**Alex Arthur vs Kevin Mitchell - You really think the London boy could win?**

Oh yeah of course, it wasn't a criticism at all....still funny though eh?

 

I wasn't having a pop, just pointing out that they're good eggs, as they've copped a bit of flack on here from time to time. Particularly hilarious was when one of the commentators pointed out Kevin's "mum" at ringside, when it was in fact Cheryl, his sister. Dear Chezza did not find it all that funny though...

 

No worries. I saw an interview with Mitchell before the Johannsen fight and he comes across as a decent lad, his ambition was retire and run a pie and mash shop!! No airs and graces there.....

 

Arthur has the beating of Mitchell. If they were to fight I reckon he'd hand Mitchell a painful stoppage loss.

 

kevin is too undisciplined. he nearly punched himself out against johanssen. when he learns to setle down more, he could beat arthur

 

Joe Calzaghe is english, just incase you hadnt noticed.

Say what you want, but there is no getting away from it. Joe Calzaghe was born in England. The capital of England. LONDON. Hes a Londoner. Scott harrison & Alex Arthur might be many things to many people, but at least they are real scotsmen.

The same cannot be said of Joe Calzaghe, who even boasted of his englishness before the Robin Reid fight.

Our fighters might be disgraces, but at leat they are ours. Same cant be said about a certain Joe Calzaghe, can it? Sorry to the better welsh posters here, but when a welshman attacks Scotland & our fighters, I have to fight fire with fire.

Its the law of the jungle & I make no excuses. Im a ******* you see, & proud of it:smoke

 

As for the close voting on this thread? It doesnt surprise me as most englanders would never pick a scot to beat an englander. Englanders are masters of misplaced arrogance. Just ask the posters who are covering up for Khan at this very moment

Anyway, Arthur looks dead at the weight, Mitchell just looks awful at the weight. Even on Scott Harrisons worst night, he battered Estrada. Mitchell though had to rely on a lucky punch to see him through.

Dont get me started on Arthur though, Im raging with him at the moment:twisted: I championed his quest for greatness here, & then when Guzman pulled out Arthur has reverted to his 'billy big bollocks' talk, & I get the feeling him & Warren jobbed Guzman of his title.

Hurts me to say it, but when Guzman lost his title, Arthur said he was "delighted & I felt I was the real champ anyway when I beat Gogoladze" & that killed me. Did Alex & Warren job the dominican? I think they did.
So for the people who attack me for being biased towards Scottish fighters, what you say now? I just tell it like it is. Khan looks like hes a fake, & Arthur looks like hes conned Guzman, with Frank warrens help of course, the same Frank Warren who helped rid kevin McIntryre of his british title...

Anyway, sorry for going on. I have a lot on my mind at the moment! Will Arthur fight a good oppionent, will Khan be nothing more than a shooting star, will Kevin McIntyre get a rightful shot back at his british title he was robbed of?

My boxing brain is bursting at the moment.

 

More English guys have voted for Arthur than Mitchell.

 

Arthur wins most likely but Mitchell could always score a knockdown If Foster Jr could.

 

Easy win for Mitchell. Don't understand why some people think AAA is some super duper fighter.

 

I like both guy's, I used to champion Kevin Mitchell as the man to de-rail the Amir Khan express before it even left the station in 2005 but I realise how silly that was in hindsight...such thought's were more indicative of what I thought about Khan rather than Mitchell...

As other's have pointed out, Mitchell has many, many flaw's. Whilst he is tough and has great heart (which he showed in his last exciting bout with CJ) he is nonetheless easy to hit and wholly predictable in term's of offence in my opinion....

AAA, contrary to what many think, is a cut above. He is fringe World Class, European level and has proven as such since his loss to Michael Gomez. He's hugely underrated on these board's although that might change amongst the fairweather fan's now that he has a World Title strapped around his waist...

I think AAA would have a couple of hairy moment's probably after a slow start but would gradually work his way into the fight, taking over in the mid round's en route to a late stoppage.

The intriguing thing about this fight is that is very likely to happen and could be big if both men are brought along properly over the next year or so.

 

Just because he had the misfortune of his parents being in the London area at the time of his birth doesn't make him English you fool.

I know a friend who was born premature in Spain when his parents went on holiday so is he a spaniard now?

Calzaghe is a proud Welsh/Italian with Welsh blood from his mother and Italian from his father and has lived in Wales all his life.

NO English blood in him at all Calzaghe is WELSH. End of. :good

 

They were living in England at the time actually...

Beside's, whilst I see why Dunky used that (and quite justly too), Calzaghe is for me, Welsh. As you said, Welsh blood and he spent such a short amount of time living there in comparison to Wale's that it hardly seem's fair to refer to him as 'English'.

If Calzaghe is, so is Perrotta and Paul McGrath too.

 

I'm 100% Scottish but like many Scots am not racially pure (dad was Welsh and mother of Ulster/Scots extract); however, I'd always refer to myself as Scottish as I was born and brought up here. To be honest, unlike others who love to cling on to links to the "old country" etc, I don't feel anything other than Scottish... and very proud of it I am too. Calzaghe is clearly Welsh - it's his (adopted) country and it has moulded hime into the person he is now - accent, mindset, mannerisms etc. The same can be said of his dad and many people who cross borders to get on with their lives. As a further example, the same could be said of Khan, and it's interesting to see how commentators walk the PC tightrope. (He's English before anyone asks... end of story. IMHO.)

In terms of the Alex Arthur debate, I'm with Dunky in much of what he says and hate to see promoters up to their underhand ways. The Kevin McIntyre stripping was frankly a disgrace; especially given that he had defended it reasonably recently and had produced medical evidence to show that he was unable to defend his title. Would a more senior champion have received such treatment... say a big household name? Think not, plus this promoter probably wouldn't have allowed it! (I even resisted the temptation to say a big English household name who would invariably have been promoted by Mr Hall of Fame!)

For what it's worth and I know I'm going slightly off-topic here, Craig McEwan has done the right thing and moved abroad to learn his craft. Even if he doesn't make it - and I for one think he's a reasonable chance of climbing the rankings in a good division, what an experience. Certainly beats a few fights back home and then having to find a job if your career doesn't take off. Good luck m8t.

Funny also to see that the Scottish press takes no notice of a kid who is doing it his way - arguably the hard way - and making a successful job of it. Not many Scots kids get the chance to go Stateside and work with Freddie Roach. In Scotland we must have the most negative press in the business - look at how they've pounced on all of Harrison's flaws and many others before him. It amazes me how there's no interest in the national media.

 

Arthur is a level or two above Mitchell.

He should be able to stop him in the later rounds.