Each week three members of the Boxing News team debate one of the weekend’s big fights and attempt to predict the outcome. We award ourselves three points for naming the correct winner, a bonus point for the method of victory – stoppage, points etc. – and another for either the round of an early finish or the type of decision (unanimous, split or majority). This week we consider Nathan Cleverly’s task against the tough Karo Murat on the big Magnificent 7 bill.

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WHEN Willie Limond received a phonecall 11 weeks ago from his manager asking if he wanted to fight former world champion and boxing great Erik Morales, he understandably thought it was a prank. However, it was no hoax and the Glaswegian had to get straight down to work in preparation for the biggest fight of his career, which takes place this Saturday in Mexico City ­ Morales’ backyard…

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RECOVERING alcoholic Jason Booth (35-5) faces the toughest bout of his career when he faces Steve Molitor, for the Canadian southpaw’s IBF super-bantamweight title at Houghton-le-Spring’s Rainton Meadows Arena on Saturday September 11.

Booth is arguably in the form of his life, notching up 10 victories in 11 fights, picking up three domestic titles along the way. The sole setback came at the hands of slick counter-puncher Ian ‘Dappa’ Napa, but that defeat should be looked at sympathetically, as he took that fight on short notice…

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IF it needed a name attaching to it, Kell ‘Special K’ Brook’s massive WBO welterweight eliminator with Chorley’s Michael Jennings on September 18 would be called ‘Overdue’. The pair should have squared off in October last year but Brook came down with a viral infection, a hand injury sustained by Jennings put paid to a proposed February encounter and third date fell by the wayside when Brook sustained an injured rib…

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