Thread: James Degale,my 1st fight will be a walk in the park

Sorry Jaz, misread your post.

So that's Fenster, Jaz, JoeyUK (50/50?) and smashup.

DeGale will have an army at this rate

Not even trying to be a contrarian or anything but this doesn't do much for me

lets face it most big name amateurs who are being groomed as contenders probably think their first fight is going to be a walk in the park, reason of course being that their promoter will bring in some part time boxer with a mullet. This guy just said it.

Of course I know nothing about this Degale guy except he's got a silly last name, maybe he's gotten on people's nerves before this and this is just adding on.

Originally Posted by Fenster

Sorry Jaz, misread your post.

So that's Fenster, Jaz, JoeyUK (50/50?) and smashup.

DeGale will have an army at this rate

I'm going to support him too at least until he starts to annoy me. I'm not bothered by the cockiness but he'd better be able to back it up in the ring when he gets moved up in class. If I even see any wobbles (like Khan with Limond and the French welter who floored him) or see him look unconvincing against low level opponents and he's still cocky I'm going to be watching his fights hoping he gets sparked.

Hope he gets sparked.

Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing

Originally Posted by Fenster

Sorry Jaz, misread your post.

So that's Fenster, Jaz, JoeyUK (50/50?) and smashup.

DeGale will have an army at this rate

I'm going to support him too at least until he starts to annoy me. I'm not bothered by the cockiness but he'd better be able to back it up in the ring when he gets moved up in class. If I even see any wobbles (like Khan with Limond and the French welter who floored him) or see him look unconvincing against low level opponents and he's still cocky I'm going to be watching his fights hoping he gets sparked.

Theres just too many questions unanswered about de-gale to suggest he`ll do anything at pro level.

I do believe he has the tempremant for professional boxing and when you make the step up from amateur and take them pads off you need to be somewhat foolhardy which i think degale has in him.

But anyone who saw him take that gold especially with that performance in the final will tell you the guy is far from any kind of finished article and the raw natural ability that the likes of the russian who won gold and a few runner up cubans appear to have doesnt actually seem to be there with james.

Love to be proven wrong, but none of the british medalists will go on to fight at world level only frankie gavin will make a name for himself at pro level because unlike the others he is a naturally gifted lad that can be fine tuned into a really good professional fighter!!

Originally Posted by Fenster

Sorry Jaz, misread your post.

So that's Fenster, Jaz, JoeyUK (50/50?) and smashup.

DeGale will have an army at this rate

From a british perspective...Degale deserves our support at least. I mean he won our country a rare boxing gold medal and in doing that is helping to promote british boxing. Like I said I don't particularly like him, but he is British and he did do us proud at the olympics so I think he deserves my support.