Boxing News Thread

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Chavez Jr. vs. Manfredo Jr. to take place at the Reliant Arena in Houston

By Jason Kim: World Boxing Council (WBC) middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (43-0-1, 30 KO’s) will be making his first title defense of his newly won title against Peter Manfredo Jr. (37-6, 20 KO’s) on November 19th at the the Reliant Arena in Houston, Texas.

The venue was just named and it’s likely that Chavez’s promoter Bob Arum is hoping to get a large Mexican crowd that shows up to see Chavez Jr., the son of the famous Julio Cesar Chavez, fight. Manfredo, ranked #5 by the WBC, is a decent opponent but hardly deserving of the #5 ranking by the World Boxing Council.

It’s difficult to imagine that Mandredo, a fighter that lost to Jeff Lacy, should be ranked above guys like Andy Lee. But it is very convenient for Chavez Jr. that the WBC has Manfredo ranked so high, because this at least makes it easier for Chavez Jr. to be able to fight Manfredo without taking a lot of criticism for taking a soft opponent.

But it probably wouldn’t have stopped Chavez Jr. from being matched against Manfredo Jr. by his promoters no matter what Manfredo’s ranking. They obviously weren’t looking for a tough opponent in Chavez’s first defense of his title and you can’t blame them when you look at Chavez’s recent fights against Billy Lyell and Sebastian Zbik.

Chavez Jr. looked awful, just awful. He barewly beat Zbik, but took an enormous amount of punishment against a guy that Chavez Jr. outweighed by a signficant margin after rehydrating up to 180 lbs after the weigh-in.

Chavez should win this fight but it won’t be easy because he’s really not particularly talented. But the real question is how long before Chavez Jr. is forced to fight someone good? There’s a number of top fighters that want to face him like Sergio Martinez and Marco Antonio Rubio, but have had no luck in getting him in the ring.

 

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chavez is a joke!

in regards to the hopkins-dawson article, he's right Dawson does have the style to beat a nearly 47 year old hopkins. But that's if he stays focused every round for 12 full rounds. Dawson has a habit of going to sleep, he has mental lapses. Best believe hopkins will do whatever it takes to exploit those mental mistakes of his!

 

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Glen Johnson Speaks

http://youtu.be/5UWuRFXwiyE

 

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haha damn check out this KO

Go to 2:20 (then go to 3:20 for the slow mo replay)

 

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dude looked like he was sitting on a stool.lol...

 

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chavez is a joke!

in regards to the hopkins-dawson article, he's right Dawson does have the style to beat a nearly 47 year old hopkins. But that's if he stays focused every round for 12 full rounds. Dawson has a habit of going to sleep, he has mental lapses. Best believe hopkins will do whatever it takes to exploit those mental mistakes of his!

And if Dawson fights tall and uses his reach and footwork and throws as many punches as he says he wants to, I feel like he almost can't lost if he sticks to that gameplan. But yes, he frequently looks bored in there and looks like he forgets what he's supposed to be doing or something.

 

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Clottey vs Green in Play For Chavez-Manfredo Undercard

By Ryan Burton

BoxingScene.com has been advised that former welterweight champion Joshua Clottey (35-4) is looking to return to the ring on the non-televised undercard to the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr versus Peter Manfredo middleweight clash on November 19th. The fight takes place in Houston, TX and the main event will be broadcast by HBO.

Clottey, who is moving up to 154 pounds, will most likely face Calvin Green (21-6-1) whom he was going to face in March on the Miguel Cotto-Ricardo Mayorga under card before pulling out of the fight with an injury.

The fight is close to completion but has not been signed off by both fighters yet.

 

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lol Martinez clowning Chavez!

"We don't expect this fight to happen [Martinez vs Chavez]"

If the fight doesn't happen, there won't be any hard feelings from Martinez.

"I will be ringside in Houston [for Chavez vs Manfredo]. If he wins, I will enter the ring and he can hand me his belt. We'll shake hands and then he can walk away like a man. But, if he doesn't hand it over, then we're going to have a date in early 2012 to settle things in the ring. A true champion follows the mandates of the sanctioning body and faces his mandatories. If he doesn't want to face his mandatories, he should give up the title," Martinez said.

 

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yo naner if your reading this check your PM.

Also I was wondering if you (or anyone else) knows where I can download/watch the amateur fights AIBA that have been going down the past few days.

