Hopkins turned down a fight with Kessler

[superheavyrhun]

I don't believe anything that comes out the Kessler camp

Not like you to be cynical about statements made by European boxers! After all, doesn't the phrase to "Welsh" on a deal mean to follow it through exactly as agreed .

[ICB]

If this is true then Mikkel Kessler has no one to blame but himself, what the hell has he done since losing to Joe Calzaghe. That makes him believe he deserves his shot against someone like Bernard Hopkins ?

Mikkel Kessler is a good fighter but he reminds me of Kelly Pavlik, except he is a better boxer and has a more array of punches. I can't see him doing that much better than Kelly Pavlik did, i see a 9-3, 8-4, victory for Bernard Hopkins here.

[Violent Demise]

I don't believe anything that comes out the Kessler camp

Not like you to be cynical about statements made by European boxers! After all, doesn't the phrase to "Welsh" on a deal mean to follow it through exactly as agreed .

I actually like Kessler. But ever since the Miranda debacle, in which he punked out of a very win able fight I don't believe him.

[Kirkland Laing]

I don't believe anything that comes out the Kessler camp

Not like you to be cynical about statements made by European boxers! After all, doesn't the phrase to "Welsh" on a deal mean to follow it through exactly as agreed .

I actually like Kessler. But ever since the Miranda debacle, in which he punked out of a very win able fight I don't believe him.

How do you know it wasn't his promoter who sctratched the fight?

[Violent Demise]

Not like you to be cynical about statements made by European boxers! After all, doesn't the phrase to "Welsh" on a deal mean to follow it through exactly as agreed .

I actually like Kessler. But ever since the Miranda debacle, in which he punked out of a very win able fight I don't believe him.

How do you know it wasn't his promoter who sctratched the fight?

Show Time which has no ties to either Miranda or Kessler pretty much said it was Kessler. I see no reason they would lie

[Kirkland Laing]

I actually like Kessler. But ever since the Miranda debacle, in which he punked out of a very win able fight I don't believe him.

How do you know it wasn't his promoter who sctratched the fight?

Show Time which has no ties to either Miranda or Kessler pretty much said it was Kessler. I see no reason they would lie

But they weren't dealing with Kessler, they were dealing with his promoter, and Kessler is currently involved in a legal battle to get out of his contract because he says his promoter won't make big fights for him and keeps matching him with Euro mandatory nobodies. The legal proceedings started just after the Miranda fight fell through. I think we should wait and see which fights get made after he leaves his current promoter before we go blaming the boxer.

[Rantcatrat]

How do you know it wasn't his promoter who sctratched the fight?

Show Time which has no ties to either Miranda or Kessler pretty much said it was Kessler. I see no reason they would lie

But they weren't dealing with Kessler, they were dealing with his promoter, and Kessler is currently involved in a legal battle to get out of his contract because he says his promoter won't make big fights for him and keeps matching him with Euro mandatory nobodies. The legal proceedings started just after the Miranda fight fell through. I think we should wait and see which fights get made after he leaves his current promoter before we go blaming the boxer.

That's all fine and dandy, but in the time he has taken out of his career to disentangle himself from his promoter, he could have fought one or two easy fights or two good ones at the least. Now he is quickly becoming irrelevant.

[Kirkland Laing]

Show Time which has no ties to either Miranda or Kessler pretty much said it was Kessler. I see no reason they would lie

But they weren't dealing with Kessler, they were dealing with his promoter, and Kessler is currently involved in a legal battle to get out of his contract because he says his promoter won't make big fights for him and keeps matching him with Euro mandatory nobodies. The legal proceedings started just after the Miranda fight fell through. I think we should wait and see which fights get made after he leaves his current promoter before we go blaming the boxer.

That's all fine and dandy, but in the time he has taken out of his career to disentangle himself from his promoter, he could have fought one or two easy fights or two good ones at the least. Now he is quickly becoming irrelevant.

His last fight was against somebody called Danilio Haussler. No, me neither. Two fights against similar household names isn't going to do anything for his career and it's impossible for him to fight while he's in his contract dispute.