Kessler likely to headline in US next time out, and on the 14th of March.

Mogens Palle has told media in Denmark that March 14 is the working date for Mikkel Kessler´s debut as a headline fighter in America. Who he will fight hasn´t been announced yet.

Who could it be, who's available or not around that date?

 

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That'll be the ****!! Man just wish he would have come on over while he was still RED hot coming out of the Calz fight.

Have to wait and see on opponent though to get too excited. It will either be A) a marquee opponent in a big fight, or B) some scrub to make him look real good to set up a bigger fight later. I guess.

 

hopefully taylor with the winnder getting froch

 

This is just what Kessler needs to do. I hope it works out.

 

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OOOhhh! Good idea there. Bika is hot right now, just won the Contender and stuff. Knowing he's never dull on top of that, would be a good action fight.

 

Can't be Taylor if Kessler's headlining it on March 14, because Dawson/Tarver II is already set for HBO on that date and you can bet that Taylor won't on Showtime, especially not when HBO wants that fight.

 

Anyone from the top 10 would be nice altough I'd like him totake Taylor out.

 

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I believe his subpar competition has been the source of criticism, rather than getting himself over to the USA.

And that looks to still be the case in his next fight.

 

Agreed

 

Taylor or a unification would be very very nice, but we might ask too much here. So let's have a look at the WBA list and look for acceptable fighters by HBO:

1. Gusmyl Perdoma
2. Stjepan Bozic
3. Karo Murat
4. Dimitri Sartison
5. Robert Stieglitz
6. Mads Larsen
7. Lukas Wilaschek
8. Danilo Haussler
9. Marcus Johnson
10. Andre Ward
11. Andre Dirrell
12. Jean Paul Mendy
13. Vitaly Tsypko
14. Allan Green
15. Sakio Bika

I agree with Bika being the strongest candidate. What about Green? Well, there's a risk with his tendencies to pull out, but unlike Bika, he's American. I don't think Ward is ready, same with Dirrell, although I wouldn't be surprised of a bold move - forced by HBO.

Bika, Green, Dirrell, all 3 sounds good to me. At the very moment, Bika is the most credible opponent and he deserves a title shot anyway, so I hope he'll get it. But Taylor would be the big ****.

 

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I'm sure Bika and Kessler have sparred before