Comments Thread For: Burns Trumps King For Knockout In Dull Affair

[JakeNDaBox]

After the pulsating clash between Scotty Cardle and Sean Dodd beforehand, Liverpool’s Echo Arena had little to get into during the Ricky Burns-Josh King lightweight contest.

Burns, a former two-weight world champion showed glimpses of what led him to glory and titles over the likes of Rocky Martinez and Kevin Mitchell and ended matters in the eleventh round with a wicked left hook to the body, a punch that the Scot looked for throughout. [Click Here To Read More]

[londoner]

There is the odd exception once in a while but King proved typical of Aussies who, although doing well in domestic competition down under, have little more than willingness to offer when venturing outside that level. Burns can't be happy with himself at letting this guy make things messy in there for so long.