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Consult: Doc, what was your New Year's resolution? Analysis: To remain a loyal boxing fan... Despite everything! Hopkins-Dawson II: Purse bid scheduled for Friday, January 27th... This coming Friday, Bernard Hopkins and his promotional company are going to have to make a choice whether to defend the title against Dawson, not defend it and give Dawson a step aside fee, vacate the title or do nothing and let the WBC strip him of the title. Hopkins wants a high profile big money against IBF super middleweight champion Lucian Butte in 2012 or possibly a unification bout against WBO light heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly. The Butte-Hopkins fight would be the most appealing of the two and it's a very real possibility if Butte doesn't face former WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch next.
Hook to the Body... by Jose Sulaiman
I feel the need today of talking briefly
about me. Every human being, as modest or powerful as he might be, has his
natural reactions of happiness or sadness, of tranquility or depression. The
problems of a dignitary are felt the same as those of lower levels of life.
I have felt them all in boxing, feeling just the same nervousness of a
six-round boxer or a champion when going into the ring. Raton Macias used to
tell me of the feeling in his stomach when walking into the ring until the
time that the bell rang, in fear of not responding to the fans.  The "King" returns for new blood...
With the New Year comes the return of Thompson Boxing Promotions "New Blood" as it re-emerges with the best prospects in the Inland Empire area including welterweight contender Artemio "King" Reyes who makes his way back to Ontario after a spectacular win on national television. The "King" along with a court of pugilists like Aron Martinez, Richard Contreras and Sindy Amador are ready to perform in 2012. The exciting night will take place on Friday, February 24, at the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario as Thompson Boxing returns with its first blockbuster fight card of the year.
Showtime Sports to offer secondary audio program (SAP) in
Spanish for February 11 Victor Ortiz vs Andre Berto II... MSG to re-broadcast Algieri/Jargal clash at 10:00 pm on Wednesday Night... Just days ahead of his upcoming return this Saturday, January 28th at the Paramount Theater in Huntington, Long Island, undefeated junior welterweight Chris Algieri will be featured on the MSG network with a replay of his clash with Bayan Jargal from this past November 19th. The re-broadcast will air on Wednesday, January 25th at 10 p.m. and on Thursday, January 26th at 1 p.m. on MSG +. Additional Comcast networks across the country will also be re-airing the fight this week. In front of a sold out hometown crowd, Algieri looked sensational, skillfully boxing his way to a dominant ten round decision against the heavy handed Jargal as he raised his record to 12-0 with six knockouts. Presented by Joe DeGuardia's Star Boxing, this Saturday night, Algieri will face off against rugged Atlanta, Georgia based veteran Curtis Smith in the main event of the ROCKIN' FIGHTS professional boxing card. "This is a great opportunity for fans who weren't at Chris' terrific win over Bayan Jargal in November to view the fight and catch a glimpse of what they'll see this Saturday night at the Paramount Theater" said DeGuardia. "Chris is a rising star in the sport of boxing and Saturday night kicks off off his 2012 campaign." Advance tickets for ROCKIN' FIGHTS, priced at $35, $50 and $100 can be purchased in advance by calling Star Boxing at (718) 823-2000, or visiting the Star Boxing website, www.StarBoxing.com. Tickets may also be purchased through Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.com) or at The Paramount Box Office, 631 673-7300. The Paramount Theater is located at 370 New York Avenue, Huntington, New York, 11743. For directions and more information, please visit their website at www.paramountny.com
How to make Mayweather vs Pacquiao in 2012: Operation Boycott... by Armando "Old School" Aguilera
While the top two pound for pound prize
fighters in boxing are reluctant to give their loyal fans the fight they
really want, it doesn't mean there aren't tough competitors out there who
can give them a serious challenge. Though this doesn't mean you're going to
get that either! The fight options that make the most financial sense for
either Pacquiao or Mayweather aren't the the ones who will give them a run
for their money. After all, at this stage it's all about low risk, high
rewards or so it seems; perhaps, they can prove us wrong.
