Commonwealth order Amidu for Mitchell

[Old bones Ian]

This could be a very hard fight for Kevin Mitchell, the commonwealth board have put Yakubu Amidu as his next challenger, the man from Ghana is 16-1-1 with 16 Ko's.
His only loss was by majority decision to world class Ali Funeka.

Will Warren want to take on a risky fight like this for little reward for his boxer?

[Asterix]

Wow, that could be one hell of a fight! I hope it goes ahead. Amidu fought 6' 1" (roughly) Lightweight Funeka and pushed him to an MD - that is very impressive.

You can see Funeka KO Raheem here: http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/se ... bell_sport

[whiskey]

I really cannot see this fight happening.

I expect a vacating of the title as this guy sounds like a real handful and Mitchell has seemingly looked less than stellar in a few recent outings. Especially on the Pavlik undercard he was getting hit with everything and was lucky to get the stoppage when he did. I know there was circumstances and change of opponent from othadox to southpaw which didn't help the lad, but even so.

No, i think he will definitely swerve this fight.

[steve689]

Title will be vacated, probably to be reaplced by a WBO world title eliminator or something.

Either way, far, far too dangerous.

[sweetscience]

he's got the britsh title now anyway hasnt he

[1southpaw]

Title will be vacated, probably to be reaplced by a WBO world title eliminator or something.

Either way, far, far too dangerous.

would he fight the winner out of AAA & NICKY COOK instead

[BigEars]

Title will be vacated, probably to be reaplced by a WBO world title eliminator or something.

Either way, far, far too dangerous.

would he fight the winner out of AAA & NICKY COOK instead

He says he won't fight Cook, but he would fight Arthur.

On the less impressive side of Amidu's record he has a draw with Georgie Ashie, although Mitchell had plenty of trouble with him.

he's got the britsh title now anyway hasnt he

yes