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Kell Brook out until next year, but Tim Bradley might be next


A RIB injury forced Kell Brook to withdraw from an October IBF welterweight defence against Diego Chaves. He won’t be able to fight again until next year but he could go straight into a unification clash with WBO champ Tim Bradley.

“He won’t be ready until the end of January [or] February so we’ll look to reschedule the Chaves fight or go straight into Bradley and a unification… Probably March/April here,” promoter Eddie Hearn told Boxing News. “Bradley’s a very realistic fight, they’re interested in the fight.

“He’s fought all the top boys, he’s never been overpaid, he’d get a huge pay day for Brook but he will lose. So that might factor in, Rios for $1.9 million is a lot different from fighting Brook for $1.9 million.”

Hope still remains that Brook could be matched with British rival Amir Khan. “I said to him, I don’t know how long Kell will be at welterweight, he’s got two or three more fights then we’ll probably move up,” Hearn said of his latest conversation with Amir. “You can’t book Wembley and do a fight like that in March you’ve got to do it now, it’s nearly December. So we talked about meeting up. I think he [Khan] is going to fight in January. That’s the feedback I’m getting. He’s started camp. He’s not going to be fighting in April. I don’t think the Pacquiao fight happens away.”

“We need to move now. The bulk of the [Carl Frampton-Scott] Quigg fight was done in October and that’s in February, the 27th, so really we need this wrapped up in December, by the end of December if we’re going to have a May or June fight,” he continued. “I still think the Khan fight will happen next summer, if he fights in January. If he fights in April, it’s not going to happen.

“I look at the numbers for Brook to fight in America, it’s not appealing at all compared to what he could make for the fights over here, the Khan fight in particular. There’s $20 million in the pot for the Khan fight, as I said to Amir Khan.”

A complication is that the IBF have made Kevin Bizier Brook’s mandatory challenger. Bizier has already lost twice to Brook victim Jo Jo Dan. “It’s not ideal but it’s the IBF. Their mandatories are out of control but at least if you become a mandatory you’re going to get your fight,” Hearn reflected.
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Nicholas Walters Took an Axe

On Saturday, December 19, at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York, in a fight televised live on HBO After Dark, former WBA Super World featherweight champion Nicholas “Axe Man” Walters (26-0, 21 KOs), the knockout artist from Montego Bay, Jamaica, returns to action against hard-hitting Jason “El Canito” Sosa (18-1-3, 14 KOs), from Camden, New Jersey, in a 10-round junior lightweight special attraction.

An amateur standout that turned pro in 2008, 29-year-old Walters can do it all. He can box as well as punch and has a KO percentage of 81%.

The Axe Man captured the vacant WBA World featherweight title on December 12, 2012, by icing Daulis Prescott (26-1 coming in) in the seventh round. He successfully defended the title two times. He TKO’d Alberto Garza in 2013. Then he KO’d former two-division champion Vic Darchinyan the following year.

On October 18, 2014, Walters blasted out former four-division champion Nonito Donaire, after dropping him twice, to win the WBA Super World featherweight title and catapult himself into the stratosphere.

After the defeat, Donaire complained that Walters was no featherweight, an observation confirmed when he lost his next fight on the scale to Michael Marriaga. The Axe Man was only a pound overweight. No matter. Overweight is overweight. It was an embarrassing way to lose a crown.

Walters is finally moving up in weight and hopefully day before weigh-ins, an experiment that has failed, won’t interfere with his career any time soon.

“I am training hard in Panama,” Walters said. “I know how important this fight is and I will be in optimum physical condition. My team has been studying video of my opponent Sosa. I cannot wait to leave Panama, get into Verona, New York, and get inside the ring. Boxing is my passion.”

Twenty-seven-year-old Sosa is no pushover. He has not lost a fight in four years and has stopped his last 13 opponents. Currently ranked #8 by the IBF and #13 by the WBO, he is the Pride of Camden, a city for which pride has been in short supply.

“First, I would like to thank God for all that he has done for me in my life,” he said. “I would also like to thank Nicholas Walters for giving me the opportunity to fight on December 19th. He is a very strong fighter and the toughest opponent that I have faced. But I am up for the challenge. I have a great team and they are getting me in the best shape of my life and making sure that I am mentally and physically ready to come away with the win. I am sure we are both ready for war and fans are not going to want to miss this.”

Another thing the fans won’t want to miss is the co-main event between Luis “The Real King Kong” Ortiz (23-0, 20 KOs), the undefeated slugger from Miami, Florida, and Philadelphia’s own Bryant “By-By” Jennings (19-1, 10 KOs).

Ortiz won the interim WBA World heavyweight title when he starched Matias Ariel Vidondo in his last fight. The fight with Jennings, which has not yet been sanctioned as a WBA title defense, will nevertheless be a barnburner.

Jennings, the ultimate diamond in the rough, ably acquitted himself last April in a losing effort against the Wladimir Klitschko. The Big Kahuna told HBO’s Max Kellerman after the fight with Jennings, “He had a great desire to win and be the champion. He was even talking in the rounds and trying to make it like Ali-Frazier. He gave me a great challenge.”

If Jennings can give Klitschko a great challenge, you can bet your bottom dollar he’ll do the same for “The Real King Kong.”
 
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Bradley Brook would be nice. Been clamoribg for that since ol boy caught the machete. Bad bad 15 for Brook
 
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Jae said:
Not easy at all. I go to everything I can on the west coast and in Vegas. I write, shoot photos, podcast and shoot and edit my own video. I am self-taught and self funded and had ZERO contacts in boxing. I'm not afraid of hardwork and made a point of finding mentors EARLY.
From 2012 - 2014 I had ZERO people writing for me or adding any other content, I did it all. These days I still do 80% of the front end work and ALL of the back end work.

What I did do? Get out there, shut my mouth, open my ears and learn. When I'm up late at night, I'm watching videos, searching the web, shooting mock videos, doing all sorts of stuff. I make it a point to put out the best quality I can with the tools I've been provided and from to time it catches someone's eye. I make it a point to follow social media trends, key players in the industry, and current events. Bottom line, I'm smart. That sounds hella egomaniacal but don't care because it's true.

I am social and outgoing and I don't let my ego get in the way of what I'm trying to accomplish. I'm humble, I ask questions, I work HARD and I'm considerate.

As far as this goes, the PR people for the movie set up the camera, the seating etc. They shot the video from my perspective and his perspective. I took the video they gave me and edited myself. I majored in communications/PR and have an extensive background in Human Resources. I worked in Human Resources for 10 years so I know how to deal with people.

With regards to credentials, I don't get credentialed to everything I apply for. I just figure nothing beats a fail but a try. I do the best I can with what I have.
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Malta said:
Boxing won tonight, Holly Holm is originally a boxer :blessed:
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I've been saying for years if a Boxer could handle themselves in a MMA ring it could get ugly. MMA fighters aren't use to seeing hands like that.

I wasn't really familiar with Holly, but I could immediately tell she had better hands than what I am accustomed to seeing. No surprise she is a boxer.
 
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theflyest said:
I've been saying for years if a Boxer could handle themselves in a MMA ring it could get ugly. MMA fighters aren't use to seeing hands like that.

I wasn't really familiar with Holly, but I could immediately tell she had better hands than what I am accustomed to seeing. No surprise she is a boxer.
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The only thing I'm worried if I'm boxing in the MMA are kicks.

I tried Muy Thai out for the first time a couple weeks ago.... Instead of lining up with your opponent at an angle like in boxing, those nikkas square right up in front of you, because that leg can float you at any second.


But they miss with the kick it's a wrap, because they are a sitting duck standing on one leg.
 
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