Kessler is a 10/1 favourite against Green!

Wow. If you bet, you are crazy NOT to be on Green. Green has all the advantages except for experience.

You could even say Green's heart is better since, Green actually fought Miranda instead of ran away from him in terror.

 

Except for the fact that Kessler fights NOTHING like Ward.

 

Alright, those odds are bull****. I haven't seen them anywhere. No way bookies would be that dumb. This is too close of a fight for ridiculous odds like that.

 

With those odds I might just put $25 on Green just for the **** of it.

 

This is at worst, a 50/50 fight. Honestly, I lean a little towards Green to win, but Kessler will win on the scorecards if the fight is in Europe.

So you still gotta be wary.

You but 250 on it, and you get $2,500. That's enough for a DOIN IT BIG trip in either South America or Cambodia which is probably my next stop. Heard you can spend $30 a DAY and live like a DAMN KING.

 

You're delusional, but it's refreshing to be able to laugh like that. Thanks a bunch.:hi:

 

:rofl:rofl

As opposed to Mayweather, who destroyed the vaunted Ricky Hatton??

 

It's worth 20 bucks to bet on Green. Hey ya never know! :think :rasta

 

Too high in terms of me not making any money on the fight, but nowhere near high enough in terms of reality in the ring. Green has pretty much no chance.

 

put money on green..... his power might be enough to knock off a shop worn kessler

 

rightfully so!!!

 

You actually believe Kessler who fought Calzaghe, Froch, Ward and many other top 168 pounders was scared of Miranda?? You dont know **** man, Miranda would have gotten killed had he faced Kessler. Kesslers only problem at that time was his promotor, you freakin idiot atsch

 

Hattons C level, but he did smash Castillo who decimated Mayweather, then fought him to a draw.

We also have to remember, 90% of boxing experts gave Hatton 4 of the first 5 rounds, Hatton was out boxing Gayweather until Cortez stopped his only method of attack, just imagine what Pac would do to that bum if he had some balls.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=3312534

March 26, 2008

Kessler withdraws from super middleweight fight with Miranda

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By Dan Rafael
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A May 24 super middleweight showdown between former unified titleholder Mikkel Kessler and brash puncher Edison Miranda imploded Tuesday when Kessler withdrew from the fight.
Miranda promoter Leon Margules of Seminole Warriors Boxing and promoter Lou DiBella, who brokered the deal on behalf of Kessler's Danish promoter Mogens Palle, both were at a loss to explain why Kessler pulled out of a fight that Showtime had already announced on its Web site.

The sides agreed to a deal March 14 and were finalizing the paperwork when, according to Margules, Kessler agent Michael Marley informed Showtime on Tuesday that the fight was off.

"I have no idea why he pulled out. He must be afraid to fight Miranda," Margules told ESPN.com. "We gave them everything they asked for. Showtime gave them everything they asked for."

Margules said Showtime, which agreed to pay $1 million for the fight and beat HBO's offer, wanted the fight so badly that it even agreed to change the date of its "Showtime Championship Boxing" telecast from May 10 to May 24 to accommodate Kessler, who felt he needed additional time to train.

"The Kessler people haven't given me an explanation," Margules said. "They're acting like we're [messing] with them. I'm outraged. If their explanation is that we didn't meet their deal points, I have their points in writing. Everything was in the contract that they asked for. They wanted it to be a 10-round fight. We gave them that because they wouldn't even discuss a 12-rounder. They insisted on all sorts of things and we gave them everything."

Among other concessions given to Kessler: The bout would not take place on Native American property or in Florida. Seminole Warriors Boxing is a Native American-operated promotional company based in Hollywood, Fla.

Also, Kessler was to be paid 400,000 Euros (approximately $600,000 U.S.) and Palle would retain lucrative television rights in Scandinavia, Germany and other territories.

"They took the fight and then they backed out," Margules said. "We had a deal in writing, and although it was not signed yet, we all said, 'We have a deal.' Showtime even had the fight on its Web site. Everything was worked out and my fighter was in camp. And then, no fight."

Margules said Marley didn't even bother to call him and that he found out from Showtime that the fight was off.

DiBella was also disgusted with Kessler and his team.

"I was dealing with Mogens Palle and Mike Marley. I should have expected no less," DiBella said. "I found this fight for Kessler at the request of Mogens and I spent a lot of time working on it. We sent them a contract reflecting everything they asked for. But then Mike wouldn't take my calls for a week and Mogens has been ill. No one ever came back with comments on the contract and then Mike called [Showtime's] Ken Hershman directly and blamed me, saying the contract didn't reflect the deal. Then Ken asked him why they never came back with comments on the contract and Mike changed his tune and said that Kessler had some other opportunity for a world title fight. Which is it?

"The way in which this was handled is preposterous. If they didn't want the fight, just say so. I made an unbelievable deal for the Kessler side but they are too stupid to see it."

Marley didn't return a telephone message or e-mail from ESPN.com seeking comment.



Miranda, who is 2-0 since moving up to super middleweight in the wake of his May 2007 middleweight title elimination loss to Kelly Pavlik, who would go on to win the title, wasn't all that surprised that Kessler withdrew.
The trash-talking Miranda had goaded Kessler into the accepting the fight in the first place.

"I didn't get my hopes up because I know Kessler is afraid of me," Miranda said. "We gave him everything he wanted to make this fight and he still wouldn't take it. In fact, the only thing we didn't give him is the opportunity to tie my hands around my back while we fought. But at this point I'm willing to even give him that because I know if I yelled 'boo' at him in the ring he'd turn and run. I said it before and I'll say it again -- he should be ashamed to call himself a 'Viking Warrior.'"

Kessler (39-1, 29 KOs), of Denmark, hasn't fought since losing his two belts via lopsided decision to Joe Calzaghe in a Nov. 3 unification fight.

Miranda (30-2, 26 KOs), of Colombia, is one of the biggest punchers in the 168-pound division. Both of his losses came at middleweight, a controversial decision in Germany to Arthur Abraham in a 2006 title bout and the loss to Pavlik.

Showtime has not decided what it will do about its May card.

Dan Rafael is ESPN.com's boxing writer.

 

good to know i might throw 20 bucks his way, if he wins then i win big... if he losses then I only lost 20 bucks