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Super middleweight Andre Dirrell plans to confuse Arthur Abraham this Saturday night with a combination of switch-hit boxing and constant movement. Dirrell will have thousands of fans on his side at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan as he tries to beat the undefeated Super Six tournament leader.
According to Sports Business Daily, the Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey HBO pay-per-view registered 700,000 pay-per-view buys with $35.3 million dollars in revenue. A crowd of nearly 51,000 boxing fans turned out to watch Pacquiao retain his WBO welterweight title by dominating Clottey for a twelve round decision at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
The two top heavyweights in the world will never fight each other. WBO/IBO/IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and older brother, WBC champion Vitali Klitschko, sit at the top of the heavyweight division. Wladimir said he and Vitali have not sparred for years because the two of them are too competitive and their sparring sessions started to become wars in the gym. Based on that, he knows a fight with his older brother would be a brutal encounter.
Roy Jones Jr. is training for what may be the final fight of his boxing career when he faces Bernard Hopkins on April 3 in Las Vegas. Jones won a decision over Hopkins 17-years ago. Speaking with AOL's FanHouse, Jones said if he knocks Hopkins out, he would likely walk away from the sport. He also says that may not be enough. A part of him might want to avenge knockout defeats to Glen Johnson and Danny Green.
Former two division champion Ricky Hatton has responded to the recent comments made by trainer Freddie Roach. The hall-of-fame trainer told reporters that Hatton had tried to hire him and he turned the request down. Hatton is disputing the story. The Manchester star says he never asked Roach to be his trainer.
The trainer of Arthur Abraham, Ulli Wegner, has urged his fighter to get the knockout when he takes on Andre Dirrell on Saturday night at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. Dirrell-Abraham is the first fight in the second stage of the Super Six super middleweight tournament. Abraham is the tournament leader in points after scoring the only knockout of the tournament last year against Jermain Taylor. Dirrell lost a close points decision to WBC champion Carl Froch.
WBO/IBO/IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko is not going to wait on David Haye or Alexander Povetkin to make up their minds on a possible fight. Klitschko is looking to fight Povetkin next, the IBF mandatory since 2008. If the unbeaten Russian fighter passes on the match, then Klitschko will look for the next highest available contender in the IBF rankings - Sam Peter. Klitschko won a decision over Peter in 2005. Peter had him down three times in the contest. Klitschko won most of the rounds with his boxing and had Peter hurt in the twelfth round.
Former heavyweight champion John Ruiz had nothing good to say about Wladimir Klitschko's kncokout of Eddie Chambers from last Saturday in Germany. Ruiz said the fight made the entire heavyweight division look bad. He said fights like Klitschko-Chambers are the reason why the fans are running away from heavyweight division.
Junior welterweight Ray Narh (23-1, 20s) is making good on his promise to stay active. He returns on April 3 on the Bernard Hopkins-Roy Jones Jr. undercard at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Narh will take on veteran Michael Lozada (34-6, 27KOs) in a ten round contest.
Andre Dirrell doesn't think Arthur Abraham has what it takes to deal with a very good boxer with movement. The two super middleweights will clash in the second stage of the Super Six tournament on Saturday at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. Abraham is the tournament leader in points.