1. As you probably have heard now, my best friend(Best Enemy) Zab Judah got hurt and had to pull out of his May 31st fight with Sugar Shane Mosley. Judah fell in the shower and his arm went through the glass shower door causing him to need 50 stitches. No secret that I don't like Zab Judah, but I saw a picture of the gashes in his arm, Nasty.
As you can see from the picture above, those are some nasty gashes in Judah's arm. I hope it heals well so Zab can come back to get his beating in the ring like he deserves.
2. Junior Witter, who has been telling anyone who will listen and even those who won't listen that he could beat Ricky Hatton, lost a split decision to Timothy Bradley. The fight was really an upset because most believe Bradley undeservingly was the #1WBC Junior Welterweight. Throw that bull to the backburner, Bradley who had no championship experience went to England and beat Junior Witter. For Bradley, good paydays and fights should follow, for Witter his chance to fight Ricky Hatton got a lot tougher.
3. The WBC has kept Glen Johnson as the #1 Light Heavyweight after a close and controversial loss to Chad Dawson. Many believe Dawson lost the fight. So Dawson is supposed to fight Interim-Champion Adrian Diaconu and Johnson is supposed to fight #2 Light Heavyweight Silvio Branco then the winners fight each other. Should be interesting because Dawson was not in a hurry to meet Johnson again and he wants to fight Antonio Tarver. It could be possible Dawson vacates to fight Tarver or protest to get an exception so he can keep his WBC belt and fight Tarver. Lots of scenarios that could exist for this one.
4. Samuel Peter-Vitali Klitschko is agreed to and supposed to happen in October. Now with the agreement, Peter can fight a tune-up before hand. The tune-up fight appears to be possibly taking place in July against frequent Champion Challenger Andrew Golota. Yes Golota. If Golota does get the chance to fight Samuel Peter, this undoubtedly will be his last chance at a Heavyweight Title. Oh this could be a lovely situation.
5. The WBO has ordered a purse bid for Nate Campbell-Joel Casamayor. It is funny, Nate Campbell wants the fight so bad he is willing to split the purse bid from the traditional 80-20 for the champion to an even 50-50 split. Casamayor keeps running his mouth but won't take the fight. Less talking and more signing to fight.
6. There are talks to stage a Israel Vasquez-Raphael Marquez IV. The first three fights were absolutely sensational and after all of that the best money for either of them to make fighting is still against each other. The fans loved it and the public still wants to see it. So it appears it may happen.
7. Since Zab Judah had to pull out of the fight with Shane Mosley, it appears the fight will not be rescheduled. Mosley's wife and manager, Jin, is upset about Judah and does not trust him. She thinks if they rescheduled the fight that Judah will somehow pull out of that fight. Jin is looking at this from a business standpoint saying she lost money from training expenses. Honestly I liked the fight and wish they could have rescheduled the fight. Hopefully they still can. However word is going around saying Mosley may fight Ricardo Mayorga. I have to admit not the fight I want to see but we will see what happens.
8. The Ruslan Chagaev-Nikolai Valuev fight has been rescheduled to July 5. Chagaev had to pull out of the May 31 fight due to illness.
9. Well the numbers have come in for Floyd Mayweather Jr's WWE fight against Big Show. The numbers were nowhere near as impressive as the WWE had hoped for. The fight sold about 1.1 million PPV buys at $54.95. Last year the Wrestlemania sold about 1.2 million at $49.95. So this year's revenue, at about $23.8 million, was less than last year's. This also says that if the WWE really did pay Mayweather $20 million as he has stated, they would take a loss after everything was said and done. Funny thing is when the investors were asked if they paid Mayweather $20 million they said NO!!!!! Did Floyd lie to hype us up????
10. After losing to Antonio Margarito again, Main Events has released welterweight Kermit Cintron. No comment from Cintron on being released, but after the Margarito fight in April he said he was not going to retire from boxing. So hopefully he can get himself together and land back on his feet.
11. Oscar De La Hoya who beat Steve Forbes last week, has a hairline fracture in a facial bone. Yes Steve Forbes the light hitting fighter he beat last week busted De La Hoya up enough to give him a hairline fracture in his face. Hmm is he sure he wants to try his hands at Mayweather again????
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