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WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan is now pushing for the showdown with interim-champion Marcos Maidana. Khan plans to return at the end of July in England and then wants to fight again in the United States at the end of the year. Khan is not ducking away from fighting Maidana next, in the UK, on the tentative date of July 31.
As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, the heavyweight bout between David Tua (51-3-1, 43 KOs) and Monte Barrett (34-9) was going to move from June 26 in in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to a date of July 17 in Atlantic City. The move is now official and the fight will take place at the Tropicana Casino and Resort. Tua will defend his WBO Asia Pacific and WBO Oriental heavyweight title belts.
WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan has given some advice to his fallen countryman, Kevin Mitchell. The British lightweight was crushed inside of three rounds by Michael Katsidis last Saturday night. Khan suffered a bad loss a few years ago when Breidis Prescott knocked him out in 54-seconds of the first round. He bounced back to become even bigger. He thinks the same thing will happen with Mitchell.
Joel Diaz, trainer for WBO junior welterweight champion Timothy Bradley, doesn't see Amir Khan, the WBA champ, being able to last ten rounds against them. Diaz watched Khan's win over Paulie Malignaggi from last Saturday and he wasn't impressed with the performance.
Fighter turned promoter, Ricky Hatton, has no interest in fighting WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan. If Hatton were to fight again, a battle with Khan would be one of the biggest money fights in British boxing history. Hatton predicted a dominating win for Khan in last Saturday's fight against Paulie Malignaggi. Hatton stopped Malignaggi in 2008.
WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko is not taking any chances with his May 29 opponent, Albert Sosnowski. Even though Sosnowski is a huge underdog in the fight, Vitali is training very hard and prepared for anything that might happen. Over 30,000 tickets have been sold and a crowd of 40-50,000 is expected to pack the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
Last Saturday in New York's Madison Square Garden may have been the last ring appearance for former junior welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi. For eleven tough rounds, he took a lot of punishment from WBA champion Amir Khan. Referee Steve Smoger stopped the fight after Khan landed a hard combination during the eleventh.
The social networks have created some strange online wars between boxers. The latest in the last few days has been between undefeated British heavyweight prospect Tyson Fury and super middleweight Andre Dirrell.
Former junior welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi gives his take on the June 5 bout between WBA junior middleweight Yuri Foreman and two-division belt winner Miguel Cotto. The fight happens at New York's Yankee Stadium. Malignaggi is familiar with both of the fighters. He is friends with Foreman and lost a unanimous decision to Cotto several years ago.
Heavyweight Shane Cameron can't wait to drop down to cruiserweight for a chance to fight IBO cruiserweight champion Danny Green. Cameron is not a small heavyweight. It will be interesting to see how much weight he can drop. He weighs an average of 230-pounds per fight. He would have a big size advantage on Green, even at 200-pounds. Green weighs an average of 180-pounds for his cruiserweight bouts.