Peter McGrail vs Brad Foster
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00:00Most of all remember to defend yourselves at all times alright, just gloves, keep it.
00:30world championships one of Britain's very best amateurs over the past couple of decades
00:35looking now to translate that skill and pedigree into success in the professional ranks.
00:45He's also up against a really good box here in Brad Foster who maybe got a little point to prove
00:50I'm sure he's still got life left in his in his career that he can still be a champion again.
00:55And in the build-up to this those around Brad Foster determined to make the point that they
01:01believe the best is yet to come. Desperately unlucky they claim last time around against
01:06Rhys Williams lost it on points almost a year ago. Will he need time
01:14to build on the effects of that absence from the ring? Yeah I guess that's the big question,
01:19the ambition and desire that's left but at the press conference on Thursday still extremely
01:25hungry and desperate for more titles. Believes there's more in the locker and it's nice and
01:32compact here just walking onto a nice lead right hand though from McGrath who's been busy on his
01:37feet moving side to side. I've seen that in the past from McGrath class operated with the feet.
01:43That's the problem here for Foster, how does he stop that move with the McGrath?
01:49A moment ago a lovely right hook from McGrath engineered by the footwork.
02:03A little swelling or redness and then he's got a left eye there to McGrath.
02:08He's landed a couple of good right hands Foster he's just slipped on the outside of the jab
02:12to slip the right hand through nothing too serious to worry about the damage on the eye but
02:19the right hand nice shot.
02:25A good shot there from McGrath.
02:32Just twice to skip to the right didn't opt to throw the left hand though.
02:43He's got this blinding speed as McGrath speed of foot and speed of hand
02:47and allied to speed of reflex.
02:55A good variation with that left hand as well from McGrath he's not just targeting the head
02:59probably more so 80% of the shots of that left hand been to the body.
03:02That's a nice little right hand though from Foster.
03:12So
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04:10You have to move on.
04:11No, no keep doing what you're doing.
04:21Long lasting relationship Peter McGrath and Paul Stevenson,
04:25Anthony Humphries in the corner and the Everton Red Triangle Boxing Club.
04:31So much success from there down the years.
04:35And calm words of assurance from Stevenson.
04:38Just be patient.
04:40The key of the messages.
04:42Yeah it was brilliant advice from the corner wasn't it?
04:44Because he asked if I can do more and he said no.
04:46You just keep doing what you're doing and then when he slows down
04:48then you can start going to work.
04:49She's got caught with the left hook though there McGrath.
04:51I think their feet got tangled up.
04:53So it looked like he dipped a little bit but I just think it was the feet.
04:56He timed it well though Foster.
04:58He just moved to his right ever so slightly McGrath and he timed it.
05:01It was a nice left to the head.
05:05Good work back from McGrath.
05:09And again that type of counter was exactly what Stevenson was warning about in the corner.
05:17Yeah again just picking up on that movement.
05:19Oh left to the body.
05:20Left hand to the body and down goes Foster and he is in agony here.
05:26Early on in the second round and there is no way he's going to be getting up.
05:31Ruffering waves his arms and that is a brilliant finish.
05:36And of all those who predicted that McGrath would win here tonight
05:40not too many would have suggested he would finish it with a shot to the body.
05:46That was a beautiful shot there.
05:47He almost bowled it in didn't he?
05:50But he moved around the side as he threw it and whipped it in.
05:53I gotta say though Brad Foster's face he is absolutely gutted.
05:56You know what it's like when you get hit with a body job.
05:58You feel fine you just can't get up.
06:00And he got up at the end and as soon as the referee said no
06:02he had to go straight back down again.
06:04Probably needed 12 seconds.
06:07I would have thought so yeah because he did get up.
06:09He's devastated as Barry said but that is a big big win for Peter McGrath.
06:14Being a former British and Commonwealth champion there with what you would have to say ease.
06:19It was just as I was saying he steps a couple of times
06:23a few times in fact to his right and the left hand was there
06:26and he's just thrown an absolute peach to the body.
06:29See I don't think McGrath's going to have an odds on me.
06:32What we've seen so far in the fight so far I think he's going to get really tasty.
06:36It's a great shot look at that.
06:38Again he just over he just he throws goes with the right hand look.
06:41Just a little gap there McGrath just clever enough to just to see that.
06:45Little dip to the side sees the angle and delivers it to a perfect perfection.
06:49Just that momentary delay before he really felt it.
06:53And that's when you know it's a bad one.
06:54That's when you know they're not getting you can see the anguish in his face.
06:57You know when he went up like six seven he could see the anguish.
07:00He wants to get up he just can't get his breath.
07:09Well we're in Manchester in a month's time.
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