John Murray : Another British Hypejob Bites The Dust

[CharlesDarwin]

i thought the ref robbed him TBH and yes i do rate murray in the top 5 p4p

this is very true.

[Medved]

i thought the ref robbed him TBH and yes i do rate murray in the top 5 p4p

thats why his opponents had a record of like 400wins and 600 loses?

Mitchell's opponents were 400 and like 320 which is BAD but not legendary bad like Murray.

top 5 p4p lol

Maybe top 5 p4p BUM

[SirTomJones]

Mitchell is noq p4p number 3 taking martinez spot.

[VERILY]

John Murray was never a hypejob. Sky backed him because he's a ticket seller in Manchester and had an all-action style, and, obviously, because selling fighters like Murray is their job, but at no point were the boxing public outside of Manchester fooled. He got practically no mainstream media coverage, and I don't remember ever reading a thread or comment page on a boxing website claiming how he was the next big thing on the world stage or something. As for him being undeserving of a title shot, welcome to modern boxing. Even so, he was a damn sight more deserving than Matthew Hatton, who fought for a title live on HBO!

He didn't have thee BIGGEST fanfare, but the trumpeting up of his world-class credentials on a deeply padded record and some deeply mediocre performances has been sickening.


A not quite fully blossomed hypejob, but a budding hypejob nonetheless.


Had Murray somehow, SOMEHOW, navigated Mitchell, and carried on with a padded win-streak, you can bet that more and more people would have been buying it.

[VERILY]

'Fess up, fellas. The Englishmen are largely deluded chumps anymore.



Don't address it? Don't make any progress.

[VERILY]

CON MURRAY and FWP "peeleft:

[iPhoneKiller]

I am a Khan fan and I will call out this thread for what it is.

Hard Boiled is a Khan fan, and dice Murray has been trashtalking in some ways of Khan in the past, Hard Boiled is getting his own back in his own little way.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Bro, you're so much better than reheated !! Anorak.


That's him in there, where's you?


Reach down deep and find the Diggler again.


You only have to look at recent posts on this forum to see how even fairly close followers of the sport were being taken in. Easy to see how it would've snowballed had Murray's win-streak had somehow miraculously continued beyond tonight. Thank goodness Kevin flopped him and real talent got the W while hypejobs took a L tonight.

No one here gave a ***** about John Murray. Sky hyped him because thats their job.

[VERILY]

No one here gave a ***** about John Murray. Sky hyped him because thats their job.

Errr, yeah, they did. Plenty peeps talking up his chances over Mitchell in the last week. These things happen in stages. Had he somehow navigated Mitchell, by a stroke of favorable officiating or some twist of fate, he would've had a bunch more people on board. Manc ticket-seller gets a bunch more fans, move onto the next brand-building stage.


Like I said, not a fully blossomed hypejob, but a budding one. Just not good enough to get past the prelim stages of world-class. And so his hype is nipped in the bud, thank goodness.

[daggum]

i begged murray to retire before this fight but now he's gone and destroyed his legacy.