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Edinburgh to stage world boxing title fight



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EDINBURGH is set to stage a world title boxing match on April 26 when Alex Arthur clashes with Joan Guzman at Meadowbank.
Super-featherweight ace Arthur, who is already the WBO interim champ, will take on Dominican Guzman for the full version of the title.

It will be the first time an Edinburgh native has fought for a world title in the city.

Doubts over the fight taking place were erased on Wednesday when Guzman signed a contract to take on Arthur but the venue had yet to be decided.

A spokesman for Guzman's promoter was full of confidence that his man would win and described the bout as "easy money".

Sean Gibbons said: "Guzman is in another league from Arthur – I just hope that Arthur turns up."

But Arthur hit back, saying: "Now the hard work will begin in earnest in training.

"I'm only one step away from my dream of being a world champion and moving into boxing's top league beside guys like Joe Calzaghe.

"I recognise Guzman as my biggest ring test ever but I guarantee that I will be so motivated that anything less than my very best in the ring won't be an option."

The full article contains 206 words and appears in Edinburgh Evening News newspaper.
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  • Last Updated: 29 February 2008 2:23 PM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Alex Arthur , Boxing
 
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29/02/2008 14:31:03
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alex paterson,

embra 29/02/2008 14:34:27
Alex, Guzman maybe your biggest test so far but we all have faith in you,what a night it will be when you win your dream of being a world champion.
3

Raoul Duke,

29/02/2008 15:07:16
Best of luck Alex, we are all behind you, you can do it!
4

The Fly Fifer,

Fife 29/02/2008 15:49:39
BC Medical Journal Volume 45, Number 9, November 2003, page 473-474

There is no sport like boxing

The noble art of boxing—or, the ignoble art of scrambling the human brain

The idea of training animals to injure and kill each other in order to provide a few brief moments of entertainment and elation along with winnings from betting is abhorrent to most of us. And yet boxing, which has its essentials in cockfighting, with behemoths instead of birds, gloves instead of razors, with wealthy businessmen behind the contestants instead of working class trainers, and the human brain the target rather than avian viscera, still continues. Just as cockfighting does not demean the cocks but the audience and the bird’s connections, so boxing does not demean the boxers, but the boxer’s supporters and manipulators.

The aim of boxing is to cause brain damage. People point out that football, hockey, and rugby are all dangerous. They are perfectly right. But the aim of these sports is not to cause injury. In boxing the ultimate achievement is to knock somebody out. And to knock somebody out is to injure his or her brain.
5

John Blackley,

Winter Garden, FL 29/02/2008 16:07:59
#4 The Fly Fifer: Consenting - and presumably of sound mind - adults.
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Logie Almond,

29/02/2008 16:16:05
Didn't know they allowed women and men to box together.
7

mrmoneypenny,

29/02/2008 16:19:45
The Fly Fifer, grow some nuggets, just because you dont like it, does not mean its wrong. Poor excuse..
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The Fly Fifer,

Fife 29/02/2008 16:27:53
5 and 7

The aim of boxing is to knock some-one else sensless, so that TV can make a fortune on PPV, th ebookies can make a killing on bets, the "promoter" can take (on average) 85% of the purse for expenses, leaving Mr Doppey head needing to get ion the ring again to finance his lavish livestyle.

Fine by me the only one to suffer is the boxer, Darwinian selection, survival of the fittest, even if he (or she) becomes Mentil!!

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The Fly Fifer,

Fife 29/02/2008 16:36:17
A great golfer plays a round of golf, or two, gets maybe 3/4 million appearance money for turning up, wins maybe 1.5 million, followed by 14 million in sponsorship per quarter.

A big fight boxer gets his head pasted, wins by a knockout, the purse is 1.5 million he walks away with less than 20% of that purse, gets no TV cut or appearance money, has been encouraged to live lavishly not understanding that he is subsidising a huge Posse of hangers on so to stay in the limelight he has to keep fighting, it is also a closed shop!!! NO BOXER can fight as a true independant manageing themselves with caring advisors unless you are from one of the big Stables forget it.

But as I say if you get your jollies watching two men half kill each other then I suppose thats your choice.

