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Mayweather's choice is clear: Canelo

By Diego Morilla | ESPN.com

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With his style, looks and roots, Canelo Alvarez is the best pick for Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s next foe.
The boxing calendar for 2012 is almost full, and recent history has taught us that Floyd Mayweather Jr. rarely fights more than once a year. With a tough fight against Miguel Cotto and a brief jail stint behind him, Mayweather might have accumulated just the right amount of excuses to call it a year and start drumming up interest in a big fight for early 2013.

With that in mind, and with the most logical opponents (Cotto, Sergio Martinez and -- dare we say it? -- Manny Pacquiao) already headed in different directions, Mayweather's choices are now limited. But there is one natural fit. All things considered, given his energy, youth and huge appeal to fans of both sexes, his enormous (and growing) Mexican fan base and an unbeaten record to boot, Saul "Canelo" Alvarez is the obvious choice.

Here are five reasons why Alvarez should be the leading candidate to pull the winning number in the latest Mayweather sweepstakes:

1. A crossroads fight for the ages: A young and feisty undefeated lion versus a crafty, experienced unbeaten fox? The meshing of styles is so apparent that it needs little elaboration. Alvarez, 22, is a freight train of a fighter who has power in both hands and the heart of a warrior, always charging forward with little regard for his safety. Mayweather is the lightning-fast consummate technician with seemingly unlimited resources and the boxing equivalent of Wikipedia downloaded to his brain. It's the old matador-versus-raging bull paradigm, and people have always paid to watch it. You can bet they'll pony up to witness this one.

2. Canelo has muchos amigos: Floyd always echoes the sentiments expressed in Muhammad Ali's famous analysis on the composition of his audience: "I think 100 percent of the people will come to see me," Ali used to say, "but 99 percent of those people will come to see me get beat because they think I talk too much." Whatever the percentages, there's a similar split with regard to Canelo. Most women come to see him win. A lot of guys watch to see him get his butt kicked. But the vast majority of Mexico will be watching, rooting for either cause. In any case, the likelihood of a new PPV record for a Mayweather-Canelo matchup is very high, and when the guy who has the final say on his opponent goes by the nickname "Money," that's a factor in Alvarez's favor.

3. A true fiesta for Cinco de Mayo: May 5 is a national holiday in Mexico and traditionally a blowout weekend for boxing. If you're a fight fan, you can circle that Saturday on your calendar and know you'll get to take in at least one of the year's biggest bouts that night. But at the risk of sounding jingoistic, last year's Mayweather-Cotto matchup -- an American against a Puerto Rican -- was like serving tacos, burritos and tequila at a St. Patrick's Day party. Give the fans what they want, when they want it. Mayweather versus Alvarez on Cinco de Mayo weekend will surely draw one of the biggest TV audiences in boxing history, in no small part due to its timing.

4. The grass is not greener on the other side: A lack of options shouldn't serve as an endorsement for Alvarez, but it's impossible to get around: Mayweather's alternatives really strengthen Canelo's case. The question is, if you don't pick the kid from Jalisco, who do you pick? Martinez is banking on milking whatever is left of the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. business while Junior is still marketable. Pacquiao still has who-knows-how-many-more fights with Marquez, plus a rematch with Timothy Bradley Jr., left to cash in. And Cotto will keep pricing (and maybe weighing) his way out of a Mayweather rematch until no one cares anymore. And with Amir Khan and Victor Ortiz on the rocks (and Roberto Guerrero still green at 147), Canelo is just what the doctor ordered.

5. Great possible card names: "The Young and the Restless" is already taken, but there are plenty of directions this one could be taken. "Sugar and Spice" clicked better for Canelo's bout with Shane Mosley, but it's apt here, too. And the pairing could lead to scores of clever headlines from the always-imaginative press row. "Money Talks, Cinnamon Swirls" could trumpet a Mayweather victory. Not enough reason on its own to put together a multi-million dollar boxing card, but it always helps to have some built-in entertainment value, eh?
 