The Showtime Friday Night "New Generation"
series pitted defending WBA Super Bantamweight champion Rico Ramos in with
Cuban defector Guillermo Rigondeaux, in what on paper looked like a can't
miss showdown.
So much
for promises - to coin a yesteryear phrase, Ramos from the opening bell
simply could never get off - worse yet, defending champ or not, he wore the
look of an intimidated fighter from the get-go.
Opened with both going the counter punch mode - then late in the stanza Rigondeaux
drops Ramos with a strong straight left hand.
NBC Sports "Fight Night" Debut a smashing hit... by
George Elsasser...
Rosado, Karass opened the show in a style that quickly got the paying clientele and
magic lantern fans attention - as both mixed good technique with readied
willingness to exchange at close quarters.
Mayweather vs. Pacquiao: Stumbling Blocks... by Armando "Old School" Aguilera
Mirrors and smoke is what Mayweather and Pacquiao are all about lately, as every
media report you read about them is a posturing maneuver. Let's
face it, you can't make a fight without actually negotiating all the terms first. There
hasn't been any real sit downs by either camp to try and make this fight a reality. Do you think a fight of this magnitude gets made overnight,
on Twitter nevertheless?
Boxing is a business like any other, and despite what the viewing public demands, this
fight isn't priority yet.
-Photo Credit: D M Warr-
Why build a temporary stadium when
you have UNLV's Sam Boyd Stadium? ... by Armando "Old School" Aguilera
Take a look at this 30-story building which was built in China in just 15 days!
I dedicate today's column to Muhammad Ali, the greatest boxer that my eyes
have seen in and out of the ring, on the occasion of his 70th
birthday, which will be celebrated in a grandiose ceremony and dinner next
month at the MGM which is becoming the cathedral of boxing in the world
today, just as Caesars Palace was last century. I let my mind fly towards those great years of my youth, when I was still a resident in the province of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico, when a young fighter, Cassius Clay, came out to the sport to win an Olympic light heavyweight gold medal in the Rome Olympic Games of 1960, the same medal that he threw into a river when he felt that far from recognition and applause of North American society, he had found discrimination and rejection.
"Juanma" Lopez rematches Orlando "Siri" Salido...
Lopez-Salido
II will take place Saturday, March 10 and will be televised live from San Juan, P.R. on Showtime Championship Boxing,
beginning at 10 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast.) If the rematch is
anything like their first rumble, more than palm trees will be swaying when
these two warriors start throwing.
The Showtime telecast will open with undefeated No. 1 featherweight contender Mikey Garcia (27-0, 23 KOs), from Oxnard,
Calif., risking record and rating as well as his impending world title shot in a 10-round
featherweight battle.
IBF light heavyweight champion Tavoris "Thunder"
Cloud, (23-0, 19 KOs), will defend his title a fourth
time this coming February 18th against former WBA
light heavyweight champion Gabriel "Chico Guapo"
Campillo (21 wins [8 KOs], 3 losses [1 KO], 1 draw),
who hails from Madrid, Spain. The fight will take
place at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi,
Texas.
Showtime will televise this bout which was originally
scheduled to take place between Cloud and Zsolt Erdei, who claims to have
suffered a training injury.
