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| Mormeck vs. Haye Showdown This Saturday In Paris |
| WBC number one challenger David Haye has left true carnage in his wake on the climb to the top of the cruiserweight heap but the London slugger must now bring his vaunted power punching to bear upon the true world champion of the division, WBC and WBA Champion Jean-Marc Mormeck as the two clash this Saturday, November 10 on a Don King Productions promotion at Palais des Sport Marcel Cerdan, Levallois-Perret, Paris, France. Read the Full Story..... |
| HOLLYWOOD, FL, November 5 – Following his impressive fifth round stoppage of veteran Henry Porras on October 30th, super middleweight contender Edison Miranda silenced any critics who questioned whether he would still be the same fighter at 168 pounds that he was at 160. One person he didn’t silence was fellow contender Jean Pascal, who made a spectacle out of himself in calling out Miranda from ringside and in the ring after the bout. “He’s got a lot of mouth,” said Miranda, now 29-2 with 25 KOs. “I’d like to see if he’s got the heart to match…but I doubt it.” The unbeaten Pascal, who is ranked second in the world by the WBO and fourth by the WBC, would be an intriguing match for ‘Pantera’, who would love to physically take the Haitian-born Canadian’s rankings from him in the ring. “Pascal was doing a lot of laughing on Tuesday. He will be crying, not laughing the next time I see him in a ring.” Pantera returned to Puerto Rico on Wednesday to watch WBO's Tournament of Champions at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico. To his surprise Jean Pascal was also in the audience. “I hear someone talking loud and there is Jean running his mouth. I was surprised to see this clown actually followed me back to Puerto Rico.” The talking quickly turned ugly and both fighters tore off their shirts and got into each other’s face. Pantera had to be taken away by his people as the entire 5,000 people in the crowd chanted ‘PANTERA’. “He is crazy to want to fight me. If this fight ever happen I will wipe that grin off his face with one right hand. Go back to Canada Jean and make the fight worth while.” |
| LAUGH NOW, CRY LATER: ‘PANTERA’ WANTS PASCAL TO PUT HIS MONEY WHERE HIS MOUTH IS |
| Miguel Cotto and Shane Mosley Face Off leading up to their showdown at Madison Square Garden |
| (From left to right) – Chairman of Top Rank Bob Arum, World WBA Welterweight Champion Miguel Cotto, Current Light Heavyweight Champion and President of Golden Boy Promotions East Bernard Hopkins, Three-Division World Champion Sugar Shane Mosley and Ten-Time World Champion and President of Golden Boy Promotions Oscar de la Hoya pose for pictures on Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at New York’s B.B. King’s during the final press conference for “Fast & Furious!” Cotto vs. Mosley for the WBA World Welterweight Championship to be held on Saturday, November 10, 2007 at Madison Square Garden. |
| Photo By: Teddy Blackburn/ Golden Boy Promotions |
| Mosley and Cotto showoff their Money Makers along with Promoters Oscar De La Hoya and Bob Arum |
| (From left to right) – World WBA Welterweight Champion Miguel Cotto and Three-Division World Champion Sugar Shane Mosley face off on Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at New York’s B.B. King’s during the final press conference for “Fast & Furious!” Cotto vs. Mosley for the WBA World Welterweight Championship to be held on Saturday, November 10, 2007 at Madison Square Garden. |
| Photo By: Teddy Blackburn/ Golden Boy Promotions |
| Chairman of Top Rank Bob Arum and Ten-Time World Champion and President of Golden Boy Promotions Oscar de la Hoya share a laugh during round table discussions with the media on Thursday, November 8, 2007 in New York during fight week for “Fast & Furious!” Cotto vs. Mosley for the WBA World Welterweight Championship to be held on Saturday, November 10, 2007 at Madison Square Garden. |
| Oscar De La Hoya and Bob Arum setting their differences aside has resulted in some great fights |
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| Three-Division World Champion Sugar Shane Mosley smiles with confidence as he addresses the media on Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at New York’s B.B. King’s during the final press conference for “Fast & Furious!” Cotto vs. Mosley for the WBA World Welterweight Championship to be held on Saturday, November 10, 2007 at Madison Square Garden. |
| Sugar Shane Mosley seeks yet another career defining victory and a World Championship |
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| Three-Division World Champion Sugar Shane Mosley flexes his muscles while on the scale today, November 9, 2007, during the official weigh-in for his November 10, 2007 WBA World Welterweight Championship bout at Madison Square Garden against Champion Miguel Cotto. |
| Shane Mosley may be the perfect foil for Miguel Cotto: |
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| Current Ring Magazine & WBC Interim World Lightweight Champion Joel Casamayor poses for the media today, November 9, 2007, during the official weigh-in for his Novemeber 10, 2007 Championship bout against Jose Armando Santa Cruz on the undercard for Cotto vs. Mosley at Madison Square Garden. |
| Joel Casamayor makes his return to the ring against Jose Santa Cruz on the Mosley vs. Cotto undercard |
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| Current WBA World Welterweight Champion Miguel Cotto and Three-Division World Champion Sugar Shane Mosley face off today during the official weigh-in for their November 10, 2007, November 9, 2007, WBA World Welterweight Championship bout at Madison Square Garden. |
