Magnificent Seven: Matthew Macklin closes the marathon with win

by Scott Christ on Sep 18, 2010 6:37 PM EDT in Boxing Results and Post-Fight Analysis

Matthew Macklin closed out the marathon Magnificent Seven show today from Birmingham, England, with a win over Shalva Jormadashvili. Macklin won by corner retirement at 0:02 of round six, reclaiming the vacant European middleweight title.

Macklin (27-2, 19 KO) was originally slated to face Darren Barker in a highly-anticipated matchup of top ten middleweights, but Barker pulled out with injury. Jomardashvili (27-3-1, 19 KO) was the substitute opponent, a Georgian-born fighter who has mostly competed in his home country against less than stellar opposition. Outside of Georgia, he is now 0-3-1.

Hopefully this will set up a long-awaited fight between Macklin and Barker, who are clearly the top two middleweights in England, but Macklin could also be looking for that step up to the world stage. At 28, it's time to make that move.

We thank everyone for joining us today for this five and a half hour show. Here are the full results, with links to the recaps of those fights:

James DeGale TKO-1 Carl Dilks
Lukas Konecny TKO-6 Matthew Hall
Nathan Cleverly TKO-10 Karo Murat
Kell Brook TKO-5 Michael Jennings
Derek Chisora TKO-9 Sam Sexton
Alexander Frenkel KO-7 Enzo Maccarinelli
Matthew Macklin TKO-6 Shalva Jomardashvili

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Damn, you're a machine for seeing the whole thing through

by cyke on Sep 18, 2010 7:53 PM EDT reply actions

I was shot for the Macklin fight, which was also probably the worst fight on the show, but overall it was quite a lot of fun. Two very good fights (Cleverly-Murat and Konecny-Hall), two pretty good fights (Macca-Frenkel and Chisora-Sexton), a DeGale blowout, and the Brook-Jennings thing just ended too soon, looked like Brook was about to step up the pace.

But I’ll say that if these fights had gone the distance, or even three or four of them had, it would have been too much. All in all for fan enjoyment, I think they get tremendously lucky that the fights all ended in stoppage.

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by Scott Christ on Sep 18, 2010 8:06 PM EDT up reply actions

I would just like to say sorry to anyone who i may have offended in the thread last night.I was not in the best of moods after a domestic argument and had had a bit to drink.

by Matt Mosley on Sep 19, 2010 3:34 PM EDT reply actions