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Katsidis v Earl Verbal!

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Katsidis the great Promotions in association with Smithy?s Gym are proud to announce, that the Fight of the Year rematch between two time world champion Michael Katsidis and former world champion Graham Earl has been verbally agreed to.

At 2am this morning Katsidis Manager Brendon Smith finalized details with Graham Earl?s camp to have a fight downunder. Graham Earl and his team have been chasing the Katsidis? camp for close to 4 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, most critics also deemed it to be the fight of the decade.

?Earl has been chasing this since we walked out of the ring 4 years ago? Katsidis?s manager Brendon Smith today said ?he 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... we did promise him the rematch, and now his wish has been granted and what an amazing fight it will be for Australia.?

When Katsidis was asked what he thought of the fight being confirmed, he responded with ?Graham is one tough man, it will definitely be a war, and I love a war... when we met in ?07? 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.?

Katsidis will be making a special guest commentary appearance on Fox?s Friday night fight?s 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 ?I?m 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.?

To relive the epic battle between Michael Katsidis and Graham Earl click here.





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