Contrary to recent reports the Irish Press have this morning anounced John Duddy's next potential fight to be against Jermaine Taylor, ith the winner to meet Pavlik.
eDDIE McLoughlin, Duddy's mentor, was quoted "Our discussions with Pavlik's people were just preliminary. We didn't even get to the point of discussing money, it was simply a matter of talking through various options."

Duddy has two fights scheduled before Christmas, one on the 20th of October and another on the 8th December in which he will be fighting Noe Tulio Gonzalez Acoba and a yet to be named adversary.