Saturday Night Notes: Showtime picks up Abraham-Oral
by Scott Christ on Jun 6, 2009 11:29 PM EDT
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June 27 just became a busier night for American boxing fans as far as televised fights go, as Showtime just moments ago ran a graphic saying they'd picked up the IBF middleweight title fight between Arthur Abraham and Mahir Oral in Berlin. This makes for three cards available for fight fans that night: Abraham-Oral on Showtime, HBO Boxing After Dark with Ortiz-Maidana and John-Juarez II, and the Top Rank PPV headlined by Juan Manuel Lopez.
- David Tua has changed his nickname again: "The Tuaminator." It sounds clumsy and is absolutely non-news considering Tua is irrelevant, but he has his long-delayed grudge match with fellow New Zealander Shane Cameron approaching, and I thought it'd be nice to mention it.
- Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko are going to talk to their mom and see if it'd be OK for them to fight. Good quote: "Of course she would not be happy and if we did fight I would be very worried about the health of my brother because it would be very bloody and very bad. We are very competitive and it would be for real. There would be no fix."
- Update (11:48 PM ET): Andrei Arlovski, whose pro boxing debut was supposed to be in a few weeks, was just knocked out in mere seconds by Brett Rogers at Strike Force. Going into pro boxing is probably a horrible idea for him, but at the same time he's losing his name in MMA pretty rapidly right now.
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"That's one gay lion"
http://www.hulu.com/watch/69626/30-rock-the-ones?c=1211
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
The Klitschkos aren’t going to fight each other… this isn’t like some Venus-Serena Williams sister thing, where the worst that could happen is a double-fault. I understand why they’d think talking about it makes good press, but its obviously never going to happen. Maybe they were just hoping to inspire a few writers to predict a winner, and get some extra ink that way.
“Tuaminator,” is a bad nick. How about just “Tua-nator?” Still bad, but pronounceable.
"This fight'll be the nastiest thing you'll ever see. I been sober for six weeks, and that makes me vicious."
-- Randall 'Tex' Cobb
Update (11:48 PM ET): Andrei Arlovski, whose pro boxing debut was supposed to be in a few weeks, was just knocked out in mere seconds by Brett Rogers at Strike Force. Going into pro boxing is probably a horrible idea for him, but at the same time he’s losing his name in MMA pretty rapidly right now.
yea debut is definitely on hold. glass chin is one thing but he goes straight back with it straight up in the air waiting to be hit. lol. not to mention no bending of his waist, no ducking or slipping punches, etc. that 22 seconds was a what not do exhibition. he would get slaughtered by any top 30 heavyweight.
as for the boxing on june 27th, i’ll be watching abraham for sure over the rest. probably catch one of the 200 hbo replays (probably with the volume off, i dont think i can stand listening to the circle jerk that is going to happen when the ortiz fight is going on) and have a screen up with the illegal feed going for the ppv. fun times.
as for tua-noworlaters, he needs to get his shit together before its too late. he is still a guy who can make noise in the sorry ass heavyweight division. one of his left hooks would send wlad to dreamland for sure. thing is i dont think anyone is going to take a fight with him.
yeah that was bullshit
I got my Dad to watch that fight only because I was able to sell it as ‘Roach trains him’. What happened happens and my Dad’s like ’that’s it? this sucks, see ya’. Great intro to MMA.
So they pick up Abraham-Oral
but no word on Klitschko-Chagaev?
FWIW, Oral isn’t necessarily any better than Abraham’s other recent opponents. He’s kind of like Elvin Ayala all over again.
I’m not sure what this does for Showtime, unless you believe in a trickle-down effect. I guess it establishes Showtime as the network of Arthur Abraham, but if Abraham-Pavlik ever happens, it will be on HBO anyway. I guess if HBO spends big money on Pavlik-Abraham, it means they have less money for some other big fight that Showtime might get to air? Or maybe they’re hoping he moves to 168 soon? It just doesn’t make a ton of sense to me.
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
i think that tat is badass. If you’re going to get a tat where everyone will see it, that’s about as cool as I can think of.
He doesn’t have a KO ratio that would garner respect from world class middleweights but I am sure the avg guy wouldn’t want to mess with a boxer who has a tattoo of a tiger on his fist.
"Boxing is dirty," said Casamayor. " The day I’m not ready to be a dirty fighter is the day I don’t fight anymore because it will mean that I have no heart for it anymore."
I don't think it's a tattoo
I think it’s painted on. I’ve seen a bunch of other pictures of him with his gloves off and no such tattoo, and I wouldn’t think that a pro boxer well into his career would be willing to take the risk that someone pinches a nerve or something when giving him a tattoo on his hand (not to mention the weeks of training he’d need to take off after getting a tattoo there).
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
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