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Freddie Roach has stoked the flames ahead of the Floyd Mayweather versus Manny Pacquiao super-fight by claiming that he would beat Roger Mayweather, the trainer/uncle of Floyd, in a fight. Roach told The Telegraph that Roger was a better boxer than him in the ring but insisted that he’d prevail if they met on the cobbles.
Hatton Promotions hopeful Scott Quigg, who impressed when stopping Yuri Voronin in six rounds last time out, has revealed that his toughest opponent may yet turn out to be his local council authority.
Adam Booth, who trains WBA heavyweight title holder David Haye, has told Sky Sports News that his man has the beating of Vitali Klitschko. Vitali defended his WBC title with a lacklustre points win over America’s Kevin Johnson - who flattered to deceive for much of the bout - in Switzerland last night. Booth, who, along with Haye, was in Berne on a watching brief, believes that his man can defeat the 6’ 7½’’ Ukrainian.
Aberdeen’s Lee McAllister will make history on the 29th of January by becoming the first Aberdonian to headline a boxing show in the West of Scotland. Lee is set to defend his Commonwealth title against Ghana’s Samuel Amoako at the Bellahouston Leisure Centre, Glasgow; the fight will be televised on Sky Sports here in the UK.
Outspoken Denton-based trainer Joe Gallagher, who guided Matthew Macklin to victory in Ireland last weekend, has hit out at Amir Khan’s claim that ‘I know if I were a white English fighter, I would be a superstar in Britain and the world’ by declaring that the WBA light-welterweight champion is bringing race into sport.
Tony Jeffries closes out his first year as a pro in Newport, Wales later tonight when he tussles with Andrejs Tolstihs over six three-minute rounds. Jeffries, an Olympic bronze medallist, has been given assurances by promoter Frank Maloney that 2010 will be just as busy as 2009 for the Sunderland boxer.
Former Commonwealth, European and WBC world champion Richie Woodhall is now moulding fighters at his Aston Arena-based gym. Woodhall, who gave Joe Calzaghe a tough night in 2000, believes that Birmingham’s Don Broadhurst, the Commonwealth super-flyweight champion, has more than enough ability to annex Lee Haskins’ British crown at the Newport Leisure Centre, Wales this Friday night.
Manchester’s John Murray is set to take on Anthony Mezaache for the EBU lightweight title early next year. The 24-year-old British champion is hoping to use the fight, which may also double as a WBC eliminator, as a springboard for a domestic showdown with Kevin Mitchell.
Frank Warren’s two Olympians, Billy Joe Saunders and James DeGale, were featured on the undercard of Khan-Salita alongside World Amateur Championships medallist Frankie Gavin, with all three posting wins at the Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle on Saturday night.
Kevin Mitchell breezed to the biggest win of his career by defeating Columbia’s Breidis Prescott on points at the Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle last night. There had been pre-fights fears that the twenty-five-year-old Dagenham fighter, who loves a tear-up, would be too open for Prescott, who took Amir Khan apart in 54 seconds last September.