Khan-Gomez Confirmed

[Fenster]

It was obvious it wasn't gonna be Rees with Gomez and Burns mentioned.

BBC SPORT | Boxing | Khan to face Gomez in Birmingham


The build up will be fun.

But the fight will be over inside 6 mins. Fact.

[HattonTheHammer]

It was obvious it wasn't gonna be Rees with Gomez and Burns mentioned.

BBC SPORT | Boxing | Khan to face Gomez in Birmingham


The build up will be fun.

But the fight will be over inside 6 mins. Fact.

so khans gone from a world title eliminator, to fighting michael gomez at an indoor arena

I assume this and is a tune up fight before amir goes onto to fight nate campbell at the end of the year??

[totalboxing1]

More classic match-making from Frank Warren. I think everyone is starting to get bored of it. My mum might still get excited at him knocking out another bum. Gomez isn't as bad as some of them, but he is well past his best. He'll win inside 2 rounds. Definately not a very good warm up fight for his world title challenge. He's going to have to leave frank warren if he hopes to be a genuine world champion by the years end.

[SweetPea]

More classic match-making from Frank Warren.

To be fair, Khan is only 21 years old. You'd expect his handlers to be ultra-cautious, because there's no rush.

This is different than putting a 30-something year old Calzaghe in the ring against Bika and Manfredo.

[DatsiK]

So is this Gomez any good? Personally I've never heard of him, which leads me to believe he isn't quite up there in the world rankings. I've been told he's an ex-british champion, but Khan should definately be aiming to fight ex-world champions (correct me if i'm wrong, Gomez may have been a world champion haven't really looked into him) if he wants a good idea of what he's getting himself into.

[Youngblood]

More classic match-making from Frank Warren.

To be fair, Khan is only 21 years old. You'd expect his handlers to be ultra-cautious, because there's no rush.

This is different than putting a 30-something year old Calzaghe in the ring against Bika and Manfredo.

I have to agree with this. He is still being brought along and I don't expect him to be fighting at the top of his class just yet.

I think matching with Gomez is a smart move, although obviously not what the fans want to see. Let's see how it goes, then after that we can start crying foul if he is still fighting the leftovers of others.

[Fenster]

An old shot crazy superfeather to Nate Campbell? No chance.

Unless Khan's mob give Frank Warren the spanish archer he wont be in with any "world" champs anytime soon.

[Kirkland Laing]

Gomez has about six rounds in him if he lasts that long, which is unlikely. I fail to see how Frank can be blamed for making this fight. The lightweight situation is going to take a while to shake out due to the fighters and politics being really complicated right now, so Khan making money and keeping busy is a good thing to do.

[HattonTheHammer]

An old shot crazy superfeather to Nate Campbell? No chance.

Unless Khan's mob give Frank Warren the spanish archer he wont be in with any "world" champs anytime soon.

Out of the 2 WBO lightweight champs casamayor has a fight coming up in september which pretty much leaves campbell free for an end of year pop at amir if he wishes too.

Wouldnt be surprised to see this go down, warren doesnt have the ability to sell a fight to an american audience, campbell will travel to bolton take his beating head on and hopefully retire with a bit of grace.

Amir gets his record as the youngest british world champion, warren gets another world champ in his stable, campbell gets that one last decent payday to retire with.

whats to be surprised at here??

[Fenster]

An old shot crazy superfeather to Nate Campbell? No chance.

Unless Khan's mob give Frank Warren the spanish archer he wont be in with any "world" champs anytime soon.

Out of the 2 WBO lightweight champs casamayor has a fight coming up in september which pretty much leaves campbell free for an end of year pop at amir if he wishes too.

Wouldnt be surprised to see this go down, warren doesnt have the ability to sell a fight to an american audience, campbell will travel to bolton take his beating head on and hopefully retire with a bit of grace.

Amir gets his record as the youngest british world champion, warren gets another world champ in his stable, campbell gets that one last decent payday to retire with.

whats to be surprised at here??

