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WBA welterweight champion Shane Mosley has been very vocal as of late. Maybe a sign of desperation to get a big fight. Mosley has been baiting his rival, Floyd Mayweather Jr, at every turn. Mosley is a partner in Golden Boy Promotions and still questions Mayweather’s reasoning for fighting Juan Manuel Marquez, the WBA/WBO lightweight champion.
IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko has promised to punish David Haye on June 20 in Germany. He plans to execute the "pizza face" and show no mercy for the pre-fight abuse that Haye threw at him and his brother Vital for several months, includind the wearing of a t-shirt that showed the dismembered heads of the Klitschko brothers and another that wrote "Wladimir Bitchko."
WBA/IBF super bantamweight champion Celestino Caballero is targeting a unification fight with WBO champion Juan Manuel Lopez. Caballero was a bit upset over some recent comments that were made by Lopez. Juanma told reporters in Puerto Rico that Caballero does not bring enough money to the table for a fight. While Caballero says Lopez is facing opponents who have little to no chance of winning and is scared to take a real challenge.
Undisputed super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan is looking to make boxing history by continuing to move up in weight and win titles. He became the first man to unify the super flyweight division and now he wants to win all of the titles at bantamweight. His first test will come on July 11 against IBF puncher Joseph Agbeko. After Agebko, he wants more titles, whether it be at bantamweight or at a higher weight.
The WBC has given their full support to "Champion Emeritus" Israel Vazquez, who was recently approved to fight after recovering from several surgical procedures to correct a detached retina.
The returning Floyd Mayweather Jr. was confronted with a serious questions. Why is he fighting Juan Manuel Marquez instead of Shane Mosley? Mosley is viewed by many as the top fighter at 147-pounds, a division where Mayweather resides. Floyd returns on July 18 against Marquez at catch-weight of 144-pounds. Marquez, the WBA/WBO lightweight champ, moves up by nearly two weight divisions.
The light heavyweight bout between Chris Henry and Ross Thompson was never meant to be. The were due to meet on June 4 at the Civic Center in Humble, Texas. As previously reported last week, Henry was arrested in Texas after an altercation with police. Henry was acting in a wild manner on the street. His girlfriend had alleged to police that he was smoking PCP. He was jailed and later released.
Middleweight Daniel Geale and his team are planning to send an appeal to the IBO to force a rematch with Anthony Mundine, claiming the boxer used illegal tactics in the fight and used intimidation to frighten the judges. Geale lost a close split-decision to Mundine last week in Australia. It was the first loss of Geale's career.
Nikolai Valuev is steaming mad over the cancellation of his rematch with Ruslan Chagaev, which was scheduled for last Saturday in Helsinki. The fight was cancelled when Chagaev's blood test results revealed that he was suffering from a mild form of hepititis B. The results came back nearly four hours after both fighter had weighed in. Valuev says that Chagaev's team knew something was wrong by the way the blood tests were handled.
Top Rank's Bob Arum, who promotes pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao, is taking a hard line with Floyd Mayweather Jr's mindset of receiving more money in a proposed fight with the Filipino star. Mayweather recently said that he would request at least a 60-40 monetary split for a fight with Pacquiao.