I'm very
concerning Ebanie Bridges. As a boxer she's ok. Her looks selling the fight is not for me. I've seen better looking US black and brown female fighters. Eddie is milking her looks for sales but it's like Dave Allen. Hasn't set the world alight but somehow keeps making the way on these cards. Yet he's given up Marshall and Jonas to Sky.
Ebanie is cool, it isn’t just the looks though of course it plays a role, she’s done a tremendous job of self promotion, she’s put in a graft to promote herself and carve out the opportunities she has, it may seem like they were just handed to her from the outside but they weren’t. She even travelled to Leeds previously as she’s a supporter of them, met fans, went to local gyms and was at the stadium, it’s logical they’d bring her back there to be on the card.
Matchroom wanted Caroline Dubois but she chose Boxxer/Sky. Not sure Natasha Jonas is officially gone yet, last I heard she was waiting for a date from Matchroom. She’s a good boxer and I hope she gets pushed and gets another world title shot.
I think Ebanie performed very well when she was given the chance, she had a very entertaining fight against Courtenay and kept fighting through a massive eye injury (I had her winning the fight), second Matchroom fight she got a knockout, think it was 3rd round. Some other good fighters didn’t stop her opponent. So she’s doing her part, she’s not the technician Katie Taylor is but she has power and has a fighters spirit.
Marshall left, I’m sure he would have wanted to keep her, that’s a loss for them. Reading between the lines seems like a fall out between Peter Fury and Eddie Hearn and Marshall went with her team.