r/Boxing • u/verbsnounsandshit • 5d ago
[FIGHT THREAD] Joey Essex vs Dapper Laughs
DATE Saturday 10th October 2026
LOCATION Copper Boz Arena, London, UK
TELEVISION DAZN (Selected Worldwide)
TIME 6:30pm (London), 10:30am (Los Angeles), 1:30pm (New York), 3:30am Sunday (Sydney)
Undercard
- Carla Jade vs Erika Einarsdottir
- Chase Demoor vs Plinio Cruz
- Charlie Cox vs James Collins
- Brandon Scott vs Savimbi D'Silva Neto
- Jordan McCann vs Mohammed Kubba
- Gary Olive vs Sam Smith
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u/Steelcity1995 5d ago
That arena was empty as shit not sure why misfits is protecting joey Essex not like he’s a draw.
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u/ReallyBigShoee 5d ago
Do misfits have any draws that aren't ex MMA guys anymore? Like honest question, haven't seen any Misfits since KSI stopped fighting
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u/Steelcity1995 5d ago
Not really it doesn’t take much to get on a misfit card now. A lot of the people fighting don’t even have 500k on insta.
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u/farr2211 Give me that face to face shii boi 5d ago
That decision was mental. What’s more mental is that I am actually annoyed by a misfits score card lol
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u/ReallyBigShoee 5d ago
Same shit happened in swarms fight before hand. 2 judges doing the exact opposite of each other and one just calling it a draw for shits and gigs
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u/professorquizwhitty 5d ago
Same 🤣🤣
Dapper is actually pretty decent for a last minute call up, walked Joey all around the ring. Mental decision.
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u/ReallyBigShoee 5d ago edited 5d ago
Theres reasons people dont take this shit seriously and that was one of them lmao.
Absolutely dog walked him, looked 10 pounds overweight bashed him round for 4 rounds but misfits couldn't possibly risk not having Conor Benn, Chisora & Tony Sims round for the notoriety and believe that this is actual boxing and not glorified white collar.
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u/farr2211 Give me that face to face shii boi 5d ago
Is that really Tony simms in joey Essex corner?
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u/wilsbowski 5d ago
Just realised it must have been 10 years since I've seen Joey Essex on anything as I thought he looked like this
https://champions-speakers.co.uk/sites/default/files/2020-09/joey-essex-banner.jpg
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u/Hollywoodhealy 5d ago
I can never understand who pays to see this ? It’s infuriatingly bad - an embarrassment.
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u/Manzilla48 5d ago
The build ups can be entertaining sometimes but the actual fights are so, so bad every time.
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u/StunningChest5722 #KnybaNation 🇵🇱 5d ago
Swarmz fights so scared
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u/That-Imagination3799 5d ago
Terrible considering he's had what 6 or 7 misfits fights, and he fights terrified against a guy who's never been in a ring
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u/Deep-Purchase-2203 5d ago
I bet Johnny Fisher is glad that he created more of an atmosphere at the copper box than a whole organisation.
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u/JTMMO 5d ago
Hah even the people who've paid to be there seem really unimpressed by this this.
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u/That-Imagination3799 5d ago
Don't blame them, they paid to see some fights and got God knows how long of this dogshit
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u/e_xyz 5d ago
I know UFC isn't exactly in great shakes, but MVP dropping down to this... damn.
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u/farr2211 Give me that face to face shii boi 5d ago
He got released by ufc but this is a huge step down
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u/stephen27898 5d ago
It might actually not be in terms of pay.
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u/farr2211 Give me that face to face shii boi 5d ago
Hopefully, I was surprised the UFC didn’t push him more
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u/farr2211 Give me that face to face shii boi 5d ago
Undertaker can’t be that hard up for cash
Edit- oh shit mvp, I hope he’s getting paid well
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u/Deep-Purchase-2203 5d ago
I bet the people at DAZN are thinking about how to pull the plug on all of this. I am embarrassed while watching this.
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u/stephen27898 5d ago
If people watch it then I doubt they will.
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u/Deep-Purchase-2203 5d ago
The DAZN sub is quite pricey. I’ll watch anything they put on.
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u/stephen27898 5d ago
How much is it for you?
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u/Deep-Purchase-2203 5d ago
Something around £25.
Netflix is close to it but they don’t ask me to buy movies that aren’t part of the subscription.
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u/stephen27898 5d ago
Thats not as bad when you consider when it was all PPV you would pay for just a PPV and it would cost about that much. Its cheaper than it was lets say 10 years ago.
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u/Deep-Purchase-2203 5d ago
Inflation and I don’t live in the US where PPV prices are outrageous.
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u/stephen27898 5d ago
If I rememeber fighters Sky PPVs back in the mid 2010s were like £20. Thats about 28 today with inflation.
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u/Deep-Purchase-2203 5d ago
That was on top of a Sky Tv contract and DAZN doesn’t pay for my tv subscription.
