Kessler to battle Palle in court. Out at least a year?

[Chunk..]

Kessler doesn't need to move up yet, he has no problem making 168.

Haye couldn't, by his own statement, make 200 anymore. He moved up because he HAD to, not really something to brag about.

Haye has done less.

Kessler doesn't want to move up because the competition is tougher and doesn't back himself to do the business up there.

He didn't want to fight Dawson for the sake of 3lbs.

[BattlingNelson]

Who do you reckon Kessler will go for when he's free of Palle?

Difficult to give an educated guess, but Joe Calzaghe has expressed interest and Kessler said he was flattered. It's also known that german toppromotors Sauerland and Universum are interested.

Kessler himself has always said that he want's to fight in the US and he reiterated that statement lately so maybe he'll go looking for an american promotor.

So you can see it's not easy to guess.

[BattlingNelson]

Kessler doesn't want to move up because the competition is tougher and doesn't back himself to do the business up there.

He didn't want to fight Dawson for the sake of 3lbs.

So LHW is tougher than 168? GTFO

It was Dawson who didn't want Kessler for the sake of 3 lbs despite calling him out.

[Chunk..]

So LHW is tougher than 168? GTFO

It was Dawson who didn't want Kessler for the sake of 3 lbs despite calling him out.

I'm sorry, i missed the memo that 168 was stacked?

Kessler has called out Dawson also. Who needs who more?

Kessler should have budged for the sake of 3lbs. What difference 3lbs makes is any mans guess?

[jpitt]

What a waste of a potentially great prime.

[hookoutofhell]

man kess is going to have wasted his best years with this contract dispute and fighting euro mandtories.

its a shame that its come to this, palle does across as a bitter old man who is just being stubborn for the sake of being stubborn.

the annnoying is this - lets say kess does get out of this in a year and worse case scenario he get out of it in a year and a half, what then? i can see him having another year for tune ups and re-establishing himself in the division, unless hes with an american promoter (GBP, toprank) i can't see him getting the big fights soon enough.

hopefully though he'll only be out of the ring for 6-12 months and no longer than that.

as for haye vs kess - its actually a very close comparison.

haye has the prestige of being crowned the linear no.1 in his division, he held all the major belts at one point and did it in a relatively short time. he has now managed to establish himself in another weight division and hayes speed and power are also among the best p4p.

yet kess has defeated more top 10 ranked SMW's (which is a better division as well imo) and was only defeated by a modern ATG. in terms of his p4p skills/ability its close; like haye kess has speed and power in abundance, his boxing skills show that he can do much more than just blast the other guy away. whats more there are no concerns over his workrate, stamina and chin.

right now id say kess > haye but anyone could quite easily argue otherwise.

[Iceta]

Man, that sucks. Why is it that guys like Frank Warren and Mogens Palle just keep their fighters in a bind like that. At least Kessler seems to want to break away from Palle, so I've got to credit the dude with that. But eventually it's gonna get to the point of where threads about his career aren't even worth bringing up anymore because he won't even be a factor. Of course, getting updates from his case with Palle is good info. But we are not gonna know if this guy is really elite unless he steps up. I do give him credit for his victory over Librado Andrade though. I'd pick Andrade to beat Jermaine Taylor because JT's stamina is dog****, and he's the best victory on Pavlik's and Froch's resume. I am rooting for Kessler to be successful even though it gets a little annoying when people talk about what he could potentially do.