Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Who's Fighting and When???

Okay my friends I have to admit the last week has been full of potential fights and dates for then everything to be twist and turn so I am going to attempt to set the record straight, at least for today. February 9th 2008 Paul Williams will defend his WBO Welterweight Title against Carlos Quintana live on HBO. February 16 the rematch between Kelly Pavlik and Jermain Taylor at a catchweight of 166 will take place on HBOPPV. February 23, Wladmir Klitschko will put his IBF Heavyweight Title up against Sultan Ibragimov's WBO Heavyweight Title live on HBO from Madison Square Garden. March 1, 2008 Rafael Marquez and Israel Vasquez will fight their rubber match for Vasquez's WBC Super Bantamweight Title on Showtime live from the Home Depot Center. Samuel Peter will finally fight Oleg Maskaev for the undisputed WBC Heavyweight Championship Belt on March 8 from Cancun. Also on the undercard of this fight is Juan Diaz putting his WBA/WBO/IBF Lightweight belts up against Nate Campbell. These two fights will be live on HBO.March 15, 2008 the rematch of Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez is taking place at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. This fight will be for Marquez's WBC Super Featherweight Title. Miguel Cotto is going to defend his WBA Welterweight Title April 12, 2008 at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City live on HBO against Alfonso Gomez of Contender fame. On the same night on Showtime, Glen Johnson is challenging Chad Dawson for the WBC Light Heavyweight Title. April 19, 2008 Joe Calzaghe is finally coming to the U.S. to challenge Bernard Hopkins for the Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight Championship live on HBO. Oscar De La Hoya is going to fight May 3, 2008 live on HBO (NOT PPV) against TBA, most likely Steve Forbes.

Plus also just fresh out of the gate, Cory Spinks is defending his IBF Junior Middleweight Title against his mandatory Verno Phillips in Spinks's Hometown of St. Louis. It is supposed to be Thursday March 27. All the details have not yet been released but when they are I will post that as well.

Well friends I hope the above information helps everyone stay on track of the major fights coming on. A lot of the dates and information have changed a lot over the past week but the above information seems to be set in stone, but in boxing you never know. If there are any changes I will post it ASAP.

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