Tell me a boxer who died rich??
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Old Reekies Big Team,

29/02/2008 17:13:31
Board up the windows if you live at meadowbank. Hobos on the rampage.
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Jingling Geordie,

Sunshine on Leith 29/02/2008 20:13:13
Guzman is a class act, arguably the fastest fists in the business, he has learned his craft at the coal face on the American circuit against quality opposition and is unbeaten whereas Alex has fought mainly "huddies" at Meadowbank, this is no Willie Limmond or Ricky Burns and no amount of training will assure him a win.
I think his lack of experience against class fighters will cost him dearly.
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The Fly Fifer,

Fife 29/02/2008 20:16:03
so # 12 you think this is a close well matched pair of fighters then ........... appears not. seems like Alex is in for a pasting in front of his own fans, how embarassing, if what you say is true he either is too stupid to realise he is being set up or on the other hand too stupid to not just say no
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Sheikh.,

29/02/2008 21:01:09
Mr Alex just remember what a certain Mr Gomez did to you in Edinburgh.

no 13.
money talks, maybe Mr arthur want final pay day?
Mr Arthur has hand picked opposition up to now!
not very good at that?
NEVER BE A MR KEN BUCHANAN!!!!!
14

John Blackley,

Winter Garden, FL 29/02/2008 21:12:09
#8 The Fly Fifer, if it's "fine by (you)", why do you keep going on about it?
15

Taxi for Brellier,

Edinburgh 29/02/2008 21:13:18
#10 - think you should be more concerned with your beloved Tynecastle - there's more chance of the windows getting boarded up there..................by the repo men. What sport are you following when the Jumbos are shut down?
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Taxi for Brellier,

Edinburgh 29/02/2008 21:15:00
#13 - not top notch, hand picked opposition?

sounds like the pre-Calzaghe big fight nonsense spouted by jealous punters.
17

The Fly Fifer,

Fife 29/02/2008 21:51:04
AH!!! Mr Ken Buchannan, you want to have seen him in Fife earlier this year at a Burns Lunch, my point exactly was made all evening ........

Mr Blackley ......... I do because I can. Freedom of speech is ok here within reason. not like in your country where Guy Gibsons labradors name is not permitted :-)
18

Big Smoke,

29/02/2008 21:53:45
Fife Flyer we are all just surprised that with you coming from Fife you know how to use a computer!
19

Ghost Of Scotland Past,

29/02/2008 21:58:57
7) Typical juvenile denial of fact, you got reasons and more than one, they were good reasons and you cannot even
offer a counter to one of them, all you do is insult the messenger, it's just as pathetic as the farce masquarading as spectacle which you support. Now see if you have the wit to answer the points rather than shoot the messenger
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Ghost Of Scotland Past,

29/02/2008 22:03:03
Looking at the photie above it disnae look tae me as if wir hero hus the wit tae consent tae a bath ne'er mind hae'n his pea sized brain made intae mushy peas. An as fir luck it disnae enter intae it, wha dae thea promoter think they're kiddin
21

Ghost Of Scotland Past,

29/02/2008 23:10:46
18) pity I have one point where I dissent, Guy Gibsons labradors name is not permitted in this country either
not P.C. don't you know. Could have chosen a better example there. I met Ken Buchanan when he had the hotel
in Ferry Road, he was a decent guy but could only talk about his fighting days, whilst being taken advantage of at the bar by all the sad leeches drinking him into bancrupcy.
22

2dogs in D.C.,

29/02/2008 23:17:52
It's another murderous right, another left hook from hell.A bloody war on the boardwalk, and the kid from Lowell rises to the bell." Dropkick Murphys Warriors Code. From experiance, it hurts, but,damn,you feel alive.
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Ghost Of Scotland Past,

29/02/2008 23:23:39
20) There are more than a few who either are very dead
or don't feel very alive as a result of this blood sport.
If reasonable and compassionate people can in some civilised countries ban this kind of think amoung animals
why can they not extend the same reasoning and compassion to their fellow human animals.
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finref,

As far away from the "Fly Fifer" as possible 03/03/2008 11:45:46
Your argument is ruined when you state that the aim of boxing is to cause brain damage. It is nothing of the sort, the "Aim" of boxing is like many other martial arts, it is to "strike your opponent on the target area without being struck oneself" and by doing so more than your opponent, you'll win the bout. If you dislike boxing so much, then why comment on it from a position of relative ignorance when you patently don't even know how the sport is scored. Climbing mountains in winter is far more dangerous so why don't you just go away and pester some other sport. p.s. Try using spell check while you're at it.

 

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