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The highly anticipated fight with current lightweight WBO and WBA champion Juan Manuel Marquez and Michael Katsidis has not been postponed or called off yet despite the recent and sudden death of Katsidis brother. Reports suggest it will be up to Michael whether he is mentally able to take the fight which was scheduled for November 27 in Las Vegas. David Itskowitch an executive for Golden Boy promotions has said “Our concern is for Michael as a person rather than boxing”. He added “We want him to be ok and I don’t know if he can be ok because he has just lost his brother”.

Although Itskowitch said that the bout had not yet been scrapped, he stressed that it would be up to Michael whether he would be up to the fight come November. Itskowitch continued to say that – “in all honesty I cannot see the fight going ahead in just over a month this very sad news would have forced Katsidis to return to Brisbane in Australia from Thailand where he was training for the fight. A month delay so the fight can happen in December to make it a Christmas blockbuster or wait until the New Year would be more likely, – However long it takes.” Golden Boys approach is to give Michael the time he needs to recover from his tragic loss. My thoughts are with the Katsidis family at this time and I hope we will see this brilliant and exciting fighter in the ring again, for the title fight he deserves.

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Boxing schedule reminder for top upcoming fights : Gutierrez, Johnson, Santa Cruz, Brian Minto, Zab Judah, Lennox Allen, Manny Pacquiao, Antonio Margarito, David Haye, Audley Harrison, Robert Stieglitz, Ramona Kuehne, Zsolt Erdei, Spadafora, Arthur Abraham, Carl Froch, Juan Manuel Marquez, Michael Katsidis, Morales, Barrios, Jean Pascal, Bernard Hopkins

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• Santa Cruzreturns 21 Oct – Sensational super bantamweight prospect Leo “Teremoto” Santa Cruz has been added to the star studded “An Evening Ringside” Jonathan Ogden Foundation Benefit card this Thursday night, October 21st at the Martins Valley Mansion in Cockeysville, Maryland.

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• Gutierrez, Johnson collide On October 28 — welterweights Enrique Gutierrez (10-4, 8 KOs) and Dashon Johnson (11-2-3, 3 KOs) will square off at the San Manual Casino in San Bernadino. The 8 round main event is for the EBU championship and will be promoted by Patrick Ortiz and Ringside Ticket. The fight show cases the hard punching Gutierrez against the speed and athleticism of Johnson.

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• Minto returns Oct 29 – Recent cruiserweight title challenger Brian Minto (34-4, 21 KOs) will take on Cory Phelps (13-6-1, 7 KOs) on October 29th at the Ghost Riders’ Entertainment Complex in Butler, Pennsylvania. In his most recent fight, Minto put up a brave effort while losing to WBO world champion Marco Huck in his cruiserweight debut last May. Prior to that fight, Minto campaigned exclusively as a heavyweight earning noteworthy wins over former title challenger Axel Schulz and Vinnie Maddalone. Minto-Phelps will be for the vacant WBC Continental Americas cruiserweight title and available as a PPV webstream at www.Mintofight.com.

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• Zab Judah vs. Lucas Matthysse — Robert Guerrero vs. Vicente Escobedo — Saturday, Nov. 6 – at Newark, NJ.

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• Lennox Allen Nov 13 — Super middleweight Lennox Allen’s New York State title fight against Nick Brinson has been rescheduled for November 13 in Albany, NY. The sudden loss of his brother forced Allen (12-0-1, 7 KOs) to pull out of his scheduled September 24 headliner against Brinson in Franklin Park, NY.

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• Saturday, Nov. 13 — at Arlington, TX (HBO-PPV) — Vacant WBC light middleweight title: Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito – Interim WBA super bantamweight title: Guillermo Rigondeaux vs. Ricardo Cordoba – Kelly Pavlik vs. Bryan Vera — Mike Jones vs. Jesus Soto Karass.

• Saturday, Nov. 13 — at Manchester, England — WBA heavyweight title: David Haye vs. Audley Harrison

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• Stieglitz returns Nov 20 — WBO super middleweight champion Robert Stieglitz (38-2, 23 KOs) will defend his title on November 20 against TBA at the the Freiberger Arena in Dresden, Germany. WIBF/WBO/WBF female super featherweight champion Ramona Kuehne (16-1, 5 KOs) will also defend her world titles. – The card will be televised in Germany by SAT.1, which is filling some of the void left after ZDF dropped boxing.

