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TV and Internet Fight Schedule - Weekend of May 29

Valuev has the Axe effect.  Too bad it doesn't carry over into the ring.  Photo by Oleg Zotov.

Valuev has the Axe effect. Too bad it doesn't carry over into the ring. Photo by Oleg Zotov.

After a weekend where there were no televised title fights in the US, followed by a week where there were three major foreign fights during the middle of the week (Anthony Mundine beat Daniel Geale, and Daisuke Naito and Denkaosan Kaovichit both successfully defended titles), we get another light week where there's only one card that's officially televised in the US.

Friday, May 29

Sky Sports, Superchannel, 4:00 p.m. Eastern, Darren Sutherland vs. the almighty TBA, Gary Sykes vs. Anthony Crolla, and, somehow fighting for a BBoC title, 12-13 Chris Edwards vs. 5-1 Usmain Ahmed.

Saturday, May 30

ARD.de and Setanta UK, 4:00 p.m. Eastern, Ruslan Chagaev vs. Nicolai Valuev, Leonard Bundu vs. Frank Shabani, Giuseppe Lauri vs. Juho Toppola.  Lamon Brewster and Kali Meehan also have stay-busy fights, but I doubt they'll be televised.  Note to the programmers at Setanta - I might actually subscribe if you ever showed the boxing on Setanta US.  Instead, we get a rerun of a soccer game. (Card cancelled)

HBO, 9:45 pm Eastern, Andre Berto vs. Juan Urango; Alfredo Angulo vs. Kermit Cintron.  BLH will be providing round by round coverage.

In Spain, Luis Garcia, one of Gary Hyde's Cubans, was all set to take on 17-2 Gabriel Campillo, the current EU middleweight champion; however, Garcia's nerves seem to have gotten the best of him, and he backed out of the fight.  It was a ballsy move by Hyde to try putting him with a top-level competitor that quickly, but it's unfortunate that Garcia pulled out.  I've heard raves about Garcia, who's more of a come-forward banger than many of his Cuban compatriots.

Silence Mabuza takes on Yohnny Perez in a rescheduled IBF eliminator. Mabuza's fights with Rafael Marquez were great, and it would be nice to see him fight in the US again eventually.

Near the top of the list of titlists who will never ever make it onto US TV, Oleydong Sithsamerchai takes on Muhammad Rachman in Thailand Friday morning.  Once again, if you can find a way to stream Thai Channel 7, it will be on there.

Yusef Mack also takes on illegitimate title challenger DeAndrey Abron on the untelevised Berto-Urango undercard.  Mean Joe Greene and Tor Hamer will also be fighting.

And if these offerings don't titilate you, there's always Wargods 5.

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Chris Edwards vs Usmain Ahmed.

Should be a cracking atmosphere at Fenton Hall. Stoke Sports fans are loud and nuts. The football fans were voted loudest in the premier league. Ahmed is a safe opponent for Chris, and besides Chris has already beaten him.

Also making his debut is Paul Lowe. Lowe is 4ft 8". I think that makes him todays worlds smallest boxer? Jake Matlada was 4ft 10" , he being the shortest i can remember at the moment. Does anybody know anyone smaller?

"..so try and listen hard before you fall in the trap, of making war, over a baseball cap" - Faithless

by dinkman on May 28, 2009 10:15 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

How big was/is Ian Napa?

I can’t be assed to check, but I know he isn’t a very big man at all

Boxing is the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight. (Omar Epps)

by Chaos100 on May 29, 2009 6:33 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

5FT 1"

"..so try and listen hard before you fall in the trap, of making war, over a baseball cap" - Faithless

by dinkman on May 29, 2009 6:48 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Re: Chris Edwards

we don’t exactly churn out many flyweights over here. British titles for the two lowest weight classes don’t even exist, and the flyweight one is hardly the most prestigious in the world. Plus, Edwards is better than his record suggests

by thirdslip on May 28, 2009 2:34 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Darren Sutherland is fighting

Vepkhia Tchilaia (9-9). He’s the guy who took Degale the distance. Of course Degale beat Sutherland in the Olympics, so he is going to want to stop Tchilaia and get one up on him.

by Duan on May 28, 2009 4:42 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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