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April 17, 2008 FORMER boxing world champion Kostya Tszyu admits there is a real possibility he will return to the ring and resume his career, if the price is right.

Tszyu lost his last fight to Englishman Ricky Hatton and has received offers from Russia to continue his career.

"I'm realistically saying it's still a big chance but it would need to be huge motivation," Tszyu said in Sydney.

"I would never fight for money but it would need to be a big number.
"Some Russians offered me ridiculous money, bigger than I've ever had, but not anything concrete," he said.

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I dont get that line. Lost in translation???
 

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i doubt kostya will be going anywhere near
ricky hatton : )
 

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Billy Dib's next fight. May 16th. Stay Tuned.
 

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Billy Dib is now 18-0 after Friday night's fight. World title is around the corner.
 

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is he going to go for the australian title?

elomar vs dib?
 

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is he going to go for the australian title?

elomar vs dib?
I dont think so, he wants the world title.
Also, sorry my mistake it's 19-0 not 18-0
 

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I dont think so, he wants the world title.
Also, sorry my mistake it's 19-0 not 18-0
yeah but i doubt he can win against any of the current champs, Baloyi maybe an exception

and he has got so many people ahead of him for a world title shot

so my thinking is, because he's fighting in australia, it might as well be against the top Aussie competition (Kickett or Elomar)

if he should step up if he has world title ambitions, a match against Mal Klessen or Manuel Medina would do the trick
 
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yeah but i doubt he can win against any of the current champs, Baloyi maybe an exception

and he has got so many people ahead of him for a world title shot

so my thinking is, because he's fighting in australia, it might as well be against the top Aussie competition (Kickett or Elomar)

if he should step up if he has world title ambitions, a match against Mal Klessen or Manuel Medina would do the trick
Tell Dib to put on some weight and fight Katsidis lol.
Watch Katsidis come back and grab his title back with a vicious showing from the Spartan machine.
 

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Dib - Super feather weight 57.2 kgs

Katsidis - Light weight 63.5 kgs
Katsidis would splatter his brains all over the ring
why are all the good leb fighters so skinny

well hamdan isn't, hes good but he aint a top level pro.

6 kgs would be a big jump though, but he'd be gaining all muscle and strength.
 

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Mundine Ready For Step Up In Class

ANTHONY Mundine admits he needs a defining fight against a high-profile opponent to help him achieve his goal of achieving boxing greatness.

Having successfully defended his World Boxing Association super middleweight title with a unanimous points decision over Sam Soliman at Vodafone Arena, Mundine is considering a drop down to middleweight division so he can fight the likes of Americans Ronald Wright and Kelly Pavlik, or Joe Calzaghe of Wales.

Mundine said his rivalry with Soliman was now a "closed chapter" after three wins, and acknowledged he had to work towards fighting bigger names and reaping bigger pay days.

"If it don't make money, it don't make sense," he said.

"I'm after money, so bring on those guys who are going to make me money."

Mundine said he needed to contest a major bout to prove himself a "defining fighter", but admitted doing so would be difficult in the United States or United Kingdom because he was not a big name internationally.

"So I've just got to keep racking up victories, do what I did here, be dominant and fight good contenders and treat them like they're pretenders," he said.

"When they see me fight they'll know I'm a great fighter and I'm looking for greatness."

The bout was a more even contest than last year's fight, which Mundine won by knock-out, as Soliman started well and finished strongly, while Mundine controlled the middle rounds.

Both fighters claimed victory after the 12th round, but the judges, from Thailand, the Phillippines and Korea, awarded the fight Mundine's way 116-112, 116-112, 117-112.

Mundine said he won comfortably, but the Soliman camp was bitterly disappointed by the verdict, as they claimed they threw three times as many punches.

Soliman felt the judges ignored the punches he landed but counted Mundine's, while the Victorian's trainer Dave Hedgcock said the perception The Man threw a more powerful punch should not be taken into account.

"If you land five punches in a round and someone else lands 12, isn't that the point of boxing?" Hedgcock said.

"Isn't that scored on points not power. Otherwise you wouldn't have weight divisions would you?

"Boxing's about scoring points, he (Soliman) scored the more points. He threw the more punches and landed the more punches."

Both boxers claimed the proof of their punching was on their faces, as both were mostly mark-free afterwards.

Mundine had a nick near his left eye - he claimed from Soliman's elbow - but said he should be on the catwalk given how good he looked.

Although Mundine acknowledged the public would not want to see a fourth fight between the pair, Soliman indicated he wanted another re-match at his preferred weight.

"When I go back to my weight, middleweight, and he thinks he's going to come down to middle, so he won't have the title to be doing that," he said.

"I don't want no title to knock him out, I just want to knock him out, and if he comes down to my weight he wouldn't be strong enough."

Soliman also thrived on enjoying the home-town support of the crowd, many of whom jeered when the decision was announced.

"He might have got the decision but on the crowd support and every other judge in Australia that have sent text messages and told us who won the fight...," he said.

"To have 8,000 people chanting 'Sammy', there's no better buzz, no better high, it makes all the hard work worth it and makes it all so special."
 

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cool thx Rod. now those are true boxing names

Mundine said he's looking for greatness and in the same interview quoted that he's after money.

Take a look at the so called greats of yester year and see how much money they made. Ok fair enough the times have changed in the last 10-15 yrs in terms of the purses but there'll come a time where those 2 quotes will contradict eachother.

So for example sake, Winky Wright or Calzaghe was willing to fight you for less than what you expected, knowing that if you defeat them you'd be on your way to making history...you wouldn't fight them because quote "you're only after 'those guys who'll make me money'?
 

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What do you guys think of a Mundine Vs Pavlik fight?
 

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Choc fighting next week...

Heard a while back that Jamie Pittman AND Billy Dib could be on the undercard, anyone know if they are or not?
 

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What do you guys think of a Mundine Vs Pavlik fight?
it would be great to see, but mundine will just be an 'opponent' for pavlik in the US if the fight happens

Choc fighting next week...

Heard a while back that Jamie Pittman AND Billy Dib could be on the undercard, anyone know if they are or not?
yep they both are, i dont know if you've visited it or not but a great site for boxing reference is a place called boxrec

its excellent for schedules as well as fight histories
 

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Vic Darchinian fight soon guys
 
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