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• Saturday, Nov. 20 — at Atlantic City, NJ (HBO) — WBC middleweight title: Sergio Martinez vs. Paul Williams– Zsolt Erdei  Vs Samson Onyango Nov 20– Former light heavyweight and cruiserweight world champion Zsolt Erdei (31-0, 17 KOs) is set to face Samson Onyango (20-6, 13 KOs) on November 20 in Atlantic City in an off-TV bout on the undercard of Sergio Martinez’s middleweight title defense against Paul Williams.

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• Spadafora returns Nov 20 — Undefeated former IBF lightweight champion Paul “The Pittsburgh Kid” Spadafora returns to the ring in a 10-round junior welterweight bout against TBA on November 20 at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. Spadafora (44-0-1, 18 KOs), will headline a card promoted by Michael Acri Boxing Promotions.

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• Friday, Nov. 26 — at Nagoya, Japan — Vacant WBC featherweight title: Juan Carlos Burgos vs. Hozumi Hasegawa– WBC super featherweight title: Vitali Tajbert vs. Takahiro Ao

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• Saturday, Nov. 27 — at Helsinki, Finland (Showtime) - Arthur Abraham vs. Carl Froch – Robert Helenius vs. Attila Levin.

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• WBA/WBO lightweight titles: Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Michael Katsidis — Saturday, Nov. 27 — at Las Vegas, NV (HBO) also WBC welterweight title: Andre Berto vs. Freddy Hernandez — Celestino Caballero vs. Jason Litzau

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• Salita-Achondo December 16 — Former world title challenger Dimitry Salita (31-1-1, 16 KOs) will face former world champion Mike Achondo (30-3, 19 KOs) December 16th at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City, New York. The bout is scheduled for 12 rounds and the IBA welterweight title. Salita will start training camp next week at the Universal boxing in Ozone Park Queens, New York with his trainer Nirmal Lorick. Lorick is best known for training former world champions Luis Collazo and Travis Simms.

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• Morales-Barrios December 18 – In a battle of former world champions Erik “El Terrible” Morales (50-6, 35 KOs) of Tijuana, Mexico will take on Jorge “La Hiena” Barrios (50-4-1, 35 KOs) of Argentina December 18th in Tijuana, Mexico. Contracted weight for the fight will soon be announced.

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• Jean Pascal vs. Bernard Hopkins – Sat Dec 18 – Canada, WBC light heavyweight title.
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Latest Boxing News – Sunday 10^th October For: Delray Raines, James Kirkland, Tim Bradley, Devon Alexander, Erik Morales, Juan Manuel Marquez, Evander Holyfield, Prizefighter, Michael Sprott, Michael Dallas Jr, Lenin Arroyo, Matt Zegan, Ricky Burns, Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez.

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• Four-time heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield, who will turn 48 on Oct 19, will participate in the 56th fight of a career that began on Nov. 15 of 1984 when he meets 38-year-old Sherman Williams of Vero Beach, Calif., at the Joe Louis Arena on Nov. 12 in Detroit. — Holyfield’s manager, Ken Sanders, said that the fight was originally scheduled for Nov. 5, but had to be moved to gain a potential advantage in working out a television deal.

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• Tim Bradley Vs Devon Alexander — WBO junior welterweight (140 pounds) champion Tim Bradley of Palm Springs, Calif, has signed his fight contract agreeing to terms for a Jan. 29 , HBO-televised unification bout with southpaw WBC and IBF counter part Devon Alexander of St. Louis, Mo.

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• Morales returns in December — Three-division former world champion Erik “Terrible” Morales is expected to return December 18 at Estadio Caliente in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico to fight for the WBC Silver super lightweight title against an opponent to be determined. The fight would be added to the blockbuster SHOWTIME pay-per-view telecast that’s also featuring Bernard Hopkins against WBC light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal from Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. A win for Morales would pave the way for him to face his countryman Juan Manuel Marquez, the current WBA/WBO lightweight world champion, in a 2011 mega-fight.

