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At the Echo Arena in Liverpool, Merseyside, welterweight Kell Brook (21-0, 14KOs) won the World Boxing Organization interncontinental welterweight title after stoppong Krzysztof Bienias (39-4, 16KOs) in six rounds. Brook moves closer to a WBO title shot. The belt is held by one of the best in the world, Manny Pacquiao.
Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya thinks a mega-fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao has a good chance of never taking place in the future. Speaking with Sky Sports, De La Hoya is leaning in the direction of Shane Mosley to beat Mayweather on May 1. If that happens, De La Hoya doesn't think the much talked boxing showdown will ever take place.
A few days ago, WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel was upset over the money he was being offered to fly to Japan for a unification with WBC champ Hozumi Hasegawa on April 30. The financial situation has been sorted out and Montiel is now ready to challenge the WBC champ in hostile territory.
Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya feels Manny Pacquiao will have an easy time with Joshua Clottey on Saturday night at Cowboys Stadium in Texas. De La Hoya says Pacquiao is too fast and Clottey wastes too much time being defensive and doesn't spend enough time being offensive. Clottey's style is made for Pacquiao, says Oscar.
WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan and Paulie Malignaggi met face to face in London, England to announce their May 15 clash in New York. Malignaggi promised to redeem himself for the bad to loss to Ricky Hatton from 2008.
WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan has some high hopes for his boxing career. Khan will make his American debut on May 15 against Paulie Malignaggi at New York's WaMu Theater in Madison Square Garden. Earlier this year Khan signed a promotional contract with Golden Boy Promotions. He expects Golden Boy to really boost his career in the next two years and put him in the ring with the big names.
This coming Saturday, Antonio Margarito will be sitting ringside at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The former welterweight champion will be scouting the welterweight bout between Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey. Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, who promotes Margarito and the two main eventers on Saturday, has told BoxingScene.com in several interviews that he wants to make a Pacquiao-Margarito fight later in the year.
Top Rank CEO Bob Arum says a unification fight between welterweight champions Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley is almost sure to happen if both men win their upcoming fights. Pacquiao defends the WBO title this Saturday against Joshua Clottey and Mosley defends against Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 1. During a recent interview with our friends at boxingnewsonline.net, Arum said he likes Mosley because of his non-trash talking personality. The remark is clear he would rather not deal with Mayweather, a fighter who loves to talk pre-fight trash.
The war between the top boxing promotional companies, Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank, is not cooling down any time soon. MGM/Mirage, the company that operates the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, is now caught in the middle of the feud.
WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan thinks he could have become the first man to stop Juan Manuel Marquez if the two of them locked up in the ring. Marquez withdrew from their negotiations, claiming their mutual promoter Golden Boy Promotions was trying to use him as a stepping stone to build the name of Khan in the United States.