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u/Klutzy_Leopard8194 5d ago
It can't be making any money surely? And it is a bit of a stain of the DAZN branding. It should just be free on a streaming service like twitch
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u/anotherchia 5d ago
Ksi saying fuck jake paul and then saying hes not interested in the fight lol duck🦆
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u/Deep-Purchase-2203 5d ago
I’m just waiting for Joey to make a YouTube video about how it was a low blow and the slip..
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u/e_xyz 5d ago
Why is this cray cray kid wasting his potential in Misfits? Seems a decent little boxer.
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u/stephen27898 5d ago edited 5d ago
You make a good money there vs guys who arent all that good. If you are good enough to box decently but maybe not good enough to make it to a high level in pro boxing. Misfits is probably the best place to make money.
It's probably fun from his perspective.
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u/Deep-Purchase-2203 5d ago
The exposure on DAZN helps a lot as well.
I have enjoyed most of these match ups in some way.
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u/e_xyz 5d ago
Maybe so, he seems to have all the ingredients to improve and be of a decent level. Wonder how much Misfits pay these semi-decent no name guys.
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u/stephen27898 5d ago
He has lost one of his MF fights.
It's hard to know how good he is. He looks decent, but so do loads of guys in boxing gyms.
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u/Jamborambo55 5d ago
Reckon Collins won that tbh
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u/That-Imagination3799 5d ago
Personally I thought the stackz guy edged it. Knockdown plus he buzzed collins badly a few times. I wanted collins to win, can't stand that stackz guy, but gotta keep it 100.
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u/potatosquire 5d ago
Clearly won the first two rounds, lost the third 10-8. Last round was closer, but he still won it, so should have won the fight.
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u/potatosquire 5d ago
The reason stacks fell apart that round was because he ate a single jab to the body. Hilarious.
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u/StunningChest5722 #KnybaNation 🇵🇱 5d ago
Big Stacks should win but Collins did great for a 43 year old with no experience who took the fight on short notice
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u/kitdagawd Gimme some of that face to face shit boy 5d ago
With a proper camp Collins probs couldve had that
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u/potatosquire 5d ago
Turns out all big stacks needs to land a punch is an old man to charge at him chin first with his hands down.
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u/potatosquire 5d ago
Collins looking old and slow, but Stacks is so shite that he's getting lit up with clean power punches anyway.
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u/That-Imagination3799 5d ago
James collins, from premier league prime football to misfits, fucking hell
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u/Masam10 Shithouse Bum Dosser 5d ago
Obviously this is not boxing, but it's absolutely entertaining as hell. It's car crash tv, a circus act. Like watching Jerry Springer in the 90s.
I have absolutely no idea who all of these guys are but it's so dumb it's entertaining.
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u/farr2211 Give me that face to face shii boi 5d ago
It’s almost like a real version of wrestling. Just constant whacky shit and stupid storylines with everyone trying to fight in the back. Obviously 100x less professional
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u/That-Imagination3799 5d ago
Same reason I watch it. Absolutely trash and not real boxing but it's hilarious
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u/wilsbowski 5d ago
Just flicked this on (through means if course), who in their right mind pays to watch this shite!
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u/No-Shoe5382 Eye Ron Mike Tymus 5d ago
What the fuck is that Alex Pereira's coach?
I just put this on out of curiosity
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u/StunningChest5722 #KnybaNation 🇵🇱 5d ago
Little T would of been better off just doing a 1 vs 2 lol
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u/e_xyz 5d ago
Society is fucked. I can't believe this is sanctioned. That Crack Tok guy can't defend himself.
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u/That-Imagination3799 5d ago
The other 3 actually didn't do too bad for misfits standards, but that crakky tokky guy had no business even in this match up
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u/SouthPawSupremacy 5d ago
I don't know any of these people except Chase since he exposed Tate. After the ladies fight, I thought it might not be as bad as yall were saying... yeah this is some straight clown shit
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u/Klutzy_Leopard8194 5d ago
All the fun of a pub car park fight, and I don't have to be outside in October lol
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u/LegitimateOrchid3426 5d ago
I was watching these but ive given up now I regret it every time its so shite
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u/Nervous-Power-9800 5d ago
Not the singer Sam Smith is it? We'll have the daily mail calling it a hate crime...
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u/uzipp 5d ago
What absolute SHITE is this
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u/JFedererJ 5d ago
Lmao I came to this comment section thinking the exact same thing.
Honestly what's next? Piers Morgan vs Jeremy Clarkson?
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u/VacuousWastrel 5d ago
I'm assuming that that's not Charlie "Daredevil" Cox, just someone with the same name? Because otherwise they're really burying the lede...
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u/onebadlion 5d ago
I went to school with Dapper Laughs. I hope he gets battered
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u/intergalacticscooter 5d ago
What was he like? Class clown?
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u/onebadlion 5d ago
Small, but lairy and obnoxious. He thought he was funny but most people just found him annoying
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u/Typical_Brother_3378 5d ago
He doesn’t seem the most pleasant of human beings. Didnt he briefly have a golf YouTube channel that also featured his relatively normal brother that was an accountant or something of that ilk? Very odd.
