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According to the Associated Press, last Saturday's junior middleweight bout between Miguel Cotto and Yuri Foreman generated the highest television rating for HBO in 2010. The fight, which saw Cotto stop Foreman in the ninth round to become a three division champion, had a rating of 3.9. The number equals around 1.9 million viewers.
Former junior welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi continues to voice suspicions about Manny Pacquiao. Malignaggi has never been shy about going on the record with his feelings about Pacquiao. He believes the Filipino champion is using performance enhancing drugs, and won't be convinced otherwise unless Pacquiao decides to take part in a random drug testing protocol.
Undefeated junior middleweight prospect James Kirkland (25-0, 22KOs) will be released from prison on October 2 and could fight again before the year is out. Kirkland's manager Cameron Dunkin gave Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports the good news. Kirkland will enter a halfway house to finish up the remainder of his sentence. BoxingScene.com was previously told by Kirkland's co-manager and attorney Michael Miller that he would be able to leave the halfway house to train, and fight.
Former junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman will require knee surgery to fix the damage he sustained from an injury suffered in the seventh round of last Saturday's fight with Miguel Cotto at Yankee Stadium. Foreman tore his meniscus in his right knee and stretched ligaments.
Trainer Freddie Roach says WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan is ready to take on all comers at 140-pounds. Roach, speaking with The Telegraph, fired off at the camp of Michael Katsidis who claimed Amir was ducking their fight. Roach stated what BoxingScene.com had reported numerous times, it was going to cost too much money to get Katsidis in the ring for July 31. Former champion Joel Casamayor has agreed to face Khan on the date.
According to Carl Froch's promoter Mick Hennessy, the upcoming Super Six clash with Arthur Abraham is heading to Montreal on September 18. Froch had refused to fight Abraham in his backyard of Germany and Abraham was refusing to fight Froch in Nottingham.
Top Rank CEO Bob Arum says Manny Pacquiao is ready to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr next. Pacquiao has agreed to Mayweather terms [that were made earlier this year], including random Olympic-style drug testing until 14-days before a scheduled fight date, a 50-50 split on the money, and the fight could take place in Las Vegas.
Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum is not paying any attention to the latest talk that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is considering another multi-year retirement. The veteran promoter, who handles the career of Manny Pacquiao, brushed off a recent video interview where Mayweather said "I'm taking a couple years off... away from the sport of boxing. I want to devote my time to my boxing gym."
At New York's Yankee Stadium, Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28KOs) stopped previously undefeated Yuri Foreman (28-1, 8KOs) to capture the WBA junior middleweight title. Cotto becomes a three division champion.
At New York's Yankee Stadium, Vanes Martirosyan (28-0, 17KOs) won the battle of the unbeaten junior middleweights with a unanimous ten round decision over Joe Greene (22-1, 14KOs) to retain the NABF/NABO super welterweight titles. The official scores were 96-93, 96-93 and 98-91.