With Winky Wright's left hand injury forcing him to withdraw from a Dec. 4 Versus bout, which would have been his first since a loss to Bernard Hopkins in July 2007, he won't return to action until early next year, either Feb. 28 or March 14 on HBO. Golden Boy says it is talking with three potential opponents, all of which are notable: middleweight titleholder Arthur Abraham, super middleweight titlist Mikkel Kessler and interim junior middleweight belt holder Paul Williams. If it's Williams, the bout could be pushed into April because Williams is healing from a severe cut suffered in his Nov. 29 win against Verno Phillips.
I hope he gets a deal
winky vs aa would be a bit of a bore but it might appeal to winky, he might look at AA and think that he can outmsart him, winning a belt at 160 would also set up a fight with pavlik. it would be a huge fight but one that imo winky can win quite comfortably, if he brings his A game.
a fight with pwilliams might result in a loss, paul is hungry, has not received the recognition that he feels he desereves and that makes him dangerous, adding the winky scalp would give paul real credibility in the LMW ranks but also give him exposure as well. i just think that paul's reach and activity level will be too much, yes winky is smart but paul has a helluva good jab when he chooses to use it and would be just have too much.
as for the kessler fight, well if winky wants his head to be knocked clean off his shoulders he should take this fight. if they ever do get it on kess would kill him with that right uppercut.
dont rule out winky vs DLH, as well.
LOL. What a bunch of assess on this forum. All this talk of Kessler/Wright. And what weight would this fight take place at? Kessler is too big to go under 168. At SMW Kess would kick his american ass.
Hopefully it's Kessler because I want AA to fight Pavlik. Besides a fight between AA and Winky would be a borefest.
And Winky better not overprice himself.
a year and eight months off after loss.
if winky brings his A game he could do it against aa,kessler,pwill.
For sure he could. Vitali's lay-off was twice as long and he come back to destroy his divisions no.2.
I want the Williams fight because of two things:
1. It'd probably be the most entertaining (Not that Kessler and Abraham are boring, but still...Abraham vs Winky especially could be a snoozer)
2. Everyone keeps talkin shit about how Williams would dominate everyone from 147-168 :lol1: Wright is a great test to show if he can compete at Middle.
abraham to set up a fight with pavlik.
Id like to see him fight Abraham or Williams. At 168 I think Kessler might be too much for him at this point.
Id say Williams is the fight Id look forward to.
Who do you guys think he has best and worst chance of beating? Williams has the reach and throws the most punches. Arthur and Kessler have the power advantage.
I agree. Kessler is trash. He has had nothing but hand picked garbage euro competition handed to his ass.
So if Kessler and Wright were to fight - who would win?
im a huge Winky fan, hopefully he can fight AA and then Pavlik. kessler is just way too overrated IMO.
I agree. Kessler is trash. He has had nothing but hand picked garbage euro competition handed to his ass.
I think he'll be shot by the time he fights again if he does. Dude sat out way too long. I think he'd have the best chance against AA of the guys mentioned.
mmmmmmmmmmmmm winky is gonna lose with all that rust.....and hes like 37?lol......just retire i dont want any of those guys to beat winky....
but **** it.....ill root for him anyway...no way he loses to the unskilled chumps pwill and abraham if he is close to form.......kessler may be too big....