Opinions on Skelton vs Sprott fight?

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I'm telling you, that fight was based on a lucky shot. He just swings and hopes for the best. Audley is a more skilled fighter than Sprott and Skelton is gonna beat him up.

Agreed. The knock out punch was just a lucky swing- i do infact remember Sprott not even looking at Harrison and throwing the shot as a defensive measure against a harrisons fast combinations.

But... either Harrisons chin was not strong enough, or Sprott was too powerful or maybe a combination of the two. Sprott won fair and square - blunt powerful force over boxing techinique. I don't think its right to take anything away from Sprott - he proved himself the winner by early K.O.

Now the real question is... can Skelton survive Sprotts strength? In all likelyhood, he can.

[MickyHatton]

Skelton will maul he way to a late stoppage.

Neither of them are world beaters in my opinion but Skelton will be too strong.

[mike772]

Thanks for your opinions. Greatly appreciated!

[number6]

Skelton wins a messy ud, this wont be a fight to remember by any means

[Decypher]

I'm telling you, that fight was based on a lucky shot. He just swings and hopes for the best. Audley is a more skilled fighter than Sprott and Skelton is gonna beat him up.

Perhaps Sprott did win the fight on a lucky punch, and Audley may have more skill. (Which wouldn't necessarily make him a better fighter, all things considered.)

The point I was making:

he was outboxing him at the beginning of their fight until Sprott caught him with a lucky shot.

You aren't giving proper credit to Sprott here. Audley obviously had a strong first round, although Sprott wasn't too bothered by it, even with the knock down. Sprott started to perform in the last minute of the second round, and he was clearly winning the third round.

[Decypher]

I think skelton will win by late ko or ud, is this fight going to be on any TV station at all.

There is still time--as far as I know--for Warren and ITV to do a deal. I hope so. People around here seem to like trashing Warren's shows--and the last one certainly deserved it--but I think he delivered some (moderately) entertaining fights.

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There is still time--as far as I know--for Warren and ITV to do a deal. I hope so. People around here seem to like trashing Warren's shows--and the last one certainly deserved it--but I think he delivered some (moderately) entertaining fights.

At the moment... its just nice to see some ****ing boxing on the tele. With Sky only showing fights on a friday (sometimes) and ITV showing hardly anything. The only channel doing the sport justice is Eurosport which keeps shipping out dodgy fights from the continent.

I'd kill for this fight to be on tonight, cos Friday night Fights don't seem to be on.

Its just not good enough.

[Decypher]

i had a look at the ITV website and they have no fights scheduled yet for the next few months.

It now is:

Saturday July 14

ITV4 - 2000-2100 - Nicky Cook v Steve Luevano
ITV1 - 2110-2310 - Amir Khan v Willie Limond; Matt Skelton v Michael Sprott
ITV4 - 2315-0000 - Kevin Mitchell v Alexander Hrulev

[Decypher]

Anyone know much about Limond? Is this going to be a real challenge for Khan?

[English Lion]

Anyone know much about Limond? Is this going to be a real challenge for Khan?

hes the commonwealth champion at lightweight and is not a journyman by all means, so this will be a test for amir khan to defeat someone with a record of W 28 (8 ko's) | L 1 . limond is a very decent foe for khan.