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apparently he fights today/tonight in Belgium in a Welterweight IBF Title Eliminator vs Jackson _____ (a Belgian)

any updates/info would be appreciated .. thanks

Anybody else going to watch ? And who you guys got ?

Going with Hernan Marquez and Peter TKO .

I know this is asked everytime when there is a big fight but i find it interesting. I will be having some people over having shit load of bud light and sam adams, with taco dip, chips and dip, Couple large pizzas and some wings. ON a 42 inch hdtv. Can't wait enjoy

I went to boxrec to check up on his stats cos the Sky tv broadcast starts at 10pm, (it's 9:20pm here now) and they have the result of the fight!!

I am gutted!! The result is below so beware!!










































Kell Brook wins by TKO in the 6th!!

When Manny Pacquiao fights crime drops to zero and fighting factions in his homeland put down their weapons to witness a different kind of war. But Pacquiao seemingly has the same effect elsewhere.
The Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey title fight at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium on March 13 has created a truce in the war of words between promoter Bob Arum and UFC president Dana White.
White, seen in some quarters as the head of pro boxing’s biggest rivals – the Ultimate Fighting Championship – was thanked by Arum for urging his 1 million plus followers on Twitter, the social networking site, to buy the fight on pay per view.
White had also announced on his Twitter account that he will be ringside to watch Pacquiao defend his WBO welterweight crown against Clottey. White has picked Pacquiao to win by knockout in the eighth round. UFC co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta will also be ringside. White started out in boxing, and has always insisted that he remains a huge boxing fan – and will always watch the big fights. In this month’s Boxing Monthly Dana White gave a lengthy interview to editor Glyn Leach, in which the head of the UFC mixed martial arts organisation spells out how he started in boxing and fell out of love with it because the best fights were not put on for fans.
White described the Mayweather v De la Hoya fight as a couple of multi-millionaires thinking about hitting each other, insisting what had been billed as a super-fight was actually a real disappointment.
“We want to thank Dana and Lorenzo for crossing sports to help promote this fight,” Arum said, as Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones concurred.
A phalanx of celebrities, politicians, sports officials and actors are also expected to troop to Arlington City for the fight. Steven Segal, Jean Claude Van Damme, aMark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, Lou Diamond Philips, plus NBA star Ron Artest and baseball’s Derek Jeter have visited Pacquiao during training.
Two former US Presidents Bill Clinton, and George W Bush are said to be either watching or attending the battle.
Several mixed martial artists are also fans of the Filipino fighter Pacquiao. British fighter Dan Hardy, American Brandon Vera admit they love his style, while Frank Mir, the UFC heavyweight said he had been practising punches and used such a punch – an overhand left which he called ‘The Pacquiao punch’ and which he’d adopted from Pacquiao – to drop his last opponent Cheick Kongo, before submitting him on the ground.

Khan expects to fight Pacquiao or Mayweather in the next 18 months – News
March 12th, 2010
By William Mackay

World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan (22-1, 16 KO’s) appears to be on the fast track to get big money fights against mega stars Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. Khan, 23, has a fight coming up against former IBF light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (27-3, 5 KO’s) on May 15th, at the Madison Square Garden, in New York, New York. This will be Khan’s debut fight in the United States, and Malignaggi, a fighter popular in the New York area, has been picked to give Khan an opponent that is fairly well known, at least by hardcore boxing fans.

Khan sees big things for himself in the future, saying in article at the Timesonline “They [Golden Boy Promotions] have laid out a plan that over the next 18 months I will be fighting the likes of Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather.”

One can’t blame Khan for wanting to fight those guys. After all, most fighters would want to fight Mayweather and Pacquiao because of the huge payday they would get. Never mind actually beating them. Just fighting Mayweather and Pacquiao is a guaranteed huge payday. But the question that has to be asked is who will Khan be fighting in the next 18 months for him to continue winning and moving forward with his career.

Khan has had problems with fighters that good power. He was stopped in the 1st round by Breidis Prescott in 2008. Khan has been carefully managed since then and put in with a variety of fighters, none of which could punch. Khan’s next opponent Malignaggi, a fighter with only five knockouts during his entire nine year pro career, is a prime example of that.

Will Khan continue to be put in with soft opposition so that he can get an eventual big money fight against Mayweather or Pacquiao? I don’t know how Khan can be shielded from the top light welterweights for the next year and half without him taking tremendous criticism from the boxing public. Khan, you would think, would have to step it up at some point and face someone like Timothy Bradley, Marcos Maidana, Victor Ortiz or Devon Alexander.

But he might not. 18 months isn’t that long of a time, and Khan’s handlers could in theory keep him away from Alexander, Bradley and Maidana until after Khan gets his shot against Pacquiao or Mayweather. Bradley and Alexander are both champions and aren’t in the position to force a fight against Khan. If they were highly ranked challengers, then they could become Khan’s mandatory challenger.

He would then have to force them or risk having his title stripped, but that’s not the case. As long as Khan doesn’t have to face them or a big puncher like Maidana or Ortiz, Khan could very hold onto his title for another 18 months until he gets a big money bout against the likes of Mayweather and Pacquiao. I don’t know how much longer he can get away with not fighting Maidana, though, because he’s the WBA light welterweight interim champion.

At some point within the next 18 months, Khan will have to fight him you would think unless Khan maybe gives Maidana a step aside fee to stay out of the way. Hopefully, Khan doesn’t do this and gets the Maidana out of the way as soon as he can. Supposedly, Golden Boy Promotions don’t want Khan to fight Maidana now because Maidana isn’t well known enough in the U.S.

