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BoxingScene.com was advised that WBO junior middleweight champion Sergiy Dzinziruk (37-0, 23KOs) will defend his title in the fall. Last Friday, he made his American debut with a ten round TKO over a game Daniel Dawson. Dzinziruk, now living in the United States, wants to stay very active after sitting on the bench for 18 months while going though promotional issues. Dzinziruk may return in August or September. [Click Here To Read More]
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Would love for him to fight Paul Willams. Dosnen't he have a mandatory with Angulo though? -
Paul Williams????????Comment
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That is kind of an odd thing to say for someone who also promotes Angulo but they will most likely never let Angulo and Dzinziruk into the same state as each other.
Good for Dzinziruk though he is a solid fighter.Comment
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who's the mandatory?Comment
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Paul Williams will duck Sergei.
Williams will use his same o bull**** when negotiations don't go his way. He will cry no one wants to fight him.Comment
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Paul Williams May Direct His Attention To Sergei Dzinziruk
Posted by: Rick Reeno on 05-21-2009.
By Rick Reeno
After a dominating performance over Winky Wright, the once-beaten Paul “The Punisher” Williams has been aggressively hunting for a major name at middleweight, junior middleweight and welterweight. The buck didn’t stop there. Williams’ promoter Dan Goossen was actually trying to get Williams in the ring with Bernard Hopkins, a light heavyweight.
Despite his best efforts, Goossen has been unsuccessful with enticing the big names, like Shane Mosley and Hopkins, to accept a fight with Williams.
“We aggressively went after Shane Mosley and Shane at this point of his career would rather stay idle. I can’t say anything negative about Shane because he never turned down a challenge, even when it wasn’t in his best interest like the fight with Winky Wright,” Goossen told BoxingScene.com
“I think money and all of the other good things that come with that will not make Shane take a challenge like Paul Williams. Who can blame him? Paul is welterweight but is so much bigger and stronger than the other welterweights - and that makes it so much more difficult to get him a fight.”
“Bernard Hopkins is surprisingly silent. Like Mosley, at this stage of his career Bernard would rather have a lot more control over what could be considered his last fight. Paul is a tough nut even for a much bigger man to crack. We are certainly willing to put our welterweight in with the bigger Bernard Hopkins.”
Williams is still the interim-WBO junior middleweight champion. The natural fight to make would come against the full champion, undefeated Sergei Dzinziruk. Williams has called for Dzinziruk, and the Ukrainian-born fighter has answered that call. The dollar signs will decide if the fight can actually come together.
“We have a lot of options. There are other fighters and champions out there, like Sergei Dzinziruk - the undefeated WBO champion from Germany. I’ve admired his aggressiveness in trying to land the fight. It would allow Paul to go down to a weight between where he recently fought [middleweight] and where he would like to fight [welterweight]. We have other options out there. Hopefully we will have something settled in the next week or so,” Goossen said.
“I feel that pretty soon we are going to have an announcement. It’s a blessing to have someone who is so feared, but as the great Joe Louis said – ‘you can run but you can’t hide.’ That will always allow us to go out there and match him with someone who will certainly be a significant fight.”
HBO turned the fight down. So dont speak on what you dont know.Comment
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