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Klitschko-Williams in Vegas!
Madison Square Garden had been called 99% certain to host the December 11 WBC heavyweight title bout between champion Vitali Klitschko and Tyson-conqueror Danny Williams, however the card will now apparently land in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Casino/Resort. K2 executive Tom Loeffler told the Las Vegas Review Journal that "attorneys are going over the contracts, but in essence we've reached a deal." The Garden fell out of the running because of logistical problems involving other events.
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Mandalay Bay will also likely host the December 4 card between headlined by WBC lightweight champion Jose Luis Castillo vs Joel Casamayor.

You git

Chris - any more news on this, mate? Kev is going to New York in December and was looking forward to the fight...

no idea yet sorry. its either vegas or LA now so i hear.

I hope it's Vegas, it deserves to be a vegas fight.

Bugger. The only way I was going to this was by letting the missus loose for a day pre-Christmas in New York.

So not going to make it but the blow is softened a little.

jamesmcdonnell wrote:I hope it's Vegas, it deserves to be a vegas fight.

Are you having a laugh. It isn't even being shown on Yank telly until a week after. Good luck to Danny but this is the worse hevayweight title fight to ever land in sin city.

I didn't realise that the yanks were so underwhelmed by it. I have to admit to being struck by a rare bout of partisan feeling. I really do want Danny to succeed here, it would be a great shot in the arm for British boxing....

chris s wrote:

jamesmcdonnell wrote:I hope it's Vegas, it deserves to be a vegas fight.

Are you having a laugh. It isn't even being shown on Yank telly until a week after. Good luck to Danny but this is the worse hevayweight title fight to ever land in sin city.

It's a lot better than the NY horror show one month earlier though:
John Ruiz vs. Andrew Golota
Chris Byrd vs. Jameel McCline
Evander Holyfield vs. Larry Donald
Hasim Rahman vs. Kali Meehan

And it's being shown on tv one week later because it's live on HBO PPV.

My thoughts exactly, I think Golota v Ruiz is going to be surprisingly entertaining, but the rest of the card stinks to high heaven. Byrd v McCline will probably be the dullest heavyweight title fight in history.

chris s wrote:

jamesmcdonnell wrote:I hope it's Vegas, it deserves to be a vegas fight.

Are you having a laugh. It isn't even being shown on Yank telly until a week after. Good luck to Danny but this is the worse hevayweight title fight to ever land in sin city.

That is simply unbelievable. this underlines the fact that americans really don't give a shit about any sporting event that doesn't include americans. roger federer won the US open this year with a masterclass of tennis and all the american papers did was whinge that the tournament had the lowest tv ratings ever, as if having no american in the final devalued the tournament and made it irrelevent.

NO MATTER THE QUALITY, THIS IS A F**KING WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT AND THEY AREN'T SHOWING IT LIVE EVEN IN AMERICA??!!! this marks the end, people, the beginning of the end for boxing.

didn't they show live vitali beat up 900 lb kirk johnson? interesting priorities...

It's on HBO.......live

oh.

Riddick Blowe wrote:oh.

on HBO PPV

Riddick Blowe wrote:oh.

lol

chris s wrote:

jamesmcdonnell wrote:I hope it's Vegas, it deserves to be a vegas fight.

Are you having a laugh. It isn't even being shown on Yank telly until a week after. Good luck to Danny but this is the worse hevayweight title fight to ever land in sin city.

Surely you jest. Have a bit of perspective.