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Pacquiao-Marquez II set for March 15 November 30, 2007

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Consider it an early holiday gift from the boxing gods but Filipino sensation junior lightweight Manny Pacquiao has agreed to fight WBC title holder Juan Manuel Marquez in a highly anticipated rematch of their May 2004 draw.

For many this was the only fight that mattered for Pacquiao as he continues his Hall of Fame bound career.

The fight will take place on March 15th at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. HBO PPV will broadcast the fight.

Financial terms were not disclosed but word is that Marquez took short money to make the fight happen.

Golden Boy Wins Diaz-Katsidis Purse Bid November 28, 2007

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Tags: Juan Diaz, Michael Katsidis, Oscar De La Hoya
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Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions won the WBO mandated purse bid for the proposed Juan Diaz-Michael Katsidis lightweight title fight. Diaz is the WBO lightweight Super Champion while Michael Katsidis holds the WBO Interim lightweight title. I will spare you the diatribe that is welling up inside me due to these designations. How can you have two separate individuals attached to your title? Especially since Diaz is considered “the man” at 130 and does not need one of his titles sullied with such nonsense. Yet I digress.

GBP won the right for the fight after putting up a bid of 1.5 million. With the mandated 80/20 split Diaz will reportedly earn 1.2 million with Katsidis taking home $300,000. Don King tried to postpone the bid on the grounds that he is still in Germany with our troops. The WBO countered King’s posturing with the claim that all interested promoters were advised of the purse bid on November 16. On these grounds King had ample time to plan accordingly if he truly was interested on bidding.

Golden Boy Promotions has 90 days from Nov. 23 to stage the fight. Sources indicate that GBP plans on this fight taking place on Jan. 26 in the hometown of Diaz, Houston, TX.

“The Brawl” Official Bout Sheet November 23, 2007

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Tags: Fernando Vargas, Kermit Cintron, Ricardo Mayorga
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Marquez-Juarez Make Weight November 3, 2007

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Official weights from Tucson, Arizona

Juan Manuel Marquez – 128 lbs.

Rocky Juarez – 129 lbs.

Robert Guerrero 127.5 lbs. (Weight was made on the second attempt. It would take Guerrero two hours to lose 1.5 lbs.)

Martin Honorio – 126 lbs.

Calzaghe-Kessler Make Weight November 3, 2007

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Official weights from Cardiff, Wales

Joe Calzaghe – 167.5 lbs

Mikkel Kessler – 168

Taylor Wants Rematch October 24, 2007

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ESPN’s Dan Rafael has confirmed that Jermain Taylor will in fact exercise the rematch clause in his contract with newly-crowned middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik.

Pavlik stopped Taylor in an all action affair in Atlantic City, NJ last month.

The rematch will most likely take place north of the middleweight limit of 160 lbs and as a result will be a non-title fight.

Reports indicate that the fight may take place in mid-Feb. on HBO.

Pavlik’s promoter had hoped to schedule a fight with popular Irishman John Duddy but seem more than willing to engage in the rematch.

WBO World Championship Committee Renders Verdect on Holt Protest October 6, 2007

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The World Boxing Organization World Championship Committee has reached a decision regarding Kendall Holt’s official protest of the his 11th round TKO loss to Ricardo Torres last month in Columbia.

Team Holt had filed the official protest after alleging that the circumstances surrounding the bout contributed to an unfair and unsafe environment for Holt.

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