The St. Petersburg world champion isn't sure what fights are next for him.
By JOHN C. COTEY
Published May 16, 2004
LAS VEGAS - In boxing, nothing is ever as it seems, and promises are made to be broken.
After his dramatic victory vs. Shane Mosley in March, St. Petersburg's Winky Wright hammed it up in the postfight news conference with the unretiring Felix Trinidad. Don King boasted that Wright would make millions fighting Trinidad, and talked as if plans were being sketched in his head.
King, however, took the stage at a news conference Saturday and proclaimed Trinidad and Roy Jones Jr. would meet if both won their upcoming fights.
King's big surprise came as a shock to Wright.
"We want to fight Trinidad (after a mandated rematch with Mosley)," Wright said Saturday before learning of King's announcement.
Surprised, Wright said: "I'm going to have find out what's going on. I know I'm fighting Mosley again, and after that. ... I guess I don't know."
King also talked Saturday about potential Trinidad fights involving Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins as he held court in a banquet room beneath Mandalay Bay Hotel-Casino.
That would appear to eliminate the undisputed junior middleweight champion from a mix King still swears Wright is in the middle of.
"What about Winky Wright?" he was asked.
"Winky will be all right," King said.
After unifying the junior middleweight titles with his win against Mosley, Wright went on a monthlong spree of questionable decisions. His former promoter, Jones' Square Ring Inc., said he reneged on an oral agreement to stay with it two more years. Wright then signed with Lou DiBella, and had to wiggle out of that contract when he signed with King a few days later.
Wright said he eventually settled on King for one reason - that was his best bet to get to Trinidad.
