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BoxingScene.com broke the news on Monday about the ongoing talks to make a junior middleweight bout between former champions Shane Mosley and Sergio Mora. That fight, if an agreement can be reached, would take place on September 18 at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
A scheduled July 24 featherweight (126 pounds) unification bout between Cuban-born, WBA champion Yuriorkis Gamboa and newly-crowned IBF king, Orlando Salido, has been tentatively postponed until Sept. 11 due to a cut sustained by Salido during training, Gamboa's manager, Tony Gonzalez, informed BoxingScene.com.
WBA interim-junior welterweight champion Marcos Maidana is still hungry for a crack at WBO champion Timothy Bradley. Maidana (28-1, 27 KOs) was scheduled twice to fight Bradley (25-0, 11 KOs) on HBO. He postponed two scheduled dates, June 19 and July 17, with claims of a serious back injury. It was recently disclosed that Maidana's back injury was infact an excuse to withdraw because of an internal rift with his manager.
According to Goldem Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer, WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan is targeting the date of December 11 for his next ring appearance. The possible options continue to be the winner of the July 31 rematch between Juan Manuel Marquez and Juan Diaz, WBA interim-champion Marcos Maidana, or Michael Katsidis.
There seems to be some trouble in paradise between junior middleweight contender James Kirkland and his trainer Ann Wolfe, a former female world champion who finished her career with a record of 24-1, 16KOs. Kirkland has been sitting in prison since April 2009 after pleading guilty to a charge of gun possession by a convicted felon. He is scheduled for release to a halfway house on October 2 and ring return is expected before the end of the year.
The son of a legend, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (40-0-1, 30 KOs), could find himself with several lucrative opportunites - if he is able to get past John Duddy (29-1, 18 KOs) on June 26 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
Who doesn't know where they were when O.J. Simpson took that famous ride down a Los Angeles Highway in that white bronco on June 17, 1994 -- exactly 16 years ago on Thursday?
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer thinks a heavyweight showdown between WBA champion David Haye (24-1, 22 KOs), and Olympic gold medal winner Audley Harrison (27-4, 20KOs), would be a "big, all-British showdown."
A few weeks ago, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer had tried to create a rematch between Bernard Hopkins and the recently retired Joe Calzaghe of Wales. After a have few positive conversations, Calzaghe made a decision to stay retired. With a Calzaghe rematch out of the way, Schaefer is exploring the possibility of matching Hopkins (51-5-1, 32 KOs) against undefeated IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute (26-0, 21 KOs).
In the time since his May 1 unanimous decision loss to Floyd Mayweather at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, former WBA welterweight (147 pounds) super