The RedCafe Boxing Thread

I didnt realise I look big for my weight until recently. thats why i was sparring light heavy and heavy weights.
i did my shoulder on tuesday and im trying desperately to get back in order for friday or next tuesday latest as im meant to be stepping up my training in prep for a fight
 
CLK_FPC said:
I didnt realise I look big for my weight until recently. thats why i was sparring light heavy and heavy weights.
i did my shoulder on tuesday and im trying desperately to get back in order for friday or next tuesday latest as im meant to be stepping up my training in prep for a fight
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What's your record if you don't mind me asking? Any aspirations to turn pro eventually?
 
i have been on off since 18 something always happened just before I was about to fight so I never got round to fighting. I decided to take it serious last december then had to stop for my exams so i joined a gym in my area in September and have been doing it properly since, training 3 times a week sparring with properly experienced fighters, road work etc my first official fight should be in a month or two if my shoulder gets better
 
What sort of style you got CLK, you a boxer or a fighter? Decent power?
 
CLK_FPC said:
i have been on off since 18 something always happened just before I was about to fight so I never got round to fighting. I decided to take it serious last december then had to stop for my exams so i joined a gym in my area in September and have been doing it properly since, training 3 times a week sparring with properly experienced fighters, road work etc my first official fight should be in a month or two if my shoulder gets better
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Fair play. Good luck with the training and let us know when you're fighting.
 
Im a fighter but i should box, I got a good jab and should use it to keep people back but i prefer to get in and mix it up. I can take a punch only been rocked once but unlike Hearns I learnt how to clinch from early. I really really need to work on my defence because, God forbid, my style will leave me punch drunk later in life.
 
Miguel Cotto is training hard in the hot lights of his camp in Puerto Rico, preparing for his February 21 ring return against Michael Jennings. The fight will top a card at New York's Madison Square Garden, and Top Rank pay-per-view will televise the split-feed event that has Kelly Pavlik defending his middleweight titles against Marco Antonio Rubio in Ohio. Cotto-Jennings will have the vacant WBO welterweight title on the line.

Cotto has been away from the ring since a July 07 knockout loss to Antonio Margarito. The first loss of Cotto's career was tough and he took a lot of time off to allow his mind and body to recover.

Reports from Cotto's camp indicate that he showed up, at the start of camp, heavier than usual, and he is currently heavier than usual at this point of the training process. Phil Landman, a fitness expert from Los Angeles, has been a key member of Team Cotto and says the weight is taking a little longer to come off this time around but he doesn't see any issues with making the weight limit of 147-pounds.

Landman says that Cotto's right shoulder, which was badly damaged in a 2001 car accident, has bothered him a bit and caused causes pain in the lower part of the fighter's bicep. The discomfort has been brought under control with physical therapy.

We had to make some changes due to the minor injuries that Miguel has suffered. We made the necessary adjustments, especially in his physical program. These are things the occur normally for any athlete, but yes it has been a challenge and Miguel will be well prepared," Landman told Primera Hora .

"In the past, Miguel has a little bit of rest between fights and when he came back to the gym, there was a already a good base to begin our work. This time it was different because he came from five or six months of pure rest. Miguel came to camp a little heavier than normal and the injuries made us avoid doing certain things, but we are where we want to be. Right now Miguel should be at 156 pounds. I have seen a change in Miguel. He is more focused and determined. We will have to wait and see how he reacts in the fight, but it has been an excellent camp."

Team Cotto would not reveal the exact weight of Miguel, but he was said to be 161-pounds two weeks ago. Cotto admits to the paper that his body took a beating when he first returned to the gym after such a long layoff.

"My body felt a little exhausted in beginning of the camp due to the long break, but little by little we are falling in line," Cotto said. "I am going to work at a tireless pace to return and win the title because I want to be a champion again. I am very anxious and for the fight to get here, but most of all, I'm in good spirits and I'm very positive."
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I really think that Jennings aint got a chance against Cotto. I doubt it will even be competitive
 
I agree, Cotto inside 6 I think, he is gonna be really up for it coming off of his first loss and no disrespect to Jennings but he is 2 or 3 classes below Cotto.
 
People have been getting at cotto calling him a quitter etc but look at McClellan, God forbid the same thing happened to Cotto.
He must know that people regard him as a quitter and that will spur him on Im predicting another Cotto/Gomez affair
 
The Darchinyan fight with Arce wasnt as good as i expected wasn't as competitive as I thought it would be then was stoped on a cut Arce sustained from grazing his eye on the rope.

