Everyone Cross Your Fingers

[INFAMOUZ]

http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=014043

Boxrec has Johnson and Tarver down for Dec. 18. Maybe they are a little more sure than the rest of the media.

Personally, I'm going to feel really irate and cheated if this doesn't come off. HBO should put up the money for this thing, and promise the fighters that reguardless of sanctioning bodies, the winner will be invited back on HBO as champion, and the loser will at least be looked at.

Someone explain to me how the mandatory policy makes any damn sense. What did these anonymous challengers achieve to get in line in front of everybody else? Johnson and Tarver is the biggest fight at light heavyweight, and if HBO can't make it happen, what is the point of having that big checkbook?

Don King is going to make a fuss that this fight shouldn't happen. King should be laughed at. He feels that Tarver owes him a WBC title defense as part of the deal for King winning the purse bid to promote Jones-Tarver 2. Don, why don't you lighten the **** up? You're a rich man, Tarver is a poor man. You made money off of Antonio Tarver, now it's time to let him do his own thing.

I believe that if Johnson-Tarver is on for Dec. 18, Hopkins will forget about Howard Eastman very quickly. This may be what he was hinting at on HBO Latino the other night when he said he had big news. If Tarver beats Johnson, Tarver-Hopkins is going to be the biggest fight since I-don't-know-when.

[abdiel2k3]

http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=014043

Boxrec has Johnson and Tarver down for Dec. 18. Maybe they are a little more sure than the rest of the media.

Personally, I'm going to feel really irate and cheated if this doesn't come off. HBO should put up the money for this thing, and promise the fighters that reguardless of sanctioning bodies, the winner will be invited back on HBO as champion, and the loser will at least be looked at.

Someone explain to me how the mandatory policy makes any damn sense. What did these anonymous challengers achieve to get in line in front of everybody else? Johnson and Tarver is the biggest fight at light heavyweight, and if HBO can't make it happen, what is the point of having that big checkbook?

Don King is going to make a fuss that this fight shouldn't happen. King should be laughed at. He feels that Tarver owes him a WBC title defense as part of the deal for King winning the purse bid to promote Jones-Tarver 2. Don, why don't you lighten the **** up? You're a rich man, Tarver is a poor man. You made money off of Antonio Tarver, now it's time to let him do his own thing.

I believe that if Johnson-Tarver is on for Dec. 18, Hopkins will forget about Howard Eastman very quickly. This may be what he was hinting at on HBO Latino the other night when he said he had big news. If Tarver beats Johnson, Tarver-Hopkins is going to be the biggest fight since I-don't-know-when.

i wouldnt trustem to much
last time when rumors of pac barrera remtach was on they also had tehm scheduled to face eachother
same thing for a possible pac marquez rematch when marquez next match was actually salido
so im sayin
they sometimes jump to conclusions
for a week or so i think they had hopkins donw to face sturm

[bigdlb12]

I hope Tarver kicks his ass, Glen KO Jones and I hope that Glen beat Tarver's ass, tarver ko Jones.lol

[Dude]

They should fight but in todays boxing you never know. Johnson might get one or two warm ups to ride the money wave the KO of Jones presented him. Tarver wants to make some quick money as well. Boxrec is a little optimistic there. I believe it when I see both of them at the same press conference. They'd both have a lot to lose in this one.

[neils7147933]

It's ridiculous that Rico Hoye, who lost 10 or 11 rounds on many users of this board's cards in the elimination bout, is the mandatory IBF. So if this fight comes off, the winner gets stripped for not fighting a guy who doesn't deserve the shot in the first place? All so they can call the next IBF fight a 'title' bout? What a mess. Hoye might beat Johnson, though is what's sad. Johnson gets killed by Tarver.