Why Mayweather vs. Amir Khan will happen on May 3rd

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Amir Khan says he’s signed for Floyd Mayweather fight, waiting for Floyd’s signature

Khan (28-3, 19 KO’s) is saying that he’s already signed the contract to fight superstar Mayweather Jr. (45-0, 26 KO’s) on May 3rd, and he’s just waiting for Mayweather to sign his part of the contract. Khan is reportedly frustrated that Mayweather hasn’t already signed because he wants to get ready for the Las Vegas based fight. The fact that Mayweather hasn’t signed the contract yet suggests that he may be having second thoughts about fighting Amir  Khan now that Marcos Maidana has emerged as an appealing option for Mayweather’s next fight following his victory over the fighter that emulated Floyd Mayweather, Adrien Broner. “I am the one who signed the contract, I’ve signed my part of the contract, they’ve not signed theirs,”...

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Fight of the Year 2013: Bradley-Provodnikov

The Fight of the Year for 2013 came down to two rousing 12-round boxer-slugger confrontations for the fans who voted in RingTV’s year-end awards poll. Marcos Maidana’s hard-fought but clear-cut unanimous decision over  Broner, garnered 32.9 percent of 1,300 votes, but was outdone by Tim Bradley’s narrow unanimous decision over Ruslan Provodnikov, which took in a little more than half (51.1 percent) of the votes. Both fights featured undefeated American boxers defending their world welterweight titles against rugged, hard-punching foreign-born challengers. And both fights exceeded the expectations of the boxing media and most fans as the heavily favored Americans found themselves at the wrong end of fearsome early round onslaughts...

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Espinoza: Manny Pacquiao vs. Floy Mayweather fight not likely to happen until Pacquiao changes promotional companies

For a big mega fight between Pacquiao and Mayweather Jr. to happen, Manny Pacquiao may need to change promoter, says Showtime President of Sports Stephen Espinoza. Under the current situation, Espinoza doesn’t see the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight taking place with Pacquiao being promoted by Bob Arum of Top Rank. If Pacquiao wants the fight with Floyd, or have the chance for the fight to take place, he’s going to need to not automatically re-sign with Arum when his contract is up with Top Rank in 2014. Asking Manny Pacquiao to not re-sign with Top Rank might be expecting too much from the Filipino, because he’s been loyal to Bob Arum and Top Rank all these years, and it’s hard to see him turning his back on them just because he could arguably...

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Floy Mayweather Jr to make an announcement about next opponent by mid to late January, says Espinoza

Showtime Sports President Stephen Espinoza says that Amir Khan is one of the main names that Mayweather. is looking at for his next fight on May 3rd. The other name is Maidana. Espinoza says that Floy Mayweather also has some other fighters that he’s looking at for that date, but he’s not saying who these guys are. It would be a big shock if Floy chose to fight someone other than Amir Khan or Marcos Maidana, because there’s not much to choose from at 147 right now in terms of big names. There’s Shawn Porter, Keith Thurman, Kell Brook and Devon Alexander. But it’s difficult to picture Floy choosing one of those guys to fight next “Amir Khan is definitely one of the leading contenders for the fight,” Espinoza said to the Telegraph....

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Gennady Golovkin has never seen video of Osumanu Adama fight

WBA middleweight champion Golovkin (28-0, 25 KO’s) is getting ready to fight an opponent he has never seen fight before in 33-year-old fringe contender Adama (22-3, 16 KO’s) on February 1st in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Golovkin says he’s never seen him fight on video, and it doesn’t look like he’s even interested in seeing any of Adama’s past fight. You can’t really blame Golovkin though, because Osumanu Adama is a guy that his promoters at K2 has selected for him to keep busy in early 2014 while he waits for more interesting fights to possibly open up for him. After the Adama fight,Gennady Golovkin could be facing Kirkland in April. That’s a match-up comparable to Golovkin’s recent annihilation of Curtis Stevens. James Kirkland is plenty...

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Victor Ortiz in make or break fight against Luis Collazo on January 30th

Victor Ortiz (29-4-2, 22 KO’s) has an important fight coming up next month on January 30th against Luis Collazo (34-5, 17 KO’s) at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New York, USA. This is a tune-up bout for Ortiz scheduled for 10 rounds and not 12. Like his last fight a year and a half ago against Lopez, Ortiz is expected to win this one against Luis Collazo. The worry here is that if Ortiz can’t beat Luis Collazo, and if he gets beaten or if he quits yet again, for whatever reason, his boxing career may be pretty much done as far as him being a relevant fighter. Ortiz quit against Lopez, Maidana and someone say in his fight against Lamont Peterson when faced with adversity. Victor Ortiz suffered a broken jaw in the Lopez fight last...

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