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| Antonio Margarito crushes Golden Johnson in a first round knockout |
| Antonio Margarito returned to the ring with a vengence, disposing of Golden Johnson in round 1. Margarito was eager to prove his loss to Paul Williams was more fluke than proof he was no longer a member of the elite Welters. Margarito floored Johnson three times in the first and threw vicious combos usually punctuated by uppercuts. Proceeding the fight Margarito called out Mosley, Cotto, Mayweather, Hatton, and Kermit Cintron when pressed by Max Kellerman for another one of Margarito's choice opponents. |
| By: Phil Santos - Overhandright.com |
| Joel Casamayor retains his title in controversial split decision victory over Jose Santa Cruz |
| By: Phil Santos - Overhandright.com |
| In a decision that seems almost impossible to justify Joel Casamayor scores a win in his return to the ring after a sizable layoff. The announcement of the decision drew boos from the fans in attendance. Santa Cruz controlled the fight and backed the champ up all night. Casamayor was unimpressive but retained his title none the less. If tonights performance by Casamayor tells us anything it's that this Casamayor simply could not contend with Juan Diaz and his relentless pressure. Casamayor has been a great fighter for many years, so his supporters will say it was ring rust, but Jose Santa Cruz will tell you it was bullshit. |
| Mosley and Cotto live up to the hype: Miguel Cotto scores the biggest win of his career by Unanimous Decision |
| By: Phil Santos - Overhandright.com |
| In a super display of heart, skills, and reckless brawling Miguel Cotto emerges victorious by outlasting a tough, talented future hall of famer in Shane Mosley. They traded crushing blows and each absorbed the punishment only to return the favor. Mosley hinted at retirement following the fight, while Cotto looked toward future possibilities such as the winner of Hatton-Mayweather. My scorecard read 116-114 in favor of Miguel Cotto. |
| David Haye KO's Jean-Marc Mormeck To Win WBC, WBA Titles |
| David Haye has skyrocketed to the top of the cruiserweight division by knocking out Jean-Marc Mormeck in seven rounds tonight on a Don King Promotion at Palais des Sport Marcel Cerdan in Paris, France to forcefully annex the WBC and WBA world titles. Read the Full Story..... |
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| Former champion Reggie Johnson battles former champion Glen Johnson in the "Fight Night for Climate Change" Pay-per-View extravaganza on November 17, from the Burton Coliseum in Lake Charles, Louisiana Read the Full Story..... |
| Johnson Has Been Here Before |
| Who wants it more: Another big fight for Mosley, A career defining fight for Cotto |
| Highly rated Cruiserweight Matt Godfrey takes on the biggest challenge of his young career when he squares off against Jeremy Williams on November 24th in Hartford, Connecticut. Godfrey comes in having scored two big wins in a row, besting Derrick Brown in his last fight and knocking out Felix Cora Jr. on ESPN prior to that. We spoke with world class trainer and former title contender "Ice Man" John Scully who has recently taken over as Godfrey's full-time trainer. Scully takes us through what Godfrey needs to do to be successful against Williams, his future at Cruiserweight, and whether or not Matt Godfrey has what it takes to become a world champion. Here is what the "Ice Man" had to say: Phil: How long have you been working with Matt Godfrey? ICE: I actually worked as a second in the corner for his fights with Felix Cora and Derrick Brown but this is the first time I actually trained him for a fight. We have been together for about two months. We have Ross Enamaite (from www.rosstraining.com) working on his conditioning training and I handle all the boxing training and strategy, etc. Phil: What have you seen during training that leads you to believe that Godfrey can become a World Champion? ICE: Well, I have actually known Matt for a good ten years now, since he was a junior Olympic boxer back in 1996, and I have not only sparred with him before but in 2002 I worked his corner for the entire tournament when he won the National Golden Gloves out in Denver so I know him pretty well and I have always thought he had exceptional skills and reflexes that were above average. He has a very good grasp of boxing and its technique, too, he has what I call "boxing smarts" and that's something that a lot of boxers just do not have. He picks things up quickly because of it and has the athleticism to get away with a lot, too. If his jab continues to improve and his mental strength continues to stay up I think he is definitely a potential world champion. Phil: Was there anything that surprised you about Matt once you started working with him? ICE: To be honest, the only thing that raised any eye brows with me was probably his lack of real hard training. By that I mean his lack of really and truly punishing himself to prepare for fights. I think a lot of the really talented guys tend to stray that way to a mindset where they do what they only need to do to get through fights, to do enough to win, but I already know that sooner or later you will be faced with a situation when every fiber of your body is in pain and suffering and you will have to dig down and find more than talent alone at the bottom of your bag of tricks. And I can honestly say that for this fight Matt has suffered in the gym and that's the way it should be. Training isn't supposed to be a