I hear good things about that UK super heavyweight kid, 21 years old 6'6" and in shape. I read he beat Roberto Cammarelle yesterday and had him pretty hurt in a couple of the rounds. Nice to finally see a promising big heavyweight who isn't a fatass.

Also, I read about a lot of controversial fights, as well as some shocking upsets like Vasyl Lomachenko losing for example. Looking forward to seeing some of these fights if possible

 

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War on Boxing - A Story of Deception !



Great video!

 

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Thomas “The Hitman” Hearns: His Five Best Ring Performances

By James Slater: As fight fans have read, the great Thomas Hearns is one of the 45 listed names eligible to be voted in for The Hall of Fame next year. Sure to get voted into the prestigious Hall in Canastota at the first time of asking, “The Hitman” probably achieved two or three times as is needed to go in amongst his fellow boxing immortals.

Arguably the most exciting prize fighter on the planet from the late 1970s right up until the early 1990s, Hearns captured titles all the way from welterweight to light-heavyweight (with a number of lesser belts also won as high as cruiserweight!). Hearns, who quit the ring with a fine 61-5-1(48) record in 2006, fought a who’s who in each of the five divisions he conquered.

Hearns may have lost the two biggest fights of his career - against Sugar Ray Leonard in 1981 and Vs. Marvellous Marvin Hagler in ’85 - but his fearsome ring talents saw to it that a number of greats fell at his feet.

Here, by way of a tribute to the man who will be giving an acceptance speech at Canastota next June, I list my choices for Tommy’s five best-ever ring performances.

In reverse order, here is the very best of “The Hitman!”

5: WU12 Virgil Hill, June 1991 Las Vegas.

A considerable underdog going in against the former Olympian and current, unbeaten WBA light-heavyweight ruler, a 32-year-old Hearns rolled back the years in adopting his superb, often underrated boxing skills. More “Motor City Cobra” than “Hitman” on this night, Tommy out-jabbed, outboxed and out-punched a pure boxer in the 27-year-old known as “Quicksilver.”

Winning by a close but unanimous verdict - 116-112, 115-113 twice - Hearns put the first loss on Hill’s previously 30-0 record. Hearns also added yet another trophy to his enormous collection. It would be six years before Hill lost again.

4: Draw12 Sugar Ray Leonard, June 1989 Las Vegas.

Thought to be a “shot” fighter going into the rematch that had taken almost eight long years to come to fruition, Hearns once again shocked the experts as well as his opponent. Boxing and slugging against the biggest, most important rival of his entire pro career, a 30-year-old Hearns scored two knockdowns over Leonard, as well as out-punching him and hurting him on a number of occasions.

Having waited so long to get a chance to avenge his first pro loss, Tommy put everything he had into the fight tagged “The War.” Holding a desperate Leonard off in the 12th and final round as “Sugar” went for the finish he knew he needed if he was going to win, Hearns grinned as the man who had previously stopped him unloaded everything he had to no avail. The draw turned in by the judges fooled no-one: Hearns had, as he put it himself, “removed the monkey from my back.”

3: KO4 Juan Domingo Roldan, October 1987 Las Vegas.

Fighting for a unique place in boxing history eleven days after celebrating his 29th birthday, Hearns became the first man in his sport to have won world titles at four different weights. In a great slugfest of a fight that took place two days before Halloween, Hearns almost ended Roldan’s challenge in the opening round, as his famous right hand scored two hurtful knockdowns. Tommy would have to fight a little harder to claim the vacant WBC middleweight crown, however. The Argentine bull was sent down courtesy of a left hand in the next stanza, only to survive again.

Roldan then shook Tommy in the 4th, the Detroit legend’s often shaky chin casing his legs to wobble briefly. Hearns held as the crisis passed, and then finished his man off in style later in the session. Another crushing right hand did the job; leaving Roldan flat on his face for the ten-count.

2: TKO2 Pipino Cuevas, August 1980 Detroit.

Fighting for the first time for a world title, a 21-year-old Hearns utterly annihilated a man who had won his last 12 fights, all but one by KO. The fearsome Mexican was known for his withering power, and many expected the defending WBA welterweight champ to retain his belt for an eleventh time. Instead, fans witnessed the arrival of a new superstar who could hit even harder than Cuevas.

