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According to an interview with Japan Today, former flyweight champion Koki Kameda is moving up in weight to target the super flyweights. Kameda is looking for his third divisional title. He won belts at junior flyweight and flyweight. He will make his super flyweight debut at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium on July 25.
Canadian cruiserweight Troy Ross is protesting Saturday's loss to Steve Cunningham in Neubrandenburg, Germany. Cunningham won the fight and the vacant IBF cruiserweight title, when the fight was stopped prior to the start of the fifth round. Ross suffered a bad cut in the corner of his left eye.
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. would like to see his unbeaten younger brother, welterweight Omar Chavez, uses the services of trainer Freddie Roach. Chavez is training with Roach at the Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles, California, to prepare for his upcoming fight with John Duddy on June 26 in Texas.
Retired British heavyweight Julius Francis took a look at the British heavyweight landscape during a recent interview with BoxingScene.com/bokser.org. Francis sees WBA heavyweight champion David Haye as the obvious best in the country, and there is nobody who really falls behind as the number two man at the moment. He says Audley Harrison is starting to come back up, but he doesn't think Harrison has done enough to earn a big opportunity for Haye's title.
Middleweight contender Marco Antonio Rubio (46-5, 40KOs) will face Samuel Miller (20-3, 17KOs) on June 12 at the Estadio Centenario in Gomez Palacio, Durango, Mexico, for the vacant WBC international title.
Retired superstar Joe Calzaghe has turned down an offer for a possible ring return in a rematch with Bernard Hopkins. Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer had approached Calzaghe about a possible Hopkins fight. The Welsh star told Schaefer he would consider the offer. After thinking about it, he ruled out a comeback. Calzaghe retired in early 2009.
Brendon Smith, the manager for WBO interim-lightweight champion Michael Katsidis, says Amir Khan made the safe choice by deciding on a fight with Joel Casamayor for July 31 in England. Katsidis and Casamayor were the two top choices for Khan's next fight. Smith thinks Khan watched a tape of Katsidis' recent TKO win over Kevin Mitchell and it scared them off.
Despite an announcement in Mexico City that Fernando Montiel will defend his WBO/WBC bantamweight titles against Rafael Concepcion on July 17 in Chiapas, there are doubts the fight will happen, at least with the titles on the line, because Concepcion is not ranked in the top fifteen by the WBC or the WBO.
Heavyweight John McDermott has promised to punish, knockout unbeaten Tyson Fury on June 25 when they fight in Brentwood for the vacant English heavyweight. McDermott wants to avenge last September's controversial decision loss to Fury. McDermott was seen as the winner by most observers. Viewers were shocked when referee Terry O'Connor handed down the sole score of 98-92 in favor of Fury. The British Boxing Board of Control ordered an immediate rematch.
According to The Sun, WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan has offered former champion Joel Casamayor a sum of £400,000 to fight him at London's O2 on July 31. Golden Boy Promotions plans to package the fight with the Juan Manuel Marquez-Juan Diaz HBO pay-per-view, which airs the same day.