Johnny Bredahl retires

Freiheit · Post by **Freiheit** » 12 Oct 2004, 13:19

Europes best bantamweight for the last 5 years, Johnny Bredahl announced his retirement today due to fragile hands. Bredahl have boxed for 25 years and represented Denmark in the '88 olympics, he was WBO super flyweight champ and held different titles at bantam before he won the WBA belt knocking out Eidy Moya in 2002.

He was to have defended his belt vs Julio Zarate on the Larsen vs Siaca undercard on november 12th.

His letter to WBA:
http://www.teampalle.dk/filarkiv/0004ok ... brev11.jpg

His record:
http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=001510

Loynesy · Post by **Loynesy** » 12 Oct 2004, 15:13

Good fighter - level just below Hall of Fame but thats not bad is it!!

Will miss seeing him, trips to the KB Halle were great fun and Danish boxing fans good to chat to.

Kilburn · Post by **Kilburn** » 13 Oct 2004, 06:35

Loynesy wrote:Danish boxing fans good to chat to

I had a cracking bit of drunken chit-chat with a Danish couple on the central line one night after they spotted my BN with fat-boy Neilsen on the front. They knew a damn sight more about boxing than I was expecting.

Respect to Bredahl, what a natural talent.

steve689 · Post by **steve689** » 13 Oct 2004, 10:59

Happy retirement to Bredahl, a great champion....respect you Johnny

celticwarrior · Post by **celticwarrior** » 14 Oct 2004, 08:22

Best of luck to Bredahl in retirement. What he achieved following his stoppage loss to Wayne McCullough in a WBC bantamweight title fight shows that McCullough never really got enough credit for that win. In fact a lot of people were quite critical of McCullough after that fight but Bredahl's subsequent WBA reign makes it look a very decent result now.

Kilburn · Post by **Kilburn** » 14 Oct 2004, 08:27

To be fair Bredahl should not have been stopped in that fight.

BubiScholz · Post by **BubiScholz** » 14 Oct 2004, 09:09

Loynesy wrote:Good fighter - level just below Hall of Fame but thats not bad is it!!

if he would be american he would make it to the hall of fame. he would be overhyped like RJJ or ODLTK.......

I hope the danish guys will have a new champ soon. Kessler or Larsen could make it.