Showing posts with label Vinny Maddalone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vinny Maddalone. Show all posts

Friday, 6 July 2012

Big Fights Weigh-In Results

Here are the weigh-in results for all of tomorrow night's big fights...

Tyson Fury Vs Vinny Maddalone


Tyson Fury - 17st 7lb 8oz 

Vinny Maddalone - 16st 8lb  

Chris Eubank Jr Vs Terry Carruthers


Chris Eubank Jr - 11st 8lb 9oz

Terry Carruthers - 11st 8lb 10oz

Kell Brook Vs Carson Jones


Kell Brook - 10st 6lb 10oz

Carson Jones 10st 6lb 2oz

Wladimir Klitschko Vs Tony Thompson


Wladimir Klitschko - 17st 11lb 2oz

Tony Thompson - 17st 6lb 11oz



Thursday, 28 June 2012

Tyson Fury arrested, strip-searched and questioned!

Iris heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. 
British heavyweight prospect Tyson Fury has revealed an interesting story about him getting stopped by cops and arrested in Holland.

The 23-year old, 6"9 giant was said to have almost exactly matched the description of an eye witness. Policed stopped him and members of his team because they believed that they were involved in a robbery and murder. He claims that him and his team were hand-cuffed, strip-searched and held for hours until the police realised they had made a mistake and realised who he was.

"It was the scariest moment of my life," Fury to the Daily Star. "They were pointing guns at us and shouting: 'GET DOWN! GET DOWN!"

"There had been a robbery in which someone had been murdered and some guys in a bar had given the police a description of the robbers and it was similar to us."

Although Fury was very shocked and annoyed about the situation, he did still manage to make a little joke about it: "The ironical thing is I came here to get away from distractions at home. What a choice!"

Fury was in Holland for a training camp in preparation for his upcoming fight with Vinny Maddalone on July 7th.

Saturday, 16 June 2012

Tyson Fury set to face Vinny Maddalone on July 7th...

Tyson Fury after defeating 40-year old cab driver Martin Rogan.
British heavyweight Tyson Fury will return to the ring on July 7th. After all of the 'promises' from his team saying that his next fight will be against a world class opponent, they have matched him with Vinny Maddalone.

Maddalone is a relatively unknown fighter that is not even a slight step up from the likes of fighters that Fury has already been facing. No disrespect to Maddalone, but he even is worse than some of the men that Fury has beat. So, the fact that we were promised that Fury would take on a world level fighter has made this all a big anti-climax.

38-year old Maddalone (35-7, 26 KO's) has shared the ring with Tomasz Adamek, Jean-Marc Mormeck, Denis Boytsov and Evander Holyfield (the very old version) and lost to all of them. He was actually knocked out by Adamek and Holyfield.

Really, this is just a sideways step from Martin Rogan, who Fury stopped in five rounds in April of this year, as Maddalone is 38, and although he's still a full time fighter, he is long past his prime.

Fury and his team claimed that they gave up the British belt because he had bigger fish to fry than David Price (Fury's domestic rival) but there has been no sign of him fighting anyone better at all. It would be a lot better for the 6"9 and his team if they just told the truth and basically tell us that they want to take their time, instead of feeding us with promises that they will not fulfil.