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Floyd should just retire, I don't think he wants to fight period. Doesn't seem like he's interested! Plus he's getting older. Might as well call it a career while still undefeated.

I don't think he wants to fight Pacquiao because too many people want to see him lose.
 
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Floyd should just retire, I don't think he wants to fight period. Doesn't seem like he's interested! Plus he's getting older. Might as well call it a career while still undefeated.

I don't think he wants to fight Pacquiao because too many people want to see him lose.
I thought mayweather loves proving the haters wrong.

Anyways, I think you're right about mayweather not being interested...right now. Few months from now, 6 months, he'll want to fight again. Did you see those pictures of him and ray j at the strip club from yesterday/today? lmao floyd dropped $50k. I'm not going to post the pics cuz they're trashy/tmz type stuff, but goes to show his mentality right now I think (which is just having fun).

The other thing about getting older is that yes, floyd is older but he has great fundamentals. Let's take Bernard Hopkins & Roy Jones for example. Roy Jones relied on speed, his incredible athletic abilities but he had an unorthodox style and perhaps never really had solid fundamentals. Hopkins on the otherhand while he lacked the amazing athletics of Roy Jones, he had far superior fundamentals, and in the long run that allowed Hopkins to compete till his late 40's whereas Jones, the moment he started losing a bit of his reflexes, speed, etc he was done (by the age of 35).

I kinda look at Floyd & Pacquiao the same way. Floyd is a year or so older than Pac, but Floyd can stay in the game a lot longer than Pac, if he chooses to do so. Pac's biggest assets were his amazing speed, his phenomenal stamina and his explosiveness. We've already seen Pac slipping in all three of these areas. Pac's last 2 or 3 fights, he's tired by the 10th round. And we never ever saw that from pac. He was always a type of guy that seemed like he could go 15 rounds, easy. His explosiveness isn't quite there either and his speed is probably slipping just a tad. Without that, Pac doesn't have the fundamentals to fall back on because he's an unorthodox fighter. Floyd can be slower, but like Bernard or a James Toney he has the fundamentals to fall back on. So Floyd could fight till he's 40 if he wanted to imo.
 
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I gave you measurement already they are the same damn size it's only 1 and 1/2 inches and 3lbs between them. So I have no idea why you're still acting like it's not true.
Yeah clearly floyd & pac are identical in size.


Manny uses weight to gain an advantage and Mayweather doesn't that's the difference.
yeah it's not like floyd never had a catchweight fight in which he purposely came in over weight
 
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Also Cotto looks good at 154. I dont think he is all that blown up actually. Got Em!!
some of that is who he's fought though. Again, the only real Junior Middleweight he's fought is Yuri foreman (kind of a lanky body type).

Other than that Cotto has fought washed up Mayorga, Margarito and Floyd. All three of these guys were welterweights for the majority of their careers.

Now Cotto is fighting a real junior middleweight in Trout. This will be the first time he's fought a true junior middleweight with real skills.



 
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Miguel Cotto vs Sergio Martinez: A Feud Heating Up?

September 28th, 2012

By Johnny Walker

After his thrilling win over Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in which he almost threw away what had been a whitewash win during the seismic final two rounds, newly re-crowned middleweight kingpin Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez seems to have set his sights on a new target: veteran light middleweight contender Miguel Angel Cotto.

Martinez, who showed a previously unknown aggressive side to his personality in the lead-up to the Chavez fight, recently gave an interview in which he said that aside from a rematch with Chavez, he’d also like to fight Miguel Cotto for the simple reason that he finds Cotto “strange” and “does not like him.”

OK then.

Sergio Martinez: Doesn’t like “strange” Cotto (Photo: Chris Farina – Top Rank)

Cotto, as one might expect, has reacted with a typically measured response, but makes clear his disdain for Martinez as well.

“There is a place and time for everything,” Cotto says.