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• James Kirkland Vs Delray Raines December 11 — Unbeaten southpaw junior middleweight (154 pounds) contender James Kirkland, released from Bastrop Federal Prison, in Bastrop, Tex., on Sept. 30, after having pled guilty to a charge of gun possession in April of 2009, will fight Delray Raines on the Dec. 11 under card of an HBO televised main event featuring WBA junior welterweight (140 pounds) king Amir Khan and WBA interim titlist Marcos Rene Maidana at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, according his manager, Cameron Dunkin. –The 26-year-old Kirkland (25-0, 22 knockouts), who will spend the remaining months of his sentence in an Austin, Tex., halfway house, will be ending a 21-month ring absence by facing the 24-year-old Raines (18-8-1, 13 KOs) of Paris, Ark. – Promoted by Golden Boy Promotions, the bout between Khan (23-1, 17 knockouts) and Maidana (29-1, 27 KOs) will mark Kirkland’s first appearance in the ring since March, 2009 when he stopped Joel Julio in the sixth round.  – Raines is coming off of September’s second-round stoppage of David Molton.

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• Deandre “BULL” Latimore – has regrouped and is lining up his targets as he heads into the new year with a new team and an improved attitude towards his career. — The junior middleweight contender, sporting a record of 21-3-0 with seventeen knockouts, is back with his training team that saw him at his most successful, along with a new manager. “Previously I was working with a company called Sweat/Pound 4 Pound here in St. Louis. I was working with their in-house trainer Jose Ponce, but things just weren’t clicking so I’ve decided to make some changes” said the 25 year old. “There are no hard feelings; it just wasn’t working so we’ve completely parted ways.” — “I’m heading back to Las Vegas tomorrow and will be training with Ray Franklin and Jacob Chavez going forward. They were with me at my best when I knocked out Sechew Powell in our first fight and I’m thrilled to be working with them again.” – Still promoted by Rumble Time Promotions of St. Louis and DiBella Entertainment, Latimore will now be managed by Nevada businessman Chris Watkins.

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• London9^th October — Tonight’s heavyweight Prizefighter provided a great night of boxing for fight fans. The eight man tournament consisted of seven three round fights. Michael Sprott came out on top this year after scoring three decision victories. He defeated Matt Skelton in the finals, which reversed two earlier career losses he suffered at the hands of his older foe.

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• Lemoore, CA (7 October 2010) – In the night’s main event, Bakersfield’s Michael Dallas Jr. improved to 16-0-1 with a second-round knockout of Lenin Arroyo of Miami (20-14-1) in a scheduled eight-round welterweight bout. The fight was halted via the three-knockdown rule at the 1:30 mark.  In the co-main event, Shawn Estrada, was declared the winner of a scheduled four-round super middleweight fight against Nathan Bedwell., 28 seconds into the first round after Bedwell (4-5), whose right knee was heavily taped, crumpled near his own corner after being hit by a left-right combination from Estrada (9-0).

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• No title shot for Zegan — After allegedly having signed for a world title shot against WBO super featherweight champion Ricky Burns, WBO #3 lightweight Matt Zegan (42-5-2, 21 KOs) will not be challenging for the 130lb belt at Glasgow’s Braehead Arena on December 4. Burns will instead make the first defense of his title against WBO #6 featherweight Andreas Evensen (13-1, 5 KOs). Zegan’s stock plummeted after a draw with Boris Berg (3-0-1, 2 KOs) in a tune-up fight and he was rejected by SKY Sports, opening the door for the little known Evensen who will move up a weight class.

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• Gonzalez vacates WBA title — Undefeated Nicaraguan WBA minimumweight world champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (26-0, 22 KOs) has decided to give up his crown after making three defenses. He will now fight October 24 in Japan against Mexican Francisco Rosas (21-7-2, 12 KOs) for the WBA interim light flyweight world crown. He was originally sated to face WBA regular light flyweight Juan Carlos Reveco on that date, but Reveco pulled out citing kidney stones.

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Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer is targeting November 27th as the date when WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (51-5-1, 37 KO’s) will be defending his titles against WBO lightweight interim champion Michael Katsidis (27-2, 22 KO’s) in a fight that will likely be shown on HBO. Marquez, 37, was planning on fighting WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan in December for an attempt to win a 4th world title in as many weight classes. However, Marquez has decided, at least for now, to stay at lightweight and defend his title against the smaller Katsidis.

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