SKY SPORTS PPV - Froch V GROVES -Battle of Britain- Sat Fight Night CHAT THREAD

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Fight Schedule
5:20pm
Scotty Cardle v Kryzsztof Szot
8 x 3 mins Lightweight Contest
6:00pm
Rocky Fielding v Luke Blackledge
12 x 3 mins Commonwealth Super Middleweight title
Kal Yafai v Abigail Medina
6 x 3 mins Super-Flyweight Contest
Jamie McDonnell v Bernard Inom
8 x 3 mins Bantamweight Contest
Stephen Smith v Sergio Manuel Medina
10 x 3 mins Vacant WBC International Silver Super Featherweight title
Luke Campbell v Morgan Duthes
6 x 3 mins Lightweight contest
Anthony Crolla v Stephen Foster Jr.
12 x 3 mins WBO Inter-Continental Lightweight title
Andy Lee v Ferenc Hafner
6 or 8 x 3 mins Middleweight Contest
Scott Quigg v Diego Silva
12 x 3 mins WBA Super Bantamweight title
By 11:00pm
Carl Froch v George Groves
12 x 3 mins WBA and IBF Super Middleweight titles

WEIGH IN

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Froch 11st 13lbs,
Groves 11st 12lbs.

"Held Apart" at Weigh In

George Groves and Carl Froch held apart at weigh in | Boxing News | ESPN.co.uk


Carl Froch and George Groves almost come to blows at weigh-in | Mail Online

Great article from the BBC by on the so called comparisons between Frcoh-Groves and Benn-Eubank



http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/boxing/25052801

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiBKk47U_6w


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOomyRhmqT0&feature=c4-overview&list=UUdl_gZZR6BtKi45eHFGAduw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALjnACGaWBM&list=UUdl_gZZR6BtKi45eHFGAduw

Groves Froch WEIGH IN

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Fight Schedule
5:20pm
Scotty Cardle v Kryzsztof Szot
8 x 3 mins Lightweight Contest
6:00pm
Rocky Fielding v Luke Blackledge
12 x 3 mins Commonwealth Super Middleweight title
Kal Yafai v Abigail Medina
Silver Super Featherweight title
Luke Campbell v Morgan Duthes
6 x 3 mins Lightweight contest
Anthony Crolla v Stephen Foster Jr.
12 x 3 mins WBO Inter-Continental Lightweight title
Andy Lee v Ferenc Hafner
6 or 8 x 3 mins Middleweight Contest
Scott Quigg v Diego Silva
12 x 3 mins WBA Super Bantamweight title
By 11:00pm
Carl Froch v George Groves
12 x 3 mins WBA and IBF Super Middleweight titles

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This is shocking for a PPV card. Winners, Cardle, Yafai, Smith, Fielding, Campbell, Quigg, Lee, Crolla all very one sided fights.

They have to make Froch/Groves seems less by comparison... ;D

Any ideas in what time froch and groves will get in the ring?

Im out for a meal tonight and there is a bar a few miles away showing it but wont bother racing there after if its going to be early.

Crappy undercard but I still have some interest in seeing Quigg and Lee scrap.

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Any ideas in what time froch and groves will get in the ring?

Im out for a meal tonight and there is a bar a few miles away showing it but wont bother racing there after if its going to be early.

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Not sure but according to the matchroom card info it will be before 11 pm. So I reckon between 10 and 11 pm.

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Any ideas in what time froch and groves will get in the ring?

Im out for a meal tonight and there is a bar a few miles away showing it but wont bother racing there after if its going to be early.

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Not sure but according to the matchroom card info it will be before 11 pm. So I reckon between 10 and 11 pm.

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Yeah thats not too bad then. My meal is booked for 7.30. Hopefully all the other fights go the distance!;D

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Crappy undercard but I still have some interest in seeing Quigg and Lee scrap.