“Sergio been trying for years to make a fight with Miguel Cotto, he is searching desperately trying to obtain what all of us want: money,” says a riled Cotto.

“He needs to sit down — he just fought — and wait for my turn on December 1 to fight (against Austin Trout). If he really wants the fight for 2013, we will sit down with his team after the fight, we will talk to see what Sergio Martínez has to offer and what benefits fighting him brings to my career. If it really benefits my career, we will choose him as an opponent.”

Cotto was equally cool to the notion put forth by Martinez associate Sampson Lewkovicz that “Maravilla” is willing to forgo his part of the purse for a fight with Cotto, so badly does he want to punish the Puerto Rican.

“If we say no to his offer, it is because even with his purse, he does not meet our financial expectations,” Cotto sniffed.

Stay tuned — this one is just getting started.
 
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Yeah clearly floyd & pac are identical in size.




yeah it's not like floyd never had a catchweight fight in which he purposely came in over weight
1) Was his catch weight fight for a world title?

2) Was his catch weight fight against the #2 P4P fighter at the time and after a 18 month lay-off?

3) Did Marquez beat up catch weight Manny at the same catch weight 144lb, that Mayweather give Marquez a boxing lesson at?

4) Did Marquez call out Mayweather for a fight??

Again Manny and Mayweather are the same size so just stop with you bullshit already. You sound dumb as hell 1 and 1/2 inches in height and 3lb in weight difference means that Mayweather should fight Martinez at 160lb or Ward at 168lb and Manny can only fight old men at catch weights and 140lbers. You see how dumb your logic is 1 and 1/2 and 3lbs difference means you are the same size the only difference is Manny is the catch weight king and uses weight as his advantage..
 
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when the hell did I say floyd should fight martinez at 160 or ward? stop acting stupid. floyd is obviously a little bigger but the fight should be at 147 which is my point. if floyd wants to fight at 154 that's on him just don't expect pac to move up yet another weight class when he's tapped out at 147.

btw martinez called out floyd yesterday does that mean floyd had to fight him now? of course not
 
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when the hell did I say floyd should fight martinez at 160 or ward? stop acting stupid. floyd is obviously a little bigger but the fight should be at 147 which is my point. if floyd wants to fight at 154 that's on him just don't expect pac to move up yet another weight class when he's tapped out at 147.

btw martinez called out floyd yesterday does that mean floyd had to fight him now? of course not


Mayweather looks so much bigger then Marquez. lol They look to be the same damn size to me. I never said you said Mayweather should fight Martinez at 160lb or Ward, but your dumb ass logic sure does imply that. For the last time Manny, Marquez, and Mayweather are all the same damn size.
 
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u obviously have no idea what I'm talking about if u think I'm implying floyd should fight martinez or ward. once again thanks for wasting my time. my entire point was that pac has no business at 154, is tapped out at 147 and if floyd vs pac ever happens it should be at 147.

btw notice marquez is wearing shoes floyd isn't and marquez moved up from 135 for that fight.
 
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from today


Martinez has fully ruled out his pursuit of a fight
with Manny Pacquiao "because he is very small."

Regarding Mayweather, Martinez said - "When I
grab you, I will make your bones crack like I did
to Chavez. I promised [Chavez] that I was going
to crack all of his bones and I did. Floyd, get
ready because I'm going to find you in 2013.
Between now and November of 2013, I promise
to find you. He is living in a cloud, but when he
gets my message he is going to fall. With

Pacquiao it is impossible. There is a huge weight
difference, because he is very small and the
maximum that he will weigh before a fight is
143 or 145-pounds and the least amount of
weight that I can give is 154."
 
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I'm a little confused by this since Top Rank doesn't promote Gamboa anymore, unless I guess this means 50 cent/Mayweater? and Arum are working together? hmm.

