So will degales IBF title be held captive in the UK by hearn.?

[Box-Office]

Anyone but a hearn fighter really..ammm Stieglitz would be a good fight i think a tough fight doh maybe for first defense. Chudinov would be a really good first defense but a bit of a fantasy for that to happen, hmmmm maybe Bika i would say, that seems like the mostly likely that could happen,and bika would be a good test for degale but degale still wins... i think

Yeah, he is fighting Abraham. Why Bika? So, you can have an excuse ready about him coming off a loss at a higher weight?

Unless it's Froch it is going to be someone beatable, deal with it. Winning a World title is a lifetime achievement and only then you start making proper $. Degale is going to recoup the time, effort and expenses invested in to his pro career before taking on a hard fight. That is the pattern in boxing, so I don't see why it is so difficult to notice.

[STEELHEAD]

Hey im irish not british!!ha...anyway to have a few basic channels and sky sports is 65 euro a month,but hearn is putting most of his fights on box-office which is between 20-30euro to order for the night, soooo thats the bones of a 100euro a month if you wanna watch a box-office show which eddie is doing more nd more often, yes the box-office shows are cheap enough im sure youl say compared to the states,but for the quality on offer is it really worth and extra 30euro or so onto your 65euro bill already?

thanks. here in pacific i get 13 digital tv channells free. 4 of which are pbs stations which are great.
i pay $70 a month for phone and the fastest dsl. i can watch every main fight free streaming live.

[soul_survivor]

Your actually right he dosnt have that many champions..and Scott quigg, so far its looking like kell brook, nathan cleverly before he was fcked up by kovalev although he did fight once in LA before then, ricky burns before he fought in the states a few weeks ago,and the countless interm/silver champions that are not going to box outside of Britain. Wait and see,if selby wins,never fight outside the uk against someone worth fighting,and the same thing whit mitchell, IF i am wrong,and selby and mitchell win and defend their titles against someone valuable or even outside the UK,and degale keeps his word and fights the "best" at 168,or takes a fight that wont be all his way outside the UK,then il come back and give you some points and green K, until then enjoy mis matches and groves vs degale 2 for £40 on box office if groves wins, although i wouldnt mind seeing that fight myself ha

You're confusing not fighting in the US as holding the belt captive. Kell Brook, I'll give you that but then again, the guy just went over to the US to win his belt against a highly rated American fighter. I'm not impressed with the up coming fight but Jo Jo Dan was a mandatory so I won't begrudge him. Plus this next fight is barely a month after the last one, so again, he deserves props for that. I would hardly call that holding the belt hostage.

I think Cleverly gets way too much stick, he fought guys like Bellew, Muhammadi and Murat, all guys who got title shots against the three leading guys in the division (Hops, Kov and Stevenson). Just because he was fighting in the UK, it's not holding the belt hostage. Why should the champion give up home town advantage, unless there is very big money on the table.

There is this mentality that some have, which means they believe that a champion from the UK or anywhere outside of the US, fighting in their home countries is automatically holding the belt hostage. That's not the case as long as they are facing quality opposition. Why aren't US fighters only fighting in the States painted with the same brush?

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Ammmmm how about no,and fck off reading my posts if its that hard can you not have a normal debate without acting like a child?? ya and the winner of that fight will face degale, you talk about the other fella going on about khan, your going on about degale and brook alot more, your one of the fcking ejets who have falling for hearns con man act, now fck off with your childish comments and making no sense,only making yourself look like a right little british fan boy who loves hearn and boxers fighting bums,your everything thats wrong with a boxing fan

It isn't hard to punctuate or use paragraphs. You're calling me "childish" but you post like you didn't pass kindergarten.

I've written a thread ripping the piss out of Eddie Hearn so once again, you are wrong.

[Weebler I]

The IBF enforce their mandatories so it's not a belt that's capable of being held captive.

Fwiw, the next ranked fighters were:

#3 Zurdo Ramirez
#4 George Groves
#5 Julius Jackson

Groves might drop since he went the WBC route and I doubt Top Rank will send Ramirez over.