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SHEFFIELD,
ENGLAND.- Clinton Woods will defend his IBF lightheavyweight
title against Antonio Tarver in April and then try and set
up a fight with Joe Calzaghe.
Woods
will make the fifth defense of his belt against the 39-year-old
Tarver, a former undisputed champion, at Tampa, Florida, on
April 12.
Tarver
won the title by knocking out Roy Jones Jr. in 2004 before
losing it to Bernard Hopkins two years later.
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"He
lost to old man Bernard Hopkins on points, but I am
going to knock him out and then my status as the best
light-heavyweight in the world will be confirmed,"
Woods said.
"It
is a fight I have been longing for," Woods said
Tuesday. "He told me he would beat me years ago
- well, now he has got the chance.
"He
can't run any longer because the deal has been made.
It is smell-the-coffee time and he is going to find
out the hard way what a through beating is all about."
Calzaghe
fights Hopkins in a non-title, light-heavyweight bout
in Las Vegas on April 19.
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"If
Joe Calzaghe gets past granddad Hopkins the week after I make
mincemeat of Tarver, he can come looking for me," Woods
said. "I'm ready for Calzaghe any time and any place,
and he knows it."
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