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mitchell1996 said:
This card on saturday is an absolute joke, in my opinion the worst matchroom PPV on paper since Bellew Cleverly, possibly worse. I can stomach Joshua-Takam as a headliner as I do think Takam will give Joshua a fight, hes a top 10 fighter in my book and will come to win, but hes had 2 weeks notice, 'but okay' i could stomach it providing it had a great undercard (what Hearn had promised when it was made). Buglioni-Johnson and Allen-Thomas weren't of massive interest to me anyway, but they were competitive 50/50 fights, the only 2 on the bill, both pulled now due to injury/illness. Whyte-Helenius doesn't interest me at all, Whyte is an average fighter and Helenius again has had 2 weeks notice, and is damaged goods these days anyway. There isn't one fight on this card that im particularly looking forward too, the original card was a poor one anyway, depsite the pullouts etc. I know its not excatly Eddie Hearns fault if a fighter pulls out, but to sell 75k tickets and bring in probably nearly a million PPV buys, this card is absolute [Poor language removed]. Previous Joshua undercards have at least had a couple of good fights on for actual boxing fans, Groves-Murray, Eubank-Spike, Whyte-Chisora etc and not just casuals wanting to look at darling Joshua use his big sexy muscles to knock someone out.
Cheers Eddie, I look forward to your next IFL interview talking about how much a good place boxing is in and how much money you and AJ have made from this card.
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Is Yafai not on this card?
 
Walken said:
It's not even close, great amatuer, great pro, beat pretty much everyone he could, all time great and probably our only all time great heavy, unless you head back to ancient days of tom cribb et al
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Yeah Lewis was actually a top heavyweight and is massively underrated in the uk , who knows we’re joshua’s Career will end up but that vote is just madness. As somebody has said it is why you get boxing snobbery and people dismissing the casual fan .
 


TippEverton said:
Hard to imagine it getting big ppv figures, one of the cards I wouldn't go out of my way to watch never mind pay for.
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I might go out and watch it at a boozer, to be honest the johnson fight was my main reason for watching, really enjoyed him as an amateur, and was looking forward to seeing his progress, as it has been slow, some poor decisions when he turned pro, not as many fights as he should have had, don't really rate buglioni so this was a good opportunity. Apparently he pulled out with chest pains on his right side, so fair enough heath comes first, but my appetite for this event has sunk to new lows!
 
mitchell1996 said:
This card on saturday is an absolute joke, in my opinion the worst matchroom PPV on paper since Bellew Cleverly, possibly worse. I can stomach Joshua-Takam as a headliner as I do think Takam will give Joshua a fight, hes a top 10 fighter in my book and will come to win, but hes had 2 weeks notice, 'but okay' i could stomach it providing it had a great undercard (what Hearn had promised when it was made). Buglioni-Johnson and Allen-Thomas weren't of massive interest to me anyway, but they were competitive 50/50 fights, the only 2 on the bill, both pulled now due to injury/illness. Whyte-Helenius doesn't interest me at all, Whyte is an average fighter and Helenius again has had 2 weeks notice, and is damaged goods these days anyway. There isn't one fight on this card that im particularly looking forward too, the original card was a poor one anyway, depsite the pullouts etc. I know its not excatly Eddie Hearns fault if a fighter pulls out, but to sell 75k tickets and bring in probably nearly a million PPV buys, this card is absolute [Poor language removed]. Previous Joshua undercards have at least had a couple of good fights on for actual boxing fans, Groves-Murray, Eubank-Spike, Whyte-Chisora etc and not just casuals wanting to look at darling Joshua use his big sexy muscles to knock someone out.
Cheers Eddie, I look forward to your next IFL interview talking about how much a good place boxing is in and how much money you and AJ have made from this card.
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Proper harsh that imo. I think it's an interesting undercard tbh and the main event has got a Buster Douglas feel about it to me.

Looking forward to it.
 
Are people really getting upset over a twitter poll? Everton fans would probably vote for Oumar Niasse over Alex Young lads it’s twitter ffs.

Worth remembering that Bruno was more popular than Lewis ever was as well, it isn’t just a modern era thing.
 

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