The_budweiser Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 2 days ago James Degale was called David Degale Yesterday In the past 12 months, British boxers have lost nine world title fights and won only two. Today Froch's defeat means British boxers have now lost 10 world title fights out of 12 in 2011, leaving Cleverly as the country's sole world champion. What do you make of there reporting? Seems as there getting other sports writers to cover there boxing, poor coverage from the BBC. Burns is Interm but still more than 2 wins in 2011. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheelchair Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 The BBC sport dept is a joke. Mind you, the rest of the corporation isn't much cop either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavpowell Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 I don;t know, I think we can agree the archive division is pretty handy ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamasadlittleboy Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Re: BBC Boxing 2 days ago James Degale was called David Degale Yesterday In the past 12 months, British boxers have lost nine world title fights and won only two. Today Froch's defeat means British boxers have now lost 10 world title fights out of 12 in 2011, leaving Cleverly as the country's sole world champion. What do you make of there reporting? Seems as there getting other sports writers to cover there boxing, poor coverage from the BBC. Burns is Interm but still more than 2 wins in 2011. I wonder if they include British fighters Bellew and Cook. In 2011- Burns defended the WBO Super Featherweight title 2 times (Laryea and Cook) Cleverly won the WBO Light Heavyweight title and defended it once (Bellew) Froch defended his WBC Super Middleweight title (against Johnson) Khan defended his IBF title (against Judah) If you include interims you can add Magee's win (over Barboza) and Burns' win (over Katsidis). In fact I'm always happy to accept interim titles as they carry as much legitimacy as many proper titles (see-Alavarez WBC Light Middleweight reign, Chavez's Middleweight reign, Haye and Povetkin's Heavweight reigns, G. Jones' Cruiserweight reign etc etc etc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_budweiser Posted December 18, 2011 Author Share Posted December 18, 2011 Re: BBC Boxing 2 days ago James Degale was called David Degale Yesterday In the past 12 months, British boxers have lost nine world title fights and won only two. Today Froch's defeat means British boxers have now lost 10 world title fights out of 12 in 2011, leaving Cleverly as the country's sole world champion. What do you make of there reporting? Seems as there getting other sports writers to cover there boxing, poor coverage from the BBC. Burns is Interm but still more than 2 wins in 2011. I wonder if they include British fighters Bellew and Cook. In 2011- Burns defended the WBO Super Featherweight title 2 times (Laryea and Cook) Cleverly won the WBO Light Heavyweight title and defended it once (Bellew) Froch defended his WBC Super Middleweight title (against Johnson) Khan defended his IBF title (against Judah) If you include interims you can add Magee's win (over Barboza) and Burns' win (over Katsidis). In fact I'm always happy to accept interim titles as they carry as much legitimacy as many proper titles (see-Alavarez WBC Light Middleweight reign, Chavez's Middleweight reign, Haye and Povetkin's Heavweight reigns, G. Jones' Cruiserweight reign etc etc etc) Khan v McCloskey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamasadlittleboy Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Knew I'd forgotten at least 1, think their is another one I've forgotten as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusader Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Friday night the team of Tv-speaker (Mario Mattioli & Nino Benvenuti) called Matteo Modugno in the report...Domenico Modugno...(great singer..Mr.Volare)... a few years ago has remained famous gaffe, during the interview post fight with the world champ Stefano Zoff in the questions were calling Dino (as the legend of football)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamasadlittleboy Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 "Khan lost his IBF and WBO belts in a controversial split decision to home fighter Peterson in Washington after he was deducted two points for pushing." (was on http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/16239062.stm at the time of writing) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamasadlittleboy Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 "His jail sentence means he will be released only two months before a major fight against the Philippines' Manny Pacquiao, scheduled to take place on 5 May." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16296247 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dulais_valley Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 "Cleverly will defend his title for the third time against an as yet confirmed opponent in February in Cardiff." I'm guessing they mean as yet unconfirmed... which is wrong isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavpowell Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 "Cleverly will defend his title for the third time against an as yet confirmed opponent in February in Cardiff." I'm guessing they mean as yet unconfirmed... which is wrong isn't it? Bud said they've bowed to public pressure and are not fighting that Polish bloke anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Ko Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 "30: Cincinnati, USA, Krzysztof Wlodarczyk bt Danny Green by 11th-round stoppage (WBC cruiserweight), Chris John bt Stanyslav Merdov by unanimous decision (WBA featherweight)." It was in Australia, maybe you should contact them and ask if they want new people to add content to boxing section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meathead Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 The BBC havent taken Boxing seriously since the early 80s. Even then ITV were taking it a lot more seriously than them. One thing that should be said though, BBC controllers have tried to increase the BBCs Boxing output since the early 80s but it very rarely gets past the BBC Trust. On the rare occasion that it does they have had there fingers burnt, mainly through their own stupidity such as offering Audley Harrison 75% more than he had been offered by the Sky/Frank Warren deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemurphy Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 "30: Cincinnati, USA, Krzysztof Wlodarczyk bt Danny Green by 11th-round stoppage (WBC cruiserweight), Chris John bt Stanyslav Merdov by unanimous decision (WBA featherweight)." It was in Australia, maybe you should contact them and ask if they want new people to add content to boxing section. LOL, how's a mistake like that get made? and if they're screwing up the location of a World Title doubleheader, how much faith can we have in the minor card reporting. You right, Joe, sounds like they could use a hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dulais_valley Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Though it has been changed now, it said earlier that Cleverly would be defending his WBO inter-continental title in his next fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemurphy Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Though it has been changed now, it said earlier that Cleverly would be defending his WBO inter-continental title in his next fight. God I hate those Regional Belts that the World Orgs hand out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_budweiser Posted March 11, 2012 Author Share Posted March 11, 2012 The Namibian challenger, who has 28 victories from 30 fights, stepped up the attack in the final rounds but it was too little too late. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/boxing/17329074 His Record after Burns fight is won 28 (KO 19) + lost 2 (KO 1) + drawn 0 = 30 http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=152286&cat=boxer Might be nit picking but should they have said 28 from 29 as it was start of there report? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamasadlittleboy Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I'd take BBC's side there as it's the same sort of thing as going "has fallen to" IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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