Amir Khan's first world title fight has been delayed

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Amir Khan's first world title fight has been delayed for three weeks so that his opponent Andreas Kotelnik can recover from a tooth infection.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/boxing/8098771.stm

This is getting out of control hahaha.
Who's next?

joepenguin

Ah well. At least its going ahead and we know when it is! Great all round card imo.

joepenguin

Absolutely savage card. Kell Brook and Kevin Mitchell been added to it. Usually when this happens something else gets pulled. Is it too good to be true (by the standards we are used to)

http://www.boxrec.com/show_display.php?show_id=574505


That is what a card should look like.

A competitive, world class main event.
A rematch with the tables turned - macklin-facey.
A former champ in a make or break fight - enzo.
2 top prospects: Brook and Mitchell.
British showdown - Hall vs Small
3 up and coming fighters - olympians
and the opponets are decent tests, Lomax, Healy, and Fearn.

duagre

Great card
anyone know anything about the Lebedov fella that's fighting Enzo?

Big Ears

duagre wrote: »

Great card
anyone know anything about the Lebedov fella that's fighting Enzo?

Southpaw with decent skills but a bit small as a Cruiserweight. He fought at Light-Heavyweight till recently and is very good as a comeback opponent for Enzo but I can see Enzo starting to find him with the right hand from the mid rounds onwards and stopping him late. There's some footage of Ledebev on Youtube.

The card does look very good but one word of warning, Macklin v Facey won't be going ahead(at least not on this show). Facey has said 3 weeks isn't enough to prepare for the fight and although he wants the fight with Macklin he's not going to take it unless given a little bit more time than that.

Expect Macklin to headline a Friday Fight Night about a month later against Facey(well that's just a guess of what I can see happening), probably in Birmingham.


Card:
Andreas Kotelnik v Amir Khan-WBA Light-Welterweight title
Matthew Hall v Anthony Small-British & Commonwealth Light-Middleweight titles
Kell Brook v Michael Lomax-British Welterweight title
Enzo Maccarinelli v Denis Lebedev-WBO Inter-Bauble-trinket
James DeGale v Ciaran Healy
Frankie Gavin v Graham Fearn
Billy Joe Saunders v TBA
Kevin Mitchell v TBA

The top 2 match ups are crackers, the other few pick themselves.
Lomax is going to take a hammering off Brook. Lomax is one of those fighters who's very lucky to have made it to British title level but you would expect him to last longer than Elwell or McIntyre.
I'd really wish Warren would match his two Welter(Brook and Jennings), but at the moment he has them on different paths.

I just hope there won't be anymore fights after Facey v Macklin called off, but since this is a Warren card thee will probably be at least 1 or 2 withdrawals.

joepenguin

Big Ears wrote: »

I just hope there won't be anymore fights after Facey v Macklin called off, but since this is a Warren card thee will probably be at least 1 or 2 withdrawals.

Crap! Is one rock solid stacked card every few years too much to ask?

joepenguin

Alex Arthur added to the card http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=20614

Mitchell isnt mentioned on warrens poster though. Anywho I think at some stage we are going to see Kahn vs Arthur for a world title, be it lightweight or otherwise.