Boxing

[Mike]

Get the feeling there is more than Froch is letting on regarding making Groves an offer.

He said "My fans want me to fight Chavez Jr, not Groves" - Yeah right!

[Mike]

GET IN!

Dont know how to embed tweets

George Groves ✔ @StGeorgeGroves
Oh Dear! IBF order IMMEDIATE rematch with me and @Carl_Froch ... Maybe I was right after all turning down that 'amazing' 7 figure offer haha

[Vermilion]

haha nice one, look forward to the build up, which just started tbh.

[Mike]

Went to the original fight, and me and my mate both said on the way out "We're going to the rematch - doesn't matter where, and doesn't matter when. We're going"

Can't wait for this.

[spud_gun]

Froch will vacate

[Chazza]

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[RichC]

Not sure I quite agree with the IBF stuff there however it was stopped too early and he certainly deserves another shot at Froch.

[Chazza]

David Price back in the ring tonight.

Needs a decent showing.

[spud_gun]

David Price back in the ring tonight.

Needs a decent showing.

This starts early, doesn't it?

Who's he fighting?

[Chazza]

6pm start on Boxnation

He is fighting Istvan Ruzsinszky (No idea )

[RichC]

Price really needs to show up tonight otherwise it's all over for me.

[Shaggy]

Just had a message from my mate whose brother in law Big Nige is a "boxing doctor" (and ex Academy doctor at LFC) - he was in Price's corner tonight and apparently Price KO'd him in the first

Fight was at half six ffs.

[spud_gun]

6pm start on Boxnation

He is fighting Istvan Ruzsinszky (No idea )

I thought you'd just madeup with some generic sounding Russian boxer

Here's Istvan's record

22 fights 12 wins and 10 loses

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=598761&cat=boxer

[marcus50bucks]

Amir Khan vs Floyd Mayweather fight set to be confirmed this week for Las Vegas in May

Jan 25, 2014 23:00
By Tom Hopkinson

The Bolton boxer will take on pound-for-pound king in a mega-bucks welterweight bout at the MGM Grand - and earn himself around £3.5m

Amir Khan is set to announce this week that his long-awaited showdown with Floyd Mayweather has finally been given the green light, writes Tom Hopkinson in the Sunday People.

A deal has been agreed for the 27-year-old to fight ‘Money’ Mayweather in a mega-bucks bout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday, May 3.

Sunday People Sport understands that Khan has already signed his end of the deal – which will net him around £3.5million – and that Mayweather is expected to put pen to paper on his side of the contract following his return to the United States from a promotional trip to South Africa.

The fight will be promoted by Golden Boy Promotions along with Mayweather and Khan’s own companies.

Mayweather, 36, holds the WBC’s light-middleweight and welterweight titles, with the fight likely to take place in the heavier division.

It will be a tough test for Khan, who has fought only once at welterweight, and not least because Mayweather is acknowledged as the best pound-for-pound fighter on the planet by most observers after Manny Pacquiao lost to Timothy Bradley and Juan Manuel Marquez.

Another factor that will not make the challenge any easier for Khan is the fact he will not have fought for 13 months by the time he steps into the ring in the Nevada desert.

Khan has been on Mayweather’s radar for some time but talk of a clash with the American has intensified in the past six months.

Now the fight is set to be confirmed around the time of next weekend’s Super Bowl in New York.

In May last year, Khan revealed how a meeting with Mayweather’s uncle, Roger, in 2009, convinced him he would be a difficult opponent for the brash Michigan-born superstar.

Khan said: “I met his uncle when I visited his gym and he told me that I had the style which would cause Floyd a lot of problems.

“That was from his uncle’s own mouth.

“I think Floyd knows as well that I have the style which would cause him problems.

“They have been watching me for a long time and when I visited Floyd’s gym that time they knew all about me, even though I hadn’t won a world title yet.”

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/amir-khan-v-floyd-mayweather-3062127

[RichC]

Wow, didn't realise it would be over a year from Khan's last fight when he next steps into the ring.