Great bloke Bunce and I've had a bit of verbal sparring with him on twitter. They do get hold of certain fighters on there and are all over them and they can do no wrong, I suppose sky do it as well but I sometimes feel Bunce lets his personal fondness of some get in the way at times. Fury's, Groves, Buglioni and a lot of others could run over there own grannies and they'd laugh it off on Boxnation

Think maybe Degale needs to look at changing trainer or something just for some fresh ideas now he's at top level. He's always been a bit of a good performance/indifferent performance type fighter for me. No disrespect to Macdonell who's helped him get there but sometimes they need to change and many of them do. I think I'd take Smith over any of them at the min although he really needs more experience of maybe being in a long fight with an awkward customer first.

There's been questions before about Degales attitude and he's always thought that he's better than he is. A bit like Groves, a right pair of plums at times despite both being talented. Don't know what he was playing at last night but he was playing a dangerous game from about halfway. Got some fair old stick from the crowd as well. He won't beat Jack going about it like that although Bute ran him close last night, looking very tight at that weight. Says a lot though when you consider Bute gave Jack a stern test as did Groves yet Froch destroyed Bute and Groves once. He'd surely have done similar to Degale and Jack, shame he isn't still about.

Agree Wlad can't really fight any other way. He was quite open early in his career and got battered a couple of times as a result. Only really got it together when he started to fight like his brother. All he can offer is to step it up and I hope he does as at least it'll make it a fight. Both rattled each other in the 11th & 12th last time but before than there was barely a hurtful punch. Still believe Fury is there for the taking should someone get at him but it's easier said than done.

Impossible to gauge with Fury though as he's now giving it the old I couldn't care less and I'm only fighting for money. He's not rising to Wlads new found aggression although he will as the fight draws closer no doubt, he won't be able to help himself. For me Klitchko has to get after him this time and take risk to engage in some early action otherwise the same pattern will develop as it often does in rematches. I think Fury will be fit and ready by fight time but might come in a little heavier with the intention to trade a bit more and try and stop Wlad. Such is Fury though that it wouldn't surprise me if he risks getting knocked out as it perfectly sets up another fight as decider. I do think he's in it for the money and I'm really not sure he can be bothered fighting for other belts or mandatories. Biggest payday will be Wlad again back in krautland or Wembley in a 3rd fight. Even Vegas might pitch for it. Rather odd they've chosen to fight in a small arena.........

I've a feeling Khan may pinch that if he stays disciplined. I know Alvarez is decent but I don't think he's all he's cracked up to be. Mayweather made a mug of him but I doubt Khan will be as quick with the weight on and that may be the undoing, really interesting fight.

Fury now spouting Joshua is on roids, just the same as he did with Klitschko and one or two others. The same bitterness that his other pretend pikey mate BJS was aiming at Eubank Jnr. Chips on their shoulders the size of a tower block these lot have.

Aye and i'll counter that with a right hook and say your ignoring clear mitigating circumstances Anyway moving on...........

He HAS to do that though because his actual boxing has never been as spectacular as your AJ's, Hayes, Wilders etc. These guys spark people and that's why fans get excited and want to watch them. It's interesting to note that when he was fighting Chisora in the first date in Manchester I logged on to buy tickets online only a few days before it was called off. Half the arena was closed off similar to when the darts is there and the available half was around 50% full at best. There was a fair set of other fights on as well involving some local names. This was only days before it was scheduled and they ended up switching it to London as part of a bigger bill. Also look at his twitter followers, in the days of social media it's a marker for popularity whether we like it or not. As the lineal 2 belt (was 3) Heavyweight champion of the world you'd expect him to have a fair few following him but AJ already has probably double. He doesn't have mass appeal for his boxing nor his personality so he's carving himself out a niche. There is nothing genuine about it at all as he even struggles with that because he's on a constant contradiction and as soon as he has a difficult question or runs out of something to say he reverts to bible quotes. The minute a proper heavyweight gets to his chin he's gone. Although history now says he's THE man who beat THE man it does say that about a good few heavyweights who did naff all else besides. He's the hype job imo. If he proves me wrong i'll relent.

Didn't think he would spark him out if you go back to my posts I always thought he had a chance. I did want him sparked though Age as much as Fury beat Wlad that night and I suspect there was some kind of injury being covered up. I think Fury will do him in 6 this time though.

He's been perfectly open about it from the word go so he's hardly claiming the moral high ground. If anything he's a shining example of how boxing can help turn someone's life around. Fury on the other hand is a perfect example of how getting a bit of fame, money and plastic notoriety gives someone the license to act the dick in public and get away with it. Seems you were the one making the drama about Joshua because you don't like him. That's fair enough it's all about opinions. I agree on the Eddie Hearn point though, he does sell sand to the arabs at times and most blindly lap it up. He did pull off a masterstroke getting AJ in with that Martin though, he knew damn well the title was in the bag as soon as the Brit detonated.

Have you actually looked into the Fury family history namely this so called super trainer uncle or his dad who gouged a blokes eye out ? How much misery did uncle Peter bring to the streets with his former profession ffs ! They are scum and that big dick only inspires disgust and derision when he opens his juvenile mouth. Also while we are at it the only one who lived the true pikey way was John because he was a rough neck who chose too. All this Gypsy stuff is @#/? you should have seen the house Tyson lived in a few years back BEFORE he'd made much from boxing, not a caravan in sight.

