Quote Originally Posted by Rantcatrat View Post
Clearly, I have overrated Proksa. I'll eat crow. I didn't think he had a huge upside because he's a small middleweight, but I thought he would do well on the domestic level, mostly because of his win over Sylvester. He shocked me by knocking out Sylvester in vicious fashion. That is the only real name on his record, but when they made that fight, I thought they were putting him in too deep, too fast. Hope is no Sylvester, which is why I thought his was a stay-busy fight to lead into a fight with Murray, Barker, Macklin etc. I'm pretty sure Hope was a 10-1 underdog (or more) for this fight.

It is the biggest upset involving two fighters based out of Britain, and one British this year. Better?
You know, on the night I thought Hope looked a fair bit bigger and Proksa maybe looked a division smaller. Strange.

Having seen Proksa a few times before, he may be overrated, but there was defo something amiss against Hope. Hope almost had him out of there a couple of times I thought and Hopes record of one KO tells it all.

Anyway, It was a great great fight and one of my favs of the year. Hope fought a great fight and didn't let up and stayed focused, he deserved the shout for me.

I actually think there will be a rematch and order will be restored. Proksa stops him second time round.

Not that i've been on here much lately, but I haven't seen Mick around for a while. He waas real high on Proksa and has been for some considerable time. Anyone know whether he's commented since the Hope loss??