BT Sport Boxing Launch Night - Lomachenko v Sosa, Smith v Williams, Flanagan v Petrov

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Originally Posted by erics44

I may well go, I don't have anything on on Saturday night and to watch it id have to buy BT Sports, Boxnation or stream it and I don't really fancy any of that

at the minute though id be going on my own which isn't the best

do you think its bad parenting taking your 11 year old son?

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Only if you're buying him more than three beers before he has to drive you home. And make sure he wears his seat belt.

Looking forward to this bill...might actually make it to the main event, unlike all of those American cards that I've tried and failed to get to this year!

Flanagan has the same problem as some of our other champions (Lee Selby is a prime example) in that he doesn't really sell enough tickets by himself to justify a big venue, so I'm more looking forward to Liam vs Liam.

im a manc and its a fellow manc defending his world title in Manchester against a decent opponent and still it isn't a fight I would go out of my way for

its the Liams fight that I am excited about, a welsh fella against a scouser

it has the potential to be a classic

It looks a close fight on paper. Slight edge to Smith.

yeah I think smith will win

Williams will give everything tho

and so will smith

neither will give any ground or go down easy

its gonna be ace

It looks at great card. Worth going to if you can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4tsbjGRj6A

still no ticket

best I can get is 45 for a seat in the gods which is a shit view, id rather watch it on the TV

anyone ever gone to a tout?

Not for boxing and not for years but I used to buy off ticket touts all the time for gigs, bit of haggling and waggling, they used to con the shit out of the tourists, I normally walked off but hanged around in sight until they needed to off load 'em

I've never been to the MEN but are you sure those seats are in the gods? They're only using half the venue

no im not totally sure

its tier 2 and I think I was tier 2 for calzaghi lacy (until I was moved to please tv viewers) and it was a shit view

I watched macrinelli hobson from up there and I could hardly see what was happening

and I think half the venue usually means half way across rather than half way down

Liam Smith blew his weight for the fight today, and came in two pounds heavy. The age old question in this situation is, was he going to be so drained, and so chose to sacrifice making weight to get a better chance of the win, or was it just carelessness? I suppose it does add another dimension to the fight, but the cynic in me (and the fact that I'm pro Liam Williams) thinks Smith wanted to boost his chances and gave up trying to make the weight.

The eight thing can both ways as you say. This might switch the edge back to Williams now.

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Originally Posted by Alpha

The eight thing can both ways as you say. This might switch the edge back to Williams now.

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Or because he didn't try to cut that last couple of pounds, it could swing to Smith because he will feel bigger and stronger. If he was 6 Lbs over like his brother was against Ward, you could think he had a sloppy camp, but he might have had a great camp and feel strong.
Looking forward to it, I hope the weight doesn't have a massive bearing on the result.

FFS Sosa misses weight now too.

He came in at 130.4, stripped to 130.2. Has 2 hours to loss the rest. He should be fine tho.