Tag: Future Fights

  • Amir Khan Gets the Peterson Rematch He Deserved

    Amir Khan shouldn’t be without the WBA and IBF belts right now, but he lost points on some shoving calls, some unauthorized person messed around with the scorecards and the judges, resulting in Lamont Peterson causing the upset that night in Washington. Now, after months of back and forth between both camps, the rematch (May 19 in Vegas) is a done deal.

  • Mayweather vs Cotto the Bigger Fight With Pacquiao vs Bradley All Set

    Manny Pacquiao, finally, has his opponent for a June 9 fight. Not Floyd Mayweather that the boxing world should have, but Timothy Bradley, fighting at Welterweight for the first time in his career, coming in with an undefeated record but a small chance of winning anything but a lot of money.

  • Mayweather vs Pacquiao – Maybe in November, Arum Says Bradley First

    Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather won’t be fighting this May, with Mayweather still looking for a May 5 opponent and Pacquiao’s next one, according to Bob Arum, by default, looks more and more like Light Welterweight champion, Timothy Bradley.

  • A Hearing Roadblock For Floyd Mayweather May 5 Fight

    Floyd Mayweather (probably) won’t be fighting Manny Pacquiao on May 5, but a May 5 fight might not even happen if Mayweather doesn’t get licenesed in Nevada for the same reason he’s heading to jail in June, with his MGM deal helping him delay his enterance to prison.

  • Miguel Cotto Between Mayweather and Pacquiao

    Manny Pacquiao won’t be fighting Floyd Mayweather this May by the looks of things, but he won’t be fighting Miguel Cotto as well, one of the four opponents shortlisted to be his May-June rival in a few months, according to the Junior Middleweight WBA Super champion.

  • Mayweather vs Pacquiao – The Phone Call

    Floyd Mayweather seems to be doing anything possible to save the chance of fighting Manny Pacquiao on May 5. The unheard and unthought of actually happened, as Mayweather placed a call to Pacquiao in order to try and workout stuff between them, although it might not be enough.

  • Lamont Peterson Seems Scared to Fight Amir Khan Again

    Amir Khan is still fighting to get the rematch he wants against Lamont Peterson, although the bad blood, flowing stronger since the fight and the appeals, isn’t the only thing in the way. Peterson appealing to the WBA, hoping it’ll overturn the rematch order, might prove just how reluctant Peterson is to fight Khan again.

  • Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Fight Not Happening

    Manny Pacquiao will fight in May, but not May 5, and not Floyd Mayweather. Top Rank head honcho Bob Arum announced that Pacquiao has decided on his next opponent out of the known shortlist of four fighters, which don’t include Mayweather. The reason? According to Arum purely financial.

  • Mayweather to Pacquiao – All I Want For May is You

    Floyd Mayweather already used his twitter account to tell the world that all he can think about, besides his up and coming prison time, is fighting Manny Pacquiao on May 5, and no other fighter will do.

  • Amir Khan Still Hoping to get Mayweather in 2012

    There’s no doubt Amir Khan’s main and immediate goal right now is getting a rematch against Lamont Peterson, the man who beat him to take away the WBA and IBF Light Welterweight titles, but he’s still hoping that his earlier plans, of facing Floyd Mayweather by the end of 2012, haven’t been hampered by recent events.