Bradley fights 12/15 in Miami possibly against Berto, Gamboa on Pac/Marquez undercard

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Timothy Bradley didn't get the opportunity for a lucrative rematch with Manny Pacquiao, but the WBO welterweight champion got a nice consolation prize on Friday.

Timothy Bradley didn't get a big-money rematch with Manny Pacquiao. (AP)
Top Rank's Bob Arum said Bradley will defend his title "against a top-ranked, well-known welterweight" on Dec. 15 at Marlins Park in Miami, Fla., as the main event of an HBO card.
Arum would not divulge Bradley's opponent because he said the opponent has agreed to terms but has yet to sign his contract. Sources told Yahoo! Sports that HBO has checked into former champion Andre Berto's availability and is pushing for the fight.
However, it is no slam dunk Berto will be the opponent. Berto is advised by Al Haymon, and Haymon and Arum rarely work together.
The show will be the first boxing event held at the $515 million baseball stadium. In 1982, Arum promoted Alexis Arguello-Aaron Pryor I, one of the greatest fights in boxing history, in the Orange Bowl. Marlins Park sits on the site of the old Orange Bowl.
Arum said the stadium will be configured to seat between 20,000 and 25,000 fans.
"Miami has been a great boxing town for a long time, and this is an opportunity for us to bring big-time boxing back there," Arum said.

Arum said he will fill the card with fighters who will appeal to the Miami audience. He said WBA super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux, a two-time gold medalist for Cuba, would headline the undercard.
Arum said another Cuban boxing star, Yuriorkis Gamboa, would likely fight on the Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez undercard on Dec. 8 in Las Vegas.
"I don't have space for both of them [Rigondeaux and Gamboa] on Dec. 15, so I'll put one on Dec. 8 and the other on Dec. 15," Arum said.
Bradley defeated Pacquiao on June 9 in Las Vegas via a highly confidential split decision that prompted Arum to call for the Nevada attorney general to investigate.
There was a rematch clause, but it was at Pacquiao's option, and Pacquiao declined it to accept a fourth bout with Marquez. Pacquiao told Yahoo! Sports his reason for doing so was that a fight with Marquez would be more lucrative financially and would be more entertaining stylistically.
That left Bradley without a big fight, but headlining a show in a baseball stadium will be significant.
Top Rank put on a show in 2010 between Miguel Cotto and Yuri Foreman at Yankee Stadium that drew more than 20,000. The ring for that show was in right center field, because the fight came in June and the Yankees were still playing.

Arum said the ring for the card at Marlins Park will be in the infield and will allow for better sight lines.
"The Marlins will help us and will [market the event to] their season ticket holders," Arum said. "We'll keep the prices reasonable. There will be a lot of hoopla around it being the first fight in the new stadium, and we'll have a lot of the Cubans on the card and all the razzamatazz we do, and I'm sure we'll put more than 20,000 in there."
Arum said he'll be able to promote it jointly with the Pacquiao-Marquez fight. Tickets for that show went on sale on Friday and he said the pre-sale already netted 10,000 tickets.
He said the brisk sales for that show will enable him to push the Bradley fight the following week while he has the bully pulpit a Pacquiao fight brings.
 

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some of that is who he's fought though. Again, the only real Junior Middleweight he's fought is Yuri foreman (kind of a lanky body type).

Other than that Cotto has fought washed up Mayorga, Margarito and Floyd. All three of these guys were welterweights for the majority of their careers.

Now Cotto is fighting a real junior middleweight in Trout. This will be the first time he's fought a true junior middleweight with real skills.



I understand and know who he fought, I am just saying I think Cotto is a legit jr. middleweight. Sometimes it takes guys a minute to get to where they truly should be. Broner will eventually be a 147-154 fighter. Chavez Jr. will be at 175 before we know and maybe even a heavyweight hahahah. That dude is big. Im just saying some cats stay at a class to long and make weight but it may not be the best weight for them. Since Cotto has been back after the Marg debacle, & Manny fight he has looked good and has mostly fought at 154 since thats all I am saying. He will serve Trout trust me. Got Em!!

