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According to trainer/manager Adam Booth, David Haye will return to the gym to resume full training in two weeks time. Haye withdrew from June 20th bout with IBF/WBO champ Wladimir Klitschko after suffering a back injury in camp. Booth says a decision on Haye's future will be made in the next few days.
The ongoing legal saga between Joe Calzaghe and former promoter Frank Warren may be over, for now. Calzaghe has been awarded around £1.8million, winning his lawsuit against Warren and his company Sports Network. Judges refused Warren’s request to appeal the High Court ruling.
Undefeated featherweight prospect Yuriorkis Gamboa is looking for big things in the near future. The young star is now being co-promoted by Germany-based Arena Box and top American company Top Rank. Gamboa appears in his first Top Rank promoted bout on the Latin Fury 10 pay-per-view that features Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in the main event on July 25 in Mexico.
Former four division champion Roy Jones Jr. is not a believer that pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao will be able to defeat Shane Mosley or Floyd Mayweather Jr. Speaking on KFXX, Jones doesn't really see size as the big downfall for Pacquiao. He feels Mosley and Mayweather are faster and stronger. He doesn't even think it's fair to place Pacquiao in those fights.
Former champions Roy Jones Jr. and Danny Green officially announced to the Australian media that a deal was reached to fight each other in the month of November in Australia. First they will co-headline a card on August 15 in Biloxi, Mississippi. Jones will face Jeff Lacy and Green will take on Argentina's Julio Cesar Dominguez for the vacant IBO cruiserweight title.
SoBe Entertainment has filed a $2 million dollar lawsuit against Paul Wight, known as "The Big Show" in wrestling circles, over a failed boxing deal. After Wight parted ways with the WWE in 2006, the seven-foot wrestler planned to make a run in the sport of boxing. In 2007, he signed a major deal with SoBe to train him for his pro boxing career. SoBe claims that Wight refused to go forward with his boxing run and returned to the WWE in 2008 to face Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a staged bout at Wrestlemania 24.
Former champion Joe Calzaghe has been retired for a few months but the offers continue to pour in. Calzaghe says the desire to fight is no longer there but he would consider a return to the ring for the right amount of money. He would return for an offer of £10 million but also knows that nobody will put that kind of offer on the table.
WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto felt a sense of duty to finish his fight with Joshua Clottey last Saturday at New York’s Madison Square Garden. In the early rounds, Cotto suffered a serious cut above his left eye from a clash of heads and the blood flowed heavy for most of the fight.
It seems the rumors of Roy Jones Jr. vs. Danny Green are starting to shape up. According to the Australian version of Fox Sports, a press conference is scheduled for Wednesday morning, with Jones [via satellite] and Green, and involves a huge announcement that is sure to be a disclosure of the two boxers facing off. Green recently dumped his August 5th bout with Shannon Taylor with little reason.
WBO/IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko says the heavyweight division may be under fire from boxing fans in America, but the entire weight class is thriving in Europe. A sell-out crowd of 60,000 are expected at the FC Schalke football stadium in Gelsenkirchen, Germany on Saturday as Klitschko defends his titles against undefeated Ruslan Chagaev.