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Brook vs Spence is ON!!! |
Posted by: diehard - 02-14-2017, 12:09 PM - Forum: NZBoxChat
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Updated at 03:51 PM EST, Mon Feb 13, 2017 Read More By : Keith Idec
Brook-Spence to Fight May 20 in Sheffield; IBF Purse Bid Canceled
By Keith Idec
Kell Brook wasn’t bluffing.
Lindsey Tucker, the IBF’s championships chairman, confirmed to BoxingScene.com on Monday that a purse bid for the Brook-Errol Spence Jr. welterweight title fight has been canceled because the two sides have reached an agreement for a May 20 fight in Brook’s hometown of Sheffield, England. The purse bid, originally scheduled for February 7 at the IBF’s headquarters in Springfield, New Jersey, had been postponed a week ago until Tuesday because promoters for Brook and Spence had made significant progress toward reaching a deal.
Eddie Hearn, Brook’s promoter, and promoter Tom Brown, who’s representing Spence, reached an agreement Monday and informed the IBF to cancel Tuesday’s purse bid.
Spence (21-0, 18 KOs), a powerful southpaw from DeSoto, Texas, is the mandatory challenger for Brook’s IBF 147-pound title. Hearn had encouraged Brook (36-1, 25 KOs) skip the Spence fight to move up to 154 pounds because Brook has such trouble making the 147-pound limit.
Hearn also had negotiated with Amir Khan (31-4, 19 KOs) for what would’ve been a lucrative domestic showdown in England, but they couldn’t come to a financial agreement. Hearn acknowledged discussions with Miguel Cotto, too, but talks with Puerto Rico’s Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs) never really intensified.
With those two high-profile options off the table, Brook refused to give up his title and will oppose Spence in his first fight since moving up two weight classes to challenge Kazakh knockout artist Gennady Golovkin in a middleweight title fight. Brook underwent surgery after sustaining a fractured orbital bone around his right eye during a fifth-round technical knockout loss to Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) on September 10 at O2 Arena in London.
Brook had another two weeks to decide whether to give up his IBF welterweight title. The IBF granted him a two-month medical extension to determine whether he wanted to make his mandatory defense because Brook still was recovering from surgery.
That 60-day medical extension, which the IBF approved late in October, didn’t start until December 26 because that’s the date by which Brook’s mandatory defense was due.
Spence knocked out Italy’s Leonard Bundu (33-2-2, 12 KOs) in the sixth round of his last fight, August 21 in Brooklyn, New York.
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Horn probably not getting that pacquiao payday |
Posted by: Infern0 - 02-14-2017, 01:11 AM - Forum: NZBoxChat
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Pac has announced his next fight will be in the UAE (likely has oil billionares backing) and has a poll asking to choose his opponent on twitter
the options are, Horn, Amir Khan, Terrence Crawford and Kell Brook
I voted for crawford
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Favorite lines from commentators |
Posted by: Infern0 - 02-05-2017, 10:10 PM - Forum: NZBoxChat
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Bob Sheridan on Dimitrenko: "None of the heavyweight champions have fought this guy so that tells you something"
Some Aussie on Danny Green knocking out the corpse of Roy Jones: "When you beat a legend, you become a legend"
Some guy on the Eubank card today: "flexing his torso composed of muscle sculpted by Micheal angelo"
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