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I like Witter he is a bit up and down but on his day he puts on a good performance like he did against Harris, If this is in the UK i will probably go and watch it.
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why has bradley lost his wbc strap then?Comment
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I would be interested in seeing this fight if it is over here.Comment
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Apparently he wouldn't defend it against Alexander, his mandatory challenger.
Good luck to Junior; he was fairly beaten by Bradley, but wasn't at his best that night. He deserves one last shot, at least, at getting the belt and maybe a big fight against one of megastars lurking around 140 at the moment to fill his retirement pot. Should be a good fight.Last edited by The_Visitation; 05-23-2009, 06:43 AM.Comment
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I dont blame Sulaiman, Bradley knew Alexander was his mandatory but he still didnt fight him 3 times when he had the chance to negiotate for the fight.
After beating Holt he had a chance to negiotate with Don king(Alexander promoter) but he choose to vacate, He fought Edner cherry instead of Alexander and the WBC approved him as a voluntary fight.
I have NO sympathy for Bradley because he got to this position by being a mandatory challenger himself and if Witter had refuse to fight him we would have all been hard towards Witter, So no i think the WBC were right for once.Comment
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I wouldn't put Froch and Witter in the same sentence. Froch, I'd describe as technically bad simply because his stance/style is incongruous to his actual abilities (ie. fighting with hands low but no reflexes). Witter is an awkward fighter groomed in an unorthodox philosophy - by traditional standards, he's a technical head-scratcher, but he's a good representive of that philosphy, geared as it is to molding fighters' eccentricities into strengths.
Not everything he does just sucks, not all of his performances are just poor. His road of development toward world title contention was an uneven, uncertain one, and I don't think that helped in terms of seeing the absolute best we could have seen of him.
But I'll take the idiosyncratic, imperfect innovation of what comes out of the Ingle gym over the vast majority of what passes for technical soundness in British boxing today. At least they've built a some legacy on trying to break out of a failing mold.
The standards of how boxing fundamentals are coached in this country are lousy. This is why a young guy like Kevin Mitchell (who should be just on his way and who is a fantastic kid) is getting KTFO as soon as he steps up to real world level, because the fundamentals his style should be based on just aren't refined and ingrained enough...that, to me, is emblematic of what is embarrassing to British boxing, not the rugged honesty of a guy like Froch or the anti-aesthetics of a cat like Witter.
Note, the biggest impact-having fighters to come out of the UK in this last era have all been anomalies, guys who succeed in spite of aberrance or inherent flaws, because the whole manages to somehow be greater than the sum of its parts - Naz, Calzaghe (in the latter part of his career), Haye...you might think to except Hatton, and yet even he isn't the straight 8 when you put him up to the top level.
They're what would be the exceptions to the rule, if Britain had a fertile bed of conscientous, cultivated boxing coaching from which to produce genuine world-level, techical boxing talent. Instead, they're the best we've got period.
Anyway, I was just thinking about this fight last night and hoping it would be confirmed soon. Let's go, Junior.Comment
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