Summary Boxer Kevin Melhus will fight ex-MMA athlete Emil Meek in 2024. This is an example of crossover boxing, where athletes from different martial arts meet in a show fight. Experts are critical and think Melhus has everything to lose. Melhus and Meek have argued on social media about who is the strongest and toughest. Melhus claims that the fight is not just for attention and show. Emil Meek is a retired MMA athlete who has fought four times in the UFC. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAi. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. Now the international phenomenon has come to Norway, i.e. when a boxer, MMA athlete or YouTuber argues in social media about who is the strongest and toughest. Crossover boxing, or a so-called “cross-promotion fait”, is about athletes from different martial arts meeting in a show fight to choose a winner – and perhaps make a lot of money. BOXING: Floyd Mayweather Jr. (left) and Conor McGregor. Photo: Mark J. Rebilas / Reuters In recent years, the fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Conor McGregor in 2017 has received the most attention. They are said to have set fire to hundreds of millions of dollars. Now boxer Kevin Melhus (34) confirms that he will meet ex-MMA athlete Emil Meek (35) in the boxing ring during 2024. news’s boxing expert, Anders Werner Øfsti, thinks it is a risky choice for Melhus to go to that fight. – It is a little difficult for me to see what Kenneth’s motivation should be for taking such a fight. He has 12 victories in 12 fights as a professional boxer, fair enough against fairly limited opposition, but none of the fights have created much attention, says Werner Øfsti. – Has everything to lose Martial arts expert Chris Nilsen, former head of the Thai boxing committee in the Martial Arts Association, laughs at the whole thing. EXPERT: Chris Nilsen. Photo: Private – This is a show, but here there is someone who has everything to lose and someone who can win everything. When the YouTuber Jake Paul loses to a proper boxer, it has nothing to say, because he is no boxer, he says and continued: – But Kevin Melhus is a boxer with a belt and an active career. Then you can’t lose a match like this, he says. Melhus himself claims that the fight is not just for attention and show. – When you enter the ring, it’s a proper fight. Call it what you want, says Melhus to news. – I like attention, a lot of pressure and a great fall height. “Cred” to all people in the whole world who follow their dream, whether they succeed or not, says Emil Meek to news. Øfsti supports Nilsen in that Melhus has everything to lose. Nevertheless, he emphasizes that it can do something positive for the Norwegian boxer. – Maybe that’s what he hopes, that a match against a relatively high-profile martial artist can bring some money into the coffers and a bit of buzz around the match, says Øfsti. EXPERT: Anders Werner Øfsti. Photo: news – He goes down in the first round – It started as a joke, but now I have accepted the challenge. MMA people have nothing to do in the boxing ring, so he will go down in the first round. Emil will get to know the canvas, says professional boxer Kevin Melhus confidently. The 34-year-old has won all 12 of his professional fights and has an intercontinental belt in the WBO boxing association. – Kevin has looked good because he has faced weak opponents. I have the heart of ten thousand warriors, he does not know what will meet him, says an equally confident Emil Meek. READY TO FIGHT: Kevin Melhus Photo: Frank Sivertsen / news He is a retired MMA athlete who fought four fights in the UFC – the largest organization in the world that organizes MMA fights. Quarrels in social media Recently, the two athletes have had a small “beef” in social media. Emil Meek has posted several posts on his Instagram account to provoke Kevin Melhus to accept the challenge: – Show the Norwegian people that you can beat me in the first round, Kevin, even if it will never happen. Doing it for Kampsport-Noreg. Or are you afraid to meet me?, asks Meek. Kevin Melhus has responded by knocking down a dummy and comparing his boxing technique with the influencer Oskar Westerlin. – Emil, you have a good show game, but your “fighting skills” are quite average, at best. In terms of boxing, you are on par with Oskar Westerlin, Melhus replied. Now he has accepted the challenge. – Looks staged Chris Nilsen has not been impressed by what the performers have posted on social media. – That beef looks very much like a shoe game, where they knock down a dummy and say “you’re done”. Everything looks staged, because they don’t meet exactly where something actually happens in those videos. – Everyone knows that Emil loves the limelight, he is good at talking and a good ambassador for MMA. Now he tempts Kevin with a little extra publicity, and it will be a fight where there will perhaps be a few hundred thousand kroner in the pot, he says. Who will win the match? The people around the martial artists are now negotiating the time, place and conditions for a match, but Kevin Melhus is clear that the match must take place in 2024 – because next year he wants to hunt for a WC boxing match. The experts agree on who should win the match. – Kevin has boxed as an amateur and professional for many years and should go home the winner relatively easily. But Emil is a tough guy, so if he wants to win this, he has to make it a fight and bet on a lucky punch. It can happen in a boxing ring, says Øfsti. – On paper, Emil has no chance. Melhus should end the fight easily in the first, second or third round. This could be disastrous for Melhus, because if the match runs out, it won’t look good for him anyway, says Nilsen. This goal was canceled for offside 00:20 Commentator against beer-throwing: – End 00:16 Chance bonanza in Netherlands – France 02:10 Reacts to mask suggestion: – No, no, no! 00:46 Show more Published 22.06.2024, at 23.28
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