{"id":11084,"date":"2011-06-02T10:30:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=11084"},"modified":"2011-06-02T10:30:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:30:55","slug":"michael-katsidis-vs-graham-earl-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=11084","title":{"rendered":"Michael Katsidis Vs. Graham Earl Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Katsidis \u201cThe Great\u201d Promotions in association with Smithy\u2019s Gym have announced that a rematch between two-time world champion Michael Katsidis and Graham Earl has been verbally agreed to. At 2am this morning Katsidis\u2019 Manager Brendon Smith finalized details with Graham Earl\u2019s camp to have a fight down under. Earl and his team have been chasing the Katsidis\u2019 camp for close to four years now on the promise of a rematch after their epic five round World title battle at Wembley Arena in London in 2007. In a fight that was full of action, Katsidis not only came out the victor, but this battle was awarded the coveted round and fight of the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cEarl has been chasing this since we walked out of the ring four years ago,\u201d Katsidis\u2019s manager Brendon Smith today said. \u201cHe has shown up at press conferences, and even tried to enter our training camp in Thailand in the lead up to the Juan Manuel Marquez title fight to issue a challenge\u2026 we did promise him the rematch, and now his wish has been granted and what an amazing fight it will be for Australia.\u201d <\/p>\n

When Katsidis was asked what he thought of the fight being confirmed, he responded with \u201cGraham is one tough man, it will definitely be a war, and I love a war\u2026 when we met in \u201907\u2032 we exchanged a lot of punches, he went down, I went down, It will be on again, I will have to be in my best shape for this battle. From the day we embraced each other and agreed for a rematch, he has chased me and now I will honour my commitment to Graham Earl, and give him the rematch he has been seeking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Katsidis will be making a special guest commentary appearance on Fox\u2019s Friday night fight\u2019s from the Greek club in Brisbane this Friday, this will be the first guest appearance he has made since returning from a 4 year stint in the USA, Katsidis said \u201cI\u2019m happy to be involved on a local level again, we will be taking time out from training to go watch the fights and mingle with boxing fans.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Katsidis \u201cThe Great\u201d Promotions in association with Smithy\u2019s Gym have announced that a rematch between two-time world champion Michael Katsidis and Graham Earl has been verbally agreed to. At 2am this morning Katsidis\u2019 Manager Brendon Smith finalized details with Graham Earl\u2019s camp to have a fight down under. Earl and his team have been chasing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,2095],"class_list":["post-11084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-michael-katsidis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11084"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}