Why Mendoza not Muriqi ? We are talking about next opponent of WBO world champion Zsolt Erdei who has negociations oppurtunity and many reasens to fight with Elvir Muriqi to protect his title in 24-th November, but he was not so brave to fight with Muriqi and than he decide to fight with someone who was not sucessfull in light heavyweight division and dont have capacity as fighter like Elvir Muriqi. Mendoza record in his profesional career have 36 wins and 7 loses. In boxing records ranklist Mendoza is 29 and Muriqi is 17. Muriqi in his last fight with Antonio Tarver wins many fans around the world and we belive that fight betwen Erdei - Muriqi will bring more than 20.000 fans in their match and will be spectacle for boxing fans. Muriqi in fight against Tarver fight 12 rounds with high level and he was attacking him all time. One headbut from Tarver in round four lost him conception to win clear fight and the judges helped Tarver to win this fight but Muriqi in reality dident lost nothing he won the fans all around the world. Muriqi show in this fight to all the world that his big fighter and he is ready to fight everybody in the light heavyweight division. Muriqi also in the 2002 bring big surprise to american boxing in the fight with Sam Ahmad who gets four knock-downs from Ahmad in two rounds and he still fighting him and wins in round three with tecnicall knock out. This fight was the best fight of year 2002 from american media. Zsolt Erdei record is 27-0 and he is still undeafeded and he protect WBO world champion eight time but his fights was not attractive for the fans. Also fight with Mendoza its not going to be so interested from the boxing fans only one number in his fighting. The fight with Muriqi in the Germany will be more expacted from the people in all over the world, especilly in Germany where we can say now is MEKA of boxing. In this event with Mendoza its not going to bring more than 5.000 fans in the Dresden city and will miss boxing atmosphere. To remember some fights of Luan Krasniqi in the Germany where the german and albanian fans bring a spectacular events ad think about fight betwen Erdei - Muriqi who much will be interesting. Muriqi declare many times in international media that he is ready to fight any time any where with all champs or contenders of this divisions and he is world top 20 and he would like to fight for world titles as WBC, WBA, IBF, and WBO. Albanianboxing.com recive many emails and letters from fans including albanians and wants to rewiev this event from Universum Box Promotion and from Erdei himself but also from international media.
Man, this fight is ridiculous... Erdei has 8 defenses of his belt, it's time to step up. Zsolt is actually a good fighter, but he wastes his talent on B and C class fighters. That's not the way of a champion. Maybe it's all Universums fault, I don't know. Someday he'll be old and regrets it... well, maybe not, he'll have some money and is a hero in Hungary...drinking some cheap hungarian wine on his farm...oh well...
Good answers from you Geppy and Frost. With this statement I hope next Erdei will fight someone harder opponent.
Zsolt Erdei, is the real (Lineal) LightHeavyweight Champion of the World. Dariusz Michalczewski defeated Virgil Hill for the Lineal, and IBF/WBA/WBO World Titles. Gonzales beat an old punch drunk DM, Zsolt one-sidely beat Gonzales. Zsolt should step it up, Mendoza is unacceptable.
Zsolt should step up and not be fighting guys of the quality of either Mendoza and Muriqi. Mendoza is a walkthrough and Muriqi is not much better.
Muriqi? Mendoza? Whats the difference? Muriqui isnt a big shot,artani! Yes,he had a pretty close fight with Tarver,but apart from that fight he hasnt done anything to deserve a shot at Erdei. Besides Tarver is one of the most overrated fighters out there. I for my part would prefer watching Erdei take on his old rival Garay in a third encounter,or go for some better names out there. Woods,and Glen Johnson are known names,but soft targets.Erdei can beat them both without much trouble. The very one-dimensional and predictable Canadien based Romanien Diaconu would have been a good choice,too. Or old geezer Silvio Branco who is quite known in europe,and who is still able to make the water hot for a lot of present lightheavies. He schooled Manny Siaco in one of his last fights winning every second of his encounter with that guy. The same cant be said about Mundine who won a split decision against Siaca .
