Mundine dreaming of fighting Chavez Jr. on Feb 4th, then facing Wlodarczyk at cruiserweight

Image: Mundine dreaming of fighting Chavez Jr. on Feb 4th, then facing Wlodarczyk at cruiserweightBy Jim Dower: Former two time WBA super middleweight champion Anthony Mundine (43-4, 25 KO’s) is hoping to get picked out as the neck challenger for WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. to fight on February 4th. Mundine, 36, then wants to move up three divisions and face WBC cruiserweight champion Krzystof Wladarczyk for his cruiserweight belt all within months of each other.

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Wlodarczyk stops Green; Chris John decisions Merdov

Image: Wlodarczyk stops Green; Chris John decisions MerdovBy Sean McDaniel: Using little more than his jab all night long, WBC cruiserweight champion Krzysztof Wlodarczyk (46-2-1, 33 KO’s) wore down 38-year-old former WBA World light heavyweight champion Danny Green (31-5, 27 KO’s) and knocked him out in the 11th round with a nice left hook to the head that put Green on his backside on the canvas at the Challenge Stadium in Mt Claremont, Western Australia.

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European Boxing Update: Huck defeats Nakash, Murray beats Ouazghari, Helenius stops Peter, More!

By Mark Hepplestall: In what was a busy week for European boxing which saw such bouts as Heavyweight Contender Robert Helenius against fringe contender and former WBC title holder Samuel Peter, WBC cruiserweight champion Krzysztof Wlodarczyk defended against Francisco Palacios, WBA interim middleweight champion Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam fought Giovanni Lorenzo, EBU lightweight champion John Murray fought Spanish challenger Karim El Ouazghari, and lastly WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck fought Ran Nakash.

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Cruiserweight tournament likely participants: Huck, Cunningham, Wlodarczyk, Jones or Herelius

Image: Cruiserweight tournament likely participants: Huck, Cunningham, Wlodarczyk, Jones or HereliusBy Jason Kim: The proposed cruiserweight tournament could take place in 2011 but instead of having six participants, it’s possibly going to be only four, according Dan Rafael of ESPN. The fighters that will possibly be taking part in the tournament are Steve Cunningham, Marco Huck, Krzysztof Wlodarczyk, Guillermo Jones or Steve Herelius. The cruiserweight champions are currently getting their mandatory title defenses out of the way before the tournament begins. Huck recently defeated Denis Lebedev by a highly questionable 12 round decision in Germany. Cunningham has a title defense against Enad Licina on January 22nd. Wlodarczyk defends his WBC title against Francisco Palacios in April.

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Can the cruiserweight Super Six succeed?

By William Mackay: Promotional company Sauerland Events is interested in putting together a cruiserweight Super Six tournament with the similar idea as Showtime’s Super Six tournament for super middleweights. In this case, Sauerland is picking the cruiserweight division, one of the weakest in all of boxing to showcase six lucky fighters. The fighters that have been mentioned for the tournament are as follows: Danny Green, Steve Cunningham, Enzo Maccarinelli, Krsysztof Wlodarczyk, Marco Huck and Yoan Pablo Hernandez. I’m not sure this will work as well as the existing Super Six tournament because there’s only one American involved rather than two. I noticed that there are two German based fighters in Sauerland’s proposed cruiserweight tournament with Huck and Hernandez.

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