11.   He successfully defended the middleweight crown six times before capturing the IBF super middleweight title from Iran Barkley by a ninth-round knockout in February of last year.

12.   He would never get another shot at the middleweight title.

13.   He took enough, in fact, to get knocked out in the third round of a World Boxing Association middleweight title bout in Las Vegas.

14.   It killed me to see a guy like Keith Holmes win and lose the middleweight title while I was out.

15.   Keith Holmes gets a chance to regain the WBC middleweight title from Hassine Cherifi, who won a decision in May in France to take the belt.

16.   Rosenblatt is scheduled to defend his World Boxing Council International middleweight title that night against Joe Gatti, Silvio Branca or Willie Monroe.

17.   Rosenblatt and Pazienza will be fighting for the vacant WBU super middleweight title.

18.   Since then, Rosenblatt has been fighting for a living but not for a shot at the middleweight title.

19.   Specifically, Bradley wants to hold three middleweight titles.

20.   The East Coast middleweight title choice remained Fred Apostoli, who thought the Hostak-Steele fight important enough to warrant his ringside presence.