{"id":44951,"date":"2011-04-29T14:20:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T18:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=9946"},"modified":"2011-04-29T14:20:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T18:20:05","slug":"tim-pitbull-coleman-fights-back-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=44951","title":{"rendered":"Tim "Pitbull" Coleman Fights Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>IBF #5-rated contender Tim \u201cPitbull\u201d Coleman (18-1-1, 5 KOs) was in a foul mood at the weigh-in for tomorrow night\u2019s ESPN2 Friday Night Fights broadcast from the deck of the Boulevard Pool at ultra-luxurious The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Coleman will face Sonora, Mexico\u2019s Sergio Rivera (16-6-2, 10 KOs) in an eight-round bout on the undercard of the Carlos Molina vs. Allen Conyers main event.<\/p>\n

The Baltimore native Coleman had originally been scheduled for the main event in a fight for the mandatory right to face champion Zab Judah, however, on short notice, higher-rated contender Lamont Peterson exercised his right to face Cayo instead and pushed Coleman out of the fight.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what\u2019s got him a little upset.<\/p>\n

Cayo unexpectedly pulled out of the bout with an injury. A fight against Peterson was then offered to Coleman, who turned it down flat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t like Lamont Peterson,\u201d he hissed after weighing in at a trim 142.5 lbs. \u201cI\u2019m not taking this well at all. Refusing the fight against Peterson was karma. He pushed me out of a fight, so I turned him down and pushed him out of one right back. It\u2019s more than just a Baltimore vs. Washington DC thing between me and him. I don\u2019t like him at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coleman says the opportunity to fight for a mandatory world title shot was a lifelong dream of his, one he was already in deep training for when he learned he wouldn\u2019t be fighting Cayo after all.<\/p>\n

\u201cCamp was going great until I found out I wasn\u2019t fighting. I went to Wales to train and everything. After I found out, I backed off for a while, but then I went and did strength and conditioning work at Bobby Rimm\u2019s gym in Manchester and got good sparring with European champ Brian Rose. I\u2019m in perfect shape.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rather than stay inactive while he waits for his turn to fight for the title, Coleman says he\u2019ll keep busy. \u201cI love boxing, but this is a business and I need to make a living. My promoters have promised me another fight after this. I\u2019m not waiting for Lamont Peterson or anybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

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IBF #5-rated contender Tim \u201cPitbull\u201d Coleman (18-1-1, 5 KOs) was in a foul mood at the weigh-in for tomorrow night\u2019s ESPN2 Friday Night Fights broadcast from the deck of the Boulevard Pool at ultra-luxurious The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Coleman will face Sonora, Mexico\u2019s Sergio Rivera (16-6-2, 10 KOs) in an eight-round bout on 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":[105,3274],"class_list":["post-44951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-tim-coleman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44951","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=44951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}