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Wright still considers himself IBF world champ.

The Philadelphia Daily News (Philadelphia, PA)

| November 17, 2004 | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Bernard Fernandez

PHILADELPHIA _ When it comes to HBO's staging of "world championship" fights, the cable giant's programming is not that much different from reruns of its steamy reality series, "G-String Divas." There's more stripping going on in boxing these days than can be found on a typical night at a, uh, gentlemen's cabaret.

Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, it's stripee Winky Wright (47-3, 25 KOs), the WBC and WBA super welterweight champion, in a rematch against Shane Mosley (39-3, 35 KOs), from whom he won those titles via unanimous decision on March 13.

Wright also used to be the IBF 154-pound champion, but he was relieved of that designation for fulfilling the rematch clause in his original …

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