They want to have his name built up more by having him fight more on HBO. However, with Khan looking at big names like Mayweather and Pacquiao, I don’t see it worthwhile to be stringing Maidana along for a fight that will still probably not be a huge money fight even a year from now.

For Maidana to become a big name, he has to fight opponents with a name to them, not fighters that fans have never heard of. Maidana is fighting Victor Cayo on March 27th on HBO. Few people, I’m willing to guess, have heard of Cayo other than hardcore fans. As such, Khan should take on Maidana and get the fight over with because it won’t be any bigger a year from now than it is now. However, I doubt he will, if at all.

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Boxing champ James Toney has been a hot topic for mixed martial arts fans from the moment his recent UFC signing was made official.

What seemed a mere curiosity as Toney followed UFC president Dana White around the country – begging for a shot in the octagon – quickly turned into a potential game-changing acquisition.

But is the UFC supporting a freak show? Or can Toney prove boxing's value in MMA?

And whom exactly is Toney going to fight?

On the newest edition of HDNet's "Inside MMA," the 41-year-old boxer said he doesn't want any pushover; in fact, he'd be comfortable starting with UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar.

"I want Brock Lesnar," Toney said. "I'm the heavyweight champion of the world vs. the UFC champion. That'd be a hell of a match."

And if Lesnar's not in the cards, Toney said there's a few other guys he wouldn't mind facing.

"Randy Couture, Chuck Liddell, Tito Ortiz, or whatever his name is," Toney said. "It doesn't matter. I'm not a sideshow. This is the real deal here."

While Toney's signing has already been officially announced, when and where he'll debut for the organization has not. Liddell and Ortiz, opposing coaches on ****e TV's soon-to-debut "The Ultimate Fighter 11," are expected to face off this June, though Couture and Lesnar are currently without opponents.

Toney began boxing professionally in 1989 and fought as light as 155.5 pounds. As his career progressed, he fought as heavy as 237 pounds in 2006. In his most recent outing, a September 2009 TKO win over Matthew Greer, Toney weighed in at 217.5 pounds.

Toney insists he has the utmost respect for the sport of mixed martial arts, but he believes it's time MMA fighters develop more respect for boxing.

"I never said nothing less about the sport," Toney said. "But when you come disrespect the man who's 20 years deep and has won 12 different title in six different weight divisions and say MMA sport is better boxing, you got to be kidding me."

My 160K to your 20K that Pac beats Clottey 8:1 odds

This guy is obviously a successful businessman; I'm not here to argue that point, but I don't think he could be more of a gaping a$$hole if he tried.

Gary Shaw says he wants to do Bradley-Valero in Mexico so that Valero doesn't have to worry about getting a visa to come into the US. Then Shaw gets the date, venue and an offer from Showtime, but says since he made the deal and Bradley is the champion at 140 that GSP is going to be the lead promoter. So, Arum goes berserk, calls Shaw "a fu(king idiot," calls Shaw's offer ridiculous and says Shaw ruined the fight by saying "incendiary" things like that GSP should be the lead promoter. That ruined any chance of Bradley-Valero happening.

Now, Arum is saying that he "has no tolerance" for fighters who talk trash and that he won't do a fight with Mayweather. Arum has talked openly about doing a Pacquiao-Margarito fight, even though Margarito got caught cheating and basically ruined another of Arum top fighters', Miguel Cotto, career. He recently said to a reporter "fu(k Golden Boy" when asked if he thought his statements related to Golden Boy might make it harder to make Top Rank/Golden Boy fights like Pacquiao-Mayweather.

I know a lot of you people on this board like to blame Mayweather for everything wrong with boxing. Arum is genuinely responsible for a lot of what is wrong with boxing and some of you, especially the Mayweather haters, just swear by this guy. I don't get it. I just listed two examples, but the guy $hits on everybody. Then he wonders why people at HBO don't like to deal with him. I don't understand what endears him to so many boxing fans and especially media people.

This guy is obviously a successful businessman; I'm not here to argue that point, but I don't think he could be more of a gaping a$$hole if he tried.

Gary Shaw says he wants to do Bradley-Valero in Mexico so that Valero doesn't have to worry about getting a visa to come into the US. Then Shaw gets the date, venue and an offer from Showtime, but says since he made the deal and Bradley is the champion at 140 that GSP is going to be the lead promoter. So, Arum goes berserk, calls Shaw "a fu(king idiot," calls Shaw's offer ridiculous and says Shaw ruined the fight by saying "incendiary" things like that GSP should be the lead promoter. That ruined any chance of Bradley-Valero happening.

Now, Arum is saying that he "has no tolerance" for fighters who talk trash and that he won't do a fight with Mayweather. Arum has talked openly about doing a Pacquiao-Margarito fight, even though Margarito got caught cheating and basically ruined another of Arum top fighters', Miguel Cotto, career. He recently said to a reporter "fu(k Golden Boy" when asked if he thought his statements related to Golden Boy might make it harder to make Top Rank/Golden Boy fights like Pacquiao-Mayweather.

I know a lot of you people on this board like to blame Mayweather for everything wrong with boxing. Arum is genuinely responsible for a lot of what is wrong with boxing and some of you, especially the Mayweather haters, just swear by this guy. I don't get it. I just listed two examples, but the guy $hits on everybody. Then he wonders why people at HBO don't like to deal with him. I don't understand what endears him to so many boxing fans and especially media people.