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During a recent telephone conference with the media, trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. took plenty of shots at the recognized pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao. Mayweather Sr. said Pacquiao was no match, in any category, to Floyd Mayweather Jr. The elder Mayweather has been helping his son train for the September 19 bout with Juan Manuel Marquez.
Undefeated junior welterweight contender Dmitiry Salita is likely going to challenge Amir Khan for the WBA junior welterweight title in the UK in early December. A date of December 5 has been mentioned for the fight. Salita is not worried about fighting in Khan's backyard.
The agreed upon between welterweights Shane Mosley and Joshua Clottey is facing resistance from HBO. Last week Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank reached an agreement to stage the fight on December 26 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The whole situation is very bizare.
Trainer Freddie Roach is ready to fly over to Baguio to start training Manny Pacquiao for the November 14 bout with WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto. Roach, speaking with The Examiner, shot down rumors of Jose Luis Castillo being selected as a sparring partner for his fighter. Roach will make the trip on September 19.
According to promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank, WBO/WBC middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik has been cleared by a doctor to start training on October 10. The timeline would give Pavlik the right amount of time to get ready for a December 5 title defense against Paul Williams. The fight would take place at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City and HBO will televise.
WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez is very, very confident and ready to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. right now. The fight takes place on September 19 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Marquez is finishing up his training camp in Mexico and preparing to head over to Los Angeles for some media functions and then to Las Vegas
Lightweight Michael Katsidis (25-2, 21 KOs) promises an impressive performance when he faces Vicente Escobedo (21-1, 13 KOs) for the WBO interim-lightweight title on the undercard to Floyd Mayweather-Juan Manuel Marquez welterweight in Las Vegas on September 19. Katsidis' trainer said his fighter won an award and didn't even go to the WBO convention to pick it up.
According to a recent piece in The Guardian, WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan and his promoter Frank Warren are considering a legal suit social networking site Facebook. The two have had sent their lawyers after Facebook, threatening the company with legal action. The possible legal suit has to do with "bogus" pages that contain the images and names of Warren/Khan being posted alongside material that both men consider to be defamatory and racist.
On September 12 at Arena Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico, former super flyweight champion Cristian Mijares will attempt to keep his career alive when he meets undefeated Nehomar Cermeno in a rematch for the interim-WBA bantamweight title. Mijares was once considered the best but after suffering back to back defeats, his career is on the ropes. He was knocked out by Vic Darchinyan last November and then lost a split-decision to Cermeno in March.
Omar Soto has arrived in Mexico, motivated to take the WBC junior flyweight crown of Edgar Sosa and bring it back to Puerto Rico. Soto challenges Sosa for the title on September 15. He is listed as a serious underdog. That hasn't broken his motivation to win.