Comments Thread For: Glen Johnson Very Disappointed With Cloud Withdrawal

[ИATAS]

Glen Johnson is lucky he never had to fight me.It scares me how much of a beating I would have gave him had he had the sack to step in the ring with me.

Too bad you ducked him like four times and pulled out for various injuries and excuses

[Ray*]

If you ask me,I'd have to say Cloud is ducking Johnson because he fears him.Cloud is a protected paper champion who only beaten two washed up former champions.


Glen Johnson is lucky he never had to fight me.It scares me how much of a beating I would have gave him had he had the sack to step in the ring with me.

If Cloud is injured then what is he suppose to do??? A lot of people get injured before they fight Glen johnson, Even Calzaghe mess up his hands and had to re-schedule his fight with Johnson twice remember??

[Ray*]

Too bad you ducked him like four times and pulled out for various injuries and excuses

Lol, I like Joe C but the irony of the post was hilarious.

[ИATAS]

Lol, I like Joe C but the irony of the post was hilarious.

yeah, even funnier is that Calzaghe pulled out of the Glen Johnson fight in 2004 due to a BACK INJURY (so he claimed, even though he was arrested for domestic violence dispute just prior to his "injury")

[Postman prat]

Too bad you ducked him like four times and pulled out for various injuries and excuses

Listen,shut your fat yank mouth up or I'll set me dah on you,isn't it?


Glen Johnson wouldn't have stood a chance against me and a win over him wouldn't mean anything.


Look at how many losses he has and then look at how many I don't have.


I'm still undefeated.

[ИATAS]

Looks like there is a chance this fight can happen at the end of May...



Promoter accuses Don King of foul play


By Dan Rafael
ESPN.com
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Ask promoter Lou DiBella and he'll say that what happened was the dirty side of boxing -- that Don King stole light heavyweight titlist Tavoris Cloud using a pile of cash as bait and screwed up his April 10 HBO "World Championship Boxing" card less than 48 hours before Wednesday's news conference at which Cloud's mandatory defense against former champ Glen Johnson was supposed to be announced.

King, of course, told a different story. In his version, yes, he signed Cloud, but that the fight wasn't going to happen anyway because Cloud has a left hamstring injury.

Regardless of the version you believe this much is clear: Cloud did sign with King even though he may have an existing promotional agreement with Richie Boy Promotions and he isn't going to face Johnson April 10 at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla. That's where welterweight titlist Andre Berto defends his belt against former titleholder Carlos Quintana in the HBO main event.

With Cloud-Johnson off, DiBella worked through Monday night and into Tuesday to put together a strong replacement fight for the HBO co-feature: junior featherweight titlist Celestino Caballero moving up to featherweight to face Daud Yordan for a vacant interim belt that will make the winner the mandatory challenger for titlist Yuriorkis Gamboa.

DiBella, of course was not happy about what happened.

"I got a call at literally 10 at night [Monday] from a representative of King [Roy Langbord] saying King did a deal with the kid," DiBella told ESPN.com on Tuesday night from Miami, site of the Wednesday news conference. "I told him that Richie Boy Promotions was the kid's promoter of record and that I had made deal for the fight with Glen. [Langbord] said there were issues and that King did a deal with Cloud, but that King would talk to me about doing a deal for the fight. I already had a deal for the fight. So I'm sitting there -- I have a show on April 10, a press conference on Wednesday and a flight to Miami in 12 hours. What the [expletive] is going on here? I told [Langbord] to tell Don I have nothing to talk to him about.

"Ten minutes later I get a call back [from Langbord] saying Cloud is hurt. I was on the phone with his lawyer, with his manager and with his adviser. They said they had no idea about him being with King. They were in the blind about him doing a deal with King and to their knowledge he was healthy. He must have gotten hurt walking up the steps to King's mansion to sign that deal."

King said he simply did a straightforward business deal with a free-agent fighter.

"I don't know anything about any of that," King told ESPN.com when told of DiBella's version of events. "All I know is that the guy came to me five weeks ago and him and his manager [Jerry Attardi] told me they had no deal with anybody and they asked me to help and I said, 'OK.' We finalized the details. He signed with me and I didn't know nothing about any of this."

King said even if he and DiBella could work out a new deal, Cloud wasn't available to fight April 10 anyway because of the injury. Cloud won a title eliminator against former champ Julio Gonzalez in August 2008 and didn't fight again until winning the vacant belt against Clinton Woods a year later. Now, he's mired in another long layoff.

But King produced an e-mail dated March 2 from the IBF to King's office granting a medical waiver and an extension for the mandatory fight until May 28. It was based on a previous letter the IBF said it received from Dr. Allan Fields, who recommended that Cloud not run or weight train for at least six weeks.

"This guy is hurt. He can't even fight if he wanted to," King said. "I told Lou [through Langbord] I'd be happy to have him fight Glen, but he can't do it April 10. We'll jump through hoops to fight Glen Johnson. But we asked for a medical exception from the IBF, the IBF granted an exception. It's just a postponement of the fight. With or without me, Cloud wouldn't be able to fight on April 10. So he'll fight Glen Johnson as soon as the doctor clears him."

Once it was clear to DiBella that Cloud-Johnson was off, he went to Plan B: Caballero-Yordan.