From Sports Illustrated. Undefeated junior middleweight James Kirkland, who has been incarcerated since April 2009 for possession of a firearm, is scheduled to be released any day now, Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer told SI.com. His release is being delayed by a lack of available beds in the halfway house, where Kirkland is required to serve the remainder of his sentence that runs through the end of the year. Schaefer said Kirkland, 26, will return to the ring on Nov. 6 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. Though Kirkland is required to be at the halfway house between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., Schaefer said he has secured the court's permission for Kirkland to travel for a fight. "We're not looking to match him against King Kong," Schaefer said. "He needs to get used to being in the ring again." Assuming Kirkland wins in November, Schaefer said he plans to bring Kirkland back to fight on the Amir Khan-Marcos Maidana card on Dec. 11. A good addition if you ask me:good Hopefully his opponent isn't a megabum though.
That would be great! And yeah, unfortunately it most likely will be a bum. Someone he'll knock out with ease and look good doing so.
Not a fan of Kirkland, but now that we've lost Angulo there's room for a anti-science mad dog. Kirkland is gonna give us some fun fights to watch if they put him in the right type of match-ups. This will be a nice "get your groove back" gimme though. Btw it's nice to see SI still report on Boxing.
SI is still good for boxing lads.:good Its merged with MMA but usually has new boxing stories every day.
