He pulled off the fight against Franco and now is fighting some Perez dude. wasn't Franco a mandatory?
no, beating franco would have made him mandotory for billy dib, but i guess he wasnt confident in beaitng either.
Thought I read that Franco's promoter won the purse bid for Russell-Franco and was going to do the fight around September. Russell hasn't fought since Nov of last year and has had a fight or two fall out on him this year and said he didn't want to be off any longer. The Bundrage-Spinks card is a GBP card and Showtime was already on board with showing a Russell fight so he went that direction. Russell's explanation could be legit or there could be more to it, but thats what he said last week.
i dont know that is a little overboard. i think he has some deficiencies in his fighting style, but, he has to be 1 of the most talented fighters out there. his speed is warp speed. fastest guy i have ever seen since roy jones jr :smoke
Little disappointed in Russ. . . Was hoping he'd up his comp. . . But he's still young, and new. . But he should be stepping it up to B-level comp by the end of hte year, or 2013. .
i think gary shaw wanted to do it in july so goldenboy pulled russell from the fight stating that as the reason. but i think once they lost the bid they were never gonna let russell fight franco