Miguel Cotto vs Sergio Martinez: A Feud Heating Up?

September 28th, 2012

By Johnny Walker

After his thrilling win over Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in which he almost threw away what had been a whitewash win during the seismic final two rounds, newly re-crowned middleweight kingpin Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez seems to have set his sights on a new target: veteran light middleweight contender Miguel Angel Cotto.

Martinez, who showed a previously unknown aggressive side to his personality in the lead-up to the Chavez fight, recently gave an interview in which he said that aside from a rematch with Chavez, he’d also like to fight Miguel Cotto for the simple reason that he finds Cotto “strange” and “does not like him.”

OK then.

Sergio Martinez: Doesn’t like “strange” Cotto (Photo: Chris Farina – Top Rank)

Cotto, as one might expect, has reacted with a typically measured response, but makes clear his disdain for Martinez as well.

“There is a place and time for everything,” Cotto says.

“Sergio been trying for years to make a fight with Miguel Cotto, he is searching desperately trying to obtain what all of us want: money,” says a riled Cotto.

“He needs to sit down — he just fought — and wait for my turn on December 1 to fight (against Austin Trout). If he really wants the fight for 2013, we will sit down with his team after the fight, we will talk to see what Sergio Martínez has to offer and what benefits fighting him brings to my career. If it really benefits my career, we will choose him as an opponent.”

Cotto was equally cool to the notion put forth by Martinez associate Sampson Lewkovicz that “Maravilla” is willing to forgo his part of the purse for a fight with Cotto, so badly does he want to punish the Puerto Rican.

“If we say no to his offer, it is because even with his purse, he does not meet our financial expectations,” Cotto sniffed.

Stay tuned — this one is just getting started.
That would a cool and interesting fight. I think Martinez would win by late ko or close decision though. Got Em!!

Mayweather would beat canelo... i want to see floyd vs martinez @ 154
Wow did u just say Floyd would beat a mexican fighter? Im shocked! Got Em!!

The Ring just confirmed Berto vs K9, so that's not it. Not sure who the hell bradley will fight. He turned downed a fight with Robert Guerrero.
Man I have a feeling K9 is gonna drop Berto if that fight happens. If I was Berto I might take another tuneup fight first due to all that has happened and the long layoff. I would be very interested in seeing it though. K9 hits hard! Got Em!!
 
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u obviously have no idea what I'm talking about if u think I'm implying floyd should fight martinez or ward. once again thanks for wasting my time. my entire point was that pac has no business at 154, is tapped out at 147 and if floyd vs pac ever happens it should be at 147.

btw notice marquez is wearing shoes floyd isn't and marquez moved up from 135 for that fight.





Proved u wrong again now shut up and sit your double talking ass down somewhere.

FYI, you don't know what you're talking about because you keep on making up stuff and double talking. My whole point is to tell you that Mayweather, Manny, and Marquez are the same damn size.
 
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Don King wins rights with $1.1M offer
Updated: September 30, 2012, 11:45 PM ET
By Dan Rafael | ESPN.com

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Promoter Don King won a purse bid for the right to promote the heavyweight title elimination bout between Cristobal Arreola and Bermane Stiverne, offering a whopping $1.1 million to beat three other bids.

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The WBC purse bid was conducted Saturday at the Bellagio in Las Vegas during another function the organization was putting on.

The winner of the bout, which is due to take place by the end of December, will become the mandatory challenger for titleholder Vitali Klitschko. Klitschko, however, is running for a seat in parliament in his native Ukraine and there has been heavy speculation that he will retire if he wins the Oct. 28 election. If the 41-year-old Klitschko does retire, Arreola-Stiverne likely would be for the vacant belt.

