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By G. Leon
23/02/2007
"After we beat Briggs or if he pulls out again, Thompson is the first guy we're looking for!"
GL: Tell me what's on your mind Boris? "There has been a lot of rumors about our team and what we do and why we have to fight. There's only one thing I have to say. Sultan Ibragimov is a fighter. He hasn't fought in eight months and he's not going to wait three months more. He's prepared himself very well to fight Shannon Briggs and he's working great in sparring and he's in tremendous shape. Turning that off is very difficult for Sultan. We tried to make an interim fight happen, but that didnt' happen for a lot of reason. Sultan has to fight and he will fight Javier Mora. The most difficult part of this business is when this guy pulled out the promoter lost like $500,000. He lost HBO, he lost money that he put up. When they heard it wasn't going to be Ibragimov and Briggs, they cancelled the fight. All of the tickets had to be returned and they just started selling them again Friday."Send questions and comments to: gleon@boxingtalk.com