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WBA heavyweight champion David Haye is back on the attack. The talkative Brit has gone back to his old ways and lashed out at both Klitschko brothers, IBF/IBO/WBO champion Wladimir Klitschko and WBC champion Vitali Klitschko. Haye wants them both after he makes his mandatory defense against John Ruiz.
IBO cruiserweight champion Danny Green made a personal phone call to Bernard Hopkins and left a message for the veteran; challenging him to a showdown in Australia. Green is fresh from last week's first round knockout of Roy Jones Jr. The win crushed any plans for a Hopkins-Jones rematch that was tentative for next March in Las Vegas.
According to Primera Hora, two of the best amateur boxers in Puerto Rico, McWilliams and McJoe Arroyo, have announced that their amateur careers are now over and both of them are planning to go pro in 2010. The Arroyo brothers are only the second set of twin brothers in the history of boxing to qualify for the Olympics.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. (40-0, 25 KOs) has promised to dominate WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (50-3, 38 KOs) on their super-fight date of March 13. Mayweather appearing on HBO's Joe Buck Live and said Pacquiao was a good fighter, but he expected to win in dominating fashion.
Undefeated junior middleweight/middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. is not denying that he used furosemide prior to his decision win over Troy Rowland on the Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto undercard on November 14. Chavez recently tested positive for the drug and is facing a suspension and fine from the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Furosemide is a diuretic that causes the rate of urination to increase.
Promoter Frank Warren, who handles the career of Amir Khan, and used to handle the career of Ricky Hatton, says the two boxers will not fight - at least in the near future. Khan recently demolished Dmitriy Salita in 76-seconds, the mandatory to Khan's WBA junior welterweight title. The British public view Hatton vs Khan as one of the biggest fights in the country.
Former junior welterweight champion Jose Luis Castillo says the motivation to become a major player at 140-pounds is still there. Castillo is still fighting at welterweight but wants to move back down for a final title run. He is one of the names being mentioned to face Miguel Cotto next June.
In a developing story on both sides of the fence, former two division champion Miguel Cotto, his father Miguel Cotto Sr. and other members of his team have been sued with claims of sexual harassment by a former employee of Cotto.
WBA heavyweight champion David Haye sees a lot of big things ahead for British boxing. In 2009, he won the heavyweight title from 7'2 Nikolai Valuev and saw fellow Brits Carl Froch and Amir Khan win major world titles and beat top opponents. Haye was nominated for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. He was surprised that Froch and Khan were not in the mix.
Former welterweight Carlos Quintana (27-2, 21 KOs) plans to remain at the junior middleweight limit of 154-pounds. Quintana returned to the ring last Saturday night on the Paul Williams-Sergio Martinez undercard in Atlantic City, stopping veteran Jesse Feliciano in three rounds. Quintana suffered a flash knockdown in the second round but went on to bust up Feliciano's face until the ref stopped it in the third round.