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Could be a tough night for Arthur. Has he really recovered from the Gomez beatdown?


Gomez to jeer Arthur

BRIAN DONALD - Scotsman.com


MICHAEL GOMEZ has issued a verbal blast towards Alex Arthur ahead of the Capital fighter’s IBF super featherweight title clash against Ghanian Eric Odumasi this Friday.

The Manchester fighter said: "I hate Arthur - he still owes me 25 grand from the winner-take-all bet I offered him at our pre-fight press conference before I thrashed him in Edinburgh for his British title last October.

"I’ll be at the Ingliston ringside to cheer Eric Odumasi and give Arthur some heavy ringside verbals before during and after the fight."

However, Arthur remained unfazed when told of the comments, insisting they were, in fact, a back-handed compliment. He said: "I’m terribly flattered by all this Gomez aggro, it just proves that Michael realises how much he needs me for a big-money return match.

"Nobody else - not Glasgow’s Craig Docherty or any other British super featherweight could generate the public interest that an Arthur v Gomez return fight would generate."

I'm more interested in Arthur-Odumasi than the main event.

Now here i am someone whose followed Arthur since his amateur days and been to the majority of his fights, including Braehead which is a nightmare to get to, but this fights on my doorstep and for one reason or other im not even remotelly interested in going!

cant think why really. this just doesnt seem to do anything for me. and as for calzaghe, well the least said about that the better. i usually go along to these fights to watch the undercard as theres usually some good up and coming scottish fighters on these bills but even thats failed to spark an interest this time round.

maybe im just tired of going to Sports Network shows, where the home fighter invariably wins after what is normally a predictable fight ie against an opponnet of limited ability who will test them for a few rounds before finally succumbing.

Will be interesting to see Arthurs reaction if Gomez fulfills his promise and Arthur does have a point about the rematch. I wonder if Uncle Frank is maybe building the hype already for a rematch early next year.

neil r wrote:Now here i am someone whose followed Arthur since his amateur days and been to the majority of his fights, including Braehead which is a nightmare to get to, but this fights on my doorstep and for one reason or other im not even remotelly interested in going!

cant think why really. this just doesnt seem to do anything for me. and as for calzaghe, well the least said about that the better. i usually go along to these fights to watch the undercard as theres usually some good up and coming scottish fighters on these bills but even thats failed to spark an interest this time round.

maybe im just tired of going to Sports Network shows, where the home fighter invariably wins after what is normally a predictable fight ie against an opponnet of limited ability who will test them for a few rounds before finally succumbing.

Will be interesting to see Arthurs reaction if Gomez fulfills his promise and Arthur does have a point about the rematch. I wonder if Uncle Frank is maybe building the hype already for a rematch early next year.

You not going to bother then Neil ?? I got 5 tickets from Scott flynn whos on the undercard, like you say its just to watch the scottish boys really.

Im fightitin myself on sunday in fife. so got that to look forward too.