Gonzalez Nelson Signed
WBC lightweight champion Miguel Angel Gonzalez and former WBC super featherweight champion Azumah Nelson have today announced they will meet on Friday 18th March at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas.
Nelson who was not fought since losing his WBC crown to Sugar Ray Robinson in September said he felt it was time to move up to 135-pounds.
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"I occasionally agreed to carry an opponent, almost always in what is known as a tune-up fight. I never considered it morally wrong as long as I was winning the fight. I was never a killer, like some fighters. I never enjoyed knocking out a guy who I knew had no chance to beat me." Sugar Ray Robinson
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