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The drama between Roy Jones Jr. and IBO cruiserweight champion Danny Green is heating up. Jones' promotional company is protesting the first-round TKO loss to Green on December 2 in Australia. Jones is claiming several violations the concern that way Green's hands were wrapped; alleged violations that caused Green's wraps to harden for a much stronger punching effect.
IBO cruiserweight champion Danny Green is hoping the fight with Bernard Hopkins comes off. Green and Hopkins have been talking but the fight is in trouble over money. BoxingScene.com reported on Thursday that Hopkins and Green were at odds over money. Hopkins wants a 60-40 split and Green wants 50-50. Green's adviser Gary Shaw told BoxingScene the agreement outlined with Golden Boy Promotions was a 50-50 split and Hopkins is now trying to change the terms.
WBC-interim lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco has gone through a career-turning year in 2009. He is now set to fight the full WBC champion Edwin Valero on February 6 in Mexico. Valero is one of the most dangerous punchers in the sport. All 26 of his 26 wins have come by knockout. Most of the knockouts have come in the first round.
WBA heavyweight champion believes he made the right decision when he walked away from a September fight with WBC champion Vitali Klitschko and instead took a deal with then WBA champ Nikolia Valuev. He says the title win has given him power at the negotiating table. In the opinion of Haye, he doesn't have to bow down to the demands of the Klitschko brothers. Haye wants to fight both Klitschko brothers in 2010. First he needs to get past mandatory John Ruiz.
We could see a potential meeting between hard-puncing featherweights Daniel Ponce De Leon (37-2, 31KOs) and Daud Cino Yordan (29-0, 19KOs) of Indonesia. According to a report in ESTO, the two would battle for the interim-WBA featherweight title and the bout would take place on the January 30 undercard to the welterweight unification between Shane Mosley-Andre Berto in Las Vegas.
The word coming out of Mexico has the lightweight clash between WBC champion Edwin Valero and mandatory Antonio DeMarco heading off to Arena Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico on Febuary 6. The fight will be televised by Showtime. Over the course of his last few fights, DeMarco has shown some vast improvement and should provide a tough test for Valero.
The latest ruling by the WBO may open the door for a possible fight between Ricky Hatton and Juan Manuel Marquez. The WBO's Paco Valcárcel issued a ruling that allows Marquez additional time to make his mandatory defense of the lightweight title against interim-champion Michael Katsidis. Marquez is viewed as a "super champion" by the sanctioning body; allowing the Mexican fighter the opportunity to take another fight.
According to a published report on Philboxing.com, WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao has ordered his promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank to file a lawsuit in the next few days against Floyd Mayweather Jr, Floyd Mayweather Sr and Golden Boy Promotions. According to Pacquiao, his character and person has been questioned, maligned, damaged and tarnished by baseless and false accusations
There are some who are claiming that Golden Boy Promotions are a bunch of hypocrites because of the recent situation with the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao bout. Golden Boy is representing Mayweather in the negotiations for a fight with Pacquiao on March 13.
Top Rank's Bob Arum told the Associated Press on Thursday that Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Manny Pacquiao is a dead fight. Arum had set a Thursday deadline to make or break a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight. The two sides could not reach an agreement over the ongoing dispute over both fighters having to go through random Olympic-style drug testing. Pacquiao would not agree to the random testing methods of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. Golden Boy Promotions [on behalf of Mayweather] held firm on a request to have the USADA handle the random blood and urine tests of both fighters.