pleasure, you know? Phil: Godfrey scored his most impressive and significant win over Felix Cora Jr., then bested a tough Derrick Brown, in a very close fight. What specifically does Matt need to do in order to score the biggest win of his career and beat Jeremy Williams, a guy who has only 5 losses in 48 fights along with 35 KO's. ICE: I think that Matt pretty much just has to do what he is capable of doing, he has to execute like he is supposed to. He has went a very, very long ways on natural ability and athleticism. He has so many skills and I believe he will use them like he always did but he will use them more efficiently now. Phil: A lot was made about Godfrey switching up and turning southpaw in his KO of Felix Cora Jr., many speculated that the move seemed to confuse Cora leading to the early stoppage. Do you believe that switching to southpaw was the key to that particular fight? Is transitioning from orthodox to southpaw during a fight something that you encourage your fighters to do? Why or Why not? ICE: Matt is like me in that we are ambidextrous in the ring and I don't really think that was something that he set out to do It was more something that unfolded as he was boxing and seeing things. The mind of a boxer is often like a computer in that sometimes it takes in all this data and instantly spits out an answer and I think Matt's instincts just told him to switch up and what happened happened. It's a beautiful thing if a person is able to fluidly switch stances any time he wants to because the fact is the 99 percent of the guys out there cannot do so. Phil: How did you and Matt end up working together? Did he approach you etc..? ICE: It was a thing where his manager Brett Hallenback approached me about tit and, of course, I jumped at the opportunity. I was present in his corner on two previous occasions and, for what it is worth, I think I gave him solid advice in there. Maybe that had something with me getting the call, I'm not really sure. Phil: Was there anything in Matt's previous training regiment that you completely disagreed with? What are some changes that you have made since becoming Godfrey's trainer? ICE: Well, to be honest, I have always felt something about Matt, and this goes back to his amateur days and I actually told him this to his face when he was getting ready for the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials. Watching Matt fight I always felt that he was sort of an underachiever, I wondered if he really knew how talented he was. Sometimes you see a guy who can box and has moves and is talented but he doesn't necessarily realize it as much as other people do and I think that was the case with him for a while there. I told him I felt that with a bit more drive and determination, some outward display of that, he could and should be on that Olympic team. I worked his corner when he beat Devin Vargas clearly at the 2002 National Golden Gloves so I knew what he could do. In 2004, though, he lost to Vargas in the rematch and that was the end of it. I still felt with some more push he could have won and I kind of saw him heading down that same road as a professional so when we got together that was the first thing I spoke to him about, the first thing we went to work on. You can look great and calm and relaxed in there, that's fine, but sometimes you need to dig down and show some anger, some determination, some drive, some spirit and emotions and to illustrate that for him I explained to him how as great and smooth as Sugar Ray Leonard was, when crunch time came against Tommy Hearns in the 1981 fight that he was losing going into the 14th, it was wild and furious overhand rights and lefts and not classic, text book combinations that initially got Tommy hurt and set him up for the KO. I also went to work with him on his jab. I work hard on that with anyone that I train because the old cliché is very true that the most important punch in boxing is the jab. I felt like I did good work with Chad Dawson and Mike Oliver with their jabs and I think Matt is in that category, too, a guy with the potential for a fight controlling type of jab. Phil: Is Godfrey ready right now to compete with and be successful against the elite Cruisers in the world such as Bell, Mormeck and Haye (if he doesn't move back up to Heavy)? ICE: Well, this fight might go a long ways towards answering that question. I think talent wise, skill wise, class wise, he certainly is. Phil: Does Matt have any future plans of moving up into the heavyweight division, or is the plan to remain at Cruiserweight for the foreseeable future? ICE: In my opinion I believe he will remain at his current weight for quite a while. Phil: What is your prediction, and how do you see the fight unfolding. ICE: Well, I find it hard to predict fights because so much depend son the day. Some will depend on how well I do in the corner that night, some will depend on how hard Jeremy feels like fighting that night. Most of it will depend on Matt, of course, because I believe he can and will dictate the fight from top to bottom. I believe his class and skills will expose Williams in many areas. At the end of the day I always have two words that sum up every pre-fight interview and every pre-fight prediction that I do and they are very simple. "We'll see." Thanks to the "Ice Man" for taking the time to speak with us at Overhandright.com |
| Undefeated Cruiserweight Matt "Too Smooth" Godfrey takes on Jeremy "Half Man Half Amazing" Williams Interview with Godfrey's Trainer "Ice Man" John Scully |
| Photo By: Barry Arpin - Overhandright.com |
| Interview By: Phil Santos - Overhandright.com |