British Lightweight Tournament!

With the recent article about the success of Luke Campbell, and the recent talk of how much talent there is on the Lightweight British scene, I propose a seeded tournament amongst the British Lightweights!

All 12 round fights, fought over 9 months.

This is how the draw would be made up if they went according to their seedings:

Quarter Finals 1: (November 2015)

A (1) Ricky Burns (Sco) VS (8) Luke Campbell (Eng)
B (3) Anthony Crolla VS (6) Terry Flanagan (Eng)

Quarter Finals 2: (November 2015)

C (2) Kevin Mitchell VS (7) Tommy Coyle (Eng)
D (4) Derry Matthews VS (5) Gary Buckland (Wal)

Semi Finals: (March 2016)

Winner A VS Winner B
Winner C VS Winner D

Final: (July 2016 - Open Air)

2 Semi Final Winners


How good would this be? And, Who would win this Lightweight Tournament?

I think Campbell would beat Burns by a close points decision, Crolla v Flanagan is a close one to call could go either way, but I fancy Flanagan, Mitchell v Coyle, KO inside 8 for Mitchell, Derry wins against Buckland by KO

Campbell beats Flanagan via points, Mitchell beats Derry by KO

Campbell beats Mitchell Via Late KO to win tournament

(probably totally wrong in my predictions)

A (8) Luke Campbell (Eng) W PTS 12 (1) Ricky Burns (Sco)
B (6) Terry Flanagan (Eng) W PTS 12 (3) Anthony Crolla

Quarter Finals 2: (November 2015)

C (2) Kevin Mitchell W TKO 6 (7) Tommy Coyle (Eng)
D (4) Derry Matthews W PTS 12 (5) Gary Buckland (Wal)

Semi Final 1

Luke Campbell W PTS 12 Terry Flanagan

Semi Final 2

Derry Mathews W TKO 8 Kevin Mitchell

Final

Luke Campbell W TKO 5 Derry Mathews

you think Derry beats Mitchell Haz?

Some really interesting predictions on this tournament lads....lol

Would love to see this as a tournament! But would need a decent carrot stick at the end of it.

wheelchair1991 wrote:you think Derry beats Mitchell Haz?

I'd go with Derry in that one - Mitchell took an ars e kicking against Linares.

Think it's Mathews vs Flanagan next, though. I'd expect Turbo to win that one.