Not necessarily the fights the fans are hoping for but at least they are keeping busy. September 27th: Denis Inkin -vs- Fulgencio Zuniga Ring Magazine no.9 -vs- Unranked Interim WBO Super Middleweight Title October 24th: Lucian Bute -vs- Librado Andrade (Showtime) Ring Magazine no.3 -vs- Ring Magazine no.4 IBF Super Middleweight Title October 25th: Mikkel Kessler -vs- Danilo Haussler Ring Magazine no.1 -vs- Unranked WBA Super Middleweight Title November 1st(?): Carl Froch -vs- Jean Pascal Ring Magazine no.6 -vs- Unranked Vacant WBC Super Middleweight Title November 1st: Andre Dirrell -vs- Victor Oganov (Showtime) November 13th: Peter Manfredo Jr. -vs- Sakio Bika (Versus) Unranked -vs- Ring Magazine no.9 Vacant IBO Super Middleweight Title November 13th: Jaidon Codrington -vs- Daniel McKinnon (Versus) November 15th: Jermain Taylor -vs- Jeff Lacy (HBO) Ring Magazine no.10 -vs- Ring Magazine no.5 WBC Super Middleweight Title Eliminator
With Bute being no.3 at 168lbs and Andrade being no.4. This means the winner is sure to get at least the no.2 spot behind Kessler in the Ring Magazine rankings. Which could set up a pretty nice fight for the vacant Ring Magazine belt when Calzaghe finally retires.
Couldn't agree more....I wrote a thread the other day saying that I think 168 has the potential to be the best in boxing if Pavlik and Abraham both move up. I think Allen Green has a lot of potential too but I don't know what the hell happened to him.
I can see Pavlik moving up to 168... But i doubt abraham will pack on more pounds. I see Pavlik moving up to 168 after fighting abraham, win or lose.
Why wouldn't you see AA putting on 2 pounds? he packed on 6 to KO pantera at 166. What's 2 more pounds?
Its because of height. Arthur 5'10 Pavlik 6'2 Every top contender except Mundine is 6'0 and over. Pavlik will not be able to stay 160 forever, as good as he is with weight management. On the other hand, i don't see Arthur having a problem being at 160.
I'm hoping to see Zuniga and Andrade both win, and then Zuniga/Andrade! That's a 6-8 round war in the making. Somebody gets carried out. Probably Zuniga. Froch beats Pascal, and then loses to Taylor. JT is to fast for Froch. Dirrel beats Oganov easy. Bika beats Manfredo.
Very good and interesting post Boo....just out of curiosity who has Andrade fought that has Zunigas power???? Kessler????
Probably just Kessler. However, I can't see Andrade/zuniga lasting 12 rounds. And to me if Zuniga won it would be something of an upset, but not a huge one.