Arce was later rushed to the hospital so the legend of Darchinyan's punching power lives on!
 
If anyone is bored can i suggest watching the adamek/cunningham fight
and an early contender for fight of the year 2009 is the Kotelnik/Maidana fight from Friday night. If you are interested I will post links
 
The evidence is stacking up against Margarito and this piece may be damning:

Rashad Holloway is one of the many people interested in the findings that the California State Athletic Commission intend to uncover on February 10 pertaining to a "plaster-like substance" that forced trainer Javier Capetillo to re-wrap Antonio Margarito's hands shortly before his January 24 knockout loss to Shane Mosley.

Holloway's career was put in jeopardy during a December 19 sparring session with Margarito in Montebello, California. Both were preparing for fights; Holloway's was the following week while Margarito was gearing up to tango with Sugar Shane a month later. What started out as his final day of sparring nearly became his last day of boxing.

"To be honest, it happened so quick that I don't even know what happened," Holloway, 9-1 (5 KO), tells *********.com. "I remember he threw a wild right hand and I slipped it and he switched over to a southpaw stance and threw a left uppercut. And it landed.

"When it first happened, I didn't know what hit me. I've been hit 50 million times in my career, but I'd never been hit with a shot that hurt like that. It felt like a hard object hit me in the face. I thought he hit me with the palm of his hand. It wasn't like a normal punch. It didn't feel like a padded glove hit me. It was like a solid, hard impact.

"It felt like I had been hit with a bag of rocks."

Holloway suddenly called a halt to the session. The right side of his face went numb, his vision became impaired, he feared the worst. Hoping it was just a minor issue, Holloway waited two days before visiting the hospital. When he finally went to the emergency room, they confirmed that he had fractured the orbital bone on the right side of his face.

It wasn't until Holloway visited a specialist that he realized how serious the situation was.

"They told me that there was a possibility that I wouldn't be able to fight again. They said there was a possibility that it could heal wrong and that they'd have to re-break my face and put a metal plate in my face."

Luckily for Holloway, the injury would not be the end of the line. Holloway already has an eight-round fight scheduled for March 28 on a card in his hometown of Cincinnati that will feature former Olympians Ricardo Williams Jr. and Rau'shee Warren.

He says the bone is at "90-95%" strength and that the muscle is healed "as much as it's going to heal." He claims to still experience occasional numbness in his face but has already returned to sparring.

Last week Freddie Roach, who runs the Wild Card Gym that Holloway trains at, was a guest on Brian Kenny's ESPN radio show to discuss the Margarito hand wrap scandal. In the interview he referred to a fighter who trains at his gym that had been injured in sparring as evidence of past wrongdoing on Margarito's behalf. He was convinced that Margarito used illegal wraps in gym sessions.

As the interview was airing live, Holloway says that his phone was ringing off the hook. Everyone knew who Roach was referring to.

"To my understanding," Holloways says, "[Capetillo] tried to justify what happened by saying 'It's nothing different than what we do every single day in training, I wrap his hands up with the same stuff.' I guess he didn't see no wrong in what he was doing.

"I wouldn't say it was malicious...I would say it was incompetence."

Holloway says his relationship with Margarito is casual, professional - not intimate enough to properly gauge his ethics. Still, Holloway says this whole controversy has caught him off-guard.

"Boxing is boxing, there are a lot of assholes in boxing. Tony always seemed to be a good guy. There is a mutual respect, whenever we see each other we speak, we embrace. I just didn't think he was the kind of guy who would do anything like that.

"Some people will do anything to get ahead. People are out there juicing everyday. As a fighter, c'mon, we know if we have something in our hands. A fighter should know if his hands feel harder than normal. If you've been a pro for that long you have to take some accountability."

Like the rest of the world, Holloway continues to await Tuesday's hearing, which will dredge up a lot of speculation regarding Margarito's past fights and call into question Capetillo's ethics. All Holloway can do is wait.
 
If this is true the guy and his trainer should not be allowed anywhere near boxing again, this is a professional sport and to let things like this happen is putting lives at risk, not just careers. I hope they throw the book at him.
 
