One mega fight is good to go according to Kelly Palik promoter Bob Arum.
Arum, the Top Rank Top Honcho, told Examiner.com and ******************.com that there is no reason fior HBO for not to proceed with a Super Fight between “Ghost” Pavlik and Paul “The Punisher” Williams on Dec. 5 in Atlantic City.
“Pavlik has been completely medically cleared by the Cleveland Clinic in terms of the staph infection he had on his left hand,” Arum told me late Wednesday night. “Forget about what local doctors in Youngstown, Ohip, told Kelly. Forget about all that because these are top doctors, real specialists in their fields. I found amusing that some of them actually attended Kelly’s fight last February against Marco Antonio Rubio in Youngstown so it’s not like Kelly as a patient was somebody they did not know.”
In other news, Arum informed me:\
--Only a few hundred ringside tickets remain available for Cotto-Pacman mega fight Nov. 14 at the MGM Grand in Las V egas.
--He is not sure yet where Megamanny will begin training.
--He knows that his sidekick, Cameron Dunkin, is the new manager of WBO junior welterweight champion Tim Bradley but says that his charge, Lamont Peterson, has a WBO mandated title bout to come against Bradley.
I'm not as interested in this fight now, even though I still want to see it happen. I think that Mosley should fight Paul Williams too if Williams can get down to 147 and that $3 million offer by Goosen is legit. I wish that HBO should kick Berto to the curb and freeze his ass out, because a Pavlik-Williams fight is more important than one of his cherry picking expeditions. A Clottey-Mosley fight would be something that I would be a little bit interested in too. Because if Mosley beat Clottey decisively it would put pressure on Arum to deliver Mosley one of his bigger name fighters.
They should really try a double feature or something. Boxing has been in the shitter this year.
if the money could fit the price of course.
Williams/Pavlik, Berto/Mosley would be awesome on the same card
heck HBO's done triple headers in the past (one of my fav's being Cintron/Walter, Gatti-Gomez and of course P-Will-Margarito)
why not do a Pav-Williams, Berto-IBF champ, Mosley-Clottey card?
but as to why not, my first guess would be financial concerns, as I'd think Pavlik, Mosley and Williams would want paydays HBO cannot cover in their budget.
Both fights are completely important for boxing,the sport needs them to happen!!JMM-floyd& Cotto-Pacman are decent events,but when it comes to sheer importance,championship fights without catchweights at 147 & 160,are needed far more!!:boxing:
or Clottey, from what I hear. Not sure though. I think HBO wants Pavlik/Williams more than Mosley/Berto.
They should really try a double feature or something. Boxing has been in the shitter this year.
Thats BS! The date is already secured by GBP! And we know ssm's soft azz aint gon take on PW so we can kill that noise. PW is fighting on 3 OCT, PERIOD! 4GET kp and let him fight one of those great doctors that cleared him. This guy and his team are full of shyt!
One problem. According to Shane Mosley's manager, he has that date locked down and they aren't giving it up. I read it on ESPN.com.
That aside, I really want to see Pavlik get Punished.
How about Shane fights P-will on that date.