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De La Hoya

• Tickets for the much-anticipated Dec. 6 Oscar De La Hoya-Manny Pacquiao fight will go on sale Sept. 24, Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer told ESPN.com. He said tickets will be priced from $150 to $1,500. Although thousands will be put on hold by Golden Boy and Top Rank and a large portion will go to the MGM Grand, sponsors and HBO, Schaefer said there will be several thousand available to the public. "It will be the hottest ticket in town," he said. "When Oscar fought [Floyd] Mayweather, the tickets sold out in two hours. I think these will be gone in a half hour."

Miranda

• Trash-talker/big puncher Edison Miranda (30-3, 26 KOs), last seen being wiped out by Arthur Abraham in four rounds in their June rematch, returns Nov. 11 against an opponent to be determined at the Hard Rock resort in Hollywood, Fla., according to Seminole Warriors Boxing promoter Leon Margules. Miranda, who faced middleweight titlist Abraham in a 166-pound nontitle bout, plans to fight at super middleweight, although his comeback probably will be at 171 or 172 pounds, Margules said. "Edison is in the gym and he's been there for two weeks getting in shape," Margules said. "He's refocused and recommitted to getting back to the top. He knows he has to stay in the gym. What I liked is that he came back to the gym before this fight was even scheduled." Margules is planning the card around the WBO's annual convention, which this year runs Nov. 10-14 in nearby Fort Lauderdale.

George

• Besides Miranda, the Nov. 11 card -- the second annual co-promotion between Warriors and Lou DiBella as a special edition of his "Broadway Boxing" series -- will also include ex-light heavyweight champ Glen Johnson and super middleweight prospect James McGirt Jr. against opponents to be named. A Johnson victory could propel him into a January Showtime bout with Shaun George on a proposed John Duddy-Ronald Hearns card. "That's what we are talking about with Showtime," DiBella said. George (17-2-2, 8 KOs) has finalized a promotional contract with DiBella. George will retain former promoter Donna Duva-Brooks as his adviser. George burst on the scene in May with a ninth-round TKO of ex-heavyweight titlist Chris Byrd, who was moving down in weight. "The Byrd fight was an eye-opener for what I'm capable of, but it's not everything I can do," George said. "I want to prove that I'm the best in the world and to be the best, you have to beat the best. Signing to DiBella will bring me the opportunities to get the bigger fights I need."

Rahman

• If former heavyweight champ Hasim Rahman does not land a November fight with David Haye, Top Rank plans to put him on a Dec. 13 card it is planning for Macau, China, Top Rank president Todd duBoef told ESPN.com. The show would also include Ulises Solis defending his junior flyweight title against Brian Viloria if Viloria takes care of business in a tune-up fight. Another possibility is junior bantamweight titlist Fernando Montiel in a rematch with Z Gorres. Viloria, a former junior flyweight titlist, will have an eight-round tune-up Sept. 25 (Azteca America) in El Cajon, Calif., against Javier Lagos on a card being co-promoted by Manny Pacquiao's MP Promotions and Sycuan Ringside Promotions. Junior featherweight contender Bernabe Concepcion faces Giovanni Caro in the main event.

Mares

• Bantamweight Abner Mares, a 2004 Mexican Olympian and Golden Boy's brightest rising prospect, looks as if he will get his title shot against Gerry Penalosa. Golden Boy's Eric Gomez said he was close to finalizing the bout with Penalosa, who has been holding out for a bigger purse. If they close the deal, Gomez said the fight would take place Oct. 18 on the Kelly Pavlik-Bernard Hopkins HBO PPV undercard. If the fight is not finalized, Gomez said Mares would still appear on the card and then possibly face Anselmo Moreno for his version of the bantamweight title either on the Dec. 6 Oscar De La Hoya-Manny Pacquiao undercard or in early 2009.

Garay

• Light heavyweight titlist Hugo Garay sprained his left ankle training for an Oct. 18 defense against Jürgen Brähmer, forcing postponement of the card in Dresden, Germany, according to promoter Universum. It has been rescheduled for Nov. 22 in Rostock. That means junior middleweight Joel "Love Child" Julio's challenge against Sergei Dzindziruk, slated for the undercard, has also been pushed back.

Toney

• James Toney (70-6-3, 43 KOs), who looked as though he still had something left in a third-round no contest with Hasim Rahman in their July rematch, could be headed overseas for only the second time in his career. Toney promoter Dan Goossen told ESPN.com that he's been talking to England's Frank Warren about a possible October bout between Toney and Audley Harrison (23-3, 17 KOs) in the United Kingdom. "If we can get it done, I think it's a good opportunity for James," Goossen said. Toney's only fight outside the U.S. in his 20-year career was a 1991 fourth-round knockout of Francesco Dell'Aquila in Monte Carlo in 1991.

Campas

• When super middleweight Julio Cesar Garcia (41-3, 34 KOs) appears on Saturday's Casamayor-Marquez PPV undercard he'll find himself facing late replacement Danny Perez (32-5, 17 KOs), a onetime welterweight contender who once knocked Antonio Margarito down in 1999 in the first of Perez's two losses to him. Perez, who has had just one bout since 2005, is replacing Yory Boy Campas (92-12, 74 KOs), who was denied a license by the Nevada commission despite a recommendation from a commission doctor and executive director Keith Kizer. The commission voiced concerns over Campas' ability to compete. Although Campas, 37, has won four of his past six and is 4-4 in his past eight, he has taken tremendous punishment in his 21-year career.

Cook

• British lightweight Amir Khan, stunningly handed his first loss by Breidis Prescott in a crushing first-round knockout last week, is going to need all the support he can find as he tries to rebuild his career. He's got at least one supporter in Nicky Cook, who won a junior lightweight title from Alex Arthur on the undercard. Cook knows what it is like to battle back from a devastating knockout loss. He was decked five times and stopped in the 11th round 14 months ago by Steven Luevano for a vacant featherweight title, but rebounded and went on to defeat Arthur. "I know the mental pain that Amir is going through because I experienced it after my loss to Luevano," Cook said. "But I said at the time that it's not what you do when you are winning that makes you a champion, but how you react when you have lost. I was soon back in the gym and determined to get a world title around my waist and it happened. … I know as soon as Amir gets back in the gym, he will be ever more hungrier and determined to get back to the top and show everyone what he can really do. One thing is for sure, Amir has the fight in him as he kept getting up from the knockdowns and wanted to carry on but the referee wisely stopped it. He's a very talented lad and I've no doubts that he will come back from this."

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Campbell

"After all the things that Guzman and his people have said, somebody is going to have to pay for that and I guess it's going to have to be Guzman. I'm going to give him something to shut his mouth on Saturday here in Biloxi. I have said all I need to say. My talking is done. Now it's time to fight." -- Nate Campbell, on Joan Guzman, against whom he defends his three alphabet lightweight belts Saturday night (Showtime, 9 ET/PT).

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Guzman

"Nate and I are similar in that no one ever wants to fight us. He's been avoided throughout his career and the same is true for me. I'm always surprised when a boxer agrees to fight me because there are only a few out there. Nate is one of them." -- Guzman, on unified lightweight titleholder Nate Campbell.