King, Stiverne's promoter, blew away the other bidders. Dan Goossen, Arreola's promoter, offered $550,000; Golden Boy Promotions, which had designs on adding the fight to its Nov. 10 card at the Staples Center in Los Angeles to help beef up ticket sales because Arreola is a Mexican-American from Southern California with a good following, bid $512,000; and WealthTV, an upstart network that has recently gotten involved in boxing, offered $132,000.

According to Goossen, Arreola is entitled to 55 percent of the bid ($605,000) with Stiverne's share the remaining 45 percent ($495,000).

"King has 10 days to give us a location and date of the fight," Goossen said Sunday. "Whenever and wherever the fight is, Cris has his mind set on winning this fight and he has his mind set on becoming heavyweight champion of the world, no matter who he has to go against. He's in great shape and he's been training. That is music to my ears."

Arreola has not always come into his fights in top condition, but Goossen said he is motivated for the bout with Stiverne.

"I've always felt if Cris is tip-top shape, be it against Bermane Stiverne or anyone else, he will overcome them. He's so adamant that he will be in great shape for this fight and it showed when I saw him in Las Vegas (three weeks ago). He is really committed to win this fight and go on to win the heavyweight championship of the world."

Arreola (35-2, 30 KOs), 31, of Riverside, Calif., has had one shot at a heavyweight title. He challenged Klitschko in September 2009 at the Staples Center and was stopped in the 10th round when his corner threw in the towel of a one-sided fight. Two bouts later, Arreola dropped a majority decision to Tomasz Adamek in a mild upset but he has won seven fights in a row since to work himself back into position to fight the eliminator.

Stiverne (22-1-1, 20 KOs), 33, of Canada and now living in Las Vegas, is known for having a big punch but he has a limited resume. His most notable victory was a 10th-round knockout of former world title challenger Ray Austin on an HBO card in June 2011. In his lone loss, Stiverne was knocked out in the fourth round by Demetrice King in 2007.

"Stiverne is a big puncher, but Cris has been in with big punchers, none better than Vitali Klitschko and he took everything," Goossen said. "When you're in great shape and can throw the combinations Cris can throw, there will be very few opponents who can handle it."

Stiverne is coming off a tune-up eight-round decision win against journeyman Willie Herring in April.

Arreola has not fought since a first-round knockout of Eric Molina in February. Arreola was supposed to fight in June, but withdrew from the bout because of an elbow problem.

"He's been training and he's fine," Goossen said. "He's good now. He said he's 100 percent."

King is looking for a television partner to help him bankroll the fight. Should he be unable to come up with a TV deal and defaults on the purse bid, Goossen's second-place bid would come into play.

"If for any reason Don has any problems moving forward we will step in," he said. "Either way, this is a good fight for boxing, two powerful heavyweights fighting with a lot on the line."
 
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Delta Airline Discriminate Against Ghana Legend Azumah Nelson

Date: 28-Sep-2012

Ghana boxing legend Azumah Nelson suffered an embarrassing humiliation at the Kotoko International Airport on Thursday night when he was reprehensibly refused entry to board a Delta Airline flight to the United States.

The iconic Ghanaian figure was travelling to the States to attend an important gathering of ex-WBC Super featherweight greats for a big charity event scheduled for Saturday September 29 in Las Vegas.

Azumah is reported to have been involved in a minor accident enroute to the airport due to the heavy downpour but managed to arrive at the airport for check-in at 8:20pm.

But the duty manager at the airlines, Vicky Von Williams who insisted the legend and his spokesperson were ten minutes late, prevented them from boarding the flight claiming their time for check-in had closed.

Eyewitnesses say Azumah and his spokesperson were shabbily treated by madam Williams but she shockingly allowed some expatriates who had arrived much later to check-in and boarded the same flight which was due for airborne at 10:10pm.

The discriminating posture from the duty manager is reported to have angered some personnel at the airport who were obviously surprised at the way the Ghanaian legend was being treated.

Questions are being asked if airlines do not have graced periods for check-in and whether there are no provisions for emergency cases.

