Brodie v Chi I: one of my favourite fights

Big Ears

Someone on another forum posted that this is up on youtube now and it's a fight that's well worth a look.

Michael Brodie had been an extremely dominant European Super-Bantamweight champion, he then went and challenged Willie Jorin for the WBC Super-Bantamweight crown and in most peoples eyes was robbed badly of a World title.
He moved up to Featherweight and captured the WBF and IBO crowns before getting his chance to fight for the vacant WBC Featherweight title which Erik Morales had given up.

His opponent would be South Korean Injin Chi, a man who had given Morales one hell of a fight but other than that little was known about the teak tough brawler outside his native Korea.

For those of you who have never seen the fight, you're in for a real treat.

Sweet Cheeks

Big Ears wrote: »

Someone on another forum posted that this is up on youtube now and it's a fight that's well worth a look.

Michael Brodie had been an extremely dominant European Super-Bantamweight champion, he then went and challenged Willie Jorin for the WBC Super-Bantamweight crown and in most peoples eyes was robbed badly of a World title.
He moved up to Featherweight and captured the WBF and IBO crowns before getting his chance to fight for the vacant WBC Featherweight title which Erik Morales had given up.

His opponent would be South Korean Injin Chi, a man who had given Morales one hell of a fight but other than that little was known about the teak tough brawler outside his native Korea.

For those of you who have never seen the fight, you're in for a real treat.

I was lucky enough to be at the fight that night. Tickets were going dead cheap and you could pick a ticket for about £20 on the day of the fight.Wasnt Chi initially awarded the victory. what happened to Brodies comeback fight last month?

Big Ears

Sweet Cheeks wrote: »

I was lucky enough to be at the fight that night. Tickets were going dead cheap and you could pick a ticket for about £20 on the day of the fight.Wasnt Chi initially awarded the victory. what happened to Brodies comeback fight last month?

Chi was initially awarded the victory and an era was later found in the scoing making it a draw. What's so cruel on Brodie is that the WBC had a rule in place at the time that if there was a clash of heads and one fighter was cut, the other fighter would lose a point. This actually cost Brodie the fight, and if Boxrec is to be believed the doctor examining Chi afterwards found this cut to merely be a graze that looked like a cut.

It's postponed for the moment I think, can't remember why. I really hope he doesn't come back. Great fighter but 4 years on what's he going to have left, and his punch resistance seemed to be gone when he last fought. Not to mention he'll be a weightclass or two north of where he used to fight(and he wasn't a big Featherweight) it's just a really bad idea.

http://www.boxingnewsonline.net/BN08/detail.asp?id=1148
There's an article with him about his comeback.

pjbrady1

I remember watching this fight in a pub a few years ago. N everyone in the pub became glued to it. N I could never remember the fighters involved.
Thanks for posting it up here. As I remember it was real cowboy movie action back n forth stuff for the entire fight.

Vintagekits

for BigEars - here ya go love! xx

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Big Ears

Vintagekits wrote: »

for BigEars - here ya go love! xx

http://www.brandhatton.com/TV/Events/Professional

Thanks, I had managed to see it already though.

Mixed emotions from it really. Brodie clearly isn't going far on his comeback and I suppose that's a good thing, it means he might re-retire again sooner and he'll take less punishment in the long run.

Offensively Brodie still has what it takes to win a British title, even with the slowing speed, reflexes and size disparity with his opposition. However defensively he was very poor and his punch resistance is abysmal. He won't get past Area level, and winning the English title will probably be out of his reach.

That's a long way to slip from a man who used to be one of the best Super-Bantamweights/Featherweights in the World. He's still a thrill a minute though and brings great action. But it's a bit of a guilty pleasure really.

As exciting as it is I'd rather not see it as I wouldn't like to see him take any more punishment, and he took a lot in a fight which should have been a relatively easy comeback.

When the mass celebrations were going on Ringside, Ricky Hatton's face said it all. A sorted of forced mild grin as you could visibly see him holding back a worried face. He knows Brodie's going nowhere and he'll just hope he can get another few paydays out of him first as Brodie is a big ticket seller.

I'd expect even softer opposition in Brodie's next fight, to help prolong the comeback.

joepenguin

Big Ears wrote: »

I'd expect even softer opposition in Brodie's next fight, to help prolong the comeback.

He could do with it alright. He is a good asset to hatton promotions as people know his style and i assume most of their shows are in or around manchester, but at the same time there is no point in getting carried away. Im sure he will get title offers after another win due to his name.

4 years is a long time out for any fighter and will take a while to shake the rust, even at that, how far can he go?

Must have been great seeing him in his prime live.

clubwelly

Brodie was always worth watching. The guy has guts and a never say die attitude. Chi versus Morales was a great fite too. Cheers for the post