Cloud vs. Johnson called off – News

By Eric Thomas: The April 10th fight between International Boxing Federation light heavyweight champion Tavoris Cloud (20-0, 18 KO’s) and Glen Johnson has been called off after Cloud signed with promoter Don King. Cloud also has a hamstring injury, so he wouldn’t have likely been able to fight on April 10th regardless of whether he signed with King or not. However, in place of the Cloud-Johnson fight, Celestino Caballero (33-2, 23 KO’s) will be taking on Daud Yordan (25-0, 19 KO’s).

That fight be an even better option than watching Cloud battle against 41-year-old Johnson, so I’m not complaining. Caballero currently holds down the WBA super bantamweight title and is interested in getting a fight with Juan Manuel Lopez. However, Lopez has been dragging his feet about facing him understandably. Yordan, 22, from Indonesia, has a style that is very difficult to fight.

Yordan likes to punch and clinch immediately. It’s a style very similar to John Ruiz and Bernard Hopkins. Yordan has fast hands and is good at landing quick combinations before grabbing his opponent and tying them up in a clinch. Perhaps his most noticeable bout was his two round no decision against Robert Guerrero last year in March.

Guerrero was cut badly by Yordan’s head as he came forward trying to clinch. The fight was stopped shortly thereafter. Yordan is a good fighter, but not in the class of Caballero. He’ll lose this fight and possibly get stopped.

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