That's all great IF Khan wins. What if he loses? He has plenty of time to be a "world" champ.

Anyway his path will be determined by his future involvement with FW.

And considering they've put the Rees-Khan feeler out there, i'm sure that's not too far off

[RozzySean]

An old shot crazy superfeather to Nate Campbell? No chance.

Unless Khan's mob give Frank Warren the spanish archer he wont be in with any "world" champs anytime soon.

Out of the 2 WBO lightweight champs casamayor has a fight coming up in september which pretty much leaves campbell free for an end of year pop at amir if he wishes too.

Wouldnt be surprised to see this go down, warren doesnt have the ability to sell a fight to an american audience, campbell will travel to bolton take his beating head on and hopefully retire with a bit of grace.

Amir gets his record as the youngest british world champion, warren gets another world champ in his stable, campbell gets that one last decent payday to retire with.

whats to be surprised at here??

The only problem with that is at this point, Nate Campbell will give Amir Khan the beating of his life. Who the heck has Khan ever beaten to make you think he belongs in the ring with Nate Campbell? I have nothing against Khan, but if this fight ever comes off, you contact me about a sig bet. Let Khan fight some better oppostion and develop into a complete fighter first. Khan may be a great fighter someday, at this point he's not ready for Campbell.

[Otley]

I have just check the under card fights....and they asre gash....might go out

12 Lightweight Amir Khan 17 (13) - 0 (0) - 0
SC Michael Gomez 35 (24) - 8 (5) - 0

12 Light Middleweight Bradley Pryce 26 (16) - 6 (3) - 0 v SC ?
~ Commonwealth (British Empire) light middleweight title ~

10 Middleweight Paul Smith 23 (13) - 0 (0) - 0 v Steven Bendall 28 (13) - 4 (4) - 0
~ BBBofC English middleweight title ~

4 Light Middleweight Curtis Woodhouse 5 (2) - 0 (0) - 0 v SC ?

4 Joe Selkirk 0 (0) - 0 (0) - 0 v SC ?

Bantamweight Don Broadhurst 7 (1) - 0 (0) - 0 v SC ?

Light Middleweight Thomas Costello 5 (2) - 0 (0) - 0 v SC ?

Light Middleweight Martin Concepcion 12 (9) - 5 (4) - 0 v SC ?


Featherweight Stephen Smith 0 (0) - 0 (0) - 0 SC ?


Job Biscuit (Free TV i guess)!!!!



eh eh!!

[PRIDE OF BOSTON]

It was obvious it wasn't gonna be Rees with Gomez and Burns mentioned.

BBC SPORT | Boxing | Khan to face Gomez in Birmingham


The build up will be fun.

But the fight will be over inside 6 mins. Fact.

so khans gone from a world title eliminator, to fighting michael gomez at an indoor arena

I assume this and is a tune up fight before amir goes onto to fight nate campbell at the end of the year??

If that fight were to happen and Campbell fought like he did against Diaz... Kahn doesn't have a shot.

[Master]

Gomez biggest claim to fame is that he blew away Alex Arthur in 5 rounds, it was a competative fight and a joy to watch. However Gomez has never achieved those heights again and lost his last big fight against Johannessen who has recently lost to Kevin Mitchell. It will be exciting for a couple of rounds and Gomez will come in motivated but should not be a competitive fight if Khan is serious about becoming a world champion.

[GAME]

Gomez biggest claim to fame is that he blew away Alex Arthur in 5 rounds, it was a competative fight and a joy to watch. However Gomez has never achieved those heights again and lost his last big fight against Johannessen who has recently lost to Kevin Mitchell. It will be exciting for a couple of rounds and Gomez will come in motivated but should not be a competitive fight if Khan is serious about becoming a world champion.

Yet another opponent whos coming off a bad k.o loss. Atleast Rees was coming off a loss at world level but this is silly .

Everytime I see Gomez he is getting badly kncoked out by some bum and thats not an exageration . Poor fight . Kahn should be in with better