Comments Thread For: Mendez-Baloyi In Jeopardy; Dispute Over Officials, Gloves

[JakeNDaBox]

By Jake Donovan - The junior lightweight title eliminator between rising contender Argenis Mendez and former titlist Cassius Baloyi could be in jeopardy, Boxingscene.com learned Thursday morning.

Original terms had Mendez – Dominican-born but now based out of Brooklyn, New York – traveling to Baloyi’s backyard of South Africa for their elimination bout, which is scheduled for January 29.

However, those terms have since been compromised, as the two sides are in disagreement over the use of gloves, as well as the selection of officials. [Click Here To Read More]

[ChampBox@PR]

The South african is trying to be sneaky

[Ko King 212]

Boxing has some of the shadiest **** that go on behind the scenes.

[youngmoney007]

GRANT gloves

I guess if Mayweather, Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, Timothy Bradley, David Haye, Hopkins, etc, insist on Grant gloves, they must be some good ass gloves! Mendez is a very good fighter, should win if not robbed in SA....

[mayweather718]

Mendez handler are doing the right thing on protecting there fighter and I think boxer should have the right in selection of the Glove.In some cases the Promoter look for the cheapest Glove for example Title glove cost ($12.00 USD) which feel like big pillow and Grant glove will cost over 200 USD and are very firm and strong so some promoter will go the cheap way which is wrong because at the end of the day promoter get good money from sponsor,T.V and ticket sales anyway I am looking forward for this fight and I hope they work it out

[JakeNDaBox]

Baloyi's promoter speaks on the lingering issues and clears up at least one matter: http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=34253