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Sep 26Edited

Wardley vs Clarke 2.

Look for Clarke to weigh in around 262 lbs down from 266 in fight 1 and down from his pro career weight of 270.

I'm not sure if team wardley thinks 244 is his optimum weight, or if wardley will come in around 250 or higher

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Might be too early in the rebuild for Rocha to beat Raul Curiel

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The guy who knocked out Isaac Hardman is fighting local tapia on the tszyu card.

Hardman was up on the cards in Australia and stupidity lived up to his "one of us is going to be knocked out".

Then Jaime mungia's sparring partner knocked him out.

Hardman was set up to headline ppvs so he cost himself a lot o money that night.

And no limit has terrible matchmakers

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(2/2). No word on janibek undercard from boxrec or topology.

That undercard is going to be awful.

I bet they put Isaac Hardman and some rugby players on.

Plus local women fighting boxers from Thailand

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Janibeks wbo belt not on the line vs mikhailovich? Only ibf, so ibf ten pounds rehydration rule in play.

So janibek is less likely to miss weight. But his size advantage is decreased

(1/2)

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What is the link with DJ Zamora, Carrington and Ryan? I noticed they trained in the same complex on the documentary

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Looks like JoJo Diaz Walters fight is off

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Terri Harper is still the wba 154 womens champion.

She's coming off a RTD loss to be fed to (wbo?) 135 champion Rhiannon Dixon

Matchrooms assigned Anthony crolla to coach dixon

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George liddard steps up to eight rounders on the Catterall programs/fisher rudenko / Dixon harper undercard.

He's fighting a prospect who got dropped by Queensbury

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Keep an eye out for a resurgence in American boxing.

Matchrooms finally has a platform to develop black American fighters.

Coe, Williams, ford are all fighting on the Ennis undercard.

Mercado isn't black, but he is American and he's on the undercard too

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Sep 24Edited

(1/2) What is the business impact of Riyadh season?

The business impact is matchrooms buying their way into the US market with Jaron Ennis.

(Hearn overpaid Ennis and bought out he German promoter.

P.s. where is the American and British media highlighting how the German promoters out manoeuvred matchroom?

I'm guessing the anti ibf articles is American and British "columnists" angry that the "European" sanctioning body, ibf, out smarter Hearn and got more money)

Montana love didn't work out.

Ammo Williams was a bust business wise.

Pacheco still in development.

Now Ennis gives Hearn a foothill in Philly.

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How much of plant mccumby was emotion and how much was due to Stephen Edwards?

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Sep 24Edited

(2/2) Dubois had three fights and gained 12 pounds in less than twelve months since fighting usyk.

Three training camps meant dubois didn't focus on cardio and consolidating the weight gain.

So why didn't Davison advise Joshua to weather the storm, be defensive and seek to knock out dubois when he gasses in the later rounds?

It's because Davison is a British and woke hack.

Look at shabas Masoud. He fought Jose san Martin who you bigged up. Some say Sanmartin was robbed vs Elijah pierce.

Well Masoud GOT COVID, a respiratory diseases. The fight was postponed for just one month. Masoud was still sick and didn't throw, barely getting a SD victory.

Davison heavily criticised Masoud in the post fight interview. Davison let Eddie Hearn criticise Masoud too.

The man is a bad coach

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I told you the weight gain meant that dubois will meet Joshua head on

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