OK, this is starting to get ridiculous:
Vitali Klitschko pulling out of a fight due to injury should come as a surprise to absolutely no one. This is, in fact, the fifth straight fight date that he's pulled out of due to injury.
It's pretty weird that three major fights in September have all bitten the dust (though Vargas-Mayorga, at least, has a new date). But fortunately, none of the three, at least to my mind, count as really "big" fights. Vargas-Mayorga was really just an elevated club fight. Should have been a fun slugfest, but it's not a significant fight for the sport. Marquez-Juarez never really had a reason for existing, especially on PPV. Though I will say it's a shame that the remainder of the card was also cancelled. A twinbill of Mora-Ouma and Forbes-Bojado would make an excellent "Boxing After Dark." But I guess HBO didn't have the budget? I don't know.
Finally, as for V. Klitschko v. McCline, frankly, the sooner boxing is rid of Vitali Klitschko the better. The fact that he's pulled outof yet another fight makes the idea that he was calling out Lennox Lewis earlier this year all that much more of a joke.
Bottom line, it's always a buzzkill when fights get cancelled, much less three in one month. But none these cancellations are any great loss.
Well, I should probably knock on wood when I say this, but the really big fights of the fall remain intact. Taylor-Pavlik, Cotto-Mosely, Calzaghe-Kessler, Pacquiao-Barrera, Diaz-Diaz and of course, Mayweather-Hatton. That's six huge, exciting and extremely significant fights in three months. (Plus the rescheduled Vargas-Mayorga.) Three of them match undefeated champion against undefeated champion. Hopefully all six with come off as planned.
EDIT: I forgot to mention: Holyfield-Ibragimov (a significant fight perhaps in spite of itself), Peter-Maskaev, which with Vitali Klitschko out of the way could set up a heavyweight unification with Wlad Klitschko, Byrd-Povetkin (no TV outlet in the U.S. so far, but as the start of the IBF heavyweight box-of has to be considered an important matchup) and Cintron-Clottey, a very intriguing welterweight title bout that should be quite a slugfest. And that's all still between Sept. 29 and Dec. 8. Ten great fights in barely more than two months. That's why I'm not too distressed about losing any of the three fights that fell by the wayside in September.