Margarito's trainer admits to hand wrap tampering, calls it a mistake
According to the Los Angeles Times, a big crowd gathered to view Antonio Margarito's hearing before the California State Athletic Commission, which takes place to hand out a ruling on the foreign substance that was found in his hand wraps before the January 24 bout with Shane Mosley at the Staples Center. Margarito is represented by well-known attorney Daniel Petrocelli.

Observers were stunned as the state attorney general started off by stating that Margarito should receive "the harshest penalty possible," including a license revocation, which would leave him on the sidelines for at least one year and would rule out a June 13 rematch with Miguel Cotto in New York.

A state inspector said that Margarito was found to have "a suspect bandage wrap inside a knuckle pad" that was to be placed atop both his fists. Inspector Che Guevara testified at the hearing that in three years and 150 hand wraps he had never seen such a pad.

"It was sweat-soaked, thinner and harder in certain areas, not hard as a rock, but firm and hard," Guevara was quoted as saying by the LA Times . He also said the pad had a stain "like old blood" on it. "It was not flexible. It was very firm," Guevara went on to state.

The "foreign substance" on the insert has not been identified, and the results of the "plaster-like" substance won't be known until mid-March.

State inspector Mike Bray revealed the following from his notes.

"There was a blood stain on the corner of the pad; [it was] moist and dirty looking with a white substance smeared across the pad, like a cast plaster ... I can see a substance smeared in the middle of this pad," Bray said, according to the LA Times .

Karen B. Chappelle, the supervising deputy attorney general prosecuting Margarito, attempted to introduce a claim that the pads were worn by Margarito in last July's TKO victory over Miguel Cotto, but the commission said that point lacked relevance to what happened in the Mosley bout.

Chappelle noted the pads had already been ruled illegal. Inspector Dean Lohuis read the rule that Margarito and his trainer were alleged to have violated: "The use of water or any liquid or material on any part of the hand wrap is strictly prohibited."

Margarito's attorney pointed to chain of custody issues with the pads after they were recovered from Margarito's hands, stating that three people in Mosley's dressing room touched the pads. He also had another inspector acknowledge that, "There didn't seem to be foul play on the part of Margarito. He didn't show me anything to show me he knew what was going on."

Margarito's trainer, Javier Capetillo, took full blame for the hand wraps scandal. Capetillo told his attorney that he accidentally implanted inserts into the hand wraps of his fighter.

"I committed a big mistake," Capetillo said. "I don't want this young man [Margarito] to have problems. I'm here to cover any responsibility. I take full responsibility. I committed this innocent mistake."
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CLK_FPC said:
It appears the Wlad Haye fight will be taking place at the o2 centre instead of Stamford Bridge
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Sell out, knock out. Someone is going down in that one, I might just stick a small bet on Haye, he will test that chin like its never been tested before.
 
Its true everyone is touting Wlad but Haye isnt a static meat sack like others he is going to jump on Wlad rough him up and really get at him like Wlad doesnt like
 
Exactly, after all he has been KO'd 3 times in his career and I really think Haye is one of the hardest hitting in the division now and you can bet Haye is going to be working like he has never worked before in his training camp out in Kyrenia. We all know Haye has a suspect chin but we also know Wlad does too, I can't wait.

So thats what, Pac-Man/Hatton, Haye/Klitschko, Khan/Barrera, Froch/Taylor? maybe, all to look forward to for us Brits.
 
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Exactly, after all he has been KO'd 3 times in his career and I really think Haye is one of the hardest hitting in the division now and you can bet Haye is going to be working like he has never worked before in his training camp out in Kyrenia. We all know Haye has a suspect chin but we also know Wlad does too, I can't wait.

So thats what, Pac-Man/Hatton, Haye/Klitschko, Khan/Barrera, Froch/Taylor? maybe, all to look forward to for us Brits.
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I shall be attending 1 or 2 of those Khan/Barrera and Haye/Klitschko
 
Nate Campbell failed to make weight so his bout tonight with Funeka wont be for the belt. Cintron is looking to make waves in the Jr Middleweight division fighting Sergio Martinez and Mayorga pulled out of facing Angelo Angulo due to an injury he 'sustained' against Mosley.
What was going to be a great night of boxing has descended into a decent one
 
When first assembled, the February 14 HBO Boxing After Dark tripleheader began as the must-see card of 2009, with three solid matchups making for a valid alternative to more traditional Valentine’s Day plans.

By night’s end, the card billed “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” instead further accentuated everything that is wrong with the sport of boxing.

