Lazy, languid performance from Palata. Pretty much the only fighter tonight who looks like an athlete and has the raw technical ability but never put his foot on the gas at any point. Zero response to some pretty basic pressure from Whitaker.

 

Burton vs Ajisafe could be decent tomorrow

 

Wtf? Wheres that come from? Good fight.

 

Sandland down in the first round.

 

I've seen better uwcb fights then this shit

 

Sandland down again but came back swinging. Pub brawl standard.

 

Fair play to Sandland in the 3rd. Gave Bennett hell. Shame he didn't have the punch power to turn it around.

 

Full points for effort from Sandland

 

Bennett is 6'5" and plodding, why doesn't he just box behind the jab? It's madness. How the fuck has he let Sandland back into this?

This is white collar dross, even if they are both leaving everything in there. We have a strong crop of heavyweights in the UK but wow, there's a serious drop in quality once you drop below the fighters signed to the major promoters. Rewind a few years and the likes of Sexton, McDermott and Rogan would have destroyed this lot.

 

29-26
29-26
29-28 :lol:

UD for Bennett

 

Probably not relevant to the thread but @kingkodi started it, so blame him.

I knew Bob Ajisafe was inactive, but I just checked and he's had 13 fights in the last 10 years :lol:

 

I used to really rate Ajisafe at one point. If a big promoter had backed him after the Bellew fight, I feel he could have went beyond British title level. But he has an awkward style and seemingly doesn't sell tickets, so I can see why he was left out in the cold.

Hope he does well in the GG tournament. Tough first fight though.

 

Whitaker down in the first. Legs are gone and it's stopped by the ref.

 

Nice little right uppercut and left

 

Wouldn't be surprised if Webb scored another first round win in the final.

 

Finally time for the final. Just a 45 minute wait :lunny

 

Bang him out quick Webb so I can get my kip

 

10-9 Webb

 

20-18 Webb. He's jabbing Bennett's face off

 

Got Webb winning everything.

 

Well that was a... fight I guess.

 

Not the best Ultimate Boxxer I've seen...

 

30-27 x3

UD for Webb.

 

UB is just too low budget and its backers too obscure to attract anyone decent. I think the penny is going to drop for it soon.

Having said that, these were eight sensible picks on paper once you drop below the HWs signed to major promoters. Webb is at best on the same level as Tom Little. The others all pub fighters with the exception of Palata who inexplicably didn't look interested. They'd have had to have gone international to make this half decent. I think they'll have to go down that route soon to keep this interesting.

 

I think they were unfortunate that the fights didn't generally deliver in terms of entertainment. It looked good on paper.

But I'm not sure UB will last much longer. At least not in its current state. The novelty of boxing tournaments like this seems to have worn off for most, and last night's show didn't seem to attract much interest despite being in the heavyweight division.

 

I've seen worse one night tournaments but as already stated the quality of boxers is the issue especially compared to the Golden Contract. I know it's not a one night tournament but the difference is like Premier league football to Non League football in terms of quality.

 

Just got through watching that series. So I have avoided reading the posts.

Enjoyable viewing but little more than a slugfest most of the time.