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As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, Arthur Abraham is confident the fight with Carl Froch, set for August 21, will head off to Germany. Froch says there is a pre-existing agreement to stage the fight in the UK, and if he's forced to fight Abraham in Germany, then he will quit Showtime's tournament, the Super Six Boxing Classic.
The fight is less than a week away and Floyd Mayweather Jr. is still firing a mouthful of verbal blows in Shane Mosley's direction. The fight takes place on May 1 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. During the latest edition of HBO's reality series, Mayweather-Mosley 24/7, the flamboyant fighter vowed to pick up where some of Shane's past opponents have left off.
WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan is laughing it up. He watched Carl Froch lose his undefeated record, and his WBC super middleweight title, to Mikkel Kessler on Saturday night in Denmark. Khan gets his revenge with a few choice words for Froch, who attacked Khan in British press after Breidis Prescott knocked him out in under a minute in 2008.
In a war of a fight, Mikkel Kessler (43-2, 32KOs) won a twelve round unanimous decision over previously undefeated Carl Froch (26-1, 20KOs) at the MCH Messecenter in Herning, Denmark, to win the WBC super middleweight title. The scores were 117-111, 115-113, 116-112.
At the Sporthalle in Alsterdorf, Hamburg, Germany, WBO light heavyweight champion Jurgen Braehmer (36-2, 29 KOs) retained his title for the second time with a five round stoppage of Mariano Nicolas Plotinsky (16-4, 8 KOs). Braehmer came out strong in the first, throwing bombs and knocked the challenger down. Plotinksy went into survival mode in the second round and tried to avoid punishment. Braehmer beat him up with each passing round until the referee stopped the fight.
The adviser of Floyd Mayweather Jr., Leonard Ellerbe, who is also the CEO of Mayweather Promotions, brushed off the recent radio comments that were made by Mayweather's May 1 opponent, Shane Mosley.
Trainer Emanuel Steward is not looking to change the style of former two division champion Miguel Cotto. He just wants to break the Puerto Rican fighter's "bad habits" in the ring. Steward has seen an improvement in Cotto's style since coming on board two weeks to train him for the June 5 title shot againt WBA 154-pound champion Yuri Foreman. Cotto-Foreman takes place in New York's Yankee Stadium.
Undefeated welterweight contender Omar Chavez (21-0, 15KOs), son of the legendary Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., tore his right bicep in sparring on Thursday. After visiting a doctor, he was told to rest for at least a week. As a result he withdrew from his upcoming fight on May 1 in Culiacan, Mexico. His fight was going to be the headliner on that night's edition of the Fox Sports televised "Top Rank Live" series.
Heavyweight contender Chris Arreola has given his opinion on the war of words between boxing champions Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye. During the last two years, Haye attacked both Klitschko brothers with insults in the press, and even crashed their media events. He was trying to bait both of them to make a fight. In 2009 the talkative Brit got his wish. Haye was scheduled to fight both Wladimir [in June] and older brother Vitali [in September]. He withdrew from both fights.
At the Skydome in Coventry, West Midlands, Rendall Munroe (21-1, 9 KOs), already the European champion, stopped Victor Terrazas (25-2-1, 13 KOs) in the ninth round of a WBC mandatory super bantamweight eliminator to earn a title shot at WBC champion Toshiaki Nishioka of Japan.