Luis ‘King Kong’ Ortiz has a chance of facing Dillian Whyte on December 22 if Dereck Chisora doesn’t want the fight for if it can’t be negotiated, according to promoter Eddie Hearn.
Hearn says he must know by week which of the two heavyweights that will be facing Whyte on December 22. Hearn likes Ortiz or Chisora for Whyte. It’s just whichever makes the most sense.
In what could be a complete waste of time and breath, the World Boxing Council at their 56th annual convention this week voted to have former four division world champion Adrien ‘The Problem’ Broner to face Jorge Linares in a WBC final light welterweight title eliminator to select a mandatory to face WBC 140 pound champion Jose Ramirez (23-0, 16 KOs).
Victor Conte of SNAC says the drug [oxilofrine] that WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders tested positive for last August is 10 times more potent than clenbuterol, the substance that Saul Canelo Alvarez tested positive for last February.
Tyson Fury (27-0, 19 KOs) and Deontay Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs) finished their three-city news tour in Los Angeles, California on Wednesday with a mini-brawl on the stage. There was some pushing and shoving involved with the two large heavyweights, which led to both of their teams streaming forward to separate them.
Oleksandr Usyk says the reason he agreed to fight former WBC cruiserweight champion Tony Bellew was so that he could get a title shot against IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, who is signed with the same promoter Eddie Hearn. Usyk recently signed with Hearn as well, so all three of them are with Hearn as part of his Matchroom Boxing stable.
Gennady Golovkin (36-1-1, 34 KOs) lost for the first time in his career last month by a controversial 12 round majority decision to Saul Canelo Alvarez, and now he’s finding himself in demand by different platforms.
Anthony Joshua says he’ll still fight Deontay Wilder if he loses to Tyson Fury on December 1. Joshua says Wilder is too big of a name for him to ignore him just because of a loss to the 6’9″ Fury (27-0, 19 KOs). Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs) will still be a huge name for Joshua to fight even if he loses to Fury.
Joshua (22-0, 21 KOs) doesn’t have a lot of options for big fights in the heavyweight division right now. Beyond Wilder, Dillian Whyte, Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk, there’s not much for Joshua to fight in the division. The division is barren of big names now that Wladimir Klitschko and Alexander Povetkin have both been beaten by Joshua. There’s no going backwards for Joshua with those fighters.
Promoter Richard Schaefer says the boxing fans everywhere are asking him about when IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. will be fighting Mikey Garcia rather than about when Errol will be fighting Terence Crawford. That fight isn’t being asked about by the fans, according to Schaefer.
Last Saturday I watched one hell of a fight between two of the most influential fighters of our time: Saul Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin. There is no doubt about it, that fight was a classic.
Before the fight I was expecting and along with me many others all the animosity, and the bad blood to surface in the ring and it did big time.There was no knock downs because the two fighters are both too hard and too tough to get down with one punch. It would have taken a monstrous shot for one of them to go down.
