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I only caught the last couple of rounds so I can't really comment on the scoring but the body language from Appleby's team didn't suggest that they thought they had won. Burns is boxing well so far. I've gave Moses just 1 from the first 7.

Carl Froch vs Lucian Bute was announced earlier today for May 26th in Nottingham. Fantastic fight. I can't believe they've managed to get Bute over here.

Khan slick? Khan's one of the least slick boxers out there. I was impressed by Alexander. He's made a lot of improvements to his game since the 'defeat' to Matthysse. There was a lot more snap in his jab and he controlled range much better with it. I'd like to see Maidana back down at 140, that's where he can use his physicality to the full extent. An all-argie fight with Matthysse would be good fun. I've been quite critical of Broner in the past and when the bout with Burns was scheduled I gave Ricky a very good chance. Broner shown plenty of flaws in his fight against Ponce De Leon (which I thought he lost) and even in his last fight against Rodriguez. Saying that I thought he shown a lot of improvement against Perez and seems to be improving in every fight. I'd like to see him up against someone who he doesn't hold huge physical advantages over (unlike Perez). Outside of Uchiyama, which is a very unlikely bout, I don't see many fights for him in what is a poor division. A move up to Lightweight would probably get him some bigger money fights and he's certainly got the frame for it.

It was a stinker. Karpency shown absolutely no ambition and Clev really should have put him away. Enzo and Gavin won their fights with ease too. Warren was talking about unifications and the like next. My money's on Maccarinelli.

Indeed, Good fight I think. I see Bradley giving a good account of himself and pushing Pac all the way but he's got little chance of getting a decision and a stoppage seems unlikely.

No, the Maidana fight will be in the early hours while Clev's should be about 10pm, I'm guessing. Having them spread out doesn't bother me, the standard of opposition does. I did worry about this when Warren left SKY because I imagine there is virtually no quality control over him (not like that stopped the Burns defences anyway, though). The Karpency fight looks a shocker, and that Mitchell fight was poor too. Nothing wrong with the Groves-Anderson rematch for me, I'm actually quite looking forward to it.

I fancy Hopkins in that one. Especially at the 3/1 being offered. Hopefully it isn't the stinker that the first was. The Karpency fight looks like your standard Warren WBO defence. No doubt we'll have to listen to how Cleverly will be taking on the world after this fight. I'd have much preferred a Bellew rematch. There are a few other good fights this weekend as well. Alexander vs Maidana on SKY and Povetkin vs Huck on Boxnation.

As well as the bottling incident there is Haye chucking a tripod (ironically hitting and cutting Adam Booth).

He was there working for Boxnation covering the fight but had finished his work before the press conference and was due to leave the arena before the press conference started.

It's minimum 3 months on SKY and 1 month on Virgin. It will be exclusively on Boxnation. If they want to watch it they'll have to sign up, I guess. I can't see it getting anywhere near the amount of viewers that the Ortiz fight got without the Channel5 advertising, and with the added hassle of signing up.

Peterson-Khan II on for 19th May in Vegas. I was looking forward to Peterson-Marquez which was rumoured but can't complain with this. It's a bit silly having it in Vegas when the sales will no doubt be terrible. At least if they had put it on in LA as they were talking about originally they could have filled it with some local fighters on the undercard.

Yep, he hasn't done too badly for himself at all. On the previous topic of Sportsmen who crossed over to Boxing, of course there is Anthony Mundine who moved from Rugby League. Although I believe he started Boxing after he quit Rugby.

I hope not. When Aud was mentioned a while back Hennessey said "I've just brought Channel 5 into boxing - I don't want to chase them away!" Regardless of that, Harrison is still a name and always pulls in viewers. You can see why a promoter would be tempted to make it. How about a Chisora rematch for the WBC title...

Yeah, that will be the test of his hunger for the sport. That's a shame, but somewhat expected.

Sonny Bill won by 1st round stoppage. The fight was on PPV in Australia and New Zealand for $45, no wonder he fancies trying his hand at it!

I didn't know he was a boxer. He took that shot quite well to be fair. The closest comparison I can think of that you didn't mention is the NFL player Tom Zbikowski who's had a few fights recently. Rooney's a bit of a Boxing fan. I remember seeing him post on twitter while watching a fight saying what a certain fighter could improve on. I'm not sure Fergie would approve though! :shock:

Greatest heavyweight, yes, but he doesn't come close to Robinson P4P.

The WBA do whatever makes most money. This is the organisation that has 3 "world champions" for 1 weight class. The IBF are slightly less shite.

I don't think it was ever going to be a no contest. I suspect that may have been the reason they pulled the appeal, although we'll see what GBP have got to say... Edit: Yeah, I'm sticking with the theory that they knew they were going to lose and that pulling out would have looked better than the appeal being rejected.

Fat Dan Rafael: The IBF announced that @GoldenBoyBoxing (for undisclosed reasons) has withdrawn its Wednesday appeal on the @kingpete26-@AmirKingKhan bout. Strange.

Because he's mentally weak as shown in the Maidana and Ortiz fights?

Where the **** did that come from?

I'm more interested in the Sexton-LarryO fight than the main event to be honest. That could be a decent shoot out while it lasts.

The WBA have ordered a rematch. I don't think it will happen.

Source on that? All I've read is Schaefer constantly going on about how the score cards didn't match, that the IBF one disappeared for a while, only to turn up looking dodgy as hell in being the neatest scorecard he'd ever seen. I can't remember where I read it initially. I'm sure I read it first in the days after the fight, but Barry Hunter said it in his statement this week as well: "Immediately following our bout Golden Boy and Khan requested a meeting among us with the sanctioning organizations and the Boxing Commission. When we left the meeting Oscar De La Hoya, Bernard Hopkins and I agreed with the commission that the scorecards were correct and Lamont won the fight."