Barker is fighting "bazooka" Ben Crampton for the vacant commonwealth middleweight title tomorrow night. nice little step up for both boxers..but hoping barker does the job cos he's got proper potential...

plus live boxing on a wednesday night. nice one!

watched it, corker fight though Barker would have stopped him after the sickening bodyshot got him but the aussie was one tough SOB, Barker back and look very tasty.

watched it, corker fight though Barker would have stopped him after the sickening bodyshot got him but the aussie was one tough SOB, Barker back and look very tasty.

he's got a refreshing attitude as well. it was a 12 round shutout on two of the judges scorecards but barker still wasn't completely happy about his performance.

lads definitely got potential.

looks technically very good, great range of punches, wasted a lot on the gloves in the later rounds and i thought he may have went for the KO, but I may be underestimating the other guy, good to have some new blood coming through def one to watch.

Can someone remind me who this is again. Is this one of the lads who won a medal at the commonwealth games? where's he from etc.

Can someone remind me who this is again. Is this one of the lads who won a medal at the commonwealth games? where's he from etc.

yeah..won the gold at the 2002 commonwealth games.

heres his boxrec...

http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=267609&cat=boxer

Barker has skills, no doubt about that, but he seems to have graduated from the Paulie Malignaggi School of Power Punching.