Paul Williams to fight Andy Kolle at Middleweight on Sept. 25th on Versus

I don't know why you guys are all so critical of this fight.

It's clearly a big deal to move up not one but two weight divisions and he doesn't want to risk losing or looking out of his depth.

This Kolle's record isn't too shabby. Losing to Andre ward is certainly no shame and he's won 6 straight since including a win over Vanda. He may have gone life and death with him as Mick said but then so did Julio Caesar Chavez last time out and Vanda represented his biggest fight so far.

Seeing as Kolle has beat Vanda he seems a reasonable water tester for Williams who would be jumping up 13 lbs in one go.

I see no problem with this fight and look forward with interest to see how he looks and fills out at what would seem to be his natural weight class.

Doesn't bother me at all either

He's fighting in November I think that's confirmed. So it's no big deal. Kind of bizarre though, I mean Andre Ward beat this guy 8 fights in with no problems was actually one of his best fights under the 10 win mark. Williams is number 1 at 147 for me so I would like to see him get back down and do a round robin with Margarito and Cotto but it looks like that won't happen.

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Originally Posted by amat

He's fighting in November I think that's confirmed. So it's no big deal. Kind of bizarre though, I mean Andre Ward beat this guy 8 fights in with no problems was actually one of his best fights under the 10 win mark. Williams is number 1 at 147 for me so I would like to see him get back down and do a round robin with Margarito and Cotto but it looks like that won't happen.

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Don't know if I read this right earlier but .....Clottey/Margarito is not going to happen in Nov. and Tony out until early 09' unfortunatly.Would not mind a rematch with either.

I would like to see Williams-Clottey, it seems both have been on the second tier of notoriety in the division for quite a while now. I think Williams takes it though, I'm not sold on Clottey he has no game from the outside, like zero. I think he had a good jab in those famed first four rounds against Margarito but it seems a distance memory. They blame the hand on that loss but people seem to forget that he fades in the second half of nearly every fight he's ever been in, broken hand or not. So I don't have any interest at all in the Margarito-Clottey rematch other for the fact that I just want to see Margarito again but yeah, I don't think that's any more competitive or any different then the first.