By Jim Dower: A fight between undefeated middleweight contender Peter Quillin (26-0, 20 KO’s) and 40-year-old former IBF/WBA/WBC/WBO junior middleweight champion Ronald “Winky” Wright (51-5-1, 25 KO’s) is reportedly in the works for May 26th on the undercard of the Antonio Tarver vs. Lateef Kayode bout, according to Dan Rafael. The fight will be televised by Showtime.

Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer told ESPN “They’re both in. I don’t have it signed yet, but both sides have agreed to it. I think it’s a fantastic match-up.”

Quillin and Wright had previously been mentioned as a possible fight for the undercard of the May 5th bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. However, the two sides were unable to put the fight together for that card, but this works out better because the Tarver-Kayode card needs a decent fight like Quillin-Wright.

It’s really hard to say if this will even be a good fight because Wright hasn’t fought in three years since losing by a lopsided 12 round to Paul Williams in April 2009. Wright looked shot in that fight and I can only imagine what three years of inactivity has done to his once impressive skills. I disagree with Schaefer in calling this this as fantastic fight. No, a fantastic fight would be Wright from 2005 facing Quillin, but even that wouldn’t be fantastic because Quillin is pretty limited. He’s a pot shot fighter without a left hand, who loads up with everything but is only capable of throwing single shots. Quillin has no inside game and it would be too easy for a prime Wright to beat this guy. But a 40-year-old Wright is likely deteriorated enough for Quillin to add his scalp to his resume but it’s not saying a whole lot. Quillin needs to face better opposition than this because he’s got so many flaws in his game and he needs to work on improving.