So it’s a case of repeat or revenge, Manchester’s Tyson Fury fights for his old title this Friday at the Brentwood International centre just off the A12 against the man he won it from John Mcdermott last September in a highly controversial decision that the fight fraternity deemed a robbery that lent in favour of the Mancunian beanpole!
The villain of the peice was referee Terry O’Connor who awarded the decison along with the vacant belt to Fury, and it caused outrage let alone fury amongst many a fan let alone those in boxing.
It was almost Henry Cooper v Joe Bugner revisited, as the much younger Fury was adjudged the winner, clearly through out the contest Fury seemed to run out of ideas has Mcdermott was clearly outfighting and out hustling his far more inexperienced fellow protagonist through the ten rounds, but Fury unlike Bugner has’nt been on the end of the public’s disgust and rightfully so, then again neither should have Joe in the first place.
It was even believed that the ref O’Connor had a long running grudge with Mcdermott’s father Stan whom O’Connor boxed when he was a pro heavyweight himself and this was possibly the reason behind the ridiculous scoring, {for the record I gave Mcdermott the decision by six rounds}.
None the less Fury was stripped of the belt due to the nature of the decision and now finds himself challenging again for the vacant crown against his old nemesis, the decision even warranted a meeting with the British Boing Board of Control and they made a rematch compulsory.
In the post fight interview Mcdermott said “what do I have to do to win” well now he has the chance to get justice, at a earlier press conference Fury failed to show much to the annoyance of promoter Frank Maloney, but now the press conference has been rescheduled for the Wednesday before the actual fight and should be interesting to say the least.
So to the fight and to tell the truth I see Mcdermott exact revenge and the fight flow in a similar vein to there first meeting, Fury has boxed twice since then and injured his hand in doing in his next fight that caused a postponement of the rematch that should have taken place before Christmas last year, Mcdermott has not boxed since but should’nt be too rusty despite the lay off, I see Mcdermott being that too experienced and winning as wide if not a wider points decision this time around, and if we have a similar kind of decision, just like the billing of there first fight ‘collosal’ and the billing of this the rematch ‘conspiracy Fury’ look for it too be a collosal conspiracy and a lot of fury chucked in for good measure!
Despite my view Lenny Lee one of the most famous faces in British boxing, {you’d know his face, his the old chap on the apron in the corner of many a big fight and many a small fight, okay literally any fight on t.v and not on t.v}, Lenny thinks it’ll go in favour of Tyson, and while on the subject of old timers and Tyson, remember it was Cus D’amato Mike Tyson’s former guardian and trainer that once said it took ten years to make a good ten round fighter, that’s why I’m going for Tyson to lose, Fury that is not Mike!!!!!!!!!!
Also featured on the undercard is Dave Ferguson going up against Larry Olubamiwo the Southern Area heavyweight champ, in what is a final eliminator for the Fury-Mcdermott rematch, though it was reported it was a final eliminator for the British title, this is obviously nonsense as neither man is out of the novice stage yet, despite Larry becoming Southern Area champ in his last fight when he beat Southampton’s Colin Kenna inside of a round on the Shinny Baayar- Ashley Sexton card at Dagenham, and talking of Sexton, he will also be appearing on this show since that disapointment against Bayaar that ended in a draw, hoping to get a rematch with the Mongolian, Sexton’s the grandson of former West Ham footballer and Manchester United manager Dave Sexton and also the great grandson of former pro light heavy Archie, dad of Dave naturally.
Also featured are light heavy Menay Edwards, Olympic bronze medalist David Price who hopes to one day challenge for the richest one.
Also featured are heavyweights Damian Campbell making his debut and prospect Tom Dallas, lower down the scales you have Tony Hill at middle, Lewis Pettitt at super bantam and Ben Jones at super feather
Tickets available are £40, if you’d like to purchase then go to www.frankmaloney.com for more details.
I hope to see you there
I’ve been Michael Angelo Serra and you’ve been reading for the last couple of minutes!
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