Stieglitz V Groves goes to purse bids?

[steve689]

I always sense there's a vulerability to Groves but he's proved me wrong and pulled through his fight so far. If Anderson takes him into deep water again here then we shall see.

As Stu said I think Stieglitz is decent enough, although nothing more than a belt holder, and would provide a fairly testing night for Groves if they were to meet.

[addi]

Yeah just got on finally to check, Slap me if im wrong but i thought a mandatory had to be against the number 1 contender unless they was injured or unable to fight for some other reason, Would it not just be a voluntary defence with no purse bid required? Why wouldnt they wait to see if Stieglitz came through against kessler?which i cant see happening tbh.

It's the highest ranked opponent who wants the fight, if that makes sense. That guy will usually be moved to the number 1 spot anyway in a lot of cases. The WBO don't tend to bother with eliminators, I certainly can't remember any. The others seem to love eliminators.

dont they have the, right to fight the champ this is not an eliminator world title belt instead.

[jessi]

Stieglitz far to good for groves at the moment

[Final round]

Steiglitz v Kessler is off! Calling Groves

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/12032012/ ... pulls.html

[leforge]

Groves v Anderson cancelled going round twitter! Medical reasons or poor ticket sales i wonder!

[jameswilson]

Well well. The plot thickens.

[P4P#1]

Funny how the two stories next to each other on BS are one saying kessler has injured his hand so his fight is off, then the next saying hes looking at his next opponent and he's on about moving up to 175.