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The trainer of several past and present boxing champions is not going down the road of helping fighters involved in different combat sports. Freddie Roach spoke with Golzka about helping U F C welterweight champion Georges St. Plerre with improving his ability to box. Roach's work with fighters like Manny Pacquiao and James Toney has attracted atheletes from other sports who want to improve their shape and fighting ability.
WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko thinks a fight between his brother Wladimir, and IBF mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin will happen. Vitali thinks it's too early in Povetkin's career to fight his brother, but the Russian fighter's team is pushing for the contest and a fight with David Haye is not close to being agreed upon.
The ex-heavyweight champion of the WBA, Nikolai Valuev, liked what he saw in Ruslan Chagaev's twelve round decision win over Kali Meehan in Saturday's fight in Germany. The fight was a WBA eliminator for a shot at current champion David Haye. Chagaev was the first fight to beat Valuev on points. Valuev has not fought since losing his title to Haye last year. He is waiting for a date to fight Odlanier Solis in a WBC eliminator.
WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao was quoted in Golzka as stating that Floyd Mayweather Jr. no longer had a reason to avoid a possible fight between the two of them. A few months ago, Mayweather requested Pacquiao to take random drug tests until 14-days before a planned May fight. Pacquiao refused his demand but agreed to take the random tests until 24-days before their fight date.
In a recent interview, trainer Freddie Roach spoke about his junior welterweight champion, Amir Khan, and their future goals. Roach wants Khan to clean out the junior welterweight division. He thinks his champion is ready for all of the top fighters at 140-pounds. He would like for Khan to beat all of the top fighters in his division and then move up to welterweight for what might be a major fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr.
The management of Floyd Mayweather Jr. have issued “no comment” responses with respect to the new drug testing stance by Manny Pacquiao. In a report by Reeklama, representatives of Mayweather, including father/trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr., trainer Roger Mayweather and Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer issues “no comment” responses to Pacquiao’s position to take part in random Olympic style drug testing up until 14-days before a tentative fight date of November 14.
Trainer Emanuel Steward is predicting a very hard contest when Miguel Cotto, a former champion at 140 and 147-pounds, moves up in weight to 154-pounds to challenge undefeated WBA champion Yuri Foreman on June 5 in Yankee Stadium located in New York.
The manager for heavyweight Tomasz Adamek says a deal is close to fight heavyweight title challenger Michael Grant. Ziggy Rozalski told thenews.pl that Adamek-Grant is 98% close to done for either August or September in Atlantic City or Newark.
Former heavyweight champion Corrie Sanders, the man who knocked out Wladimir Klitschko in two rounds in 2003 and was later knocked out by older brother Vitali in eight rounds in 2004, thinks WBA heavyweight champion David Haye is not big enough to beat Wladimir.
The IBF's championship chairman Lindsey Tucker says a deal is still possible for a unification between WBO/IBF/IBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and WBA champion David Haye. The IBF gave them a deadline of May 17 to make a deal. Right now Klitschko has to negotiate with his mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin. If there is no deal for Klitschko-Povetkin by June 17, the sanctioning organization will send the fight to a purse bid.