Boxing News magazine 5.5.2011 Download pdf

Boxing News Magazine 2011 Memorabilia

Amir Khan-Timothy Bradley
light-welterweight unification
showdown are not going well. As
we went to press the deadline to
reach an agreement for the July
23 fight to go ahead had been
extended but Golden Boy are thought
to be lining up Robert Guerrero, Marcos
Maidana, Erik Morales or, more likely,
Zabjudah for an opponent for the
Bolton man if an agreement cannot
be reached. Meanwhile, Khan's latest
foe Paul McCloskey has given up on
a rematch with Judah, Maidana and
Breidis Prescott all being considered,

THE mother of Micky Ward has
died after suffering from a cardiac
arrest, The 79-year-old Alice Ward,
who worked closely with her son
throughout his career, had been
in bad health for some time. She
will be forever associated with
the Academy Award-winning

JOINING Shane Mosley on the Las Vegas
card are two further warriors looking to prove
their best days are not exclusively consigned
to yesterday. Mexican thrillseeker Jorge Arce
continues his roiiercoaster ride, while former
world middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik
is merely trying to get back on the track.
The support, unquestionably hurt by the
collapse of the proposed Humberto Soto-
Urbano Antillion rematch, remains intriguing
enough to merit close attention. Styles - as
I'm sure you all know by now - make fights
but stories assist in the building of them.
And there'll be tales aplenty surrounding
Arce's challenge to gifted WBO superbantamweight
boss Wilfredo Vazquez Jnr
and Pavlik's comeback against unbeaten
super-middleweight Alfonso Lopez.

DANNY McINTOSH does things the hard
way. In January the Norwich man won
the vacant European light-heavyweight
title with a come-from-behind nth-round
stoppage of France's Thierry Karl in Paris.
Now on Saturday (May 7) Mcintosh
makes his first defence on the road when
he meets Germany's Eduard Gutknecht at
the Jahnsportforum in Neubrandenburg. He
deserves to be well paid, because there's a
good chance he will come back without his
crown. That's not to denigrate Mcintosh, 31,
who turned pro late and has done well to
achieve what he has. It's just that Germany
is a difficult place for an "away" fighter to
win, especially on points.