A smashing right hand sent Cuevas reeling and to the canvas in the 2nd, and his corner-man wasted no time in diving in to save his beaten fighter. Some say this KO (or TKO) was the best Tommy ever scored as a welterweight.

1: TKO2 Roberto Duran, June 1984 Las Vegas.

The performance that saw the peak, the quintessential “Hitman” doing serious damage to a fellow all-time great!

Duran, sporting an incredible record of 77-5, had never been knocked out before - in a pro career that dated all the way back to 1967. In his previous bout, “Hands of Stone” had lost a close 15-round decision to middleweight king Marvin Hagler. Now dropping down in an effort to win Tommy’s WBC light-middleweight crown, Duran suffered the hiding of his life.

Twice in the very 1st-round Hearns dropped the legendary Panamanian. Also cut in his first painful three minutes in the ring with the 26-year-old, Duran was soon to be put out of his misery. Desperately trying to fight back as he was forced into the ropes and under real fire in the 2nd, Duran was then hit flush with THE right hand bomb of Tommy’s star-studded career. Out before he hit the mat, Duran was left face-first on the canvas.

Hearns, then 39-1, had reached the very pinnacle of his four-decade career!

 

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Brandon Rios: I’ll destroy Murray early, then I want Gamboa and Maidana

By Scott Gilfoid: It’s looking like Britain’s John Murray (31-1, 18 KO’s) will be the next sacrificial lamb for WBA lightweight champion Brandon Rios (28-0-1, 21 KO’s) to destroy on December 3rd on the undercard of the Miguel Cotto – Antonio Margarito II rematch at the New York’s Madison Square Garden.

Murray was knocked out in his last fight against Kevin Mitchell last July, which makes Murray a pretty horrible choice to be challenging for a title.

Rios said this to Ringtv about Murray: “I’m going to knock Murray out. I’m going to knock him out early…After that, we should shoot for [Yuriorkis] Gamboa maybe in January or February or as soon as possible. After we fight Gamboa, I want to go to 140 and I want to fight Marcos Maidana.”

That sounds like a nice pipe dream for Rios. None of those fights are going to happen other than the Murray bout. Bob Arum, the promoter for Rios and Gamboa, isn’t about to serve Gamboa, one of his future gravy train fighters, to a slugger like Rios. It’s not going to happen next year, the year after or the year after that. Arum won’t want Gamboa beaten and he likely would against the much bigger Rios. As for Rios fighting Maidana, that’s not happening either. Maidana fights for Golden Boy Promotions, and they won’t likely go for a Maidana-Rios fight even though it’s a fight that Maidana would have an excellent chance of winning because of his bigger frame and bigger power. Rios would be crazy to take that fight. He’s not big enough and really is more suited for the lightweight division.

Murray will be slaughtered if he takes the fight with Rios. He’s slow, hittable and coming into this fight having been whipped by Mitchell. Murray absorbed a ton of punishment in that fight and you usually don’t want to take a fighter coming off a beating like that and put him in against an even better fighter like Rios. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to watch the fight for kicks, but it won’t be much of a fight. But, yeah, I want to see this fight.

 

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At least he's focusing on his rap career

206, hating on Broner still I see. Put Broner in against Gamboa and let's see if it would be the blow out you think. I bet no Top Rank fighter will fight him. People with actual boxing skills have a harder time getting the fame in boxing just ask Mayweather and B-Hop. Boxing fans nowadays seems to only like the throw a lot of punches with no defense type of fighters. I like fighters that actually know how to box, hit and don't get hit back. It seems like the Boxing media and some fans are trying to run off all the skilled boxers and replace them with the no defense brawlers.

 

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I've made it crystal clear I don't like broner, I don't try to hide that. He's a fruity ass punk. He does have some skills though fasho, but at the same time I see a lot of people overrating him already calling him the next mayweather and I find that hilarious being that he barely scraped by ponce. My money would be on Gamboa. By KO. And you're right, I doubt Top Rank (or DiBella) would put anyone in there right now because he's a noboday in the game as of now. If broner gets a couple more good wins and people take notice, then there is a demand. It's that simple.

 

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sweet..

