New thread for the new year. Kicked off on Friday night with the first of many controversial decisions after a pretty good fight between Usmanee and Barthelemy:
From about one hour and seven minutes:
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As for fights, Mayweather will be back May 4th but won't confirm his opponent, Froch and Kessler are still involved in protracted negotiations and Pacquiao-Marquez V is on the horizon for April, I think, which is around the time that Khan is due back in the ring.
As far as signed fights are concerned, the first major card of the year is January 19th with Salido-Garcia to determine who the best featherweight in the world is and Golovkin-Rosado in what is going to be a gun fight. Matthysse is back in the ring the week after.
In February we have Garcia-Judah and Martinez-Frampton on the 9th, with Rees-Broner the week after that, then it's Peterson's return against Holt, before Brook fights Alexander in Detroit and David Price takes on Tony Thompson.
Looks like it's going to be a solid opening to the new year, but it will have to go along way to match some of the great fights of 2012. March has a rematch of one such fight in Crolla-Matthews which I plan on going to and Rios-Alvarado meant to be meeting again around the same time.