Paul Williams-Sergiy Dzinziruk talks starting for Dec. 5
by Scott Christ on Oct 26, 2009 4:11 PM EDT
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With Paul Williams now having an open date and searching for an opponent on December 5, Sergiy Dzinziruk says he's ready, willing and able to take the challenge at 154 pounds. He'll be flying to the States to meet with promoters this week. BoxingScene.com interviewed Dzinziruk about the subject.
I’m interested in it, but the thing is I will fly to the USA on Wednesday, and only then we’ll meet the promoters and will start negotiating the conditions. But I can say that if we manage to agree upon everything and make this bout happen, I’ll be really glad.
Dzinziruk (36-0, 22 KO) recently split with his promoter, Universum, and addressed that topic as well. He figures they may want to work with him on the fight, and he seems more open to it than he did the last time he spoke about the company.
Maybe they want to take part in it, but I don’t want to have any business with them. As of now they haven’t contacted me or offered anything. If they do, I can think about it and analyze it. But actually I think that they will try to mess with this bout, do something nasty to undermine our negotiations, but we’ll be ready for that.
Dzinziruk is a fellow southpaw and a really disciplined boxer, and he's the real deal. He'd be no easy replacement opponent for Williams. Sergio Martinez is also in the running and also holds a title belt at 154 pounds. I thought there was a chance that promoter Lou DiBella would try to get Kermit Cintron into a fight with Williams, but DiBella appears set on keeping Cintron for a big Puerto Rican showdown against either Miguel Cotto or Daniel Santos, both of whom fight on November 14. DiBella also promotes Martinez and was involved with the original card, which was to co-feature his fighter, Carlos Quintana, against Top Rank's Joshua Clottey. Clottey was pulled from the card along with Kelly Pavlik.
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ugh, thanks
Kind of hurrying things right now.
Bad Left Hook
"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by Scott Christ on Oct 26, 2009 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions
This is the fight I want to see
Not because it would have such big names involved, or because it would even be a great fight to watch, but because this really would be the most significant fight that can be made at 154. If PW can beat Dzinziruk, who may well be as good as Pavlik but just isn’t as tested, nobody can say that Williams has just been beating up on midgets and old farts.
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Meh, I see tall Paul rolling Dzinziruk pretty badly. Dzinziruk just doesn’t have the pop to put the threat on Williams. And with PW’s punch output, Dzinziruk will likely be flummoxed and almost certainly won’t outpoint PW. Plus this would be Dzinziruk’s first fight outside of Europe, I believe. I smell smackdown.
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I think Sergio would give Paul more problems than Dzinziruk
Sergio would give anyone problems at 154 imo.
so is daniel santos an exciting dude? every report about his fight on the pacman undercard says that it’ll be the most boring fight on earth, and idk if that’s cuz of foreman or santos or both
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by battle axe of doom on Oct 26, 2009 6:13 PM EDT reply actions
Mostly Foreman, but Santos is no Gatti.
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"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by Scott Christ on Oct 26, 2009 7:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Santos isn't super exciting either
But I’ve never seen a Foreman fight even bordering on exciting.
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Cintron
If Cintron’s people are looking to match him for an all Puerto-Rican fight, I’d love to see Cintron/Quintana. I have no idea if it is feasible, but it could re-establish one of them pretty quickly.
That one would be good, too, plus very easy to make since it’s all-DiBella.
Bad Left Hook
"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by Scott Christ on Oct 26, 2009 8:46 PM EDT up reply actions
I thought Cintron re-established himself with the win over El Perro
Am I wrong? I think Dibella is lining Cintron up for a Daniel Santos fight at 150 in January as long as Santos gets passed Foreman.
It’ll be 154, not 150. Santos can’t make 150.
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"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by Scott Christ on Oct 27, 2009 11:24 PM EDT up reply actions
I doubt he sets anything up until after Cotto-Pacquiao
He’s probably crossing his fingers for Cotto to lose so he can try to make Cotto-Cintron.
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Yeah but if Cotto loses in a close fashion, I think he should take the Berto-Mosley winner. Cintron seems like a huge step down, but DiBella is an ass like that so I see what you mean.
by Waldo Rastel on Oct 28, 2009 2:45 AM EDT up reply actions
Cintron would be a rebound win, at least in theory, and from the DiBella/Cintron side, it’d be their biggest win ever by far if they could beat Cotto, no matter if or how he lost to Pacquiao.
Bad Left Hook
"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by Scott Christ on Oct 28, 2009 4:45 AM EDT up reply actions
Pretty sure Cotto is going to look good against the Pac unless he is drained at the weigh-in. I mean it took 9 rounds for a guy with plaster in his wraps to knock him out, so round one, not so much. I think Cotto might look too good for this fight, but I mos def see the point of the bounce back fight.
by Waldo Rastel on Oct 28, 2009 4:54 AM EDT up reply actions
There’s also just the fact that you can’t always make the best fight for one reason or another, and Cotto-Cintron would do some biiiiig business in Puerto Rico.
Bad Left Hook
"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by Scott Christ on Oct 28, 2009 5:01 AM EDT up reply actions
Yeah this would be a decent backup plan/bargaining tool for negotiations.
by Waldo Rastel on Oct 28, 2009 5:20 AM EDT up reply actions
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