By Ryan Maquiñana
BoxingScene.com
Sources have confirmed with BoxingScene.com that super
middleweight Andre Ward of Oakland has incurred a shoulder injury in training and will likely
be forced to postpone his Jan. 26 defense against Kelly Pavlik at the Galen
Center in Los Angeles.
Ward (26-0, 14 KOs) was slated to headline an HBO World
Championship Boxing main event against Pavlik (40-2, 34 KOs), the former
undisputed middleweight champion.
Heavyweights Chris Arreola and Bermane Stiverne were scheduled to fight
in a title eliminator. There has been no
word yet regarding the status of the rest of the card.
Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated initially reported the
story on Wednesday night.
Ryan
Maquiñana was the boxing producer for NBCOlympics.com during London 2012 and
writes a weekly column for CSNBayArea.com. He is a full member of the
Boxing Writers Association of America and the Ratings Panel for Ring Magazine.
E-mail him at rmaquinana@gmail.com,
check out his blog at Norcalboxing.net, or follow him on Twitter: @RMaq28.
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