From revolving opponents, to fighters missing weight, to Florida officials struggling to prove that they’re up on the boxing rules, it was a night to forget at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida.

The show began without a home until less than a month before fight night, a responsibilty of the event's co-promter Don King. It ended with two controversial decisions coming out of the televised tripleheader, headlined by Nate Campbell taking a majority decision over South African challenger Ali Funeka in a bout that saw the former lose his lightweight alphabet titles on the scales for failure to make weight a day prior.

Fighting for the first time in nearly a year, Campbell wound up missing weight by 2 ½ lb. when all was said and done at Friday’s weigh-in. Both camps agreed to go through with the fight, with the belts on the line only for Funeka.

Despite the mishap on the scales, Campbell vowed to still fight as if he were defending his titles. The soon-to-be 37-year old lived up to his promise in the opening round, easily outworking his challenger despite giving away a considerable height and reach advantage.

Funeka changed up in the second, working behind his jab and shooting his right hand when Campbell attempted to mount an attack. It worked well for about two minutes, until Campbell connected with an overhand right that had visibly rocked the South African. Campbell went in for the kill, with another right hand sending Funeka to the canvas for a nine-count.

The round ended with Campbell cut over the right eye and Funeka still on unsteady legs. The tide quickly turned in the third, when Funeka landed a right hand that slightly wobbled the Jacksonville native. Funeka went on the attack, working Campbell’s body and reestablishing his range.

Campbell kept coming forward in the fourth, but only to the tune of ineffective aggression as Funeka cleanly outworked him over the course of the round. More of the same came in the fifth, with Campbell reduced to one punch at a time while Funeka peppered him with jabs and body shots.

What began as a three-point disadvantage for Funeka appeared to completely dissolve as the fight entered the sixth. Funeka found his groove and was the far busier fighter throughout the middle rounds. In addition to his right hand and body shots, the left hook was also landing with regularity.

Action slowed to a crawl in the seventh and eighth rounds, which could’ve went either way depending on a judge’s preference. Campbell was effective in working his way inside, landing to the body more frequently than had been the case in rounds prior, but was still being outworked overall by Funeka.

Round nine was a return to Funeka’s mix of superior workrate and capitalizing on his height and reach advantage, returning to the jab and keeping Campbell on the outside. The attack came at a price, as Funeka slowed down enough in the tenth to allow Campbell to work his way inside, targeting the body. Funeka recovered in the final minute of the round, returning to the jab and also landing left hooks to the body in heeding the advice of trainer and former junior featherweight king Vuyani Bungu.

With the fight and possibly his career on the line, Campbell dug deep in the championship rounds. Both fighters appeared exhausted, but Funeka spent nearly the entire eleventh round moving in reverse. Campbell capitalized on his challenger’s hesitance, rocking him with a right hand to the ear which caused a delayed-reaction knockdown as Funeka tried and failed to clinch in efforts to remain upright. He beat the count, but left the door wide open for Campbell to snatch victory –or at least a tie – from the jaws of defeat.

Whatever Campbell had left, he left it all in the ring in the final round. Funeka spent nearly the entire frame either clinching or with his hands pinned to his head. Campbell dug to the body and sought further success with his overhand right upstairs. Funeka didn’t give him the chance to land anything big, though at the cost of giving away the round and ultimately the fight when all was said and done.

The first score of 113-113 drew a collective chorus of boos from the crowd, with a similar level of protest coming after hearing tallies of 115-111 and 114-112 go in favor of Campbell, who narrowly escapes with his fifth straight win. He improves overall to 33-5-1 (25KO), but loses his belts and his stay at lightweight in the process thanks to the debacle at the scales.

Upon hearing the scores read, Funeka could offer no other reaction than to bow his head and stand in a corner as he was reduced to tears. A 16-fight win streak comes to a close as Funeka’s record moves to 30-2-2 (25KO). He earned the fight with a fourth-round knockout of Zahir Raheem, though it featured a controversial ending of its own, as the final knockout blow came well after the bell.

A controversial, or at least disputable, decision denies him the chance to bring two lightweight title belts back to South Africa, as he instead heads home with disappointing memories of what could’ve been had he not fallen apart down the stretch.

Disappointing is really the only way to describe the televised co-feature, which saw former Antonio Margarito victims Sergio Martinez and Kermit Cintron battle to a majority draw in their 12-round junior middleweight battle.
 
