Bernard Dunne vs. Ricardo Cordoba

[katiek]

Quite looking forward to this one, but I think the difference here between Khan and Dunne is that Khan has really improved his defence to recover from his one-round sparking, and we're still not sure if Dunne has succeeded with that yet.

As for getting the title fight, a part of me thinks it should have gone to Munroe, but as Bilbo said, a good promoter and fan-pulling-power means more than results sometimes.

Munroe was offered the Cordoba fight and he turned it down.
What should Dunne have said, "no thanks, I will wait till Munroe grows a pair and takes the fight".

Where did you hear that? I haven't seen anything to that effect to be honest with you, and the Munroe camp did seem disappointed the shot had gone to Dunne rather than himself.

Either way, Dunne proved he warranted that shot.

You guys seem to know little facts about this whole Dunne/Munroe/Cordoba issue, so let me enlighten you all with the facts.

Munroe was offered a career best purse to fight Dunne on 3 occasions and he turned it down.
He used the excuse that he did not want to fight in Ireland and he was the champion so why should he have to travel yet when he won the European title, Martinez gave him home advantage. Munroe then comes to Ireland to fight a part time taxi driver. Dunne has a contract with RTE so he could not fight outside of Ireland without RTE agreeing and they were not about to lose out to Sky Sports.

Frank Maloney admitted on Steve Bunces programme that Munroe was offered the Cordoba fight and that they turned it down.

Richard Dobal, Ricardo Cordoba's manager, said that he had first offered the title shot to Munroe, then Matinez, and that Dunne was his 3rd choice. This interview is on RTE.ie website plus Irish Boxing.com

So you see Dunne did not duck Munroe, he did everything possible to get that fight but Maloney would not agree to it.

And for those of you saying Munroe should have got the title shot, he did get the chance, he just wouldn't take it!

So please get your facts in order before you make your idiot comments.

This post is mostly directed at HitmanDonny but I am also answering your question about Munroe being offered the world title shot. So it is his idiotic comments I am refering to, not yours!