Angulo vs Kirkland Winner in Line To Face Saul Alvarez

By Miguel Rivera

According to junior middleweight Alfredo "Perro" Angulo, the scheduled clash with James Kirkland (29-1, 26KOs) is going to be a WBC final eliminator. The winner will be in line to challenge champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez. The fight happens on November 5th in Cancun, Mexico, and co-promoted by Pepe Gomez, Golden Boy Promotions and Cancún Boxing. Angulo is training with Nacho Beristain.

"For my last fight, we worked for two weeks with Don Nacho and we worked together very well. For this fight, I decided to come early in order to get more time to work with him," Angulo (20-1, 17KOs) said. "The WBC ordered an eliminator between Vanes [Martirosyan] and myself, but he refused and [the WBC] told me that the mandatory fight will move forward. If everything goes well, we are going to be ranked number one in the world, and then we'll search for the world title. I have no interest in any fighter in particular, I am ready for any worthy champion."

Angulo sparred for four rounds with Gilberto "Flaco" González and now he's waiting for a paid of left handed fighters to arrive this week.

 

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Arum doesn’t care about criticism for picking 40-year-old Casmayor to fight Bradley

By Dan Ambrose: Since it was announced the scheduled November 12th fight between WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11 KO’s) and 40-year-old former two division world champion Joel Casamayor (38-5-1, 22 KO’s) has been criticized by many boxing fans who are badly disappointed that such an old and struggling fighter like Casamayor would be picked to challenge for a title against the champion Bradley.

To be sure, it’s not everyday that you see a fighter that’s lost two out of their last four fights being picked to fight a champion. However, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum wanted this fight for his newly signed fighter Bradley, and that’s how it’s going to be.

Arum said this to ESPN: “Who cares what they [the fans] say. We thought it was a good fight for Tim given the layoff. We went to [Richard] Schaefer to see if we could get [Marcos] Maidana and [Schaefer] wasn’t interested.”

The problem with choosing the 40-year-old Casamayor to fight Bradley is that Casamayor isn’t even ranked in the top 15 anywhere. He’s a 2nd tier fighter at this stage in his career and champions usually fight 1st tier fighters, even when taking optional title defenses. They’ll pick from the very bottom of the 1st tier, but at least it’s technically a 1st tier fighter. But in Casamayor’s case, he’s no longer ranked in the top 15, and basically this is mismatch.

It’s true that Bradley hasn’t fought for a while since beating Devon Alexander last January. However, he’s fighting on a pay per view card, and that should mean that he’s matched up against a quality fighter in the top 15 given that boxing fans are paying in part to see him fight. Arum may not care what boxing fans think, but he really should. After all, if he’s trying to make a star out of Bradley then how is it a good thing that he’s matching him up against a 40-year-old fighter?

 

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Mayweather, Pacquiao & PEDS: The Truth

By Glenn Findlay: “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie; deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth…persistent, persuasive and unrealistic” – JFK on wikiquote.com. Hence, Floyd s clear assumption and forward-outspoken belief that if you prosper and persistently re-iterate a lie enough times; a myth will spread, govern the naive and fool the gullible of the boxing world, who many now deem this mythical propaganda as accepted wisdom without any factual evidence.

Of greater magnitude is the encountering of unambiguous evidence that the PED allegations are nothing but an impediment to curb the signing of contracts. Floyd (obviously) has to grasp that he transported up just as much in weight as Manny over the years; (it is unfeasible for him not to…absolutely impossible even), therefore common sense acquaints that he himself doesn’t truly believe this irrational line of reasoning he is spewing out to the urban boxing public. Instead, his motivational purpose and sole driving intention is to administer a public deception in a contrived self-perjury attempt to legitimize the random testing demands. To legitimize the demand, you legitimize the ducking of the fight. Hark back to “I’m gonna fight the Pacman. I’m gonna fight the Pacman when he is off the power pellets,” – abscbn news.com Jan 25th 2011. Just four months later; on May 13th 2011, after Pacquiao had injected intrepid fear into Mosley and was contractually unbound; Floyd pronounced…“Not once did I say Manny was taking something. Then we tell them we got to take the [drugs] tests, and suddenly, he’s suing us.” – espn.co.uk.

