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?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7_wuF8cORs

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.

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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.

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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?

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Anyone know what time this starts In the States?

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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).

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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).

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Thanks bud. Might be able to catch it

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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.

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Just buy shorts and make them tripples! Dont fill the bladder up and need the toilet as much and have to carry flimsy plastic pint glasses round.

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You have TV out in the sticks Randy ? Wow !

Fight order here:

https://twitter.com/NextBigFight/sta...39043020812289

Good fight

Yep not bad at all.:)

Ryan-Hibbett is a good fight!

Ryan has been down twice, but otherwise it's an even fight so far.

oops did not see the sticky

Ryan comes back after being down twice and stops Hibbitts!

Great fight!

Ryan retains the commonwealth title.

Beat that fight to start off with. Ryan seemed the stronger throughout, so even with the knockdowns it looked possible

lol at Evans. Starts waving to the crowd as Cardle picks him up. Brilliant.

Evening

Referee is on Evans case about nothing. Sky also making him out to be not in Cardle's league. Really trying to sell Cardle because he's the Matchroom fighter but he's pretty turd in my eyes.

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lol at Evans. Starts waving to the crowd as Cardle picks him up. Brilliant.

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Yea, Cardle picked him up, so Evans waved to the crowd, so the referee gave Evans a talking to.

I thought Evans could have nicked some of the early rounds they gave to Cardle (don't think they're favouring him though)

anyone scoring this?

Not scoring but I can make a case for either (slightly favour Evans)

116-112 x 3 for Cardle. Both agree it was close. Evans not crying about result

On my card, I had Cardle getting the last round to make it all square. Thought it was a bit harsh to have all three cards going the same way, at times Cardle was made to look really crude.

On the first fight, Dave Ryan did really well to come back, and I didn't see Hibbert collapsing as he did in the ninth. Hate to say it, but this is building up to a really decent night's boxing.

1st round Ryder. Busier, more accurate.

Hey all, could anyone tell me the order these fights are going down? Should be doing stuff but I want to see Mitchell-Linares and Joshua for sure.

Ryder doing a number on him

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Hey all, could anyone tell me the order these fights are going down? Should be doing stuff but I want to see Mitchell-Linares and Joshua for sure.

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after this

Clev
Selby
Linares
Josh
Brook

I thought Ryder beat Billy Joe. I think he's a really good fighter

Cut bothered Ryder. Blackwell wins one