Billy Dib Title Defence

[Brute]

IBF Featherweight Champion Billy Dib defends his title against Jayson Velez (19-0, 14KOs) of Puerto Rico as the main support to the Trout/Cotto WBA super welter title fight at Madison Square Gardens, New York City, on December 1.

In spite of his impressive looking record, Velez is rated 70 by Boxrec.

[amwsnw]

Lets hope mainevent has this on. Not listed at the moment. Good luck Billy.

[thunderfromdownunder]

Throwing the puerto rican prospects to the lions lately. Del Valle, Durlome and now this guy

[Brute]

A 24 year old in his 20th pro fight has been around a bit long to be called a "prospect."

[dan h]

I wonder if Billy's promotional company's issues will be affecting his prep...

[thunderfromdownunder]

A 24 year old in his 20th pro fight has been around a bit long to be called a "prospect."

You know what I mean, it's a big step up from him previous outings

[Brute]

It is about time he started fighting half decent fighters.

[amwsnw]

Mainevent have confirmed they will be showing this card. Details to be released on their web site soon.

[Brute]

Fight seems to have been dropped from the program. Velez is fighting TBA.

[Beltane]

The truth is out there somewhere about the Dibster's dropping off the card.

Somewhere hiding in this article the actual reason may be revealed:

http://www.BS.com/dib-possibly ... ire--58977

Only the Dibster knows for sure!

[thunderfromdownunder]

Caught up in the rabble.
These may well be Billy's best years, it's a shame

[Brute]

What on earth is going on? What has some word mangler impersonating a singer have to do with boxing?

[dan h]

I would say when Dib signed he thought he was signing with PBF and 50. Now he realises PBF has nothing to do with it he is probably spewing..

[thunderfromdownunder]

What has some word mangler impersonating a singer

[bigred83]

break the contract. you would hope that billy had some sort of clause in it to say if you dont get me the fights i should be getting then i can walk away and find someone else.
this happens all the time in sports like league, union, soccer, basketball, cricket, blah blah blah. but you never hear of a fighter walking out on a contract with a promoter due to not getting fights. it seems outrageous to me.
is it just that the fighters are being taken advantage of for one reason or another, or are some of them just a bit dumb?
or maybe there is the fighters side of signing on to a set figure each year regardless of fighting or not and then just staying inactive and let the pay cheques roll in (eg guillermo jones style)??
im am a little lost on this one....

[Brute]

Somebody probably pointed out to the Homeland Security goons that Billy is a Muslim.