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A Look Forward to this Weekend’s Boxing

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Ruben Guerrero(Photo credit: Esther Lin) By Shane Newsome: A return to my weekly column as yet another packed week end unfolds before us and a return to the true Marmite man of boxing, love him of hate him everyone has an opinion of ‘pretty boy’ Floyd ‘money’ Mayweather.

Also in action in yet another busy weekend for boxing fans are WBA/WBO/IBF/IBO Heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and WBC Featherweight champion Daniel Ponce De Leon in defenses of their titles.

And where else to start this weeks preview but in the modern day Mecca of boxing the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA and the fight that has everyone talking yet again unbeaten WBC Welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (43-0) and Robert Guerrero (31-1-1).

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Weights: Dirrell 172.5, Mouton 167

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By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten super middleweight Anthony Dirrell (24-0, 21 KO’s) made weight on Thursday night for his comeback fight against the hard hitting Don Mouton (12-6-1, 10 KO’s) in their scheduled 8-round bout on Friday night at the Cosmopolitan Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Anthony Dirrell vs. Don Mouton this Friday, May 3rd in Las Vegas, Nevada

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dirrell23134By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten super middleweight Anthony Dirrell (24-0, 21 KO’s) will be facing the capable Don Mouton (12-6-1, 6 KO’s) in a scheduled 8 round bout at the Cosmopolitan Resort, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Dirrell, 28, hasn’t fought in over a year since his 4th round stoppage win over Renan St. Juste in a WBC super middleweight title eliminator in December, 2011. Last year in May, Dirrell suffered a broken leg and hand in a motorcycle accident.

The tragedy of all this was that Dirrell was going to be fighting for the WBC 168 lb. strap against Nikola Sjekloca in a fight that was scheduled for July. Dirrell would have mopped the deck with Sjekloca had that fight taken place and that’s just too bad because it was such an easy fight.

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Is Ward ducking Anthony Dirrell?

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Image: Is Ward ducking Anthony Dirrell?By Allan Fox: In a recent article at Sports Illustrated, WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Andre Ward (25-0, 13 KO’s) ruled out fights with Anthony Dirrell and Bernard Hopkins. Ward said he had no interest in facing Dirrell, and that he didn’t think that the networks would be interested in that fight. Ward already opted not to fight IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Bute, because he felt that Bute still needed to prove himself by fighting someone good.

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Andre Ward may have to give up WBC title if he fails to fight Anthony Dirrell

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Image: Andre Ward may have to give up WBC title if he fails to fight Anthony DirrellBy Scott Gilfoid: WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Andre Ward made it clear in an interview at Sports Illustrated that he has zero interested in taking on the talented brother of Andre Dirrell, Anthony Dirrell (24-0, 21 KO’s) in his next fight. The problem is, Anthony is the 28-year-old Ward’s mandatory challenger and it’s time for Ward to make a defense against Anthony.

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