Aiken world champion boxer Paul "The Punisher" Williams will take another crack at getting in line for a welterweight title shot, this time by going through another former welterweight world champ Kermit "The Killer" Cintron.
Williams and Cintron will hold a press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday to announce a 12-round fight at super welterweight (154 pounds) on May 8 at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. The venue is where Williams won the WBO welterweight belt in 2007 against Antonio Margarito. The fight will be televised on HBO.
Williams and Cintron (32-2-1, 28 KOs) are no strangers to negotiations, having once planned to fight for the welterweight title in 2007 before the plan was scuttled by the Cintron camp due to injury.
Williams (38-1, 27 KOs) is coming off a majority-decision win over world junior-middleweight champion Sergio Martinez in December - a fight that was arranged after middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik backed out of a scheduled fight in Atlantic City, N.J.The Los Angeles Times reported that the winner of Williams-Cintron could position himself for a shot at unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. - who fights welterweight champ Shane Mosely the week before in Las Vegas. If Mayweather loses, he can invoke a rematch clause against Mosely.
A less likely option would be for the Williams-Cintron winner to get a shot at Manny Pacquiao
should he fail again to strike a mega-fight deal with Mayweather Jr.Source: chronicle.augusta.com
I LOVE IT! I can't wait for this fight. Kermit Cintron has to be one of the most underrated fighters of all time. All the guy does is win and knock people out. Williams will present a challenge with his height and reach advantage but Cintron's new and vastly improved style since being with Ronnie Shields will find a way to win this one. Cintron wins and finally gets his place among the game's best.
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