Matt Macklin to fight Rafael Sosa Pintos on December 5th

[royalt0208]

Just read details that Matt Macklin will be fighting Rafael Sosa Pintos on December 5th.
Rafael Sosa Pintos has a record of 34-4-0 and has gone the distance with Anthony Mundine and Khoren Gevor but got beaten easily both times and he has been stopped on his 2 other losses this is clearly just a stay busy fight for Matt but this is a decent enough opponent considering that and a knockout win would certainly by a decent statement.

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This card is really shaping up nicely...:yep

[BigEars]

This card is really shaping up nicely...:yep

You must be getting confused, this is not on the Khan bill and Macklin is no longer a ****** fighter. He's promoted by Hatton and managed by Brian Peters.

This fight takes place in the National Boxing Stadium, Dublin.

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You must be getting confused, this is not on the Khan bill and Macklin is no longer a ****** fighter. He's promoted by Hatton and managed by Brian Peters.

This fight takes place in the National Boxing Stadium, Dublin.

excuse the ignorance but is Macklin even irish? or are they just promoting him over there to get a bigger fanbase?

I always thought he was from the manchester area.:think

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excuse the ignorance but is Macklin even irish? or are they just promoting him over there to get a bigger fanbase?

I always thought he was from the manchester area.:think

I must be getting confused...:nut

Macklin is a Brummie...He was fighting out of Manchester...Is Macklin with Hatton now?...:think

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I must be getting confused...:nut

Macklin is a Brummie...He was fighting out of Manchester...Is Macklin with Hatton now?...:think

ahh ok.

Yea he was on hattons first bill.

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excuse the ignorance but is Macklin even irish? or are they just promoting him over there to get a bigger fanbase?

I always thought he was from the manchester area.:think


he considers himself irish , his ma and da are irish

he has headlined shows over here before and has a good fan base

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I must be getting confused...:nut

Macklin is a Brummie...He was fighting out of Manchester...Is Macklin with Hatton now?...:think

I think its safe to say he is Irish when he says something like this

""Hopefully I can go on to win a World title for Ireland, the whole country had a great sense of pride the night Bernard Dunne won the World title and I'd love to repeat that. I certainly believe I can and I’d look to have most of my defences in Ireland. I was born and raised in Birmingham but I’ve never lost touch with my roots and I definitely consider myself an Irishman first and foremost"

[Flea Man]

Shame it's not Pirog.

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he considers himself irish , his ma and da are irish

he has headlined shows over here before and has a good fan base

:good cheers for clearing that up mate.

Being from glasgow it can be at times hard to prove whether someone is actually irish or not. It pisses a lot of people off particuarly when scotland are crying out for there best players and some of them *coughs* aiden mcgeady *coughs* decide to jump shit to ireland only because there grannies great uncle was irish.

sorry for the rant lol....no offence intended!

[The-Holmes-Show]

Matty Macklin is a brummy who hails from the kings heath area, the same as Froch's trainer McCraken. In brimingham there are 2 main irish populated areas. Kings heath and Digbeth. Macklin signed with hatton, ****** wanted him to fight barker but he's signed with hatton who is a personal mate and is paying more money per fight that ****** was...

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:good cheers for clearing that up mate.

Being from glasgow it can be at times hard to prove whether someone is actually irish or not. It pisses a lot of people off particuarly when scotland are crying out for there best players and some of them *coughs* aiden mcgeady *coughs* decide to jump shit to ireland only because there grannies great uncle was irish.

sorry for the rant lol....no offence intended!

*cough*Shaun Maloney, Richard Gough, Graham Alexander, Kris Commons, Paul Devlin, Scott Dobie, Matt Elliott, Steven Fletcher, Andy Goram, Jonathan Gould, Don Hutchison, Stuart McCall, James McEveley, Nick Montgomery, James Morrison, Graeme Murty, Nigel Quashie, Bruce Rioch, Neil Sullivan, Jimmy Wardhaugh, Bob Wilson*cough*

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*cough*Shaun Maloney, Richard Gough, Graham Alexander, Kris Commons, Paul Devlin, Scott Dobie, Matt Elliott, Steven Fletcher, Andy Goram, Jonathan Gould, Don Hutchison, Stuart McCall, James McEveley, Nick Montgomery, James Morrison, Graeme Murty, Nigel Quashie, Bruce Rioch, Neil Sullivan, Jimmy Wardhaugh, Bob Wilson*cough*

i agree with all apart from maloney who although born in malaysia moved to scotland when he was what 4 or 5 to live with his mother!
Macgeady was wanted by sctland big time..even played for the schools team but yet turned his back on us ..in my opinion..because under vogts we were shite and the republic were doing well if i remember.

Both countries are as bad as each other when it comes to dual nationality players..republic had phill babb, steven reid, tony cascarino,andy townsend etc

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i agree with all apart from maloney who although born in malaysia moved to scotland when he was what 4 or 5 to live with his mother!
Macgeady was wanted by sctland big time..even played for the schools team but yet turned his back on us ..in my opinion..because under vogts we were shite and the republic were doing well if i remember.

Both countries are as bad as each other when it comes to dual nationality players..republic had phill babb, steven reid, tony cascarino,andy townsend etc

It funny that the bigots up there dont mind the Quashies of this word joining Scotland or even Novo or even Brian McLean playing for Northern Ireland but when its the republic that is involved they are very noisey indeed! Anyway - back to boxing!

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It funny that the bigots up there dont mind the Quashies of this word joining Scotland or even Novo or even Brian McLean playing for Northern Ireland but when its the republic that is involved they are very noisey indeed! Anyway - back to boxing!

haha mate i dont think anyone wanted novo for scotland..i mean he just about has a dodgy scottish accent, but thats it!
Ill feely admit im a rangers fan, dont give a fuck about the whole bigotry side of things but the macgeady thing has always pissed me off!!

anyway sorry didnt wanna start a whole debate..just went on a usual stupid rant about nothing! :roll:

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haha mate i dont think anyone wanted novo for scotland..i mean he just about has a dodgy scottish accent, but thats it!
Ill feely admit im a rangers fan, dont give a fuck about the whole bigotry side of things but the macgeady thing has always pissed me off!!

anyway sorry didnt wanna start a whole debate..just went on a usual stupid rant about nothing! :roll:

Funny how ye have an issue with McGeady but McCall lined out for England first before he decided to switch to Scotland - never heard a word about him being a "turn-coat" - same with Goram who was in his 20's before he set foot in Jocklandshire.

Anyway - like I said back ta backsin

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Funny how ye have an issue with McGeady but McCall lined out for England first before he decided to switch to Scotland - never heard a word about him being a "turn-coat" - same with Goram who was in his 20's before he set foot in Jocklandshire.

Anyway - like I said back ta backsin

Most scottish fans wold take any great player into our team if he was going to make a difference! Ronaldo at one point was supposed to have scottish anestry for peat sake!! :lol:

But the difference being england always have a wealth of talent so losing a few players would never hurt them..
However were crying out for any good scottish player we can get and it jsut so happens he turned his back on us. McCarthy of wigan(formerly hamilton) caused a big stir when he decided to play for ireland but to be fair to the lad he was overlooked by scotland numerous times. mcgeady wasnt!
But thats my opinion.....back to boxing!