The latest incident has re-ignited talks of the poor business-customer relation that has rocked some of the airline companies operating in the country.

Many of such companies that operate in the Aviation industry have been accused of taken passengers for a ‘ride ‘and making the business environment hostile and the ‘undignified’ manner in which one of the country’s finest was treated is just one of such episodes that occur on daily basis.

The three-time world champion is expected to join other boxing greats including Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard, Lennox Lewis, Jeff Fenech, Larry Holmes, Ken Norton, Tommy Hearns, Roberto Duran, Julio Cesar Chavez, Oscar De La Hoya and George Foreman for the ground-breaking fund-raising event in Las Vegas on Saturday.

WBC and world renowned Swiss luxury watchmaker Hublot are organizing this legendary night at the prestigious opulent Bellagio Hotel. This spectacular, star-studded event is aimed to celebrate and support the inauguration of the WBC Pension Fund.

This one-time event will unite 12 of the greatest boxing legends, not to fight in the ring, but to battle for the needs of their constituents.

Twelve elegant and highly coveted unique watches, each of which commemorates the world’s 12 greatest boxers to grace the ring will be auctioned by Bonhams for WBC Pension Fund that evening.

The 12 winning bidders will receive their watch from the fighter himself on a staged ring set surrounded by more than 300 guests. All proceeds from the sale of each watch will support WBC’s charitable initiative, which includes a retired boxer’s pension and emergency fund in more than 40 countries around the world.

Source: Patrick Akoto/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
 
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Orlando Salido suffers broken finger
Updated: September 28, 2012, 1:56 PM ET

By Dan Rafael | ESPN.com

Featherweight titlist Orlando Salido broke his right index finger when his hand was accidentally slammed in a car door, forcing him on Friday to postpone his upcoming defense against Miguel Angel "Mikey" Garcia.

Salido and Garcia were due to meet Nov. 10 at the Wynn Las Vegas in the main event of an HBO "Boxing After Dark" card.

Sean Gibbons, Salido's manager, told ESPN.com that he was leaving the gym on Wednesday night when he suffered the injury.

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"The worst part of this is that it was not even a boxing-related injury," Gibbons said. "It's just bad luck. One of his guys shut the door on his hand by accident. Just a freak accident.

"We've never had an injury and had to pull out of a fight before. Salido is one of the healthiest guys you'll meet. He's always in condition. He doesn't ever get too far out of shape but these things happen."

Gibbons said that Salido would be ready to fight again in early January.

"This guy was making a very high six-figure payday for this fight," Gibbons said. "Even though he was making a good purse, he's got too much pride and heart just to go through with it and not be 100 percent. He isn't just fighting for the payday. He wants it to heal properly so he can train properly so he can win the fight. Some guys would jump at the payday even if they were injured, just because of the money. But Salido has a lot of pride. He doesn't want to just fight. He wants to win."

Gibbons said Salido would continue to train by running and working on his left hand, and just won't use his right hand until the finger is healed.

"He'll be ready to go any time in January," Gibbons said.

Carl Moretti of Top Rank, which co-promotes Salido with Zanfer Promotions, said he was talking with HBO about possible replacement opponents to face Garcia. If they can't find one, Moretti said they would make an entirely new fight because Top Rank and HBO still plan to go through with the card.

"HBO's intention is to go forward with the card," he said. "I'm talking to them. Everybody is in mind to fight Mikey. It depends on who is available and who we can get."

The co-feature remains intact, a junior middleweight title elimination bout between 2004 U.S. Olympian Vanes Martirosyan (32-0, 20 KOs) against Erislandy Lara (17-1-1, 11 KOs) for the right to become the mandatory challenger for titleholder Saul "Canelo" Alvarez.

Salido (39-11-2, 27 KOs), 31, of Mexico, was due to make the third defense of his 126-pound title. Garcia (29-0, 25 KOs), 24, of Oxnard, Calif., has been waiting patiently for his first title opportunity.