I advocate and plead with all the boxing astuteness to probe “I have nothing against Manny Pacquiao” (another vast contradiction following Floyd’s bizarre, spontaneous, vile racist tirade against Manny) on You-tube at precisely 03.35 minutes in which Floyd openly proclaims he actually endorsed autographs on a contract to engage in battle with Manny. Uttering that it was actually Manny who rebuffed his segment to pen the multimillion dollar bargain. What Floyd doesn’t grasp is body language over-rides the deceiving psychological mind-state, whereby slanderous defamation’s, untruths and sheer down-right lies are exposed through automatic reactions that most people do not recognize they are even conscious of. Any clinical psychologist will enlighten and uphold this statement. When lies are administrated from the oral cavity; i.e, the mouth, then the hand is drawn to the nose in an automated response. This is unerringly what Floyd administers in the precise moment on 03.45 minutes, he declares himself as allegedly depositing pen to paper, authorizing his side of the bargain. The thumb and finger tweak the bottom of the nose. Confirmation is then re-enforced when Floyd verbalizes Manny refused to sign his part of the contract; as hand to nose is once again inter-twined on 3.55 minutes. Ask yourself; why would you lie about signing contracts if you really desired to fight? Factual psychological proof.

Then we all concurred “Manny Pacquiao; yes…you’re next” – Floyd at pre-Ortiz fight press conference on abscbnnews.com. Floyds militia of soldiers and enthusiasts posted this “quote” on this reputable website over and abundance, as substantial corroboration that Floyds alleged “ducking” of Manny had been misinterpreted and that Manny was about to be dissected in the inner recesses of the ring. What could be more apparent and perceptible than tangible video footage verification of Floyd’s oral swagger on a golden podium of pre-battle king-royalty? “Manny Pacquiao?…yes you’re next”. Crystal clear of Floyd’s intentions.

Less than two weeks later though; we then heed…”I never said [Pacquiao would be next], I never said that at all. So please, don’t put words in my mouth” – ESPN.com. This mind-boggling contradiction substantiates comprehensively the thought-plan suggestion of clashing with Manny in skirmishing conflict is the furthermost, contemplation from his own psyche. What the majority gifted intellectuals entitle in simple terms; “ducking”. “When I get up on the podium and say ‘Yeah, Pacquiao, you next’ if that’s all you want to hear, that’s all I’ve got to give you. That’s what you all want to hear anyway.” – Opoosingviews.com. Floyd incredulously discloses to the boxing world that he doesn’t impart his fan-base following with bonafide authentic truths…but what they yearn to hear. This is a truly a startling and mind-blowing confession. Essentially, he will be economical with the truth based on what his fans wish in their deluded dreams to hear. Commit to memory that these expressions of terminology are not my subjective opinion but from the guy himself. Cemented, quoted and archived. No argument, opinion or dispute over it. Pure facts held up in the brutal light of truth for all to pass judgement over. By no means, never overlook that when Floyd Mayweather Jnr has been given the benefit of the doubt numerous times before…these are his contemporary words from his contemporary mouth.

Fashionable contradictions though seem to seep through the Mayweather bloodstream; “This guy Victor Ortiz has better talent than Pacquiao….Pacquiao ain’t got no skills, period” – Centralsportsnews.com, yet in the same interview he contradicts this with “…well, I wouldn’t think he (Floyd) would fight Pacquiao right after fighting Ortiz. I mean it would be crazy for Floyd to go in the ring with Pacquiao after fighting Victor Ortiz. Floyd needs fights. He needs to be active…”- Centralsportsnews.com. So Floyds trainer and uncle; Roger Mayweather proclaims that after sixteen months retirement, Floyd is geared up and equipped enough to tussle with one-dimensional Ortiz. That ludicrously, Ortiz has (laughable) superior skills than the “P4P King & all-time great” that is Manny Pacquiao but cannot endorse him raring to go against Manny thereafter; as Floyd’s prerequisite is he requires even more fights? This, when Floyd seems more keen on retreating retirements than frequent skirmishing hostilities inside the battleground of leathered-flying fists over the last few years. It is nonsensical “smokescreen” comments like this that the Mayweathers fall short and fail to grasp exposes their nervous apprehension of confronting Pacquiao, whilst simultaneously hurling their credibility to the endless bottom pit of zero in any comment they future spill out to the public.

