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Former six division champion Oscar De La Hoya is keeping quiet on the big decision that he plans to announce during a press conference on April 14 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. De La Hoya will either announce his retirement or a future date for a final return to the ring. One thing is for sure, De La Hoya's decision will be his own, and not based on how his wife or anyone else feels.
According to trainer Freddie Roach, the way to give Manny Pacquiao the most trouble is to have a strategy and style like Juan Manuel Marquez, and Ricky Hatton is not the fighter to have it. Hatton challenges Pacquiao on May 2 in Las Vegas. Roach tells Gareth Davies of The Telegraph that Pacquiao will not stand in front of Hatton. They plan to use speed and movement to work Hatton over.
Promoter Frank Warren says Andreas Kotelnik is the right opponent at the right time for UK lightweight star Amir Khan.
Wednesday's brawl, between WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto and uncle/trainer Evangelista Cotto, will have legal consequences. As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, Cotto and his uncle came to blows at 3:15PM on Wednesday at the Bairoa Gym in Caguas, Puerto Rico after a dispute over a new training plan that was presented by Miguel.
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - The weights are in for what plans to be a red hot doubleheader from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. HBO will televise. Former welterweight champion and current WBO interim-junior middleweight champion Paul "The Punisher" Williams came in at 157-pounds strong. Former undisputed middleweight champion Winky Wright, back for the first time in nearly two years, hit the scales at 159-pounds.
At the Sportpalace Drusba in Donetsk, Ukraine, Vyacheslav Senchenko (29-0, 20 KOs) remained undefeated with with a twelve round unanimous decision over Yuri Nuzhnenko (28-1-1, 13 KOs) to capture the WBA "regular" welterweight title. The scores were 118-110, 116-112 and 116-112. Senchenko was said to have built up an early lead by boxing from the outside and using his jab as the key weapon to set up his bigger punches. Nuzhnenko suffered a cut over his left eye in the middle rounds and plenty of facial swelling as the contest wore on. He rallied at the end, but it was too late with Senchenko holding a comfortable advantage on the scorecards.
An early statistical look on the June 27 clash between WBO/WBC middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik and former junior middleweight champion/Contender season one winner Sergio Mora. The fight will televised by Top Rank pay-per-view from the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.
Winky Wright, returning to the ring for the first time in nearly two-years on Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, has dedicated the fight with Paul Williams to Artie Curry, who was found dead in his New York City apartment Wednesday. Curry, 49, was HBO's director of boxing talent relations, and very well liked among everyone in the boxing industry.
Former four division champion Roy Jones Jr. is targeting any and all comers. At 40-years-old, Jones is moving quick to secure another fight. will be a very interested party in the outcome of tonight's bout between Jeff Lacy and Otis Griffin. Jones hopes that Lacy pulls through so the two of them could meet in a fight that would certainly sell a lot of tickets in Florida, where both men are big names
There appears to be a lot of speculation in the UK that Amir Khan, based on his shocking move to junior welterweight, is trying to position himself in the direction of a mega-fight with superstar countryman Ricky Hatton. In the past Khan has spoken about the possibility of fighting Hatton one day in the future, and appeared confident that his style would present "The Hitman" with too many problems to overcome.