By Ryan Burton
BoxingScene.com spoke to Gary Shaw, who promotes WBO junior welterweight champion Tim Bradley, about possible venues for Bradley's big unification showdown with Devon Alexander. The fight takes place on January 29th and will be televised on HBO's World Championship Boxing series.
Miami and Detroit were previously mentioned as possible venues. When asked for an update Shaw told BoxingScene, "We don't have a frontrunner right now but we are looking at Las Vegas, Miami and Atlanta as possible venues."
Shaw doesn't anticipate the negotiations will go on much longer. "We hope to have a venue nailed down in the next two weeks." He and Alexander's promoter, Don King want to solidify a venue soon so that they can start the heavily promoting one of the most anticipated fights of 2011.
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