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There is going to be a fire fight at the upcoming WBC convention in November. Promoter Don King will make his case that Andre Berto must defend his WBC welterweight title against mandatory challenger Luis Collazo. Berto is close to a deal to unify with WBA champion Shane Mosley on January 30 on HBO.
According to New Zealand's Sunday News, David Tua was in serious negotiations to fight Roy Jones Jr. in 2003, when Jones won the WBA heavyweight title from John Ruiz. The fight talks was broken off when Tua became engaged in his ongoing legal war with his former management team of Kevin Barry and Martin Pugh. The case is still going in a New Zealand high court with appearances set for October 19 and 20.
While there is some interest in a rematch between Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr. - not everyone is interested. A few weeks ago, the two fighters reached a deal to fight in the first quarter of 2010. The rematch has taken 16-years to make. Jones won a decision over Hopkins in 1993 to win the vacant IBF middleweight title. Some critics are not happy with the idea of paying $50 dollars to watch two fighters in their 40s battle it out. There are those who don't see the fight as a positive to push the sport forward.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has said a few times that there is nothing to gain by taking a fight with Shane Mosley, but that hasn't stopped him from dishing out some more verbal abuse in Shane's direction. During a recent interview with CBS Sports, Mayweather really took aim at Mosley by calling him a jealous fighter who may still be using steroids.
At the Yoyogi #2 Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan, Toshiaki Nishioka (35-4-3, 21KOs) retained the WBC super bantamweight title with a third round stoppage of Ivan "Choko" Hernandez (25-4-1, 15KOs). Nishioka keeps his win streak going after retaining the title in impressive fashion earlier in the year with a three round knockout of Jhonny Gonzalez.
WBA heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev remembers the day when he first saw David Haye. Valuev remembers like it was yesterday, when he saw Haye at the press conference to announce the fight with Wladimir Klitschko - later cancelled when Haye withdrew with an injury. Valuev was upset with the infamous t-shirt Haye wore. The infamous t-shirt with an image of Haye holding the severed heads of the Klitschko brothers. Valuev takes on Haye on November 7.
Miguel Cotto's training camp is pushing him to the limit at Fight Factory in Tampa, Florida. Cotto defends his WBO welterweight title against Manny Pacquiao on November 14 in Las Vegas. Trainer Joe Santiago says the camp is going well without any problems.
In a recent article that was published in a German newspaper, undefeated Arthur Abraham spoke about the sport of boxing, some of the legendary names that he watched and comapres his in-ring abilities to some of them.
The media and fan hype has done very little to change the position of Floyd Mayweather Jr. He appears to have no interest in a fight with WBA welterweight champion Shane Mosley. Mayweather is still holding a grudge over Mosley turning down his fight request in 1999. Mayweather told boxing scibe Tim Smith that a fight with Mosley was important back then, but he doesn't need Mosley now. Mosley confronted Mayweather in the ring after Floyd won a dominating decision over Juan Manuel Marquez on September 19.
WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm has been offered a lot of money to join Arena Box. Sturm is currently in a contract dispute with Universum and believes his contract expires before the end of the year. Ahmet Öner, CEO of Arena Box, has offered Sturm a package deal of $25 million to jump over. The deal is for six fights with a signing bonus of $3.5 million.