Peterson and Matthysse both ready to rumble

Peterson will be facing one of the most feared boxers in the hard hitting Matthysse, however Peterson is not concerned.

"We're two of the top guys that want a challenge" he said.

"I understand that it's boxing and I'm going to get hit, so I just don't worry about it. That's something that's a given.

"If I get hit hard or not, that really doesn't make a difference to me. I'm willing to take any shot that anybody can give out."

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Froch looking to stop Kessler

Froch and Kessler fought to a close points decision three years ago with Kessler coming out on top, but Froch feels he can get revenge by stopping Kessler.

"If I turn up switched on physically and mentally and do what I know I can do, I feel I can get the stoppage."

"It's still going to be brutal, just as vicious and hard early on but I think as the fight goes on into the championship rounds, that's when I can take over and force a late stoppage."

Froch will enter the fight as the favorite following several impressive wins since he last fought Kessler in Denmark. Kessler has also looked impressive with a brutal knockout over Allen Green.

Boxer Profiles: Guillermo Rigondeaux

Guillermo Rigondeaux is a former Cuban amateur boxer who captured the Olympic Gold Medal at the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games in the Bantamweight (54 kg) class.

Rigondeaux is a seven-time (2000-06) Cuban national champion at bantamweight and a two-time amateur world champion. He claims an amateur record of nearly 400 fights with twelve losses -- with his last losses coming to Rencise Perez and Bekzat Sattarkhanov in 1998, Waldemar Font in 1999, and his most recent loss against Agasi Mamedov in 2003.

Widely considered to be one of the greatest amateur fighters of all time, Rigondeaux has been lauded by boxing trainer Freddie Roach as being "Probably the greatest talent I've ever seen". A documentary on Rigondeaux is in the works by filmmaker Brin-Jonathan Butler.

On July 22, 2007, Rigondeaux and teammate Erislandy Lara failed to appear for their scheduled bouts at the Pan American Games in Brazil. It was initially announced that Rigondeaux was to turn professional, joining fellow 2004 Cuban Olympians Odlanier Solis, Yuriorkis Gamboa and Yan Barthelemy, who defected earlier in 2007. As with the other Cuban defectors, Rigondeaux signed a promotional deal with Ahmet Oener and ARENA Box-Promotion. However on August 2nd, Rigondeaux and Lara were taken into police custody in Brazil, stating that they wanted to return home to Cuba.

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Rocky: The Undisputed Collection

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Joint Statement from Team Guerrero, Mayweather Promotions and Golden Boy Promotions

Early this morning Six-Time and Four Division World Champion Robert Guerrero was checking in his luggage at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, bound for Las Vegas, and, as he was doing so, made sure to advise the authorities that they needed to be aware that he had a firearm, which was unloaded and in a locked safe box with his luggage to be checked. Guerrero was carrying no ammunition and was within his legal right to possess such firearm in the state in which he resides. He was then arrested.

At an arraignment held before the New York State Supreme Court for Queens County, the court, after hearing the pertinent facts of the case, released Guerrero on his own recognizance. The next hearing in this matter is scheduled for after Robert’s May 4 fight against Eight-Time and Five-Division World Champion Floyd “Money” Mayweather.

We are very pleased Robert Guerrero was released on his own recognizance this afternoon in the wake of this incident and that he is on his way back to Las Vegas to continue training for his highly anticipated May 4 bout against Mayweather.