Kessler Backs Out, Miranda Bout is Off

[Xyei]

This is surprising. I don't see any reason that Kessler would be afraid of Miranda but it certainly appears that way at the moment.

I'm definitely interested in what the Kessler team has to say about this.

[MELLY-MEL...]

i hope he did this for a bigger fight, or else i am going to be disappointed in him

[Sin City]

Didn't take long for some people to jump to conclusions with out knowing the real reason behind Kessler backing out.

He wanted a ten rounder.. instead of 12. they gave him the money he asked for along with everything else. If Kessler doesn't pull through with a better fight then it's obvious that he didn't take the fight because it was too risky and didn't want to risk two loses in a row. This forum is all on Kessler's nuts but if it would have been another fighter, we wouldn't hear the end of it!

[Peder]

Afraid of Miranda?? Why?
He´s gunning for Bute and Miranda is just a low ranked fighter in Kesslers eyes. thats the deal.. Kesslers life long ambition has to do with the 4 belts, nothing else.

[Peder]

Afraid of Miranda?? Why?
He´s gunning for Bute and Miranda is just a low ranked fighter in Kesslers eyes. thats the deal.. Kesslers life long ambition has to do with the 4 belts, nothing else.

[the_abbot]

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=171712

[Shalafi]

He wanted a ten rounder.. instead of 12. they gave him the money he asked for along with everything else. If Kessler doesn't pull through with a better fight then it's obvious that he didn't take the fight because it was too risky and didn't want to risk two loses in a row. This forum is all on Kessler's nuts but if it would have been another fighter, we wouldn't hear the end of it!

Yeah, imagine if it would of been Antonio Margarito

[Pantera2000]

The Kessler team will come out with some excuse and it will be a bunch of bull****. Kessler did not want to take the risk, bottom line. Miranda looks huge and extremly powerful at 168lbs. He want to fight someone with low risk.

[deanrw]

“I am outraged by the behavior of the Kessler camp,” said Leon Margules, Executive Director of Seminole Warriors Boxing. “We sent them a contract with everything they asked for and then told Showtime we changed things. Please read their written deal point memo sent to us by them. We gave them everything they wanted. Showtime even moved the date form May 10th to May 24th to accommodate them. And then I did not receive the courtesy of a phone call but I had to hear from Showtime the fight was off. It is hard to believe that any person would do business this way. I guess the Kessler is really afraid of Miranda and they are covering for him. They must believe the only place they can win a fight against a real fighter is in Denmark.”

“If Kessler isn’t man enough to fight me, that’s okay because now the world knows that we gave him everything he asked for and still wouldn’t take the fight,” said Miranda. “I know that there has to be someone out there willing to fight me, and sooner or later, we’ll find him.”

[Benn_Foust]

Interesting fight. I think Kessler would outbox him from the outside. I don't think there is a reason for Kessler to be scared of Miranda.