since.....

My whole reason for joining was that I couldnt believe people were backing Duddy.

Is there any more news from the weigh-in today? How did the Bomber look. Is my 3-1 safe?

And by the way, Elcock-Abraham. What a nonsense. Could be over in about 6.

Maelstrom wrote:As you all know I only joined this forum a few days ago and have a made a lot of unnecessarry noise since.....

My whole reason for joining was that I couldnt believe people were backing Duddy.

Is there any more news from the weigh-in today? How did the Bomber look. Is my 3-1 safe?

And by the way, Elcock-Abraham. What a nonsense. Could be over in about 6.

Your 3-1 was down the shítter as soon as you put it on! I heard from someone who seen him in the gym last week that he was huffing and puffing after 6 minutes on the pads and physically seemed to be four weeks away from been ready.

Eastman looked relaxed and confident at the weigh in, i was speaking to Robert McCracken who felt it was Howard's fight all the way (as he would). Duddy was a lot shorter than i imagined and looked a little nervous. Both made the weight ok.

Duddy: 11 stone 5 lb 4 oz

Eastman: 11 stone 6 lb

Unless Eastman stops him you'd think Duddy could outwork Eastman who only threw about one punch every 30 seconds in his prime!

I think Duddy will outwork him but it's not a forgone conclusion. As i said i was surprised at the height disparity standing next to the pair yesterday, Duddy is a lot shorter than he looks on TV and walks with a strange sort of limp, not sure what that's all about.

A packed undercard, everyone came in on the weight, a couple of IBF alphabelt fights and two debutants plus two Irish title bouts. Looking forward to it.

Duddy throws lots of punches, Eastmans work-rate is non existent. Howard when he fought Joppy was one of my favorite fighters, since then hes been absoloutly shite. Terrible work-rate, McCracken hasnt got a clue in my opinion, its his fighter, get it drummed into his fighters head to throw god damn punches, he has lost fights what were therr for the taking cause of inactivness. So damn frustrating...

Duddys people probably think that his workrate will prevail in this, but I really see Eastman winning providing he brings some of his old form in with him.... I wouldnt be surprised to see Duddy winning a close and controversial decision though....

silkov wrote:Duddys people probably think that his workrate will prevail in this, but I really see Eastman winning providing he brings some of his old form in with him.... I wouldnt be surprised to see Duddy winning a close and controversial decision though....

will you final give Duddy credit if he wins? I doubt it!

what does everyone think of this so far???

just turned it on.

rd 5.

hitman_hatton1 wrote:just turned it on.

rd 5.

Whats happening in it?

it's round 4 here :P

duddy won first three rounds. third was howard's best sbut still not enough. duddy just seems to have a snappier punch

Fat Gav wrote:it's round 4 here :P

oh yeah.

still ain't woken up properly.

that accumulator so many people went for is starting to look kind of ridiculous! not taking the piss, i had 100 on earl

i had him in an accumulator... still can get something if eastman gets something here.

he definitely won round five. go get him howard

what happened on the other bouts on the card: watson vs. nuumbembe, and mcdonnell vs. edwards?

Somewhere stream on Duddy - Eastman, Sopcast or?

Those fights are on the wigan bill...that starts at 11 on sky box office...

spud66 wrote:Those fights are on the wigan bill...that starts at 11 on sky box office...

Oh, sorry. I got mixed up with all the cards going on today.

stream is available worldwide on rte.ie

Can anybody give us an actual update on the Duddy fight? I was under the impression by the name given to this thread that that is what would be appearing here.

9 rounds gone. duddy is on top. i reckon he's probably won 7 rounds. he's controlling with the jab, first with the punch nearly every time. 5 was a good round for howard. caught him with a couple of nice shots. eastman has good defence and duddy hasn't been able to break him down. 10th and last round starting now

duddy won the decision. no score, given by the ref

edit - score was 96-94 to duddy.

Tried this link

http://www.rte.ie/live/

But nothing. :( Sounds like a pretty poor fight though so not too gutted. :P

duddy won it.

solid performance from duddy.

he's nothing special though.

bottom half of the world top 10 sorta fighter.

arthur abraham would tear him a new one.