That is the thing Tomps. Fury hasn't even been convicted of a driving offence and you are going to look a tad silly if he is cleared of this PEDS charge. Joshua has been convicted of drug dealing, Mayweather wife beating, Marsh attempted murder, Mike Tyson rape and actual bodily harm, and all Tyson Fury has done is shout his mouth off. Behaviour hardly uncommon in boxing. Joshua fought Klitchko when he was 41 a fight recently voted fight of the year! Does that fight not count against a geriatric? Joshua has only had one fight by your logic, unless you rated Charles Martin, Breazeale, or a fat Dillian Whyte. Not that I agree with your reasoning. Rarely, if ever, do you get to mandatory for any belt after only two pro-fights. I appreciate it irritates that Fury schooled Klitchko so easily, who then showed two years later that he was far from finished when he fought Joshua. Like I say, for me that performance clearly demonstrated he was head and shoulders above the rest. Anyways, pleased for Masha Dodds and Rocky Fielding. Thought Ohara Davies recovered well after a bad defeat last time out.

Why not?

Blinkered? I predicted Fury would beat Klitchko. Those predicting he would get hammered were the gormless folk. Klitchko was frightened to death getting in that ring, job done by Fury pre-fight-night. Undefeated heavyweight, 6 foot 9 and 18.5 stone when fighting. A right handful for ALL and sundry even your poster boy. If you are a boxing fan, apply some balance as it will help you work some of this out yourself.

You call the art of hitting without being hit, dancing. Others know it as boxing.You are a tad dramatic when it comes to the Fury clan Tomps. For me, Fury summed it up the best. "Joshua just had life and death with Klitchko after getting up off the canvas, whilst Klitchko couldn't did not lay a glove on me for 12 rounds." Sums things up nicely for me.

Disappointed for and in Hughie Fury. Fought on the back foot for 12 rounds giving Parker the initiative and did not let his hands go anywhere near enough. Every time he threw the straight right he connected but it took him till the 6th round to throw any! I had Parker winning by 2 rounds 6-4 with two drawn. How two judges saw it 10-2 to Parker 118-110, I have no idea. I think a move to a different way of scoring should be considered. Maybe 5 judges? Shame for Campbell against Linares. Unbeknown to me Campbell's father died two weeks ago and he was very emotional post fight. Creid to the lad for putting up a very good show in such circumstances. Again fought on the back foot too much however and paid the price against a good quality champion.

Agreed especially as opener. Too loose outside off stump and susceptible to anything nipping back. 2, 3 and 5 have been a problem for ages in this England team. I think Cook has had 11 opening partners since Strauss, maybe more now. I must say I feel I have been very lucky this last few years after 20 / 25 years years of test match misery growing up. The Windies dominated world cricket in the 1980's and then that Aussie team, took over for 15 years or so. Cook, Pieterson, Flintoff, Anderson, Broad and Root are either world class or have had some genuinely world class moments. A quick word about Ali. Time and time again he demonstrates what a nice little player he is and apparently a top bloke to boot!

Looking forward to Hughie Fury versus Joseph Parker. Two young unbeaten heavyweights not afraid to take on a decent challenge to further their careers. Refreshing to see. I rate both Parker and Fury. Hard fight to call but I am edging towards Fury on a late stoppage, or points win. Both Fury's are very badly under-rated by most casual boxing fans, but they are big units with good footwork / skill sets and I think Hughie will be a right handful for Parker. Fury predicting the knock-out in round four. Good to see Mcgregor bounced out of town with Mayweather simply walking him down and pushing him back. Mayweather probably used around 1/10th of his boxing ability in that fight, simply to give value to all those buying the event. Hope the cross over fights end there. How good is Mayweather? Absolutely dynamite! Watched all his fights and he has been head and shoulders above most others. An aging and retired Malinaggi would be a better fight against Mcgregor. Good win for Callum Smith in the Super Series against a big unit, former light heavy weight. I think Groves and Eubank are in the other side of the draw so am expecting him in the final. Groves v Cox looks interesting, especially as Groves chose Cox for this fight. The Eubank fight looks interesting against some supposedly crazy Turkish mush. Luke Campbell fighting Linares abroad in a tough looking fight. Linares has been down three times however and can be hurt around his whiskers. Hope Campbell pulls it off. I think I am correct in saying he is our most decorated amateur, ever. Decent fighter. Cleverley was totally out gunned and out fought against Badou Jack. Whenever he moves up the levels he struggles. Time he wrapped up for me. Crolla v Burns - one of them will have to wrap up after a defeat. Another tough one to call but I am thinking Crolla on points. Joshua v Pulav - having watched Pulav against Klitchko I can only see one winner here. Joshua sparking him out in 4 or 5. Billie Joe Saunders looked much fitter and better in his last fight. No idea why the American did not let his hands go, but he looked emotionally very fragile in the build up and that may have played its part. BJS has no chance against GGG or Canello on that showing. Needs to up his game by 50% if getting in with those lads. Wilder v Ortiz sounds interesting. Ortiz is older and that may play a part, but he is much more skilful than Windmill Wilder and I am hoping he wins as Wilder irritates cherry picking opponents and holding that belt hostage. Offered 3-4 million to fight Whyte (which he turned down) and taking less than a mill for the Ortiz fight apparently. Need the big fella back asap in that heavyweight division. Absolute disgrace what UKAD and the British Boxing Board of Control have done to Tyson Fury. Nearly two years in limbo on a PEDS charge? Two years to reach a conclusion? Effing ridiculous and something does not add up. Still fancy him to outbox all the other pretenders / challengers pretty easily including AJ. Good times for UK boxing. A couple of very good fighters in Yarde and Dubopis signed for Warren. Yarde looks massive at the weight. Wish I had this much enthusiasm for the football. Someone let me know when Venkys have gone and we can give Southend or Doncaster or Wimbledon a game.

