Choi Tseveenpurev

Anyone know why he hasn't fought since the Derry Matthews fight? Is he being avoided? Although a great and impressive win for Choi I think the main thing it proved was that Derry Matthews is at the lower-end of domestic prospects (i.e will never be better than average) but stll, superb offensive skills from the Oldham-based Mongolian!

Similar to Prescott in a way, Choi has been adopted by us Brits a little bit for smashing up a prospect some of us wanted see get exposed.

Believe it or not I actually think he'd be a decent opponent for Yuriorkis Gamboa. He's durable, can punch, and although he lacks speed, he is the unified WBU/WBF champion!

Gamboa has a couple of (pretty) meaningless titles (although the WBC international title isn't bad for someone of 12 fights) and I see no reason why that wouldn't make the fight some sort of 'event'. Although IMO any Gamboa fight is an event!

Still, Gamboa by K.O in the middle rounds.

What do you guys think?

 

Really? Wow, I guess big fights for him aren't a pipe dream! Come on Frank, get your arse in gear? Surely you could wrangle a WBO title shot against Steve Luevano? If Gavin Rees can get a title shot (admittedly against a FW-controlled fighter in M'Baye) then surely Choi deserves one?

 

I don't think he's chinny. His susceptible defence has made him get clocked plenty of times against decent punchers and he's never looked rocked. Totally different fighters, but Naz was similar. He'd be dropped quite often late on in his career against very good punchers, but never looked like being stopped.

I think Gamboa would win, and in spectacular fashion, but Choi would be a very good fight for him. Also, Gamboa is very experienced in terms of 'pure boxing' due to his extensive amateur career and he's fought some pretty bi hitters already. He's coming up fast like De La Hoya did.

His next opponent has a record of 26-0-0 (16). Don't see many 12-fight pro's taking on a challenge like that.

 

Honestly, Gamboa is not a 'dancer'. He can box on the outside, but his effective punches and short hooks/uppercuts thrown on the inside, and he's shown himself to be strong whilst he's there. I'd say adailton De Jesus, who had a record of 19-0 with 17 k.o's (if I remember the boxrec page correctly!!!) not dissimilar to Breidis Prescott, and Gamboa K.O'd him. As I say, look at his next opponent, the guy can clearly punch.

TBH there's no one at FW who can really punch at the moment anyway, Luevano isn't a huge hitter despite his frequent k.d's of Nicky Cook, and neither is Chris John. I'd bet on Gamboa to beat Luevano, and possibly beat Chris John. And I reckon Gamboa would have to balls to go over to indonesia and try and knock John out, which seems to be the only way to beat him.

I honestly thought that Gamboa (with his no.3 WBA rnaking) would fight Valero at SFW, but Edwin went up and Gamboa went down. Valero is SOOOO overrated, Mosquera had him in all sorts of trouble in the 2nd round of their fight before Valero eventually wore him down. I don't think Gamboa would've let him off the hook. Valero's power seems to have dimished as he has gone up in quality (which hasn't been much either)

Decebal, I respect your appreciation of Choi, as the starter of this thread I share it too. Just think you're a bit off on your estimation of Gamboa's talents.

 

The guy in your avatar will do from now on though!