In a court of law; no qualified defence lawyer would ever call Floyd Mayweather as a credible witness; the prosecution lawyer would tear him to strips and his allegations would be heralded in the sheer contempt they originated from and fully deserve. He once again alleges Manny is on PEDS…I claim he is “ducking” the “P4P King” of the boxing world. He has no evidential proof to substantiate his claims…I have evidently presented my case with facts from his own mouth, arriving to the same, identical inference as ESPN’s Dan Rafael. “Floyd just spent 10 mins basically making excuses why he’s not fighting Pacquiao. I’m gonna hurl” – Dan Rafael on Twitter espn.com, after post-Ortiz press conference. The sport of Gods tears strips to the soul of our boxing warriors inside the ring; where there is no place to hide. This is why as mortal humans; we rightly herald them as immortal Gods. I hereby proclaim to demand that of Floyd Mayweather Jnr outside the ring to arrive at the truth, the whole truth…..and nothing but the truth. Our generation deserves and demands our generational super-fight.

 

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Arum: Bradley vs. Pacquiao is a fight we’d like to make

By Jason Kim: Bob Arum of Top Rank Promotions signed WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11 KO’s) with the objective of making him a huge star and possibly matching him up against Arum’s biggest star WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao.

Bradley is about as far away from being a huge star right now as Lamont Peterson is. Bradley, for some reason, has failed to catch on with boxing fans. It could be his lack power, lack of size or his tendency to come charging in head first during his fights resulting in a lot of headbutts.

Arum said this to the washingtonpost.com: “We didn’t sign Tim based on baloney, based on false promises. If the stars are aligned, that’s [Pacquiao vs. Bradley] the fight we’d be inclined to make.”

Bradley thinks Top Rank can make him a big star even without a fight against Pacquiao, but that’s a little to believe. There’s really not a lot of big named fighters around the welterweight division with Top Rank other than Pacquiao. They do have unbeaten welterweight contender Mike Jones, but he’s a complete unknown among casual boxing fans and it’s unclear whether Jones has the talent to ever be a big star even if he wins a title or two.

Something appears to be missing from his game that may keep him from becoming a big star in the sport. But like Bradley, Jones could get a fight against Pacquiao as well by Arum. Being matched against Pacquiao doesn’t make a fighter an automatic star as we’ve found out with recent Pacquiao victims Joshua Clottey and Antonio Margarito. It only makes you a victim unless you beat Pacquiao, and no ones done that for a long, long time.

 

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Khan now denies Mayweather agreed to fight him

By John F. McKenna (McJack): WBA/IBF light welterweight champion Amir Khan (26-1, 18 KO’s) is now having to backtrack on comments attributed to him earlier this week in which he said that WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) had agreed to fight him.

“King” Khan will be defending his championship belts on December 10 in Washington, DC against Lamont Peterson (29-1-1, 15 KO’s). At a press conference in DC yesterday to hype the Peterson fight Amir confirmed to reporters that Mayweather had not agreed to fight him as was previously reported.

Amir in fact denied making the comments in the first place and indicated to reporters at the press conference that a fight with Mayweather lies sometime in the future.

Khan’s upcoming fight with Peterson will be his last fight at light welterweight. Amir still 24 years old is still growing physically and finding it difficult to get down to the light welterweight limit. He has expressed the desire for several months now to move up to the welterweight division, have one or two fights at that weight and then challenge the undefeated Mayweather.

Khan has recently shown flashes of the very arrogance he accuses Mayweather of. In one instance he expressed the fear that Floyd will duck him as he has ducked his stable mate Manny Pacquiao. That arrogance will serve Khan in good stead if and when he ever faces Mayweather in the ring.

It is unlikely that Amir will ever be intimidated by Floyd as Victor Ortiz apparently was prior to his fight with Mayweather. It is hard to fathom Khan just standing there as Ortiz did when Mayweahter put his hands around his throat as if to choke him. It is thought by many that Victor’s mental breakdown began right there before the fight ever started. From that point on, Floyd owned Ortiz.

A certain amount of arrogance is almost a prerequisite to being a good fighter. Khan passes that test with flying colors. Khan acknowledges that for the time being he will need to focus entirely on his next opponent, Lamont Peterson. He recently stated that if he loses to Peterson, any chance of fighting Mayweather would be gone.

It is clear at this point that Amir Khan, if he defeats Lamont Peterson, will apply the full court press in an effort to get Mayweather into the ring with him. He wants to be the one to take away Floyd’s “O” and he believes to the core of his being that Mayweather is afraid to fight Manny Pacquiao

 

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