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Agreed...its gone from a mediocre undercard to a dogshit undercard but hopefully might produce one good fight as I've got the daughter in law and her mate trying to blag watching xfactor out of me between 8-10.
I cant stop feeling that Groves and gonna win this now... I just got a feeling :-/

Rocky Fielding in the ring now with first bout of the night.

David Haye looks like a stylish Dr Evil with his shoulder thing lol.

Well Fielding didn't mess around. Good talent. Plenty more to come from him in a division that will soon test him.

@Greenbeanz - where are you from in England? Is Froch popular among average sport fans in Nottingham? Where is Groves from?

Man is Jamie tall. To bad he has to lean over like that in the pocket. Keeping his hands up though.

Froch is from Nottingham and for what he is aint anywhere near a Hatton.. Groves is from Hammersmith in West London and his breath stinks.

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Froch is from Nottingham and for what he is aint anywhere near a Hatton.. Groves is from Hammersmith in West London and his breath stinks.

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Is Hammersmith a good area? I understand Nottingham can be bleak.

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@Greenbeanz - where are you from in England? Is Froch popular among average sport fans in Nottingham? Where is Groves from?

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I am from the westcountry, the south west right on the border between Devon and Cornwall. Froch is from farther North in the Middle ish of the Country. Groves is from London. I think the average sports fan in the UK would like Froch but we love an underdog and Carl demanding the kind of respect he never had himself for established fighters, from Groves may have turned a few against him. It is a big domestic dust up but neither is really a bad guy in the eyes of Joe Bloggs.

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Froch is from Nottingham and for what he is aint anywhere near a Hatton.. Groves is from Hammersmith in West London and his breath stinks.

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Is Hammersmith a good area? I understand Nottingham can be bleak.

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Nottingham has a high murder rate, unusually in Britain because of gun crime and Hammersmith can get rough, but neither is the Bronx.

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Froch is from Nottingham and for what he is aint anywhere near a Hatton.. Groves is from Hammersmith in West London and his breath stinks.

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Is Hammersmith a good area? I understand Nottingham can be bleak.

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Hammersmith has its dodgy parts just like Nottingham .
Froch had his bicycle stolen once in Nottingham ... fact.
Nottingham has always had crime...you heard of Robin Hood ..? :D

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@Greenbeanz - where are you from in England? Is Froch popular among average sport fans in Nottingham? Where is Groves from?

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I am from the westcountry, the south west right on the border between Devon and Cornwall. Froch is from farther North in the Middle ish of the Country. Groves is from London. I think the average sports fan in the UK would like Froch but we love an underdog and Carl demanding the kind of respect he never had himself for established fighters, from Groves may have turned a few against him. It is a big domestic dust up but neither is really a bad guy in the eyes of Joe Bloggs.

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I'm going all in now in supporting Groves. I've had an up and down relationship with Froch (he doesn't return my calls) but I've really gone off him now. His hypocrisy is unbearable. Come on Groves!

How the fuck did these two weigh the same? Baby Jake should have got a couple of points head start

Have you ever seen "Bottom"? I think that was based in Hammersmith.

So was Frank Bruno.

I think Master Inom has done him self proud for a little guy in his forties :-X

I'm trying to wrap my head around gun violence in England or Britain for that matter. Would have never suspected it as a problem.

Well done little man, got to the 7th, Boxrec should record that as a draw for the ridiculous size disparity

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I'm trying to wrap my head around gun violence in England or Britain for that matter. Would have never suspected it as a problem.

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Big cities. Gangs. Still not a huge problem generally. Knives I think account for more injuries and deaths.

I doubt there's many parts of London that are not "rough" unless you're a toff.

"Medina is a bit crude," - he makes Maidana look like Floyd

Looks like my acca is about to be killed in the first fight. Nothing changes

Luigi doesn't look the same without his Green Dungarees. Smith marches on.

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Looks like my acca is about to be killed in the first fight. Nothing changes

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Reverse psychology at its finest.

Get his pint of John Smiths ready.

Anyone that enters the ring too Dirty Old Town by the Pogues deserves to win. Fact.

How long before Froch-Groves starts?