Darren Barker v Simone Rotolo -SKY Sports Saturday Fight Night Thread

Printable View

03-09-2013, 04:06 PM
Beanz

Darren Barker v Simone Rotolo -SKY Sports Saturday Fight Night Thread

British Scene: Darren Barker vs Simone Rotolo & Undercard Preview - Bad Left Hook

Full Card Running order to follow
03-09-2013, 04:22 PM
Beanz

Re: Darren Barker v Simone Rotolo -SKY Sports Saturday Fight Night Thread

LONDON'S FINEST

Full Card

17:55 Martin J Ward v Kevin Hanks

6 x 3 mins lightweight contest

18:25 John Ryder v Farai Musiyiwa

8 x 3 mins Middleweight Contest

19:05 Ryan Taylor v Liam Shinkwin

Vacant Southern Area Lightweight Title

pre 19:25 Eric Ochieng v Frederic Serre

8 x 3 mins light-middleweight contest

20:10 Danny Connor v Chris Evangalou

10 x 3 mins Southern Area Welterweight Title

Followed - By Lee Purdy v Cosme Rivera

12 x 3 International Welterweight Title

Followed By - George Groves v Dario Balmaceda

10 x 3 mins International Super Middleweight Contest

Followed By - Darren Barker v Simone Rotolo

12 x 3 mins Vacant Inter-Continental Middleweight Title

Followed By Wadi Camacho v China Clarke

10 x 3 mins
03-09-2013, 04:23 PM
Beanz

Re: Darren Barker v Simone Rotolo -SKY Sports Saturday Fight Night Thread

Weigh In from Yesterday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Faest4-FSqI
03-09-2013, 04:24 PM
Beanz

Re: Darren Barker v Simone Rotolo -SKY Sports Saturday Fight Night Thread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd3tu4s0dmk
03-09-2013, 05:16 PM
Beanz

Re: Darren Barker v Simone Rotolo -SKY Sports Saturday Fight Night Thread

Just hope Barker isn't looking past Rotolo. One Fight at a time. Will be interesting to catch Ryder who seems to be progressing well, Oiecheng,Purdy and Groves could be good too.
03-09-2013, 05:31 PM
Beanz

Re: Darren Barker v Simone Rotolo -SKY Sports Saturday Fight Night Thread

Connor aiming to stop Evangelou this time around

Danny Connor: Don�t Be Surprised If I Stop Evangelou This Time
03-09-2013, 09:09 PM
Beanz

Rd 1 Connor v Evangelou now under way.
03-09-2013, 09:49 PM
Beanz

Clear win for Connor surely.
03-09-2013, 10:00 PM
Beanz

Re: Darren Barker v Simone Rotolo -SKY Sports Saturday Fight Night Thread

Lee Purdy Up next. Is nobody else watching this ?
03-09-2013, 10:16 PM
smashup

Re: Darren Barker v Simone Rotolo -SKY Sports Saturday Fight Night Thread

Yeah my mates being a WANKER and watching Gavin and Stacey with his GF so putting Sky GO on laptop now....have i missed and good fights..? ;D
03-09-2013, 10:17 PM
Beanz

Purdy looks like a Middleweight.
03-09-2013, 10:21 PM
Beanz

Quote:

Originally Posted by smashup

Yeah my mates being a WANKER and watching Gavin and Stacey with his GF so putting Sky GO on laptop now....have i missed and good fights..? ;D

Not really Groves and Barker to come. Purdy looks too big and Rivera too old for this to be very competitive.
03-09-2013, 10:53 PM
Beanz

Groves up next. Not that anyone is in the slightest bit interested.
03-09-2013, 11:01 PM
Beanz

Class choon. Spitfire - Prodigy.
03-09-2013, 11:07 PM
IamInuit

Re: Darren Barker v Simone Rotolo -SKY Sports Saturday Fight Night Thread

Groves looks sharp but man is he hittable.
03-09-2013, 11:17 PM
Beanz

Quote:

Originally Posted by IamInuit

Groves looks sharp but man is he hittable.

He is that, but he can bang and I think he was not too worried about his opponent. As he goes up in level it may find him out but he may finish better fighters earlier. Early days.
03-09-2013, 11:22 PM
IamInuit

Re: Darren Barker v Simone Rotolo -SKY Sports Saturday Fight Night Thread

Quote:

Originally Posted by Greenbeanz

Quote:

Originally Posted by IamInuit

Groves looks sharp but man is he hittable.

