Corley Title Bout Date Set; Buchanan Has Opponent for Super Middleweight Tourney!

Two big items here. I can confirm a Boxingtalk.com report that there is now a date for the matchup between former WBO Junior Welterweight champion DeMarcus "Chop Chop" Corley and Junior Witter. The bout will be for the vacant WBC Junior Welterweight title. The date will be Sept. 15 in London, England.

Corley will come into the bout with a record of 31-4-1, 17 KO's and has not fought since Sept of 2005 in Kinder, LA when he scored a ninth round TKO over Johnny Walker.

A side note about that Louisiana bout: That bout became the catalyst for a proposed documentary about Corley. The film currently has the working title of "Do or Die: A Champion Becomes an Underdog, an Underdog Becomes a Champion." The documentary may be distributed by the end of the year.

I plan to have an interview with the producer of the documentary, Paul Glasco, as well as Corley himself, sometime next week.


If you read one of Chris Middendorf's posts, he mentioned that there is now an opponent for undefeated Henry "Sugar Poo" Buchanan for the ShoBox Super Middleweight Tournament. Buchanan (13-0, 10 KO's) will face undefeated Lucas Arias of Costa Rica (10-0, eight KO's). This bout will be on the first night of the tournament, which will be Friday, July 28 at the PFTC Sports Center in Las Vegas, NV and, of course, will be on ShoBox.

I will be talking to both Middendorf and Buchanan about this tournament. We now have one question for the written Middendorf interview.