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You can read Frank's full column here: http://www.frankwarren.com/news/fra...2013/03/08/frank-warrens-column-08-03-13.html
On the light-heavyweight division..
On the light-heavyweight division..
On Amir Khan..Hopkins, who has not registered a stoppage win for eight and a half years, and who was comprehensively outpointed by Chad Dawson last time, enters as a marginal underdog. However, he's got proven form for upsetting touted up and comers like Kelly Pavlik and Pascal and I'd
prefer he prevails. We could then work on delivering a unification humdinger with WBO king Nathan Cleverly at a soccer stadium this summer.
In May, WBC king Chad Dawson attempts to avenge his only loss at light-heavy when he squares off with Jean Pascal in Montreal and on April 20th Cleverly faces a tricky mandatory against Germany's Robin Krasniqi on my re-scheduled Rule Britannia show at Wembley Arena. Definitely no 'gimme'.
Factor in Kazakhstan's dangerous WBA czar Beibut Shumenov plus the present rich crop of super-middleweights such as Andre Ward, Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler -who might be tempted to risk the seven pound rise in weight to seek out fresh challenges - and suddenly you're looking at the deepest talent pool in the sport. Last man standing would evolve into a genuine superstar. My dough is on Cleverly.
On John Donnelly's recent ban due to a failed drug test..The venues are getting smaller and the opposition less taxing for Khan who, during his time with me, fought the great Marco Antonio Barrera at Manchester's huge MEN Arena. It's always been my contention that Amir tried to crack the American market too early and, as a consequence, arenas were invariably half filled when he fought across The Pond.
But I'm confident British fans will turn out for him and they will expect him to win in style to strengthen his claims for a rematch with WBA and WBC king Danny Garcia, the Philadelphian who savagely wiped him out in four rounds last July.
Diaz might be a former two time IBF lightweight champion. But he's now 33 and we will see what has got left in the tank next month.
Boxing is arguably the most dangerous sport in which its brave participants can be, and sadly have been, killed.
Consequently, any boxer cowardly enough to resort to performance enhancing drugs needs to be slung out of the sport. Lately, the Boxing Board has increased its vigilance with regard to
dope testing and the latest drug cheat to be exposed is Liverpool's John Donnelly who tested positive for benzoylecgonine after a recent British super-flyweight challenge.
Last week the Scouser was banned for two years and rightly so. Lives are at stake here.