Agree 100% with the Mayweather stuff. I am a bit behind schedule, but Ward did a top job on Kovalev, who was found seriously wanting. Moving on, two or three weeks after the Mayweather show there is a genuine boxing Mega Fight seemingly forgotten about in the excitement of MMA v Boxing. GGG v Canello. A fight I have looked forward to for a long time. Kelly v Davies seems to have passed everyone's attention as well. Decent fighter Kelly, one to watch and it was pleasing to see Ohara Davies brought back down to earth. Looking forward to the Super Middle Weight tournament and the Cruiserweight version of same is absolutely top notch with all the big boys (except Bellew) joining in.

Pleased for Eubank Junior. Dominated the fight from start to finish and his willingness to throw punches was always going to be a problem for Abraham. Won all 12 rounds on one card and 10 on the other two. Not sure what Abraham was up to, struggled to make weight and then looked to survive presumably hoping Eubank would tire. I wouldn't read too much into Eubanks punch power on this showing. Better boxers and harder punchers than Eubank have failed to put a dent in Abraham.

Very pleased for Groves, on the fringes of world class for a while and has now achieved his ultimate ambition. Much improved under Shane Mcguigan and acts, looks and talks with increasing maturity. A handful for anyone at that level, unless Ward comes back down in weight. Degale having shoulder surgery out till Xmas. Smith fighting Dirrell away from home, but I fancy him to get the job done. Abraham fighting Eubank Junior at Super Middle. As long as Eubank wins some cracking fights to be made at that weight in the UK. Well done to Joshua as others have mentioned. Especially seeing as Klitchko came to fight. Interesting how his ass totally fell out against Fury. Guess credit to Fury for the physcology employed prior to that fight as he did a real number on the former champ. Learnt a lot about Joshua in that fight, some good, some not so good. Every other heavyweight will have taken note at how easy Joshua gassed, his immaturity celebrating the win after the first knockdown and the fact he is often very square on with ponderous feet. Struggled to get his jab going at times as well. Like Fury said, "Joshua has just gone life and death with a guy who couldn't even lay a finger on me". Don't fall for the Matchroom spin, Fury is just as likely to jab Joshua's head off for 12 rounds as Joshua is likely to land his big right hand on Fury. If it does go to points there is only one winner and I am genuinely looking forward to that fight if it ever happens. Egg = face = learning curves.

Thanks very much DE. Will look forward to part two.

Lost it against Burton, Preston and Barnsley? 46 game season and we lost it all under Mowbray in those three matches? Two of which we drew. No mention of the countless defeats earlier in the year. Great argument Stu, couldn't agree less!

Very well done TM. Keep battling on. Suprised he has kept us in it this long. It was always going to be very tight and we presumed we would need points at Brentford. No point in panicking, compared to Birmingham and Forest we were dead and buried. Best of luck to the guy. I'd like us to stay up for him and our travelling fans.

Yeah dieing is a tad harsh, but corns, piles, std's, ulcers, warts and nasty infections are perfectly acceptable. The relegation thread! But not from the PL. Some right old tosh in he division below. We might win a few games.

He keeps getting ridiculed for his opponents. Watching AJ smash up the last three American bums has me wondering. I know he has a big right hand, but he telegraphs that somewhat and I am surprised people keep falling for it. I think you have summed it up earlier. Fury hasn't fought since he won, Joshua keeps fighting lesser lads, Parker is new on the scene and Wilder has avoided the top boys wracking up some coin. It's all to play for and hard to categorise anyone as the best.

