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Originally Posted by
hattonthehammer
Mate, I think you're a bit confused. NO-one is claiming - i'm not anyway - Arthurs people PLANNED that the visa would be the fight scupperer. There's any number of reasons fights get called off.. and probably MANY reasons made public differ from the truth ;)
The whole fight seemed iffy.
Arthur was rumoured to be pulling out a few days before Guzman had the apparent visa problems.
Arthur Quashes Rumours Of Injury (from The Herald )
Heres what Guzman said about the visa -
"I received my visa on April 24 and was ready to travel to Scotland the following day. I could have fought him on the original date.
"I don't know why a new date has to be found, other than the fact that Arthur is flat-out scared of me."
I'd Rather Be Blowing Out Arthur Than The Candles - The Daily Record
Seriously guys.....if you were a promoter and the opposition in your main event still hadn't secured a visa and could give no guarantees that he'd show up ten days before the fight, would you just ignore it and hope everything turns out ok? You saw the shambles that was the original Mitchell-Johanneson fight....if I'd been landed with that disaster of an evening months before this happened I'd have postponed it before Guzman finally got his visa too.
And you're criticising Arthur for Guzman being notoriously unreliable? Guzman was the title holder, so the fight had to be made....if Guzman don't want to fight, then there's only one person to blame.