Someone like Evans will always get a bit of leeway with their fans because I think they were struggling financially when he took over, or so I'm told. He stopped the rot then invested what bit he had but got burned by Roy Kean so now he just props them up. Trouble is Rovers will always be a poisoned chalice under the V's unless they really do try and restore what they wrecked. That's because of the ridiculous, arrogant, ignorant, under hand and some of us would say bent way they wrecked it. It's never been a slow slide to our natural level at all and anyone who likes to portray that needs a slap ! Sadly we are stuck with it now and yes we have to live like other Champ clubs and it's a pill we'll have to swallow and get on with it. Never let it be said there is anything natural about the way it came about though like might be the case at many other clubs of a similar size in this div.

I won a fiver on Pacman lol didn't watch it as I knew he'd win he's a level above Bradley as their 2nd fight showed and the fight he lost against him was just about the biggest scandal I've ever seen in boxing. Just money fights though so Pac wasn't taking a risk in his so called last fight just like Mayweather. I'm amazed enough people pay to see them to make it viable when they are so nailed on.

There's a reason they took the fight with Martin at this early stage in Joshuas career, because he was very beatable and had done nothing of real note before he got the belt. He was classed as a good prospect though but obviously in the USA now that doesn't mean what it used to in terms of ability. Martin won the belt because his previous opponent, the then champ, retired with a bust knee. From Martins point of view this was the biggest money spinner on the table, more than a fight in the US with Wilder even and he genuinely thought he could win. The belts are only becoming splintered again because Klitsckho is getting over the hill and the IBF only became available because big tough Fury wouldn't risk his mandatory defence after winning it and risk losing another huge payday with Wlad.

Seems AJ might be the real deal after all and not just a puncher. He fought that fight to perfection. Now the real big tests await but still think he needs a few more difficult tune ups. Fury will just run around the ring firing off slaps if he fights this guy soon. No way will he engage with Joshua and taking nothing away from Furys achievement but in pure boxing terms AJs last two fights have been more impressive than any fight Fury has had in his career to date.

Martin is a good bet at those odds, whilst I want AJ to win and I think he can nail him this Martin guy could just upset the hype. Haye was saying the word coming out of American is CM was bossing it in the gyms over there in the past few years. You don't do that over there if you haven't got something about you. Saying that though the best they've come up with in the last 10 years from the US is Wilder and there's not really anyone else so they may be clutching at straws. On the Fury thing the biggest factor in that was he got himself into great shape which no one thought he would. He won't maintain that though throughout his career he hasn't got the right temperament. Often seen out on the lash and in KFC since he became champ. He's like a 14 yrd old stuck in a giant blokes body ! If we look back at the Wlad who fought Haye a few years ago and the one who showed up v Fury it's like 2 different blokes. That Wlad would have chased Fury around the ring all night no bother and they'd have had to box. Age has done for Wlad as much as the pikey I think.

Good fight but bent decision. I like Eddie Hearn and in a lot of ways he's been good for Boxing on the TV but there are often strange verdicts/stoppages in his fights leading to a bit of mudslinging. That on Saturday was wrong on many levels.

I was at school in Brinscall then Chorley with one of Steven Pembertons younger brothers and they lived in a big gaff in Charnock Richard in the mid/late 80's. I don't really remember much about Steven but my mate Lee, his dad and other younger brother were huge Man Yoo fans. Doesn't mean they didn't originate from Blackburn, I can't remember but I was under the impression they lived Brinscall way before Charnock Richard and Steven maybe just went to school there.

If Jack had courted celebrity he'd probably have been the most famous worldwide Blackburn son ever. Thankfully he didn't and even if he was younger when it happened I doubt he'd have popped up in the jungle decades later. Foggy will always have been widely known around the world but only in certain circles and even less in those circles would know he comes from Blackburn. Probably the same with Wainwright as everyone just assumes he came from the Lake district I suppose. Plenty of big names associated with the Town though down the years which isn't bad for a relatively small place.

So is McShane lol At least the previous Dr Who stills claims to be a Rovers fan so it's got to be him..............oh wait he's not from Blackburn. Damn !

Eubank jnr does lack big one punch power and that's why he's still fighting for British titles etc instead of taking the division by storm. He's got all the other tools and he'll do well he just needs to learn to box smarter. After Watson his old man just did enough in fights but jnr does too much at times and if he goes about like that v Saunders in a rematch he'll run out of steam and maybe get stopped. Saunders is another little gobshite and I honestly don't think he fancies a rematch despite what he says. He's too busy pricing himself out of a fight with GGG. A right collection of tits on that ringside front row the other night all egging on Blackwell and goading Eubank then turning around and saying it should have been stopped. Disgraceful stuff from Locket etc in the corner as well, where was the towel ?

There are no guarantees in football though and even less with the likes of our lot. If he'd told them he could have a stab at getting in the play offs this season if we cashed in on Rhodes and they backed his loan signings then by the same token he could be worried. I hope that's not the case and it probably isn't but promises work both ways and unless guarantees are written into legal documents they mean nothing.

Correct. I'd rather watch that today than what was served up last season where we might have spent 89 mins of the game trying to contain the opposition. We set out to over run them first half but it didn't come off and we kept going forwards even at 1 then 2 nil down. We'll prob lose to Ipswich but you know we'll bounce back under this guy, win/lose/win is better than draw/draw/draw. Far better stuff on display now despite the odd set backs and I wish some would accept that. When it's bad i'll be the first to moan but that today wasn't bad.

Looks like they may have just been trying to buy time to see if they could get some points on the board or throw in the towel with admin. Never seemed very concrete that Holdsworth thing as they couldn't show they had money to run the club right from the off.