BKFC 96 star almost lost late-notice title fight opportunity after missing several calls

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Leigh Cohoon nearly lost out on his chance to combat for the UK light heavyweight title at BKFC 96.

This coming Saturday, skyrocketing battle sports promo BKFC lands in Glasgow, Scotland, for the very first time in the promo’s history with BKFC 96.

The occasion was arranged to be headlined by a title battle in between previous UK light heavyweight champ Conor Cooke, who was set to protect his strap versus Sean Weir. Cooke withdrew from their arranged battle last Thursday, and the promo had a last-minute scramble to change him.

That was when 42-year-old British competitor Leigh ‘The Boom’ Cohoon got the call from the promo to action in on simply over a week’s notification to combat for the title versus Weir.

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Cohoon has actually battled 5 times in the squared circle to date, with his next battle being without a doubt the greatest battle of his profession so far. And at 42 years of ages, Cohoon understands the huge chance he has ahead of him to possibly establish a huge latter end to his profession.

Regardless of that, however,’ The Boom ‘confessed in an unique interview with Bloody Elbow that he nearly lost out on the chance to action in on brief notification as he missed out on numerous calls from his supervisor who was attempting to inform him about the chance.

“I ‘d simply rose (when I saw the missed out on calls). I had an early night on Wednesday and I awakened on Thursday early morning and saw a number of missed out on calls from (my supervisor) and he messaged me stating ‘Please call me back’, I didn’t sound him back clearly, I got up in the early morning and had a shower and went to work, I had another abort him and he stated, ‘Mate, I’ve got a truly huge deal, please call me’. I lastly sounded him back and he informed me the news and I was like, I almost break into tears, mate, I was psychological, I do not understand why.

“I was dead psychological, I simply believed after all this time, all this blood sweat and tears for many years, it’s come at most likely the worst time, a week’s notification and I’m not shooting on all cylinders,” Cohoon stated.

‘The Boom’ went on to confess that he asked his supervisor to offer him an hour to decide about whether he wished to take the battle on short-notice, before then choosing he would accept the deal.

Cohoon is dissatisfied not to have had a good quantity of time to prepare for a title battle, he is attempting to look at the favorable side of the circumstance, specifying that at least he hasn’t had a gruelling 12-week battle camp.

“Sometimes you get a little niggle or something is troubling you or you require to rest and drop in a physio (throughout a long camp)… Your mind is an effective thing, it can create chaos with you particularly throughout a 12-week camp so, there’s whatever to get and absolutely nothing to lose here so what will be will be,” Cohoon continued.

If Cohoon is to go out of the OVO Hybrid arena in Glasgow as the UK light heavyweight champ, he will require to end up being the very first fighter to beat Weir in BKFC, with the Scottish fighter 3-0 in the promo.