Comments Thread For: James Kirkland: Tentative Return is Eyed For August

[Frank Martin]

Glad to hear. Maybe he needs a couple of tune ups so he could go back to shape.

[screwhead1]

you all act like he's been gone for 10 years...mosley has had a longer layoff than him...he will come back and be back on top...well in the middle headed for the top...he wasn't necessarily up there yet...but like someone else said...he should fight in texas for about 2 or 3 tune ups and then go for bigger fish...hopefully angulo by 2011...

[Matt Marvelous]

Glad to see him on the come back trail.

[HeaneyCFC]

There is staying in shape and staying in fighting shape so STFU.......

Either way the article says he ballooned up to over 200lbs so he clearly didn't stay in any kind of shape

[gdub27]

James is still a young guy who hasn't made it to the top yet so the layoff won't hurt him too much. It gave his body time to heal and i bet he's hungrier than ever to get back in the mix. The weight doesn't really concern me because we all know of fighters who put on 40 to 50 pounds between fights so once he's back to training the weight will fall off. They should feed him a couple easy guys to get his timing back then go for some of the top guys. I'd love to see him and Cotto fight late this year.

[Jupiter Maximus]

nice system we got...Career criminal does less than have of his sentence...The guy is a turd that needs to be flushed!