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The new WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto is open to a future rematch with Mexican rival Antonio Margarito. The tough Mexican handed Cotto his first career loss in 2008 with a TKO in eleven rounds.
Reports in Russia suggest that Alexander Povetkin wants to fight WBO/IBO/IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko in Moscow's Megasport Arena. The venue can hold over 14,000 fans. Povetkin's manager Vladimir Hryunov was quoted in a few reports stating that Alexander wants a Klitschko fight in Russia.
The WBA's heavyweight champion David Haye is take the side of Floyd Mayweather Jr. on the issue of random drug testing in the sport of boxing. Mayweather wants Manny Pacquiao and any future opponent to undergo a random drug testing protocol for performance enhancing drugs.
According to several reports in the Eastern European press, WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko may have earned over $25 million for last month's knockout of brave Pole Albert Sosnowski.
The new WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto is back in his country of Puerto Rico. Quoted by Golzka, Cotto said he would speak with his team and Top Rank, who promote him, to figure out the next fight in 2010.
The super middleweight fight between Arthur Abraham and Carl Froch is being pushed for the Bell Centre in Canada on September 18. BoxingScene.com reported over the weekend that Abraham vs Froch was being discussed for Montreal to settle the ongoing dispute over the site. Abraham-Froch is part of the third stage of fights in Showtime's Super Six Boxing Classic.
The trainer of Roger Mayweather was contacted by Reeklama to discuss the recent comments made by Floyd Mayweather Jr., who last week stated in a video interview that he was considering a brief retirement for one or two years. Mayweather Jr.'s adviser was also contacted, Leonard Ellerbe, who told the paper Mayweather was spending time with family and relaxing and was not thinking about boxing for the moment.
As BoxingScene.com has recently reported, unified WBC/WBO and universally recognized middleweight champion Sergio Gabriel Martinez had been stripped of the WBO portion of his regalia, and the World Boxing Organization’s 160lb belt is now vacant.
The WBC world heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko spoke to Golzka and was quoted as saying that David Haye, ruler of the WBA title, continues to be afraid to fight him and his brother, WBO/IBF/IBO champion Wladimir Klitschko. The Klitschko brothers have tried without success to get Haye in the ring for a fight.
The WBO junior middleweight champion Sergiy Dzinziruk is looking to stage a unification duel with WBC champion Sergio Martinez, also the current holder of the WBC championship at 160-pounds. Dzinziruk's mandatory challenger is Alfredo Angulo. They are under the same promoter Gary Shaw. He told Dzinziruk that a fight with Angulo will not take place until a later moment in time.