Hot talent Nathan Cleverly is aiming to send out a KO message to British champion Dean Francis on Friday night. The pair will both appear on the same bill in Swindon – with a mouth-watering clash between the two scheduled for later this year. The light-heavyweight duo have been on a collision course for months, and Cleverly can’t wait for the fight to happen. “Knowing that Francis holds the British title has been driving me mad,” said the undefeated 21-year-old, who puts his Commonwealth crown on the line at the Oasis Sports Centre against Kenyan puncher Samson Otyango live on Sky Sports.
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Taylor Comments On Calzaghe & Froch; Cherry-Peterson – News
“First, it would have been one of the highlights of my career to be in the ring with a champion who has proven himself like Joe Calzaghe!
Jermain Taylor Is Training For Another Title Fight
By Sam Gregory: In his first fight at the new weight of 168 pounds, Jermain Taylor improved his record to 28-2-1 with 17 knockouts with a decisive win over Jeff Lacy on November 15th. According to Taylor’s trainer Ozell Nelson, the former middleweight champion from Little Rock, Arkansas, will fight Englishmen Carl Froch for the World Boxing Council super middleweight title on either April 18th or April 25th this spring.
Froch vs. Taylor In April
By Dave Lahr: According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, former middleweight champion Jermain Taylor (28-2-1, 17 KOs) will be taking on WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (24-0, 19 KOs) in April. The dates of the fight will be on either April 18th or the 25th, with the site still unknown. Froch, 31, recently defeated Jean Pascal in December to win the vacant World Boxing Council super middleweight title in a fight that was a candidate for fight of the year honors.
Froch Looking For Taylor; Dodson-Magee, Saunders, Lindsay – News
WBC Super Middleweight champ Carl Froch has issued a missing persons appeal on behalf of former World middleweight champ, and the current mandatory challenger for his title Jermain Taylor. Froch believes that Taylor has gone into hiding as he looks for a way out of fighting the Cobra who was crowned WBC champ after a fight of the year thriller with Jean Pascal in December.
Is Taylor Really Avoiding Froch?
By Simon Hirst: Carl Froch recently hit out at Jermain Taylor for ducking a fight with him. It came after another boxing website reported that Froch was out until June with injured ribs. Froch has venomously dismissed these reports insisting he is willing to fight anyone and anywhere. It was said Taylor’s camp were looking elsewhere because of this, but surely a simple phone call to Froch’s promoter would prove that Froch is fit and raring to go.
Rocchigiani New Trainer of Aydin; Chisora-Peret, Walsh-Haughian – News
ARENA-CEO Ahmet Öner adds former IBF super middleweight and WBC light heavyweight champion Graciano Rocchigiani to his trainer staff. 45-year-old “Rocky” is now responsible for the development of rising Turkish welterweight star Selcuk Aydin.
“I am glad to have the chance to work with a rough diamond like Selcuk”, states Rocchigiani. “If he stays focused and keeps on working hard he will surely not only become world champion but a dominant force and an international superstar.”
Hatton Still Set for Pacquiao; Froch, Sutherland – News
WBC World Super Middleweight Champion Carl “The Cobra” Froch has directed his venom at Jermain Taylor and his team after a boxing website suggested that Froch was sidelined until June with a rib injury. Froch believes it’s just another in a long line of tactics for Taylor and his promoter Lou DiBella to avoid facing the new King of the Super Middleweights.
2009 – A good year for British Boxing
By Mark Boyles – The new year brings some good news for British boxing fans.. Firstly there’s all the talk of Hatton and Pacquaio. As a fight, it should be one to watch, with arguably two of the best pound for pound fighters in the world. Pacquaio hasn’t been hit with anything close to the power that Hatton has, and hasn’t been tested at this weight. I’d not call the Oscar De La Hoya fight a test personally, given the way that fight played out, and the way Oscar went in to it. It should be an amazing fight. Given the pay per view figures for De La Hoya and Pac-man, I am left wondering if it will happen in Vegas though, as surely it would make more sense to hold the fight in London in front of 80,000 fans and many more on UK TV than it would to offer it up to a disinterested American public on Pay Per View. I’d say it’s a fight that could go either way too, which makes it a much more interesting affair than Hatton-Mayweather II would be.
Froch Eyeing Bouts Against Bute, Kessler and Taylor
By Eric Thomas: In an article in the TimesOnline, unbeaten super middleweight Carl Froch (24-0, 19 KOs) said that he’s interested in taking on the best in the super middleweight division, saying “I’m happy to fight the likes of Jermain Taylor or Lucian Bute or Mikkel Kessler. I don’t believe in having easy fights.” Missing from those names, however, is Joe Calzaghe, who Froch has been pursuing without success for some time.