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by Brickhaus on Oct 25, 2009 3:47 AM EDT in News Comment 7 comments

Santos would like to knock out Kermit Cintron for the honor of Puerto Rico, if they can both win their fights.

Interview with Manny Pacquiao | New York Times

A short interview, not necessarily with too much new information, but it goes into his origins as a boxer and his early life of poverty.

Chris John Hospitalized with Dengue Fever | Jakarta Post

This pretty much forecloses the possibility of another title defense this year. Here's to hoping for a full recovery. This shouldn't be lethal, but Dengue can cause some major repercussions.

Oliver McCall wins close decision over Lance Whitaker | Boxing Scene

If this isn't a sign that the 43-year old McCall is close to the end of the line, I don't know what is. The Atomic Bull did manage to knock down Mount Whitaker, but otherwise looked sluggish. The knockdown ended up being the difference in the fight.

Daniel Santos calls out Kermit Cintron at press conference | Youtube

During Kermit Cintron's pre-fight presser for tonight's pay per view, Daniel Santos confronted Cintron and called him some less than nice things. Almost as amusing was Lou DiBella's reaction, with him screaming at Santos' manager to "get the guy with the hair." Assuming Cintron isn't Paul Williams' next opponent and Santos doesn't lose to Yuri Foreman, this fight makes too much sense not to happen.

Documentary "Muhammad and Larry" to air on ESPN on Tuesday | ESPN

As part of the "30 for 30" documentary film project, this film about the Muhammad Ali - Larry Holmes fight will be airing. Portions of the documentary were originally produced back in 1980, but this one is nearly twice as long and includes a lot more background about the fighters and what came forth from the fight. A preview is available here.

Khan-Salita is a Question of Faith | The Independent

More, uh, hype (?) about how this fight isn't actually about a Muslin versus a Jew, yet that's pretty much the only thing anyone will say about the fight when they bring it up.

Australian Medical Association recommends banning boxing | The Examiner

It doesn't look like this is picking up much traction, but it seems to becoming something trendy. At least one doctor thinks it's a crock as well.

Other Saturday results | Boxrec

Tomas Rojas defended his interim title with a decision over formerly undefeated Evans Mbamba. He reportedly made it through without injury, so hopefully he'll be able to keep his date with Vic Darchinyan in a month.
Kermit Cintron dominated Juliano Ramos, who's corner stopped the fight to start the fifth. After the fight, Lou DiBella said his next fight would be against whoever brings him the most money. Considering this was a one-sided beatdown (and a boring one at that, with few punches thrown Cintron's way), it would still make sense for him to be Paul Williams' next opponent.
Franz Botha won a majority decision over late replacement Pedro Carrion, in a decision widely reported as a robbery. Botha appears to be a shell of his former self.
Johnathan Oquendo TKO2 Juan Beltran. Konstantin Airich UD8 CIsse Salif. Ondrej Pala UD8 Alex Mazikin. Dmitry Ganiev KO1 Fahsan 3K Battery. Hassan N'Dam N'jikam UD10 Jeferson Luis Goncalo.

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Santos-Cintron

1. My high school Spanish isn’t too great but I think I heard the word “llorar” in there.
2. That was the first time I’ve ever Cintron speak Spanish.
3. That was Carlos Quintana just hanging out in the back of the room, wasn’t it?

by taco pal on Oct 24, 2009 10:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I don't remember enough Spanish to do a good translation

But somewhere in there he called Cintron a crybaby and a bitch and said he wanted to break his teeth in.

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by Brickhaus on Oct 24, 2009 11:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

There’s a lot of street Puerto Rican slang in there but on numerous occasions he [Sanstos] says he’d be ashame to fight a crying “girlie” but if the money is right he’d fight em.

At least he’s finally making a bit of a noise with that after a decade without fighting. Anyone else saw dollar signs on the eyes of the PR Best Boxing Promoter behind the podium?

"Penelosa is not human." -Max Kellerman on Gerry Penelosa during the Juan Manuel Lopes-Gerry Penelosa bout.

by Sickle on Oct 25, 2009 11:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Speaking of Manny Pacquiao

He’s going to be on Jimmy Kimmel on Nov. 4th. His first time on a major American show. I’m a Conan fan, but I’ve always liked Kimmel’s segments with Matt Damon.

by Johpin on Oct 25, 2009 3:25 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

The Independent is a high-brow newspaper and its interesting that they report how important it is to avoid this being a Jew vs Muslim affair but regardless of this they are still reporting on the Jew vs Muslim situation and not any number of more interesting and important fights.

You are very right that this is all anyone is saying about the fight.

by Drunken cutman on Oct 25, 2009 5:23 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

More, uh, hype (?) about how this fight isn’t actually about a Muslin versus a Jew, yet that’s pretty much the only thing anyone will say about the fight when they bring it up.

I’ll try a different approach off the top of my head. Salita is pretty dull and worse than the guy Khan just dominated for 12, though with mostly the same skill set. Umm…Khan should win easily so this fight really doesn’t even need to be happening. Ummmmm…hand-picked opponent.

…JEW AND MUSLIM JEW AND MUSLIM WE HAVE TO SELL THIS FIGHT SOMEHOW

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by SC on Oct 25, 2009 11:16 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs