Graeme Campbell

Burns / Crawford will likely take place in the new year on HBO

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burns454By Graeme Campbell: WBO lightweight boss Ricky Burns (36-2-0, 11ko’s) looks certain to make his much anticipated US debut early in the New Year most likely at the mecca of boxing Maddison Square Garden.

‘The Rickster must first take care of business in Glasgow on September 7th in a stay busy kind of fight against Raymundo Beltran. The Freddie Roach trained Beltran will have all the trouble in the world against Burns simply because he has not faced anything like the same level of competition as the talented and popular Scotsman.

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Broner should be happy a fight with Burns could not be made

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broner74By Graeme Campbell: After last Saturday night’s performance from Adrien Broner (27-0, 22 KO’s) in beating WBA welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (32-5. 7 KO’s) by a 12 round split decision at the Barclay Centre in Brooklyn NY, much has been said about the lackluster manner in which ‘the future star of boxing’ went about his business.’The problem did just about enough to win the fight with his conservative low output strategy.

I believe most people would accept that AB landed the cleaner shots with more venom, However what must concern the newly crowned WBA welterweight champ is the fact that he was completely outworked by an 11-1 underdog. Despite being the challenger and fighting in Malignaggi’s home town the expectation was that Paulie would be ‘easy money’ for the Cincinnati kid.

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