Good spoiler CLK,

I recorded it for viewing today but from what i've read, on top of that post, was a night of sheer dissapointment and cringeworthy bouts.

Shouldn't even give it a sniff.
 
The boo birds were out early and often, and for very good reason, as little to nothing in the way of action occurred in the first few rounds. Martinez controlled whatever action took place, with Cintron far too content to clinch and hardly fighting with any fluidity whatsoever.

Martinez went into boxing mode in the third and fourth rounds, circling to his left in the southpaw stance, which left him inside of Cintron’s punching range. The tactic goes against conventional wisdom, but it was up to Cintron to do something about it. He did not, which meant more rounds in the bank for Martinez and curiosity among the crowd as to why they’d instead attend a boxing card than spending the evening at home, or out on the town, with the one they love on Valentine’s Day.

Trainer Ronnie Shields, working with Cintron for the second time, expressed disappointment with his charge after four rounds, demanding he get busier on the inside. It didn’t happen; Cintron instead continued with an attack that consisted of one punch at a time and virtually no clue as to how to cut off the ring and slow down the mobile Martinez.

Just as it appeared the fight was heading nowhere fast, things took a dramatic turn at the end of the seventh. Martinez caught Cintron with a straight left hand at center ring, resulting in a delayed knockdown as Cintron was buzzed and forced to take a knee.

Referee Frank Santore began to count, at which point Cintron remained on the canvas and protesting the call, claiming a headbutt occurred. Cintron arose from the canvas as Santore appeared to reach ten and clearly waved off the fight, which sent the fighter into a full protest mode.

Confusion soon followed, with Martinez celebrating what he thought was a knockout victory in one corner, while Team Cintron demanded an immediate overturn in the other. Cintron not only won the argument, but was given 2 ½ minutes to recover from the knockdown, as Santore offered some half-assed excuse as to why the fight should be allowed to continue.

Action resumed in the eighth, with both fighters re-energized. Cintron had a better round than most to that point, but went into the final four rounds with a cut over his left eye and atop his forehead, and seemingly in a deep hole on the scorecards. However, it was a late point deduction from Martinez in the twelfth and final round that saved Cintron from suffering his third loss.

The disappointing fight ended with an even more disappointing decision. Martinez won on one card by a margin of 116-110, but the scores were overruled by matching cards of 113-113.

Martinez remains unbeaten in his last 29 fights in having to settle for the draw, as his record now moves to 44-1-2 (27KO). The lone loss came nine years ago at the hands of Margarito, scoring an early knockdown but was eventually stopped in seven rounds.

Margarito is also responsible for the lone two losses on Cintron’s ledger, though the Puerto Rican had been quite vocal in recent weeks in the wake of the hand wrap scandal that came in his conqueror’s failed January 24 bid against “Sugar” Shane Mosley.

Considering the amount of excuses he offered for the past defeats, Cintron never came close to redeeming himself in the ring, with the fortunate draw verdict sending his record to 30-2-1 (27KO). He has now been involved in two straight fights that were less than action packed, this coming on the heels of his 12-round stinker with Lovemore N’Dou last November.

Stinker is a word that will most likely never describe any fight involving Alfredo Angulo. The undefeated junior middleweight prospect kicked off the party with a five round thrashing of late replacement Cosme Rivera.

Things became very interesting in the early going. A clash of heads left Angulo with a cut outside of his right eye. The referee missed out on this detail, instead ruling the nick a result of a punch, which meant that Angulo was forced to fight or else be declared a TKO loser.

Angulo chose the former, which was very bad news for Rivera. The former welterweight title challenger had his moments, including his right uppercut which landed several times from the outside. It was otherwise all Angulo, who picked up the pace and took over for good in the second round, never looking back.

Rivera was rocked several times and all but out on his feet midway through the third, only for the referee to allow the fight to continue. Angulo stalked as Rivera could manage no more than a few clinches whenever he needed to clear his head.

The onslaught continued in the fourth and fifth, though there were several moments in which the fight could’ve been stopped. It took for a member of the Florida Boxing Commission to do what the referee and Rivera’s corner failed to do – intervene on behalf of the safety of the fighter.

The official time was 2:38 of round five.

Angulo improves to 15-0 (12KO) with the win. The California-based Mexican banger has now scored 11 straight stoppages, with his last three airing live on HBO’s Boxing After Dark.