I doubt Parker will knock Fury out and fancy Fury to win on points. Wilder's last 9 fights have been against. Fraudley Harrison - Liakhovich - Malik Scott - Stiverne - Eric Molina - Duhaupas - Szpilka - Arreola - Washington. Three of these I have never heard of! Molina got bounced by AJ in 3. Arreola had lost twice for the title before. Harrison was useless and immediately retired. Wilder has fought a succession of complete no hopers and there is no way you can pin that number one label on him yet.

Linares fought the wrong fight first time round and tried to take Crolla out early doors. This helped Crolla considerably. He reverted to his boxing late in he fight to take it away from Crolla frist time round. It was always going to be tough for Crolla if Linares boxed from the word go. Saw Crolla lose to Dirty Derry a few years ago. Am amazed in hindsight he has achieved so much as I always thought he was pretty average and it is clear he has made the very best of his abilities. Garcia v Linares should be a great fight. Murray v Rosado at middle-weight should be a good battle!

Can't argue with too much of that. Fancy Fury against Wilder and Parker, but think the Joshua fight could go either way.

Crolla talking about moving up in weight to have a pop at Burns. Haye thinks he will be fit to fight again come November. The two Liams have an interesting looking fight coming up. Congrats to Sal Yufei at the lower weights. Looking forward to Box Nation / BT kicking in with some decent fights over the next few months.

Lets hope Hughie wins against Parker. Two Fury world champs will cheer everyone up. I know he got dropped against Cunningham in the 2nd round. But then inflicted his first ever stoppage in round 7. When Fury beat Cunningham he became IBF mandatory, 7th with Box Rec, 6th with the WBC, 5th with the WBO, but then lost his place as Haye cancelled on him twice. Then the scheduled Chisora fight for the European and British was also a WBO eliminator, but then Chisora cancelled on him with a fractured hand. Truth be told, Fury lost the best part of year and a half of his career due to Haye and Chisora cancelling fights. Three wasted training camps, paying sparring partners, no income, whilst Haye @#/? him about. So Fury was mandatory for Klitchko's IBF in April 2013. But fought Klitchko in November 2015. 2 and 1/2 years later! Meanwhile Klitchko fought Pieneta, then Leapai, then Pulev then Jennings instead of Fury. I don't blame him either. Why take on someone as hard to handle as Fury when you can stick to your formula of grab and hold against much smaller blokes with home town judges monitoring it all? As predicted, once he faced and fought the bigger guy it all unravelled for Klitchko. Strange how he collapsed mentally as well. Pretty clear as shown above that he didn't fancy any of Fury, at anytime and it showed in his unnatural performance, frightened to death. Decent fighter Fury. All will be revealed.

Mythical champ? Lol. You are taking this a tad far. Why do you think Klitchko avoided him for years! Nothing mythical about getting into contention then winning the belts. Saw a video the other day when Fury was 22. Said he had sparred with Joshua then an amateur aged 20. Said Joshua gave him a going over for a few rounds and predicted he would be one to watch.

Tough on Crolla, but Linares is a decent fighter and Crolla has always been limited.

A bit blinded? The guy is undefeated. 25-0. Until such time as someone gives him a decent fight I'll use my own judgement over those that think he is crap. Bums don't win Heavyweight titles. I dont get carried away with the personal stuff surrounding Fury, just focus on his ability and skill set. His size alone suggests he would be a handful for most as they always find out.

25 stone. Tomps the guy is 6 foot 9! When he fights at 18 stone 7 he is stripped right down. He is bound to get heavier between fights, not that I condone his massive beer belly of course. He has been big for years and no-one has mentioned PEDS. Even now the governing body don't seem to know their ass from their elbow with regards to this. At the moment he is banned for cocaine not PEDS, hearing early in May. (Which confirms he is very unlikely to fight in May as you stated). Not sure what more Fury could have done thoughout his career. Bitchko avoided him for years forcing him into eliminators, then got his ass whipped on his home turf when they met. Price avoided him, Haye ducked him twice, only Chisora fancied the job and he was easily handled. At the end of the day the guy is massive and any current heavyweight would have problems with him. We will soon see how poor an ageing Klitchko is when he fights Joshua. Obviously hope Joshua sparks him out as soon as possible but have a funny feeling the fight will surprise one or two, including Joshua. Meanwhile Fury's trash talk is exactly that. Having listened to Chisora, Whyte, Bellew, Haye, Darry Matthews, Ohara Davies etc lately, it is clear that Fury does nothing that many others believe perfectly acceptable.

Good call Tomps. Jacobs did well and i thought a draw would have been fair.