{"id":15213,"date":"2011-08-31T00:56:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T04:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=15213"},"modified":"2011-08-31T00:56:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T04:56:50","slug":"british-boxing-news-nathan-cleverly-tony-bellew-face-off-on-october-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=15213","title":{"rendered":"British Boxing News: Nathan Cleverly – Tony Bellew Face Off on October 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Frank Warren today officially announced the long awaited showdown between bitter unbeaten British rivals WBO World light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly and challenger Tony Bellew for Saturday 15th October at the Liverpool Echo Arena. The rivalry has been building up over the last couple of years and the pair almost fought in May at the O2 Arena when Cleverly was due to face then WBO World Champion Juergen Braehmer, but the German failed to arrive and Bellew stepped in at the last minute. They clashed at a heated press conference and had to be separated by security staff. Ultimately Bellew was beaten by the scales and Cleverly instead faced Aleksy Kuziemski and stopped him in four rounds.
\nCleverly has a 22-fight unbeaten record with 10 knockouts and formerly held the British and Commonwealth light heavyweight titles. He beat Nadjib Mohammedi last December to win the Interim WBO World title and was declared the full champion by the WBO when Braehmer pulled out and he made the first defence against Kuziemski.<\/p>\n

\u201cA fight between me and Bellew has been heating up for a long time and now he\u2019s ready to be taught a lesson,\u201d said Cleverly. \u201cHe\u2019s got a big mouth, but he can\u2019t back it up with his fists and this time he\u2019s talked himself into big trouble that he won\u2019t be able to fight his way out of. My blood boils when I think back to the press conference we had and he wanted to fight there and then. I just wish it was him in the ring that night instead of Kuziemski, I would have knocked him, but he would have come out with excuses that he was a last minute replacement. I\u2019m happy that this time he\u2019s had time to prepare and his weight will right and he\u2019ll have no excuses when he\u2019s knocked out cold by me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liverpool \u201cBomber\u201d Bellew, 28 is undefeated in 16 fights with nine KO\u2019s. He won the British title in his last fight against Ovill McKenzie to add to his Commonwealth title.<\/p>\n

\u201cCleverley has never knocked anybody out in his life and he\u2019s dreaming if he thinks he going to do it to me,\u201d stormed Bellew. \u201cI\u2019ll be fit and ready on the night and it\u2019s the worst scenario that he could have ever wished for; I\u2019ll give him nightmares. This is the fight I\u2019ve wanted and been banging for and now I\u2019m going to prove all along what I\u2019ve been saying is true. I rattled him at the last press conference, he\u2019ll deny it, but he was physically shaking and it\u2019s still playing on his mind now. He can\u2019t beat me mentally or physically and he knows that. He may have a touch more speed, but I have plans to counter that. Come October 15th, Cleverly is in for a nasty nasty shock; he\u2019ll be in a hostile place with a hostile atmosphere that he\u2019s never experienced. Full credit to him for facing me, but this will be one of the shortest reigns by a world champion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hall of Fame promoter Warren, now into his 30th year in the sport, said, \u201cThis is a fight that the fans have been waiting for and I\u2019m delighted that it\u2019s on. It is no secret that there is very little love loss between them from their past history together. I think that the fans will be in for something special when they clash on the night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Warren also revealed that the winner could also get a huge fight against the legendary Bernard Hopkins \u2013 the oldest boxer to ever win a win title at 46 \u2013 who defends his WBC World title against Chad Dawson on the same night.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m in discussions with Hopkins\u2019 promoter Richard Schaefer about a potential fight with the winner so it\u2019s a massive incentive for both guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Frank Warren today officially announced the long awaited showdown between bitter unbeaten British rivals WBO World light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly and challenger Tony Bellew for Saturday 15th October at the Liverpool Echo Arena. The rivalry has been building up over the last couple of years and the pair almost fought in May at the […]<\/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":[788,2598,4939],"class_list":["post-15213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-british-boxing","tag-nathan-cleverly","tag-tony-bellew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213","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=15213"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}