Friday Night Fight Night (25th June)

[superheavyrhun]

Well, with the "next generation" of heavies having gone through their paces, what do you guys think? (Yup, that's my build up to foisting my own opinions on you!)

Fury showed good heart, and some decent boxing skills early on in the fight, but still left a few more questions than answers. Early on he looked decent, outboxing McDermott, staying on the outside for the most part, and digging in heavy body shots that looked to have some zip in them. Again, he looks very awkward when he's retreating, and the look on his face may well be concentration, but it looks like concern to me. Then in rounds five-seven, the dropoff in his workrate was noticable, he was struggling to catch his breath, sweating profusely and I thought that a good hard combo from McDermott would be lights out. He also got himself cut and a point deducted for hanging on. In the eighth h seemed to land one hard shot which spurred him on, and he finally pounded the fight out of McDermott, the body shots were fierce again and he showed his character in finishing it off. And the tears in the post-fight interview....hang on to them until the world title. Overall, he did well enough, but looked to get dispirited in the middle rounds, and could do with more competitive bouts before he goes in with someone with teeth like Chisora.

As for the undercard, Olubamiwo took less than a round to finish Dave Ferguson, heavy hitting, but hard to judge him again as its over so quick. Probably closer to a British title shot IMO than Fury though.

Tom Dallas, boxed well against a very durable journeyman, showed plenty of good shots that would have finished many a journeyman, boxes well, good workrate, but will he be able to make the step up.

David Price. Nothing to report, he effectively won a fight without throwing a clean punch. Pavol Polakovic didn't want to be in there and took a dive at the first opportunity. In fact, Polakovic landed a left before he quit, so he probably landed the better punch.

All in all, nothing decided.

[0james0]

Well, with the "next generation" of heavies having gone through their paces, what do you guys think? (Yup, that's my build up to foisting my own opinions on you!)

Fury showed good heart, and some decent boxing skills early on in the fight, but still left a few more questions than answers. Early on he looked decent, outboxing McDermott, staying on the outside for the most part, and digging in heavy body shots that looked to have some zip in them. Again, he looks very awkward when he's retreating, and the look on his face may well be concentration, but it looks like concern to me. Then in rounds five-seven, the dropoff in his workrate was noticable, he was struggling to catch his breath, sweating profusely and I thought that a good hard combo from McDermott would be lights out. He also got himself cut and a point deducted for hanging on. In the eighth h seemed to land one hard shot which spurred him on, and he finally pounded the fight out of McDermott, the body shots were fierce again and he showed his character in finishing it off. And the tears in the post-fight interview....hang on to them until the world title. Overall, he did well enough, but looked to get dispirited in the middle rounds, and could do with more competitive bouts before he goes in with someone with teeth like Chisora.

As for the undercard, Olubamiwo took less than a round to finish Dave Ferguson, heavy hitting, but hard to judge him again as its over so quick. Probably closer to a British title shot IMO than Fury though.

Tom Dallas, boxed well against a very durable journeyman, showed plenty of good shots that would have finished many a journeyman, boxes well, good workrate, but will he be able to make the step up.

David Price. Nothing to report, he effectively won a fight without throwing a clean punch. Pavol Polakovic didn't want to be in there and took a dive at the first opportunity. In fact, Polakovic landed a left before he quit, so he probably landed the better punch.

All in all, nothing decided.

Although Fury showed he can still have snap in his punches even when he's exhausted, he was doing some strange things in there, I was just waiting for him to quit. He really didn't look like he wanted to be there.

I was also expecting McD to jump on him with any one of the many times he turned his back on him and strolled back into a corner to get his stance ready. Defend yourself at all times, someone like big Larry would have been chasing him down.

Where does McD go from here? Would be a shame to now see him journeying around getting beat by up and comers.

Fury has skills, heart and power, but looks like he isn't learning quick enough.

Big Larry is a wrecking machine, will be interesting to see where he goes, because who ever he hits is going to drop and he looks physically perfect, no flab on the guy at all.

Dallas did ok, but was more of a solid sparing session.

Price fight was a farce, the replays showed the guy barely got hit. Although I did like the way Price made the guy fear the big shot for the whole round.

[0james0]

Should also say that Larry looks more defined now, before he was just a big blob of muscle, now he's muscley in the right areas.

He has also learnt how to box now, which always helps!

[J_C]

I dont think ive ever seen a fight that illustrated how important it is to be properly fit and in shape. They were both fcuked after about 5 or 6 rounds. If Fury doesnt sort that out hes gona get KOd by anyone really good. Will he learn though? Or will he just think I KOd the guy so it was a great win.

[GAME]

Considering the wake up call Fury got last time youd expect him to come into this fight in shape and focused but we didnt. What that suggests is that when he is up against it in the future he wont be able to raise his game because he isnt good enough. If thats the best he can do I dont see him progressing past English title level.

He was gasping for breath and his balance was the worse Ive seen from any fighter, he holds onto ropes, falls around and looks very poor boxing off the front or back foot. If he was up against a quality operator you could understand why he was made to look bad but he was fighting big fat John Mcdermot whos greatest acheivements have been losing twice to a washed up Danny Williams and being blown away in 1 round by a 40 year old Matt Skelton.

Fury proved that he is all hype last night and he replaces Audley as our biggest joke fighter.

[J_C]

Did anyone see Furys Ali shuffle showboating nonsense in the 2nd round? You really need to be in stellar shape to pull off that look, he looked ridiculous

[GAME]

Yeah and he fell off balance straight after which was shameful. Add that the list of cringe worthy things he has done along with punching himself in the face. And this guy has the cheek to call Audley and Dirrell a B**ch?

He also tried the foot tap that Roy Jones did vs Clinton Woods. Fury was full of it in the early rounds. Little did he know that in a couple rounds he would be struggling for breath and hanging on for dear life against Mcdermot of all people He did Roy Jones and Ali proud