Former heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield has reportedly agreed to fight Francois Botha on January 16 in Kampala, Uganda for Botha's World Boxing Foundation title. That's right, 41-year-old Francois Botha has a title. And 47-year-old Holyfield is still on his unrelenting quest to once again become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.

Botha has a career record of 47-4-3-1NC but is probably best remembered for the four losses - all by KO - to Michael Moorer, Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis and Wladimir Klitschko. In his prime, Botha was a very tough opponent but has only fought four times in the past seven years, winning three before fighting to a draw against Pedro Carrion last month in Germany.

Holyfield will have been inactive for just over a year himself when this bout takes place, with decision losses to Sultan Ibragimov and Nikolay Valuev in his two most recent outings - both title shots.

Holyfield, ever the optimist, hopes that a win over Botha will result in a title shot against WBC champ Vitali Klitschko later in 2010. Be careful what you wish for champ ...

Olympic gold medalist Andre Ward scored the first upset in Showtime's Super Six World Boxing Classic with an eleventh round technical decision over WBA super middleweight champ Mikkel Kessler in Oakland, California. Ward dominated a flat Kessler from the opening bell, opening up numerous cuts around the champion's eyes - some from punches and others from a series of unintentional headbutts. In the eleventh round, the fight was stopped due to a cut that came from an accidental clash of heads in the previous round so the fight went to the scorecards. After ten complete rounds, Ward was ahead 97-93 and 98-92 twice so he was awarded the technical decision victory.

Kessler complained after the fight that the referee permitted too much holding and that Ward was intentionally using his head. The cuts clearly bothered Kessler but they did not determine the outcome of the fight - Ward was simply too fast and too busy for the somewhat mechanical Kessler.

According to HBO, the Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto megafight generated 1.25 million buys and $70 million in domestic pay-per-view revenue, making it the biggest boxing PPV event of 2009. HBO will replay the fight this Saturday night at 10 pm ET/PT.

The Sept. 19 Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Juan Manuel Marquez bout did 1.05 million buys, making this the first time in a decade that two PPV events have generated at least one million buys in the same calendar year. 1999 featured Felix Trinidad-Oscar De La Hoya and the first meeting between Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield.

A fight between Pacquiao and Mayweather would likely shatter numerous pay-per-view records. Let's hope negotiations go smoothly and a date is set for Spring 2010.

On Saturday night, Mikkel Kessler defends his WBA title against Andre Ward in Oakland, CA in the final fight in round one of Showtime's unprecedented super middleweight tournament.

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