Quote Originally Posted by Fenster
Quote Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing
Quote Originally Posted by Fenster
I guess Arthur's time masquerading as a potential world force is up. Guzman will beat him on the bridle...

..unless the fight doesn't happen, therefore Arthur is named new WBO champ and will be ready, willing and able to defend against obscure no-names and domestic types.
It's got to be that the fight won't happen. Arthur gets be be a pretend champ and defend against a couple of east European roadsweepers then he moves up to lightweight, because there's no way he can make the weight much longer.
AS it goes, maybe the plan is for Arthur to fight Guzman. Arthur-Khan could be a fight that makes sense. He gets battered by Guzman, blames the weight making, moves up to lightweight and gets battered by Khan.

Guzman can soften him up for the real money maker.
But if Arthur gets the battering we expect from Guzman he won't exactly be a mad ticket seller for Khan. And it's not like Frank to put his guy in a fight where he has no chance.

So.

1. Warren thinks Arthur is shot and only has one chance to sell a lot of tickets, hence theGuzman fight.

2. Warren knows Guzman won't bother defending his title so is going the east European roadsweeper/eventual matchup with Khan route.

Who knows? Anyway, if Arthur does get in the ring with Guzman at least it'll almost certainly mean no more articles where he compares himself to Sugar Ray leonard.