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There has been a lot of talk about the post-fight incident between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Shane Mosley. After Mayweather's win over Juan Manuel Marquez last Saturday in Las Vegas, Mosley entered the ring and had a war of words with Mayweather on the live HBO pay-per-view broadcast.
The name Juan Manuel Marquez is thinking about at the moment is Ricky Hatton. Marquez gave an honest effort during last Saturday's decision loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in Las Vegas. Marquez is the current holder of the WBO/WBA lightweight titles. He would like to drop down to 140-pounds and land a fight with Hatton.
Antonio Lozada, the manager of WBC super featherweight champion Humberto Soto, confirms that a fight has been presented for Soto to face Miguel Acosta on the undercard to Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto on November 14 in Las Vegas. In his last outing, Acosta knocked out highly regarded unbeaten prospect Urbano Antillon in nine rounds.
Former champion Cristian Mijares is pondering a possible rematch with fellow Mexican, Jorge Arce. Mijares has lost his last three fights, getting knocked out last August by Vic Darchinyan and losing two decisions this year to Nehomar Cermeno. He dominated Arce on route to a twelve round decision in 2007. Arce has had his own share of bad luck, recently being dominated by undefeated South African fighter Simphiwe Nongqayi.
WBO interim-lightweight champion Michael Katsidis thought he might have suffered a broken jaw during last Saturday's decision win over Vicente Escobedo in Las Vegas. During the twelfth round, the jaw of Katsidis was swelling bad and it almost appeared as if a baseball was in his mouth.
WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch is not worried about his upcoming title defense against Andre Dirrell on October 17 at the Trent FM arena in Nottingham. Froch tells A. Gomez of LiveFight that he studied tapes of Dirrell and doesn't see a problem dealing with his hand speed or switch-hitting ability.
Former junior welterweight king Kostya Tszyu is not going to miss the hottest ticket in town on November 14. He plans to attend the WBO welterweight title bout between Manny Pacquiao and champion Miguel Cotto. Tyszu does not expect an easy fight for Pacquiao. He says Cotto is a very talented fight and bigger than Oscar De La Hoya who Pacquiao stopped last December.
According to Montreal's La Presse newspaper, a second autopsy conducted on former champion Arturo Gatti has ruled that he died as a result of a hanging, and not from being strangled. Gatti was found dead by his wife Amanda Rodrigues on July 11 in an apartment they were renting in Recife, Brazil.
Ricky Hatton has indicated very clearly that retirement is near. Hatton wants to focus on his promotional company. He wants to use all of his energy on promoting big events and one day getting bigger than the big two of the UK, Frank Warren and Frank Maloney.
At the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Floyd Mayweather Jr, following his dominating win over Juan Manuel Marquez, was confronted in the ring by WBA welterweight champion Shane Mosley. It became very hostile and several individuals got between them to keep both fighters apart from each other. Some words were exchanged and Mayweather's post-fight interview with Max Kellerman was cut short soon afterwards