Former IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (26-2, 18
KOs) is probably feeling pretty pleased right
about now with the news today that the World
Boxing Association has decided to order an
immediate rematch between Khan and the current
IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Lamont
Peterson (30-1-1, 15 KOs). The next installment of Hitz Boxing's wildly popular "Fight Night at the Horseshoe" series will be held on Saturday, February 18, 2012, at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana, featuring heavyweight contender "Merciless" Mike Mollo (20-3-1, 12 KOs) of Oak Lawn, Illinois; NABA-US Champion Yakubu "Black Mamba" Amidu (20-2-1, 18 KOs) of Los Angeles via Ghana; the unveiling of newly signed Cleveland-based junior welterweight prospect Prenice "Greatness" Brewer (16-1-1, 6 KOs); and a host of local favorites and warriors who have earned their spots through previous strong performances. While the main and co-main and many of the opponents are yet to be determined, also scheduled to appear are unbeaten heavyweight slugger Dave Latoria (9-0, 5 KOs); popular local super middleweight Mike "Hollywood" Jimenez (5-0, 3 KOs) who will face Bruce "The Rage" Rumbolz (22-23-2, 15 KOs) of Sterling, Illinois; Lafayette, Louisiana, lightweight Chris Singleton (3-0, 2 KOs); the second four-round professional bout of Chesterton, Indiana, heavyweight Philip Triantafillo (1-0, 1 KO); Chicago junior welterweight Genaro Mendez (3-1-1, 2 KOs) will face Omaha's debuting Eric Corona; and the debut of Omaha, Nebraska-based former amateur heavyweight star (and newest member of the Hitz Boxing stable) Brian Houston in a surprisingly stern first test for his first time out against Chicago's Felix Abner (3-2, 2 KOs). "I've been doing shows here for quite some time," said promoter Bobby Hitz, "and I am honored to continue providing the boxing to this beautiful casino. To maintain quality standards at our shows, what we're going to do from now on is feature only fighters who want to fight. We're not going to focus on getting wins for local kids like some other promotions do. In fact, I don't care if you're from the same gym as another guy. If you fight at the Horseshoe, you have to be willing to be in tough, maybe even against another local kid. Let's call it a tournament of sorts to see who the best fighters in the area really are by fighting one another.  Brandon
Gonzales' fight off due to injury; two undefeated
prospects replace him on ShoBox January 20th
edition...
In what was already set to be an exciting showcase of the top young talent, on the Jan. 20 edition of ShoBox: The New Generation, Tom Brown, Goossen Tutor Promotions matchmaker, has added a special 8-round super featherweight attraction between two undefeated prospects Guy Robb and Joel Diaz Jr. after Brandon Gonzales pulled out of his fight against Caleb Truax due to a leg injury. The fight, which will be held at the Pearl at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nev. and broadcast on SHOWTIME at 11 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast), is headlined by a World Championship bout between World Boxing Association (WBA) super bantamweight world champion Rico Ramos (20-0, 11 KOs), who takes on WBA interim champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux (8-0, 6 KOs). The fight will be held at the Pearl at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nev. and broadcast on SHOWTIME at 11 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast). Doors for the event open at 5:30 p.m. with the first bout at 6:00 p.m. and the televised portion of the card beginning at 8:00 p.m. (all times PT). Tickets for the event are priced at $54 and $29 and are available at ticketmaster.com and at the Palms box office.
NBC Sports Network's Fight Night card loses
heavyweight contender Eddie Chambers...
Sports Network announces broadcast talent for inaugural "Fight Night" show on January 21st...
The
NBC Sports Network today announced that
Hall-of-Fame boxing trainer Freddie Roach and
cruiserweight contender B.J. Flores team up
with NBC's veteran broadcaster Kenny Rice to provide commentary for the
network's new NBC Sports Network Fight Night Series.
The first Fight Night
broadcast will be on the new NBC Sports Network on Saturday, January
21st beginning at 9 p.m. ET when heavyweight contenders Eddie Chambers
and Sergei Liakhovich face off live from Philadelphia's historic Asylum
Arena. February 3rd Showtime main event Cote-Herrera postponed indefinitely...
The February 3rd SHOWTIME series "ShoBox: The
New Generation" main event scheduled to take place in Quebec City has been
postponed until further notice due to the unknown illness of Pier-Olivier.
The undefeated IBF 140 pound
Intercontinental champion Pier-Olivier Cote was
given direct orders from his doctor that he
must immediately cease from training for his
February 3 match up against
IBF World #6
rated 140 lbs boxer Mauricio Herrera
in order to receive a battery of tests to
determine his illness. UPDATE: Pier-Olivier Cote is unable to train and the card is officially off. (Announced on 1/12/2012)
Outrageous comment is one more reason Sulaiman
should resign... by Kevin Iole
The overwhelming majority of the problems that
plague the sport can be traced, in one way or
another, to the sanctioning bodies. Directly or
indirectly, boxing's crime families, also known
as the world sanctioning bodies, are
responsible for the proliferation of champions,
the dizzying array of weight classes, one-sided
championship fights, stripping belts, ludicrous
ratings and much, much more.
