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Joe Grier, trainer for WBA junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman, says Miguel Cotto will be shocked if he expects an easy fight on June 5 in Yankee Stadium. Grier believes Cotto's team, and Top Rank, picked Foreman because they viewed him as a "safe option."
WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm is expecting to win his promotional battle with Universum and make his ring return in the fall. Sturm has been inactive since last July. The WBA made him the "super champion" at the weight, which doesn't bother him. He wants to take on the best fighters at the weight.
After watching Saturday's fight, IBO cruiserweight champion Danny Green is happy the fight with Bernard Hopkins never took place. After Green knocked Jones out in the first round in December, he was negoiating for a fight with Hopkins. They were unable to reach a deal and Hopkins moved forward with a Jones rematch. The fight lacked very little action and as Green predicted, Jones was gun-shy in the fight and Hopkins would not take any risks.
WBA heavyweight champion David Haye has no interest in answering the challenge of Bernard Hopkins. Both of them fought on Saturday, with Haye stopping John Ruiz in Manchester and Hopkins winning a decision over Roy Jones Jr. in Las Vegas. After the fight was over, Hopkins, a light heavyweight, told reporters he was going to move up in weight by two divisions to fight Haye.
Jean Marc Mormeck doesn't think David Haye is ready for the challenge of the Klitschko brothers, Wladimir and Vitali. Mormeck lost his cruiserweight title to Haye in 2007. Now a heavyweight contender like Haye, Mormeck wants a rematch. In his second heavyweight bout, Mormeck will face Fres Oquendo on May 6.
Former champion Antonio Margarito could be facing the pound for pound king of boxing if everything falls into place. He returns on May 8 against Roberto Garcia at La Feria de San Marcos in Aguascalientes, Mexico. If Margarito looks good, he will return in another fight and then possibly get the chance to fight Manny Pacquiao later in the year if a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. does not come around for the Filipino champion.
This coming Saturday at the Palenque de la Feria in Durango, Mexico, Francisco Arce will look to avenge his the honor of his family by beating Cristian Mijares. Mijares dominated Fransciso's older brother Jorge Arce in April 2007 in San Antonio, Texas. In the co-feature to Arce-Mijares, Jose Luis Lopez returns to the ring for the first time since 2005. Lopez was at one time one of the most feared punchers at welterweight.
WBA heavyweight champion has come out swinging and blasted both Klitschko brothers, Wladimir and Vitali, for their selection of opponents. Haye doesn't think much of the Klitschkos' recent opponents and took full aim at Vitali for signing to fight Albert Sosnowski on May 29.
Undefeated Indonesian featherweight Daud Yordan is ready to take Celestino Caballeo to war this coming Saturday in Florida. Caballero-Yordan will be the HBO co-feature to Andre Berto-Carlos Quintana. The WBA interim-title will be on the line and the winner is likely to face WBA champion Yuriorkis Gamboa in July on HBO.
A championship doubleheader is being planned by Puerto Rico Best Boxing at the Ruben Rodriguez Coliseum in Bayamon, Puerto Rico on May 29. Undefeated Puerto Rican champions Roman "Rocky" Martinez and Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. will defend their titles.