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Frietas still has ambitions himself, no way will he want to fight Witter. He will get into the Castillo / Casamayor / Corrales / Diaz mix at Lightweight.

I think Urkal is down as active because his last fight was in October (recent). He did announce his retirement, but who know many fighters change their mind.

I don't see anything wrong with him taking a fight with Lovemore N'Dou of course he has a sollid chin and has been in with a lot of the devisions danger men a good performance and he will send out a real message, a bad performance and he still comes out with 10 rounds good expireance against a respected fighter.

Just noticed Urkal was still ranked 5th by the WBA last month

1. SOULEYMANE M’BAYE FRA
2. RICHARD HATTON G.B
3. FLOYD MAYWEATHER USA
4. JAMES LEIJA USA
5. OKTAY URKAL TUR
6. DIOSBELYS HURTADO CUB
7. ANDREAS KOTELNIK UKR
8. DAUDY BAHARI (PABA) IND
9. JUNG-BUNG KIM KOR
10. CESAR BAZAN MEX
11. MUHAMMAD ABDULLAEV UZB
12. DIMITRI SALITA UKR
13. DAVID DIAZ USA
14. JUAN URANGO COL
15. ARTURO MORUA

http://www.wbaonline.com/ratings/rankings/

He should have gone through with the Pinto fight, he probably would have sparked him although it would have taken longer than Cotto no doubt.

If he beats Branco then he should get some sort of title shot in the next year or so surely?

souleyman mbaye wont fight witter till after he gets his seconds shot at harris as he wont want to risk his #1 position. I have seen mbaye fight about four times on eurosport - good fighter fast hands and a better punch than his record indicates - its just that he prefers to pile up points by peppering his opponents with lighter punches and outboxing them

Isn't about time Dmitri Salita stepped up in opposition, i remember seeing him ages ago against Miguel Mares and then again briefly on the Mayweather-Corley undercard, i thought with his backers he would have made the grade by now.