Box: Unbeaten middleweight champ Taylor wants Calzaghe

AAP Sports News (Australia), November, 2006

AAP Sports News (Australia) 11-13-2006 Box: Unbeaten middleweight champ Taylor wants Calzaghe LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Nov 12 AFP - Unbeaten WBC middleweight champion Jermain Taylor plans to move into the super middleweight ranks next year and is aiming for a showdown with unbeaten Briton Joe Calzaghe. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported today that Taylor wanted to move up in weight class next year before planning to retire by August of 2009. Taylor will make the last defense of his crown December 9 against Uganda's Kassim Ouma in Taylor's hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. He told the newspaper that making weight at the 160-pound limit has become much tougher. "It's all but impossible for me to do it now," said Taylor. Taylor, 25-0 with one draw,...

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