Rivera’s career continues to head in the opposite direction. The loss puts him at 1-3-1NC in his last five, as he dips overall to 31-12-2 (22KO). Rivera was a very late replacement for Danny Perez, who pulled out of the fight earlier this week. Perez himself was a late replacement for Ricardo Mayorga, who may or may not have suffered a valid injury while in training camp for this fight.

The show was presented by Gary Shaw Productions and Don King Productions, in association with DiBella Entertainment.
 
Anderson Searl said:
Good spoiler CLK,

I recorded it for viewing today but from what i've read, on top of that post, was a night of sheer dissapointment and cringeworthy bouts.

Shouldn't even give it a sniff.
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I'll look at certain bouts but I heard it really was a shit night, lets hope next weeks Pavlik and Cotto fights are much better
 
CLK_FPC said:
I'll look at certain bouts but I heard it really was a shit night, lets hope next weeks Pavlik and Cotto fights are much better
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Long weekend for me as well, going down to the local pub to watch, we've pretty much got it snapped up for weekend nights.
 
British trainer Lee Beard who works with Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton is eyeing Edwin Valero as a sparring partner for the IBO light welterweight champion as he prepares for his showdown with Filipino boxing hero Manny Pacquiao.

Valero (24-0, 24 KO's) is scheduled to face Antonio Pitalua for the WBC lightweight interim title on April 4 in San Antonio, Texas.

Titled “Battle of East and West” the eagerly awaited bout is scheduled for the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on May 2.

In an interview with Craig Gibson on the Hatton website, Beard said Valero is “the only one that’s near to Pacquiao in terms of style. I think if you can adjust to him then it’s the closest thing you can get to Pacquiao.”

Beard said Valero’s record “would suggest that he hits as hard if not harder than Manny.”

Beard warned that if Pacquiao “is allowed to get into a rhythm in the first few rounds it will be a very difficult fight for Ricky.” That’s why the trainer made it clear that Hatton “needs to make sure that he works hard in the gym to work on certain things to avoid Manny getting into that rhythm.”

The confident trainer who is expected to be working with Floyd Mayweather Sr when Hatton gets to Las Vegas predicted that “the first time Ricky gets hold of him and unloads, Manny won’t know what hit him.”

Beard pointed out that Hatton is a big light welterweight and has been in with some huge punchers like Kostya Tszyu and Juan Urango and added " obviously they don’t have the speed of Manny but Ricky has seen the speed before in Mayweather.”

The trainer said around five weeks would be “an ideal amount of time” to adjust and get into Las Vegas time as well as having “plenty of time for hard training.”

Hatton’s father Ray Hatton said his son would probably spend two weeks preparation in Manchester prior to leaving for Las Vegas.

Since Pacquiao and Hatton are almost the same height, Beard said “their styles could mean their heads clashing” and with Pacquiao preferring the Cleto Reyes puncher’s gloves “cuts are a concern.” However, Beard noted that Hatton “hasn’t been cut badly in a while” so he was not thinking too much about cuts.
 
The fight with Marco Antonio Barrera and Amir Khan, scheduled for March 14 at the MEN Arena in Manchester, could have the vacant WBO lightweight title at stake. Last Friday, Nate Campbell lost the title on the scales when he was unable to make weight for his mandatory IBF title defense with Ali Funeka. Barrera is ranked at number one by the WBO and Khan comes in at number nine.

It's being reported that promoters Frank Warren and Don King are lobbying for the WBO to approve Barrera-Khan as a title fight.

“Khan vs Barrera might well become a title fight. I hope the WBO will sanction it,” Warren tells The Sun.
 
CLK_FPC said:
The fight with Marco Antonio Barrera and Amir Khan, scheduled for March 14 at the MEN Arena in Manchester, could have the vacant WBO lightweight title at stake. Last Friday, Nate Campbell lost the title on the scales when he was unable to make weight for his mandatory IBF title defense with Ali Funeka. Barrera is ranked at number one by the WBO and Khan comes in at number nine.

It's being reported that promoters Frank Warren and Don King are lobbying for the WBO to approve Barrera-Khan as a title fight.

“Khan vs Barrera might well become a title fight. I hope the WBO will sanction it,” Warren tells The Sun.
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This never happened instead the Marquez Diaz fight on Feb 28th will be

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Barrera getting ready for Khan
 
He looks in decent shape, funny old contest to judge really. Do i back the old pro or do I back the young needs a big win fighter? Barrera for old times sake, KO inside 6.
 
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