''Lived in abject poverty, his mum died of AIDS when he was 13, and he took up boxing to make a new life for himself''
bet frank says we couldn't agree the terms in time! i sincerely hope it is shumenov though. it is a real chance for cleverly to get another belt. who cares if cleverly loses. he has shown a decent enough chin and stamina to improve, come again and win another title and make big fights. cleverly is taking a run at froch for best chin in boxing. bellew and others have really nailed him but he hasn't looked rattled as of yet. some of bellews shots should have registered more than they did.
Problem with holding boxing events in Wales at present is the lack of a mid capacity indoor venue. Presently there is nothing around the 15,000 to 20,000 mark which would sit nicely between the roughly 5,000 Motorpoint arena and the 70,000+ Millennium Stadium. It definitely won't be the latter if its in Feb with the Six Nations on.
Horrible list. Only Bellew excites. I'd prefer to see the Bellew rematch but Frank will want to build it.
Unfortunately I am as Dirks is with Sauerland and Boxnation work with them and therefore an automatic rematch would be guaranteed and easy to make for ****** should Cleverly somehow lose. Not a fight I want but fairly sure it will happen from what I understand, hopefully its too bad a fight even for this type of homecoming