Gavin McDonnell

Hardcore that we are in here, no-one could be bothered to comment on the fight last night. My brief thoughts:

Vargas looked useful with a great left hook to the body and won at a canter. Great heart and will from McDonnell who shipped plenty of punishment but kept coming back for more and probably nicked a few later rounds on workrate as he really tried to force the pace. So, not disgraced but clearly outclassed.

The disgrace was Ian John Lewis scoring it a draw.

As an aside, not sure who he was but sky seem to have found a commentator who's not a complete imbecile. Probably, the lack of tub thumping jingoistic claptrap will cost him his job, but it was refreshing to not have to turn the sound down.

I haven't seen it yet but I'll be watching a recording tonight

Sounds like vargas was good value for the win and mcdonnell gave it a game effort but came up well short

Pretty much, gavin didnt disgrace himself at all, just in with a better operator.
Campbell and Coyle's stoppages were both great!

Vargas totally outclassed McDonnell. McDonnell had no answer for Vargas' excelkevt jab and superb fighting of the back foot. Vargas is chinny but McDonnell has no power. Vargas will get taken out by the better 122 fighters.

The draw was disgusting, I enjoyed it last night more then I was expecting

IJK must tick a diversity box for The Board as he's inept at both reffing and scoring.

Didn't see this card but the BoxNation bill on Friday was brill. Craig Paxton fought an epic fight to upset Boy Jones - real domestic FOY candidate.

.. presume you men judging and reffing haz.

Sadly to get a draw on Saturday it's integrity not ineptitude that comes into question. Until about round 9 the rounds weren't even close. I think sky had given him a sympathy 10-10 somewhere along the line for not losing the round as clearly as the previous ones.

When Ritchie woodhall has it as a landslide for non-Brit you know anyone scoring it a draw is off the charts.
Would love to see his card and listen to him justify it. Embarrassing.

Corrected that....cough, cough....

Sounds as bad as Canelo-Floyd.

Was surprised about the lack of comments to be fair. Luke Campbell was out again and looked good against a very overmatched operator. Reports are that Mendy rematch is next which will be tough.

McDonnell looked good last few rounds, I had Vargas by about 4-5 rounds handily, looked very good, good movement, decent power. He did tire late on when McDonnell rallied, but clung on and grinding it out. Solid victory but no disgrace for Gavin on Saturday he gave it his all and was just beaten by the better man.

IJS is a pipe. Its not on the level of CJ Ross, but its bad.

I read that Tommy Coyle broke an eye socket - nightmare for him after a good KO win (caught highlights of that one).

I watched it Milky - agree with what you posted. IJL is horrendous how does he still have a license ? I never give Mcdonnell one round personally he was landing almost next to nothing even though he upped the pace.

cheers.

Gutted I missed this as thought Jay 'Bam Bam' Carney wouldn't be on, turns out he was and had a good win as the away fighter.

Only saw the highlights of McDonnell but everyone seems to be in agreement that he left it all out there, with a couple more decent scraps he should be able to get himself back in contention.

I had it 8-4..........Primarily giving McDonnell anything that was relatively close which is my wont...Why I had Crolla v Linares a draw though I thought Linares deserved to win..

But 6-6.................No place in Boxing for that.......

McDonnell showed a lot of heart and shouldn't feel too bad.....Just felt he didn't commit enough till it was too late..

Good kid though..

I think that's about right truss, the last 4 rounds were close, no argument with them being given to the guy making the fight, though generous to give them all... But 8-4 is probably as good as it gets.

Rodders, you're a hard man to please... can't find a sympathy round for McDonnell?

milkyboy wrote:I think that's about right truss, the last 4 rounds were close, no argument with them being given to the guy making the fight, though generous to give them all... But 8-4 is probably as good as it gets.

Rodders, you're a hard man to please... can't find a sympathy round for McDonnell?

I can't mate - at a push I could give him one but even in the rounds he improved I felt he was out landed and outboxed. However I'm a miserable sod and have a 6 month pregnant hormonal wife whining at me constantly so my generosity in giving rounds is limited at the moment.

Cheers.

Rodney wrote:

milkyboy wrote:I think that's about right truss, the last 4 rounds were close, no argument with them being given to the guy making the fight, though generous to give them all... But 8-4 is probably as good as it gets.

Rodders, you're a hard man to please... can't find a sympathy round for McDonnell?

I can't mate - at a push I could give him one but even in the rounds he improved I felt he was out landed and outboxed. However I'm a miserable sod and have a 6 month pregnant hormonal wife whining at me constantly so my generosity in giving rounds is limited at the moment.

Cheers.

The good news is in just a few months time you'll be sleep deprived.... with a whining hormonal wife. But things will improve when she gets post-natal depression.

Rodney wrote:

milkyboy wrote:I think that's about right truss, the last 4 rounds were close, no argument with them being given to the guy making the fight, though generous to give them all... But 8-4 is probably as good as it gets.

Rodders, you're a hard man to please... can't find a sympathy round for McDonnell?

I can't mate - at a push I could give him one but even in the rounds he improved I felt he was out landed and outboxed. However I'm a miserable sod and have a 6 month pregnant hormonal wife whining at me constantly so my generosity in giving rounds is limited at the moment.

Cheers.

Congratulations Rod.......Six months..

Billy Conn - "You could have let me have the title and I'd have let you have it back in 6 months !!.."

Joe Louis - "6 Months ??...You had it for 12 rounds and couldn't hold on to it...How the hell were you gonna keep it for 6 months ??"

I watched it but there wasn't much to comment on at the time really. A card where everything went the way you would expect. Glad Dave Allen got an easy nights work under him, had it tough, especially being thrown in against Ortiz. Think Hearn feels like he owes him a bit now so he's got behind him and backing him to be British Champ, good luck to him, seems like a nice guy and he's game for a fight.

Coyles ooponent was a novice, strange fight really, Rakeem Noble got thrown to the wolves a bit there IMO, 11-1 part time boxer thrown in with someone with Coyle's experience, unfair but I suppose that's boxing.

Campbell looked decent again, seemed a bit more heavy handed than usual.

McDonnel shouldn;t be anywhere near a world title fight, so in todays current climate of ABC's he looked the part haha. In all seriousness he gave it a good go but came up short against a very average looking champ