Manny Pacquiao's camp says there is no economic
sense in setting up a bout with Floyd
Mayweather on May 5 after the unbeaten American
publicly challenged the Filipino champion via
Twitter.
Pacquiao's financial adviser Michael Koncz told
The Associated Press on Thursday that a
45,000-seat boxing arena being built in Las
Vegas won't be finished before the end of May
and staging the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight in a
smaller venue is "foolish from an economic
standpoint."
Manny Pacquiao is no punk... by Elisa
Valverde
Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather stand to go down in boxing history along
with champions like Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, even though they have
never stared each other down in the ring. The mere mention of
Floyd Mayweather to Manny Pacquiao:
Justice of the
Peace Melissa Saragosa has given Floyd
Mayweather, Jr. until June 1st to serve his
jail sentence, thus allowing him to fight on
May 5 as scheduled against an opponent to be
named. A last minute appeal by Mayweather Jr.'s
legal team convinced the Las Vegas judge to
allow Floyd to fulfill "prior commitments and
contracts."
Analysis:
It was...for those who won disputed decisions
and those who avoided going to jail. Chakiev vs Kotlobay... by Per-Ake Persson Fast rising Hamburg-based Russian cruiser Rahkim "The Machine" Chakiev take on Alexander Kotlobay on Universum's show at the Grand Elysee in Hamburg January 28.
Kotlobay is ranked #7 by the WBC and was
a safe bet to beat Enzo Maccarinelli when
they fought for the vacant EBU belt in
2010 but was knocked out in one round.
Alexander has since bounced back and
currently holds the WBC Baltic title.
It's official: WBA regular heavyweight
champ Alexander Povetkin, 23-0, defends
the title February 25 at the Porsche
Arena in Stuttgart against current WBO
cruiser king Marco Huck, 34-1 with
Sauerland Event as promoter... by Per-Ake
Persson
Huck stepped forward during the press
conference after Povetkin had defeated
Cedric Boswell December 3 in Helsinki
and challenged the champion but not
many had expected the fight to happen
so soon.
It's an interesting match-up with two
aggressive hard punching fighters in
the ring and also a clash between
trainers with the American style of
fighting that Povetkin's trainer Teddy
Atlas represents against the European
way that Huck's trainer Ulli Wegner
stands for.
How Huck can handle the power and
strength of a natural heavyweight will
probably determine the outcome of the fight.
Association of Boxing Commissioners Discourages Practice of Open Scoring... by Tim Lueckenhoff, President of the Association of Boxing Commissioners
At a recent sanctioning
organization's annual meeting, it was stated that open scoring would be
used during championship boxing matches held, regardless of the location
of the contest.
The purpose of this writing is to remind our ABC member commissions, that
a committee headed by Jim Erickson (Mille Lacs) studied this issue for an
entire year while gathering information from promoters, contestants,
sanctioning organization and other interested parties. The committee
members included Joe Mason (CO), Pat Pannella (MD) and Bernie Profato
(OH). After the committee's presentation of the information gathered,
open scoring was overwhelmingly rejected by the ABC membership.
The World Boxing Council has enjoyed great success with open scoring throughout the world. The announcement of the judges' official scores after the end of the fourth and eighth rounds has been a great rule which has been used in many countries. This topic will be one of the priorities to be discussed during the WBC Annual Convention, which will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada from December 11-17, as we believe that all of those countries or local boxing commissions that do not accept the use of this rule should thoroughly evaluate its great benefits, which have been proven since its implementation in 2006. Announcing the score after the fourth and eighth rounds gives the fans in the arena, those watching on television, and most importantly the boxers themselves the opportunity to know how they stand in the fight in order to adjust their strategy and efforts.
