Limond - Choi - what happened before & who wins now?

Not to mitchell or Burns.

 

Mitchell is fighting on the Kahn undercard and I guarantee (famous last words!!) that his opponent will be of a lower quality than Choi so I can't see where Warren is coming from where he says he couldn't get fights.

TBH its more likely Warren just couldn't be arsed investing time and effort on a 38 year old with a small fan base.

 

The Kahn-MAB fight was very well marketed over here and plenty of people turned up because of Barerra rather than Khan.

 

how late did choi get into boxing?

i would be interested to know if the age was a problem to warren marketing him well over a few years?
he clearly has marketability in my opinion;
hard punches,an interesting heritage,a warriors heart......

 

thats absolute BS. People came to see Barerra fight Khan, fair enough, but would the fight been as big if he was fighting Alex Arthur, 100% no

 

Your not getting my point. I would love to see Choi vs Mitchell it would be a war but come on, as if Warren is gonna risk him when Mitchell could get a world title fight this year???

I really doubt someone as succesful as Warren has not been botherd to do somehting in his life, he probably has worked harder in a day than most do in a year.

 

o.k,would have made him 23ish then.

and he beat matthews last year,i also see that he lost his 3rd pro fight to veeraphol sahaprom who was a seasoned boxer at that point,and has also only lost twice (both in title challenges)over 40 fights since!.
the lack of big names on choi's resume since may suggest that he was used as sparring by warren etc,he was averaging 3-4 fights a year,which may be a bit low for his weight?.
it seems that limond dealt pretty well with him last time out,and should do again as long as he uses his reach effectively.
although choi should be pretty fired up now because he has someone who believes in him (spencer fearon),and he is appreciated and valued. (probably for the first time in this country!)

good luck to the boy!

 

You're not getting my point, I know Mitchell-Choi won't happen but I don't beleive that Warren couldn't get fights for Choi if he's have really tried.

Warrens a businessman and wheres the return for Warren in spending a couple of years developing a 38 year old Featherweight at that level? Thats why I think theres every chance that he just couldn't be arsed with putting any serious effort into Choi.

 

Give it a rest Rob, its not bull****, whats 'bull****' about my post????? You've just ****ing agreed with most of it FFS!!!

You're just trying to move the goalposts. I didn't say AA wasn't a bigger fight, I just disagreed with you when you said you can't market non-Brit fighters to British boxing fans. Khan-MAB did very well over here and recieved a lot of publicity because of the fact that Barerra, who is a non Brit, was fighting. Thats all.:deal

 

Limond is a neat tidy little boxer but brittle. Choi's already hurt Limond, and for all we know Choi may have come in late notice. Choi is stronger than Arthur. Choi is crude but Arthur is hardly a master boxer with his telegraphed shots, chin in the air, poor use of distance.

 

Name a fight between two non UK fighters to sell tickets in the UK, name a fight between two non UK fighters to get big hype in the UK (Not since Tyson vs Holyfield).

Khan vs Barrera was about KHAN fighting someone people has heard off. You gotta ask yourself what fight would do better in gate, ratings and paper hype.

Barerra vs Arhur or Barerra vs Khan, always Khan because Khan is the big attraction.

 

Rob, for the second time.atsch I'm not saying British fighters arn't more popular with British fans than foreign ones, or making comparions between the two. I'm saying that Barerra shows British fans will show up for a foreign fighter, a lot of the people who went to that fight were there to see an legend in action, not to see Khan beat up an old featherweight. Tyson also soldout twice when he came over here (there was quite a bit of hype for those IIRC). I can be done if the right fighters are brought over.

That was the only point I was making, read the posts before you just start going off on tangents and asking me to prove points I havn't even made in the first place.