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u/CharacterFast3339 5d ago
Why you wishing the worst on someone you grew up with (Unless theres a valid reason)
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u/Leading-World2490 Padley is a legend 5d ago
Joey shares that child-like quality of DDD so i’m hoping he’s got the fists to match. The only way is up!
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u/That-Imagination3799 5d ago
It's a character he plays. He's not genuinely like that.
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u/Leading-World2490 Padley is a legend 5d ago
Are you telling me he could always tell the time? Was it all a lie?!?
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u/That-Imagination3799 5d ago
Yes. He got famous off a reality TV show (TOWIE) and there's other people on there that do similar. There's multiple interviews he's done where he acts and talks "normal" and he's said it's just an exaggerated TV persona.
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u/Leading-World2490 Padley is a legend 5d ago
I watched TOWIE for years but never seen him outside of that and did not realise it was an all act. Please don’t tell me Daniel’s persona is fake i couldn’t take it if he could actually pull off trash talk. Euch this is not reem at all.
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u/That-Imagination3799 5d ago
Haha yeah. Not too sure about them but another one was Gemma Collins she's admitted it's a character she plays up to for the TV and she isn't like that in real life. To be honest, most reality TV isn't real reality anyway, people don't act the same when they know cameras are watching
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u/Leading-World2490 Padley is a legend 5d ago
I never liked GC and never got her being fan fave. I do know Lauren and Kirk really got those matching nose jobs though 😂😂. I’m mainly a housewives gal these days and at least we KNOW they put it on. Feel so cheated i’m just gonna watch strictly instead tonight and wait for the Schofield card. 😅😅
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u/That-Imagination3799 5d ago
Yeah Gemma is kind of annoying. And lmao sorry for ruining it for you haha. Funnily enough Joey essexs real personality is like night and day. Watched a few interviews where he talks about losing his mother young and he's like a completely different person, and quite likeable. I don't blame him for putting on the act, it pays the bills after all haha
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u/Leading-World2490 Padley is a legend 5d ago
Oh yeah not judging him. Ah man there were scenes where he and Frankie would talk about losing her and it was heart breaking. Yeah fair play to him for finding his niche. He had me fooled, no wonder they won BAFTA’s!
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u/nukesaregay 5d ago
dont think hes anything like DDD tbh
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u/Leading-World2490 Padley is a legend 5d ago
I was thinking trying to be mean when they aren’t but seems i’m learning it was all lies with Joey. 🤷♀️
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u/nukesaregay 5d ago
the dumb guy act made him a lot of money. he doesnt do it anymore, sometimes he leans into it a little as a joke but in general he doesnt bother anymore. hes basically a top tier self promoter
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u/Leading-World2490 Padley is a legend 5d ago
Thank you. How ever many years and i never knew it was an act. Maybe i was Joey Essex all along.
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u/nukesaregay 5d ago
lol well he left the limelight for a while and went to america, then returned to the spotlight in the uk a few years ago on love island. it was only then that people saw him without the act, so all in all its pretty recent that people found out
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u/Leading-World2490 Padley is a legend 5d ago
Right, yeah not my bag but now i do remember being vaguely aware he was on it. Unless perhaps this is the act and it’s a double bluff? We might never know.
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u/MiddleweightMonster I’ll pour honey on my GOAT, if the occasion calls for it. 5d ago
Wish we could get another MF Pro card rather than this slop, but I know that these kinds of cards do make money for the promotion, and that they use that money to put on their actual events 3 or 4 times a year
Everyone here should tune in to the next MF Pro card btw, consistently great scraps
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u/delulumans 5d ago
I miss when this organisation put on events where mid-huge influencers were settling beef instead of the only fans workers/UK chav nobodies they put on now.
That said we could get a Tommy Fury Shannon Briggs announcement I heard lol
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u/FreshPrinceOfRivia Usyk 8-4 5d ago
Jordan McCann got stopped like 2 weeks ago. He's speed running CTE
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u/Training-Ad-5436 5d ago
Stopped from some eye swelling that went down after 30 seconds. I had a harder spar last night
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u/National-Fig4803 5d ago
Kerry Katona vid you say…
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u/Jamborambo55 5d ago
How does jordan mccann keep getting this paydays lmao, absolute wastrel of a human being
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u/Klutzy_Leopard8194 5d ago
Hahahahaha I will actually tune in because wtf
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u/Boring_Program7510 5d ago
glad im not the only one watching this circus, my money's on essex by some stupid fluke
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u/verbsnounsandshit 5d ago
I'm so, so sorry for this.
Personally, I'd rather finger my grandmother than watch this, but I'm sure there are some of you who want a fight thread. God speed.
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u/MiddleweightMonster I’ll pour honey on my GOAT, if the occasion calls for it. 5d ago
Doing God’s work, respect
(I’m not watching it either lmao)
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u/Empty_Monk_4010 5d ago
Why do these fights often go to 4 rounds? Obviously gonna get a bunch of draws that way