Peter Quillin to fight on September 8 in Las Vegas, NV

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By Allan Fox: Former middleweight world champion Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin (32-1-1, 23 KOs) will be returning to the ring next month on September 8 in a 10 round scheduled fight against an opponent still to be determined at 170 pound maximum limit at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

For Quillin’s sake, his management needs to be careful in the opponent they put in with him. He’s been out of the ring for so long in the last 3 years. He’s missed a considerable amount of time with 2 separate long periods of inactivity. You have to wonder whether Quillin still likes to fight.

Quillin has decided to fight in the super middleweight division. It’s a logical move for the 5’11” Quillin, considering that 22 of his 34 fights during his career have taken place at super middleweight. He might as well move up to 168. You can say the same thing about Danny Jacobs, the last guy Quillin. He should think about moving up too.

The 34-year-old Quillin hasn’t fought in close 2 years since his 1st round knockout loss at the hands of Daniel Jacobs on December 5, 2015. That was 21 months ago. Quillin has been out of action, watching the middleweight division being ruled by Gennady “GGG” Golovkin with an iron fist. Quillin’s conqueror Jacobs tried and failed to beat Golovkin.

Quillin has looked kind of soft around the middle in his time out of the ring. With the weight at 170 for his September 8 fight, hopefully Quillin won’t wined up draining himself trying to make that weight. It might be disastrous for Quillin’s boxing career if he gets knocked out by the tune-up opponent that is brought in for him to fight. You don’t know what you’re going to get from Quillin after 2 years out of the ring.

It obviously wasn’t a smart move on Quillin’s part to stay out of the ring for the last 2 years. Quillin had already previously taken 1 year off from the ring after his win over Lucas Konecny on April 19, 2014. Quillin was the WBO World middleweight champion at the time. The World Boxing Organization ordered Quillin to face #1 WBO mandatory challenger Matt Korobov. Instead, Quillin vacated his WBO 160-lb. title and stayed out of the ring for 12 months.