Guzman-Arthur Off

[Kev]

I'm a bit confused by this. Why is everyone slagging off Arthur for this fight not happening when its Guzman who pulled out?

I thought the fight was postponed originally because of problems with Guzman not Arthur?

What has Alex done wrong in this?

[HattonTheHammer]

Think various critics think alex has ducked fighters since the gomez fight.

For the ones though that claim arthurs team intentionally made this fight under the pretence that guzman wouldnt obtain a visa...

you lot are watching way too much TV!!

[Fenster]

Think various critics think alex has ducked fighters since the gomez fight.

For the ones though that claim arthurs team intentionally made this fight under the pretence that guzman wouldnt obtain a visa..

you lot are watching way too much TV!!

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

[hitmanhatton]

am i the only one that now feels like arthur has conned his way to a world title ?

[totalboxing1]

am i the only one that now feels like arthur has conned his way to a world title ?

Warren and his cosy relationship with the WBO?

Well at least Britain has another world champion. YAYYYYY

[OumaFan]

Guzman seems to want a fight with Nate Campbell. Its on fightnews.

[superheavyrhun]

[quote=Fenster;518038]

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.

[Fenster]

[QUOTE=superheavyrhun;518206]

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.

I'm not criticising Arthur. He's just had a very "lucky" (predictable) result.

The very fact that Guzman is "notoriously unreliable", and has weight problems, makes it hardly surprising the fight didn't happen..but at the same time it's hardly surprising Arthur got the belt without fighting for it.

Guzman had already announced his move-up last year when matched with Katsidis for WBO lightweight title.. before that went tits up, obviously.

FW was Guzman's promoter a few years back. He knows all about him. It's surprising he felt Arthur was good enough to compete with Guzman - seeing as Arthur didn't have a hope in hell. And FW's mob are normally such extremely shrewd fight pickers