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Latest Boxing News in Brief – Monday 31^st January For: Adamek vs. McBride, Amir Khan, Carl Froch, Carl Froch, David Haye, Giovanni Segura, ‘I`ll Go to War with Andy Lee!’, Ivan Calderon, Jamie “Mr Business”, Pittman, Liebling Award, Odlanier Solis, Paul McCloskey, Pete Hamill, Vitali Klitschko

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• Calderón-Segura II on April 2 - Former WBO 108lb champion Ivan Calderon will allegedly have a rematch with reigning WBO/WBA champion Giovanni Segura on April 2 in Mexico according to credible sources. The television money weighed in this decision, which should be announced in the coming days.

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• Hamill wins Liebling Award — Veteran New York journalist and author Pete Hamill has been selected by the Boxing Writers Association of America as the winner of this year’s A.J. Liebling Award. Bestowed since 1995 by the BWAA, the award honors the elegant New Yorker stylist, who chronicled the sport for decades and whose work was subsequently collected in the timeless boxing books The Sweet Science and A Neutral Corner. The Liebling Award will be presented at the BWAA’s annual dinner in Las Vegas on May 6th.

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• ‘I`ll Go to War with Andy Lee!’ - Scottish and Irish boxing fans on the East Coast of America are gearing up for their Fight of the Year as Holywood-based, Edinburgh middleweight Craig McEwan takes on Limerick’s Andy Lee at the Foxwoods Caino, Connecticut on 12th March. The fight ,which is being billed by top promoter Lou Di Bello as the ‘Celtic War’, is effectively a world title eliminator. Connecticut is deep in the heart of Irish America and it is likely that Lee’s countrymen will greatly outnumber Scottish fans on the night. However McEwan, who likes to fight as the underdog, will not be fazed by this.

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• WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s) has decided to start his training camp this week for his May 21st bout against 42-year-old Glen Johnson (51-14-2, 35 KO’s) for their semifinals Super Six tournament bout. As of now, there isn’t a designated venue, but Froch is holding out hope that the fight will take place in the UK. It’s going to be up to Showtime whether they’ll agree to that.

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• Khan reaches out to Katsidis — With negotiation attempts with EBU light welterweight champion Paul McCloskey and Lamont Peterson having been tried and failed, WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) now says his management will be contacting lightweight contender Michael Katsidis (27-3, 22 KO’s) on Monday to see if he’ll be interested in a fight on April 16th in the UK.

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• Adamek vs. McBride - Heavyweight contender Tomasz Adamek (43-1, 28 KO’s) has reportedly signed the contract to face 37-year-old Kevin McBride (35-8-1, 29 KO’s) in a tune-up bout on April 16th, at the Spodek, Katowice, Poland. According to fightnews.com, the contracts have been signed for this fight, which is a warm-up for the 34-year-old Adamek for his September bout against one of the Klitschko brothers in Poland.

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• Pittman and Leapai win — By Ray Wheatley - Former WBA middleweight challenger Jamie “Mr Business” Pittman (21-2, 8 KOs) was impressive as he outscored Tim Kanofski (11-4) in an action bout over six rounds at the Gold Coast Convention Centre in Broad Beach Queensland, Australia on Saturday. Pittman, 6’1, boxing from the southpaw stance controlled the action in all the rounds as he connected, consistently with accurate combinations on his aggressive opponent. Kanofski came to fight but had no answer to the world class skills of the Athens 2004 Olympian. Pittman’s amateur record: (111-26). Pittman lost WBA middleweight challenge in 2008 when Felix Sturm stopped him in seven rounds. Pittman is managed by Bill Treacy and trained by Graham Shaw. “Pittman will be in regular action in 2011 and we will be looking for world rated opponent,” said Shaw.

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• Unbeaten former 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist Odlanier Solis (17-0, 12 KO’s) is really serious his March 19th title challenge against WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KO’s) at the Lanxess-Arena, in Cologne, Germany. Solis, who came into his last fight in December weighing a fat looking 260 pounds, is currently training in the snow-covered mountains in Germany and is putting in 2 1/2 hours of roadwork each day to lose some of the fat that’s collected on his once lean 200 pound frame.

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• By Mark Vester — WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch would have liked to take part in a doubleheader with his close friend, WBA heavyweight champion David Haye, but he doesn’t believe it’s possible. Froch faces Glen Johnson in the semi-finals of the Super Six tournament on May 21, which is the same date as Haye’s scheduled title defense at the O2 Arena in London. — Sky Sports wanted Froch and Haye to take part in a pay-per-view doubleheader on the May 21 date. Froch says his contract in the Super Six orders the semi-finals, and the final bout, to take place in the United States. He’s not too happy about that, but says there is a chance that his fight with Johnson will take place in Canada. - “David is an old mate from my amateur days and we have been talking about a double header with Sky,” said Froch to the Nottingham Post. “I think it would be really good. But Showtime have said from day one that the semi-finals and finals would be in America. There is a chance I could fight in Canada and I might have to settle for that.”

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According to BoxingScene, Richard Mota, who manages WBA/WBO light flyweight champion Giovani Segura, has said that his fighter will now face former mimimumweight interm-titlist Manuel “Chango” Vargas on November 27th instead of Filipino Denver , after the deal for the fight encountred problems.

Segura added the WBO strap to his collection following his 9th round knockout of the then undefeated Ivan Calderon this past August in a bout that is a fight of the year candidate.

