James Kirkland's team opted for Rosado over Canelo & Lara

[icha]

By Jesse James: American slugger James Kirkland was the front runner to being Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s next opponent on December 6th. Kirkland was also being considered for Erislandy Lara who recently lost to Canelo Alvarez via split decision. Though Kirkland was definitely Canelo’s first choice, Kirkland’s team was reportedly not interested in Canelo or Lara.

Instead they opted for journeymen Gabriel Rosado who is a tough costumer and has had the bad end of decisions in his last few fights before Bryan Vera. Kirkland is an American favorite and has a very good trainer in Anne Wolf.



Saw the news and decided to share, dont really know how credible the author is...
if true then either kirkland was asking too much(considering is not PPV fight) or he wanted to take a tune up before a big fight, sad this is the second time we dont get canelo-kirkland, this is a must watch war...

[Pigeons]

HBO has a couple good cards coming up...

Golovkin-Rubio+Donaire-Walters
Hopkins-Kovalev+Kirkland-Rosado
Crawford-Beltran+?

[teddycanyon]

i could understand not being interested in Lara, but Canelo? The proposed split must have been awful.

[icha]

i could understand not being interested in Lara, but Canelo? The proposed split must have been awful.

the fight wont be ppv, so not much of a split, but will understand if kirkland decides to take a tune up fight this year and become an option late next year when a ppv fight is available..

[Free Booty Dew!]

Rosado will drum up a lot of interest from the urban crowd. They'll probably get a decent paycheck for that fight.

[onechance87]

i could understand not being interested in Lara, but Canelo? The proposed split must have been awful.

More like he knew canelo was gonna bust him up.Second time now
he ducks canelo.He must be ******.If he beats canelo theres a good
chance he can fight cotto after.Maybe even floyd.Dude is a dumbazz.

[Canelo Phresh]

Rosado will drum up a lot of interest from the urban crowd. They'll probably get a decent paycheck for that fight.

Very true.

[artfuL_]

Sigh, Canelo's team should just blackball Kirkland. Second time failed.

[daggum]

More like he knew canelo was gonna bust him up.Second time now
he ducks canelo.He must be ******.If he beats canelo theres a good
chance he can fight cotto after.Maybe even floyd.Dude is a dumbazz.

lol if kirkland ko'd canelo floyd would be saying how was on a-side meth

[Dinamita 03]

So Kirkland ducked Alvarez again? Judging by the way he's managed his career this doesn't even surprise me. Probably asked for a couple of mill.