He is that, but he can bang and I think he was not too worried about his opponent. As he goes up in level it may find him out but he may finish better fighters earlier. Early days.

True enough. He must have felt fairly safe in there leaning in with his face and flailing away. Real crisp combinations. Like to see him against say a Bika. I think he's ready for a gate keeper.

WAR BARKER!!!
03-09-2013, 11:38 PM
bzkfn

Re: Darren Barker v Simone Rotolo -SKY Sports Saturday Fight Night Thread

Quote:

Originally Posted by Greenbeanz

Just hope Barker isn't looking past Rotolo. One Fight at a time. Will be interesting to catch Ryder who seems to be progressing well, Oiecheng,Purdy and Groves could be good too.

After that first round I'd have to say Barker isn't looking past Rotolo. Some devastating punches there.
03-09-2013, 11:43 PM
bzkfn

Re: Darren Barker v Simone Rotolo -SKY Sports Saturday Fight Night Thread

Am I the only one who thinks Sky needs to sack Jim Watt? He is so negative about fighters, saying they're doing this wrong and that wrong and says what they should be doing, despite the fact what they are doing is working, and when they get the win he says how impressive it was and acts like he knew it was going to happen. I have never listened to a former boxer talk about the sport with so little knowledge. I can't believe he won a world title.
03-09-2013, 11:44 PM
Beanz

Barker is a great judge of distance but he needs to remember his use his defence not rely on his chin ala Froch.
03-09-2013, 11:47 PM
Beanz

Quote:

Originally Posted by bzkfn

Am I the only one who thinks Sky needs to sack Jim Watt? He is so negative about fighters, saying they're doing this wrong and that wrong and says what they should be doing, despite the fact what they are doing is working, and when they get the win he says how impressive it was and acts like he knew it was going to happen. I have never listened to a former boxer talk about the sport with so little knowledge. I can't believe he won a world title.

I think thats a little harsh. Plenty of praise from him tonight. I like him, maybe I am an old fart.:-P
03-09-2013, 11:49 PM
bzkfn

Re: Darren Barker v Simone Rotolo -SKY Sports Saturday Fight Night Thread

If Barker creates some distance he can finish this.
03-09-2013, 11:53 PM
bzkfn

Re: Darren Barker v Simone Rotolo -SKY Sports Saturday Fight Night Thread

Quote:

Originally Posted by Greenbeanz

Quote:

Originally Posted by bzkfn

Am I the only one who thinks Sky needs to sack Jim Watt? He is so negative about fighters, saying they're doing this wrong and that wrong and says what they should be doing, despite the fact what they are doing is working, and when they get the win he says how impressive it was and acts like he knew it was going to happen. I have never listened to a former boxer talk about the sport with so little knowledge. I can't believe he won a world title.

I think thats a little harsh. Plenty of praise from him tonight. I like him, maybe I am an old fart.:-P

For years mate, I've hated him. Watch when Sky do a show that HBO also covers. I've seen him give rounds away just to make his own scorecard tally with Lederman's just so they have a similar score at the end of a fight. He doesn't even trust his own judgement. Sky did right bringing in Barry McGuigan for a few fights. He knows what he is talking about.

I'm warming to Bob Mee. I miss Darkey though.
03-09-2013, 11:57 PM
Beanz

Where is Ian Darke? Barker looked good again. Bring on Lee or Quillin.
03-10-2013, 12:00 AM
superheavyrhun

Re: Darren Barker v Simone Rotolo -SKY Sports Saturday Fight Night Thread

Jim Watt seems okay to me most of the time, although he does sometimes read the fight quite differently to how I have things. I like the new Darren Barker - entertaining, aggressive and he knows now how good he is and I'd love to see him in with Andy Lee or Matthew Macklin.

In an aside, I'm amused by the name Wadi, which is the Egyptian word for river. Hope the punches are flowing.
03-10-2013, 12:03 AM
bzkfn

Re: Darren Barker v Simone Rotolo -SKY Sports Saturday Fight Night Thread

Quote:

Originally Posted by Greenbeanz

Where is Ian Darke? Barker looked good again. Bring on Lee or Quillin.

Agreed. Barker looked excellent. Macklin couldn't lace his boots.

I'm not sure what has happened with Ian Darke, he does the odd abroad show for Sky but they've got Adam Smith doing that now and Mee covering the British shows.

Upon checking Wikipedia, he apparently has left Sky for ESPN.