WBA Odds
Lightweight Debate: The Best vs. The Champ
Boxing Scene - The magazine, along with the WBC, whose title was also on the line, both made the determination that the belt was only on Barring injuries (which considering the latest stretch of postponements is asking a lot), Casamayor will end a 13-month hiatus
Former Wildcat Walton suffers hamstring injury at Lakers’ training
Arizona Daily Star - HONOLULU — Former Wildcat Luke Walton and Derek Fisher sustained minor injuries Friday during Los Angeles Lakers’ training camp McCline (38-7-3, 23 KOs) and Peter (28-1, 22 KOs) will be fighting for the WBC interim heavyweight title.
Sports briefs
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Maskaev (34-5, 26 KOs) won the WBC heavyweight title by knocking out Hasim Rahman in August 2006, but Maskaev hasn’t been back in the ring since December because of injuries and slow negotiations for new fights. Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson
After nine months, Samuel Peter gets WBC title shot
Sports Illustrated - But two weeks later Peter’s management team was told that Vitali Klitschko , a former WBC champion who was forced to retire due to injuries in 2004, was being granted “champion emeritus” status, which was just a fancy way of saying that the
Buck & New Dawg: Is T.O. a tantrum waiting to happen?
Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Each Monday, the Star-Telegram’s Ray Buck and NBC 5’s Newy Scruggs go at it in a point-counterpoint on sporting issues. E-mail Ray Buck at rbuck@star-telegram.com . Newy can be reached at his Web site, www.newdawg.com . Will Terrell Owens go through
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Columbus Dispatch - Peter overcomes knockdowns in winning WBC title Samuel Peter won the World Boxing Council title by outpointing Jameel Aires, Argentina, after arriving on a flight from Italy, taken before a judge and told he faced a civil case involving injuries
It’s a shabby way to open at Fenway
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - 147 of the 704 position players who were starters for NFL Week 1 had missed starts through Week 6, mostly due to injuries It was the two-time WBC heavyweight champion’s second straight quick KO win since he disappointed his fans by being way
European Boxing News: Carrera-Castillejo, Kessler, Aramian, Petranyi
East Side Boxing - WBA and WBC supermiddle boxing champ Mikkel Kessler is now sparring with Brit Darren Barker in Copenhagen. Neither Barker champ, was Larsen´s manager when the Dane attempted to fight professionally - a career that was cut short due to injuries.
Mikkel Kessler takes private road to Joe Calzaghe
Times Online - Kessler, though, is no ordinary challenger but the holder of the WBC and WBA titles. This is being billed as the biggest I had a lot of injuries and the heat is a lot better,†he said. “I had two operations here and here [pointing to the
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