BoxingScene quoted Mota as saying - ”I was on the phone with Zanfer for over an hour. We just finalized a fight with former champion Manuel “Chango” Vargas. The fight will still take place on November 27th in Tijuana” .

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Latest Boxing News Wednesday 10^th November For: Alejandro Lakatos, Jospeph Gaxiola, Denver Cuello, Ivan Calderon, Manny Pacquiao, Margarito, Roger Bloodworth, Vinny Maddalone, Adamek, Nathan, Cleverly, Andre Ward, Sakio “The Scorpion” Bika, Eric Gomez, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Audley Harrison, David Haye

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• According to Boxingscene - Jospeph Gaxiola, WBA/WBO light flyweight champion’s November 27th title defense versus Filipino Denver Cuello is officially signed, sealed and delivered. — The bout will headline a card televised by Fox Sports with IBF lightweight champion Miguel Vasquez (26-3) defending his title versus Ricardo Dominguez (32-6-2) in the co-feature. The fight which takes in Tijuana, Mexico will also be televised by TV Azteca south of the border. — When asked if a rematch with Ivan Calderon is still in the works for 2011, Gaxiola told BoxingScene, “A rematch is still in the works for early next year if Calderon wants it.”

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• Pacman - Margarito presser today — Fight fans are invited to see Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito, along with their respective trainers, Freddie Roach and Robert Garcia, make their final pre-fight comments at today’s final news conference for their pay-per-view showdown Saturday night. The news conference, which is open to the public, will be held at Cowboys Stadium – East End Zone Platform (900 East Randol Mill Rd., Arlington, TX 76011). Media Report Time is 1:00 p.m. CT with the news conference beginning promptly at 1:30 p.m.

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Roger Bloodworth, Adamek trainer talking about Vinny Maddalone and Adamek development. Maddalone vs. Adamek December 9^th.

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• Alejandro Lakatos vows to expose Cleverly — Former world title challenger Alejandro Lakatos has vowed to expose unbeaten Nathan Cleverly on December 11 at the Echo Arena where the Interim WBO World light-heavyweight title will be at stake. “He’s an overhyped jumped-up kid who will be exposed for what he is on December 11, and I’ll give him a one, two that will knock him out. I’ve seen Cleverly’s fight against Karo Murat, and if he stands in front of me like that he’ll be in big trouble. I’ll punish him.” Born in Romania but now fighting out of Madrid, Lakatos has 31 and has twice fought for the WBO world light-heavyweight title. “It will definitely be a case of third time lucky against Cleverly,” said Lakatos. “I’ve been close to glory before, but this time my dream of winning a world title is about to come true. I’m sure that I will get booed into the Echo Arena, but by the time I’ve finished with Cleverly the crowd will be on their feet and cheering me.”

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• Andre Ward presser — Andre “S.O.G.” Ward met with members of the local Bay Area press on Tuesday to discuss defending his WBA super middleweight championship a second time against tough world contender Sakio “The Scorpion” Bika (28-4-2, 19 KOs) of Sydney, Australia, via Douala, Cameroon, on Saturday, Nov. 27, live on SHOWTIME. “Mentally, I was preparing to fight Andre Dirrell,” said Ward who also met with his fans, mingling and signing autographs from Ricky’s Sports Theatre and Grill. “It was never our intention to not partake in the fight with Dirrell. But when it came down to the training we didn’t have to make a lot of adjustments because we hadn’t begun camp yet.”

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• Manny Pacquiao out of competitors — The Vice President for Golden Boy Promotions Eric Gomez says that the only fight for Manny Pacquiao is Floyd Mayweather Jr. next year if Pacquiao gets by Antonio Margarito this Saturday night. The World Boxing Organization (WBO) won’t be stripping Pacquiao of his WBO title if he captures the WBC junior middleweight strap this Saturday in his fight with Margarito, because Pacquiao has made it pretty clear that he doesn’t intend on staying at junior middleweight.

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• DAVID Haye is more than happy that two of Britain’s all-time greats are giving Audley Harrison a chance of beating him on Saturday. — Harrison will attempt to relieve Haye of his WBA world heavyweight title at Manchester’s MEN Arena. — And Lennox Lewis and Frank Bruno have both said that the 39-year-old Harrison has a puncher’s chance of upsetting the odds. — Lewis claims that Audley has the power to “stun the world” while Bruno admits that he also fancies Harrison to cause a shock.

The fight is, ironically, the first all-British world heavyweight title fight since Lewis stopped Bruno 17 years ago. — Haye said of the comments of the two British ring legends: “I am actually pleased people are siding with Audley. — “After all, when this fight was announced everybody said it was a joke fight. They are not saying that now. (Source: Daily Star).

• DAVID Haye Speaking the Dailymail.co.uk, — Haye said “All you have to do is imagine what a right mug I would look if I lost. Getting beat by Audley would be more than an embarrassment. I would be beyond humiliation. it would be a catastrophe for me, my career and for everything I stand for.”

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HOBOKEN, NJ—The Flyweight World Championship Unification bout between WBA jr Flyweight World Championship Giovani Segura and WBO jr flyweight Ivan Calderon on Saturday August 28 in the Coliseum Mario Quijote Morales in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico s being distributed for pay-per-view in the United States by Integrated Sports Media for live viewing at 9PM EST / 6PM PST on both cable and satellite pay-per-view via iN Demand, DIRECTV, Avail-TVN and DISH Network.

Segura is right on track to make the 108 pound limit for this unification bout against Calderon. Segura weight-in at 113 pound today nine pounds under the limit of 124 he could be at at this point in his preparation.

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