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Antonio Margarito is going to figh on the Cotto VS mosley undercard
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Note: To anybody involved w/ Taylor/Pavlik...
Have these two confined to a padded room, plastic bubble ANYTHING that keeps them safe until the bell rings on Saturday night...RIP Diego Corrales
40-5 (33 KO's)
Rest In Peace to one of the fiercest warriors to ever step foot into the ring. His body may have passed, but his spirit will live on through his epic bouts. May his eternity be filled with cheering fans and loving family.
Peter to defend interim title vs. McCline:
By Dan Rafael
ESPN.com
The show will go on.
Samuel Peter will defend his brand-new interim heavyweight title against Jameel McCline at New York's Madison Square Garden on Oct. 6 (Showtime, 10 p.m. ET) after promoter Don King salvaged the card Wednesday night.
The card had been in jeopardy since last Friday, when WBC titleholder Oleg Maskaev withdrew from a mandatory defense against Peter (28-1, 22 KOs) because of a back injury.
But King was determined to save the card, making new deals this week with Showtime, Madison Square Garden, Peter and McCline, who had been scheduled to fight on the undercard.
King is getting used to the routine. It's the third card in the past month that he has rescued because of injury or illness to a main event fighter.
"People will say what they will about me, but look at the fights I've saved, three events in the last month," King told ESPN.com. "I was able to reschedule Fernando Vargas and Ricardo Mayorga [from Sept. 8] to Nov. 23 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. [Light heavyweight title challenger] Adrian Diaconu fell out last week against Chad Dawson, so I brought in Epifanio Mendoza to save the Sacramento card on Saturday for Showtime's free preview weekend. Oleg Maskaev fell out against Sam Peter on Friday. Now Samuel is the WBC interim champion and he'll face Jameel McCline on Oct. 6.
"I don't listen to naysayers. I care about results and performance and my record speaks for itself," he said.
Peter, 27, who won two elimination bouts against James Toney and has been awaiting a mandatory title shot since January, was awarded the interim title on Monday in the wake of an injury that will sideline Maskaev for several months.
McCline (38-7-3, 23 KOs), a longtime contender, was approved by the WBC as a challenger earlier Wednesday.
It's been a month of ups and downs for McCline. He was scheduled to face unretiring former titlist Vitali Klitschko on Sept. 22 in Germany, but Klitschko suffered a back injury and the fight was canceled.
Not wanting to waste months of preparation he had put in for the fight, McCline quickly signed with King, who matched him with DaVarryl Williamson on the Oct. 6 undercard.
When Maskaev fell out, McCline got the fight with Peter after Showtime rejected the infamous Andrew Golota, who was also scheduled to fight on the undercard.
Golota will remain on the card and face Mike Tyson conqueror Kevin McBride while McCline moves into the main event.
"It's crazy but that's why you've got to be ready for anything in boxing," McCline said. "I was in against Vitali, then Vitali was out. I was in against Williamson, and now I'm fighting for the [interim WBC] world heavyweight championship against Samuel Peter."
McCline has had three previous shots at versions of the heavyweight title. He was stopped in the 10th round by Wladimir Klitschko in December 2002; dropped a split decision to Chris Byrd, whom he knocked down, in November 2004; and lost via freakish third-round knockout to Nikolai Valuev on Jan. 20.
In the fight with Valuev, McCline, 37, went down without being hit by a punch at the end of the third round because his knee gave out. McCline was unable to continue and it was ruled a knockout. He underwent surgery a few days later and will be fighting for the first time since the injury. He's pumped for another shot.
"I'm a big, strong and talented heavyweight that can stand up and punch with Peter," McCline said. "This isn't the first time I've been in the ring with a world champion. I'm coming to win."
With McCline moving into the main event, Williamson (24-4, 20 KOs) will remain on the card but face Kali "Checkmate" Meehan (32-3, 26 KOs) of Australia in a 12-round bout for a regional belt.
Dan Rafael is the boxing writer for ESPN.com.
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If Taylor doesnt win this fight, Im gonna have to give up on him
OVERRATED he has no knock out power he couldn't even KO Kassim Ouma or Cory Spinks guys who are welterweights. I hope Pavlik KO's Taylor on saturday.
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According to multiple sources who attended an international anti-doping conference in Colorado Springs last November, Jeff Novitzky, a lead investigator in the BALCO case, alleged that boxer Shane Mosley started an elaborate doping regimen in the months prior to a Sept. 13, 2003, fight against Oscar de la Hoya.
As Novitzky explained in painstaking detail, two months before the light middleweight championship fight, Mosley, a client of the BALCO lab, began using "the clear" [THG] and "the cream" [testosterone], the designer substances that Barry Bonds, among other athletes, stands accused of using. Mosley supplemented this with doses of the blood-doping drug Erythropoietin (EPO), a hormone that artificially increases red blood production." and the letter "e," which investigators believe represents EPO. By Aug. 8, Mosley's hematocrit level had soared to 52.2. "Most men are in the low 40s," says anti-doping expert Dr. Gary Wadler. "Anything over 50 is considered off the charts." That level, Wadler says, is dangerously high but could benefit an athlete's stamina. According to the calendar, Mosley's last dose of EPO was administered on Sept. 8, five days before the fight.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/more/09/28/mosley/index.html
This is obviously not the kind of publicity Mosley and Golden Boy Promotions want with his upcoming fight w/Cotto. Wonder if this is going to effect the business/personal relationship that De La Hoya and Mosley share.
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Wonder if this is going to effect the business/personal relationship that De La Hoya and Mosley share.ANGELS BASEBALLTRY AS YOU MIGHT, YOU CAN'T GET THE MONKEY OFF YOUR BACK.