Andre Ward:
A different kind of Warrior... by Martin Wade
We are
nearing Christmas and most of us are thinking about the people who
are important to us; people we will embrace and hold dear in just a
few short weeks. For those of us who watch the "hard game" we are
exiting a fall and early winter where men who aren't necessarily
pillars of likeability took center stage. An alleged cheater took an
alleged (in his mind) beating at the hands of Miguel Cotto and Vic
Darchinyan just ran into another matador able to shut down his
"Bull." Floyd Mayweather continued to keep his name in the news by
booking a venue and date without consulting anyone from Manny Pacquiao's camp just to keep us more irritated and confused as
ever... thanks Floyd. Across the sports landscape Nndamukong Suh just
shocked us with the worst kept secret in sports; that really large
men who eat quarterbacks might be a bit unhinged. And we don't even
want to go into the Penn State/Syracuse abuse investigations and
what that means for our young.
Amir
Khan on his loss to Peterson...
Amir Khan vs Lamont Peterson, the IBF
won't order rematch!
Khan appeals scoring after loss to Peterson...
Inquiring minds
want to know...
Who is referee
Joe Cooper?
Cotto's Redemption
Song... by Maria Conto
A lot of folks complained of the hypocrisy.
How could Cotto, (let alone Pacquiao), give another payday to a criminal
like Margarito? A man who disrespected the sport of boxing by loading his
gloves with a plaster-like substance -- later identified to be a
combination of calcium (a component of bone) and sulfur (a component
associated with, hmm... Satan?). If not for Nazim Richardson, Margarito
would have brought a weapon into the ring against Shane Mosley. The
intent? To win, of course, but to win at the cost of doing damage,
irrevocable damage, to one's opponent. That's not boxing. That's a street
fight.
A BRC's Head to
Head: Writer Angel Rodriguez meets writer Martin Wade
Carnage in New York... by
Angel Rodriguez
Miguel
Cotto, a Unique Revenge... by Martin Wade
What if Billy Collins had taken a knee after 5 rounds,
recovered and been able to face a Luis Resto who was not
wearing unpadded gloves? All those years ago another Bob
Arum star in the making was victimized by a Puerto Rican
boxer who did not have the talent or cache of Miguel
Cotto. All those years ago in New York's fame Madison
Square Garden Resto shamed himself and precipitated a
downward spiral that led to Collin's untimely death.
Billy Collins was a tough Tennessee based fighter who
knew the punches "felt" different but had too much heart
to stop trying. UFC fighters tap out every other
Saturday, but boxers are bound (and burdened) with an
expectation that borders on the morbid.
Check the date... No, it isn't Groundhog Day, it's another sex
scandal involving Oscar De La Hoya that registers high even by TMZ standards. His recent disclosure of serious substance and
alcohol abuse following the Mayweather-Ortiz debacle was
merely the tip of the iceberg; as with all celebrity
debauchery there's always "more." Boxing in the words of many
is a vocation of desperation; there are few men of Ivy League
potential and "options" so we, lovers of the noble art, have
no naive notions about "how" fighters party when the gloves
are cut off. Boxing is notable for hard men, many of them
louts and hard to be around - especially at the height of
their notoriety and wealth - and yet none of them are
fortunate. Nobody in Boxing has been more "fortunate" than
Oscar De La Hoya, so maybe the degree of his "issues" are
subjective in a way, when many fighters beg and scrape for a
payday he's never had to give it any real thought.
Make no mistake, we are under occupation and it isn't going to end
anytime in the near future. Projections for this recession are
dimly predicting hard times lasting into the year 2015, about the
same time we'll finally see Mayweather vs. Pacquiao. Every city in
the nation as well as in Europe is crawling with protestors and
the growing reality that the "game" (prosperity) is and always has
been rigged. Whether you think it is because of Wall Street, the
Rothschild Federal Reserve dynasty or the Real Estate bubble,
average people are in crisis and "above average" people have every
intent (and incentive) for keeping us there. As consumers of a
sport that may never be important enough for Federal intervention
we are more vulnerable than we ever were, and there seems no
recourse short of occupying Las Vegas.
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