Thread: Brook-Gavin/AJ-Kingpin/Mitchell-Linares/Selby-Grad - The o2 Arena, London ,

Kell Brook v Frankie Gavin : IBF Welterweight title
Jorge Linares v Kevin Mitchell : WBC Lightweight title
Evgeny Gradovich v Lee Selby : IBF Featherweight title
Anthony Joshua v Kevin Johnson : 12 Rounds Heavyweight (TBC)
John Ryder v Nick Blackwell : Vacant British Middleweight title
Scotty Cardle v Craig Evans : Vacant British Lightweight title
Dave Ryan v John Wayne Hibbert : Commonwealth Light-Welterweight title

Sky Box Office HD (17:00) PPV rip off.

I'm going to it with the girl.

I hope the queue for the bar is reasonable. Haven't been to the O2 before.

Quite fancy Blackwell to beat Ryder. 6/4 a bit skinny though (a lot of tempting bets on this card)

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I'm torn as to whether or not I'm actually going to buy this. I don't really like shelling out that extra cash, but it is a good card with some tasty fights that I'd like to see, and I don't really like watching stuff on the computer for the seven hours running time.

Joshua v Johnson is 12 rounds?

Johnson has been in England for 5 weeks training and sparring in the Furys gym for 4 weeks.

Peter Fury said he steuggled to do 10 rounds sparring when he started and has worked hard simce and is now or was regularly sparring 12 rounds and training 3 times a day.

Joshua-Johnson is 10 rounds.

Johnson certainly talking a good game. Still think AJ will bash him up and force him to quit though.

Half-a-loon?

He's gonna need to drink all of the bars, man, bars dry to get rid of the headache Joshua's going to give him!

Linares-Mitchell under 9.5 rounds - 5/4

Linares KO - 5/2

Hibbert
Blackwell
Cardle
Selby

4 x trebles/acca.

Selby-Gradovich
Mitchell-Linares
Brook-Gavin

Not to go distance treble.

Two bottles of Pinot Grigio. Lets go

Has Johnson ever beaten a good fighter ?
He won 1 round against Vitali on all cards.
He won 3 rounds against fury on all cards.
Yes we don't know if Joshua is the real deal yet , but seriously Johnson is garbage apart from a strong chin.

Originally Posted by Dark Lord Al

Has Johnson ever beaten a good fighter ?
He won 1 round against Vitali on all cards.
He won 3 rounds against fury on all cards.
Yes we don't know if Joshua is the real deal yet , but seriously Johnson is garbage apart from a strong chin.

Im not sure Johnson has a strong chin. He just doesnt get hit. He has a good defence and doesnt take many risks. Maybe if he was to open up he would get caught more.

That's the problem with too many fighters, they talk well, but they just don't have the style or skills to back it up. Junior Witter used to talk as if he was another Arturo Gatti in the ring, and he did more running than fighting. Johnson's got the mouth, but that will be shut tonight.

Setting off soon. Get there for Ryder-Blackwell I think. Looking forward to Mitchell-Linares the most but seeing Joshua in the flesh should be interesting.

Anyone been to the o2 for boxing? I jest about queue for bar but I'm actually very serious.

Anyone know what time this starts In the States?

Originally Posted by Spicoli

Anyone know what time this starts In the States?

The PPV starts at 5pm (midday East Coast, 9am West Coast), but the big fights will be from say 8pm onwards (3pm East Coast, midday West Coast).