WANTS TO FACE BERLENBACH Also Anxious for Return Bout With Slattery -- Rickard Plans Carpentier-Delaney Fight.
Botha, along with VAUGHN BEAN, is being considered as an opponent for Tyson's return bout, which could be Jan.
His sole future asset was a contract with Johansson, which guaranteed a return bout with Patterson if Johansson won the championship.
When Leon Spinks beat Ali to win the WBC title, he declined to honour his mandatory defence against Norton to give Ali a return bout, and was stripped.
That England chose to go to Australia for the return bout with largely the same squad of players was a natural consequence; it would have been hard to tear up the blueprint and start again at that point, and it was not unreasonable to expect players with such proven credential to raise their games back to the highest levels.
But in this return bout, the result was in no doubt.
However, it was already clear that the return bout was destined to be far more cautious than the first, as is often the case with rematches.
The build-up to the return bout was even more vitriolic than first time round, with Watson's sense of righteousness stoked by a mischievous media and a public high on a sense of vicarious victimhood.
There is now the inevitable speculation about a return bout or a quasi-return bout, with Haye battling Wladimir's older and slightly more bloodthirsty brother, Vitali, for the WBC Heavyweight Championship.
Lomachenko promoter Bob Arum told the Los Angeles Times his fighter has two options as he eyes a return bout by September: pursue a third belt against Commey, or fight World Boxing Council mandatory contender Luke Campbell in the United Kingdom if Oxnard's Mikey Garcia decides next week to vacate that belt.
The rather Hitchcockian-sounding thriller features Wood as a classical pianist returning after a bout of stage fright, only to be threatened during his performance by a sniper, played by Cusack.
