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British title fights for Irish fighters .I read on ESB the other day Simpson might be getting named Lindsay's mandatory .Hopefully he is it says Lindsay's next defence will probably be the first week in July .
http://www.irish-boxing.com/stories/...gee_smith.html
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is that just a random rumour about Simpson or does it have a bit of substance (couldnt find anything on the links u provided except that Lindsay will probably be fighitng in July)?Originally posted by alza1988 View Post
If Magee and Lindsay are on the same bill then i'll def go to that. And if Simspon is the opponent i'll be well chuffed.
I fancy Magee to beat Smith in a bit of a war, what world belt will it be an eliminator for do u know?Comment
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Not sure about the McGee fight mate .It was the pro trainer man who posts on ESB Billy Nelson who said Simpson will probably be named mandatory .He works in Simpson's corner sometimes man.Originally posted by gingeralbino View PostComment
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a massive weekend of Irish boxing ahead!Comment
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This week’s edition of On the Ropes Boxing Radio featured an exclusive interview with Hall of Fame boxing trainer Emanuel Steward, who is currently training Miguel Cotto for his June 5 fight against WBA junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman. Steward is also currently working with unified heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and middleweight contender Andy Lee, who scored a second round technical knockout against Mamadou Thiam last weekend. Here is what Emanuel had to say on a variety of subjects:
On how long before he believes Andy Lee will be ready to face an elite level middleweight:
“Believe it or not I have a meeting this week with someone actually related to Pound for Pound fights, so maybe within the next six months—a world title fight. He’s ready for a title fight it’s just that it’s been so hard to get a major fight with anybody. Even the fight with (Brian) Vera, it was a very tough fight. A good fight, he was ahead on the points, scored a knockdown, and just went all out trying to finish the guy got exhausted himself. So it wasn’t like he was dominated or beaten up soundly or whatever. It was a good fight and it’s been very difficult to get quality fights, to be honest with you, in the whole middleweight division today. It’s very bad. It’s probably about the least attractive of all the major divisions right now. (Kelly) Pavlik is gone, (Arthur) Abraham is gone, and we got a new champion and I don’t know what he’s going to do—whether (Sergio) Martinez is going to stay at middleweight or junior middleweight. He might fight as a junior middleweight because that’s where it seems the money is with the junior middleweights and the welterweights. In this division I told him (Lee) he could possibly be a star if he could get a title fight..Comment
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On how he believes Andy Lee has improves since the loss to Brian Vera:
“First of all, no excuses—we never complained about the stoppage, and didn’t say ‘Oh well, he had survived the storm and he even actually landed a punch as the referee stopped it’, meaning Andy. Andy never complained and I didn’t complain. He came to that fight very weak. He had a very bad cold to the degree that he only weighed 158. He’s never been that light. He couldn’t train for about four days, but he wouldn’t cancel the fight and I wouldn’t cancel. He said it was his American TV debut and he refused to cancel. So it was a mistake we made when I gambled on, and I gambled and we almost had him but we lost. In all sports people lose. You’re only as good as your last performance, but it wasn’t a disgraceful loss where he was outclassed. At the time he was very exhausted and cut and Vera, who I spoke to since then, said if that if the fight had went another thirty/forty seconds he might have been stopped. He said, ‘I was totally exhausted and I was just backing away myself and Andy was still coming at me’, but regardless of that he lost. We learned from that in the next fight, which people said I was crazy putting him with Willie Gibbs—a very tough fighter, and he had Gibbs hurt in the second round I think, but he paced himself, never got too excited, and I think he stopped Gibbs in the final round which was the tenth round. But he learned from the experience of going all out. Sometimes when you have an opponent hurt, in particular a guy like Vera who when you would hit him, because his balance was so bad, that also he would be falling and you would think he was hurt because of bad balance. So he learned how to pace himself and look for longer fights in case it goes, so we learned from that experience, too. I’ve since offered Vera ten times what he got from that fight and he has turned us down, so it’s something where we’ve just decided to move on.”
On whether he would be interested in having Andy Lee face the winner of Chavez-Duddy:
“We would welcome that. So easy, we look at that as an easy fight for Andy, either one of those, but I don’t know what’s going to happen. Right now there is not any middleweight I would favor over Andy, including Martinez.”
On Miguel Cotto’s preparations for his June 5 fight against Yuri Foreman:
“The preparations are going very good. He’s doing more than I expected. I thought he would have a rough time of adjusting from the head bent down elbows out type style and changing it to my style which is more of a balance style. The first thing I teach is balance, balance, even distribution of weight, and a left jab. So he’s doing extremely well and he’s been boxing ten-twelve rounds and not even getting exhausted. We’re mainly working on a lot of good balance moves. The biggest problem in this fight for me is Yuri is such a good fighter himself. It’s not so much just what Miguel is doing, but Yuri Foreman is a very underappreciated fighter. I think his talent, his boxing skills, and his speed is totally unappreciated, and therefore I had told Miguel that when I went to Las Vegas recently for the (Floyd) Mayweather fight with (Shane) Mosley I was talking with Sugar Ray Leonard. He said, ‘Steward, that’s one fighter that I would never have wanted to fight, even in prime’, I said, ‘I know’. Yuri Foreman’s going to be a very difficult fight for anyone.”Comment
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