The WBA will decide this weekend on what will happen. There are also rumors Kessler might move up to fight for Danny Green's recently vacated title. According to the Sydney Morning Herald. -ANTHONY MUNDINE'S world title defence against Sam Soliman next month could be in jeopardy, with the WBA set to decide this weekend whether to allow the bout to proceed or force Mundine to fight Danish rival Mikkel Kessler. The Danish fighter's management has approached the governing body urging them to scrap Mundine-Soliman III on May 28 at Melbourne's Vodafone Arena, because Kessler is the mandatory challenger for the WBA super-middleweight title. "Mundine won a vacant title in March 2007 and has now gone 13 months without making a required mandatory defence," Kessler's promoter Mogens Palle said. "We have asserted our rights and told the WBA we're ready to make Kessler-Mundine II a reality in the end of May or the start of June. I would hope Mundine would prefer to try Kessler again rather than having his world title stripped for not complying with WBA rules. "He does refer to himself as 'The Man' so I would really hope so. It's a WBA world title and is not limited to a WBA Australian title." -WBA executive vice-president, Gilberto Jesus Mendoza, told the Herald from Panama yesterday: "There is still a chance the Soliman fight will happen. We have not yet defined what needs to be done." -Rumours have also surfaced that this challenge is a bluff, and in fact Kessler intends to move up in weight to challenge Argentina's Hugo Garay for the WBA light-heavyweight title vacated by retired Australian Danny Green.
