- Former IBO world welterweight champion Mohamed Mimoune was beaten by Northern Irishman Tyrone McKenna on points in London on Friday. A decision much contested by the French camp as well as by many observers.
- The 32-year-old Toulousain plans to stop boxing sooner than expected, if he does not find another exciting challenge.
Even the combat referee, visibly incredulous, turned to the announcer when the unanimous decision of the judges was announced. Toulouse boxer Mohamed Mimoune was beaten by Northern Irishman Tyrone McKenna on Friday night in London after a ten-round duel in the semi-finals of the Golden Contract tournament, hosted by the British company MTK Global, responsible for promoting the two men.
A verdict which caused the incomprehension of a large part of the observers, and the spite of the former world champion IBO, who considered himself "stolen". This Monday on the phone, anger had subsided, but not the feeling of injustice.
đź—Ł "Tonight, I won and I got robbed." @ MimouneMohamed1 is NOT happy with those scores ...
The judges had it: 96-94, 96-94, 97-93 pic.twitter.com/Bl1LXRjPDP
"Even the commentator of Sky Sports [the channel which retransmitted the combat] did not understand the decision, indicates Mimoune, aka" The Problem ", back in Toulouse. They sickened me of boxing! I did more than the job: I knocked out my opponent several times. standing. I did ten rounds forward. At the end, McKenna went to have a CT scan. "
During the final of the tournament, scheduled this summer on a date and in a place to be determined, the man from Belfast will face the Englishman Ohara Davies, another "foal" from the MTK Global team. The two men have been rivals for many years and the duel promises to be "bankable" for the organizers. Perhaps more than a Franco-British confrontation, we suggest in the entourage of Mimoune (and beyond)…
"Christmas is coming in summer"
A position that McKenna's post-match declarations, relayed by the Boxingscenes.com site, will not help to qualify: "Christmas is coming in summer and the fight that everyone wants to see will finally take place" ... Careful , the 32-year-old Toulousain (22 victories including three by knockout, four defeats) does not intend to directly implicate MTK Global.
McKENNA given the winner over MIMOUNE in a controversial decision @ MTKGlobal What's Going On? / @ MimouneMohamed1 https://t.co/4cVJHBo7HD
- BoxeMag.com (@BoxeMag_com) February 22, 2020"It can come from them as from the British Fed, apparently, some people at MTK were also disgusted ... I await the proposals of my promoter. What interests me is a world championship, where a big fight with big purses. "
If not ? "I will stop boxing, without regret or remorse," replies Mimoune, who has already invested in real estate and does not see himself, no matter what, making old bones in his sport. I have been champion of France, the European Union, Europe, the world. I'm a young neighborhood boy who left Bagatelle to end up boxing in Las Vegas. It's the Holy Grail, I can't do more. "
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