Mandatory Eight Count - Getting it Made
by Brickhaus on Dec 21, 2010 7:28 AM EST
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Former three-division world champion Shane Mosley said Monday his adviser has a Tuesday meeting scheduled with Manny Pacquiao's promoter to "go over the particulars and maybe sign" a contract for a May 7 Pacquiao-Mosley fight at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. This past weekend, Pacquiao had been expected to announce his next opponent, and while that announcement has been delayed, at this point it seems like a Pacquiao-Mosley fight is just a formality.
Klitschko in ‘no rush’ to face Adamek | TheNews.pl
There is a possibility that Wladimir Klitschko's next opponent may be Tomasz Adamek, although Klitschko's doctors have told him to be in no rush to heal his injury. While early speculation on his next opponent kept pointing to David Haye, a lot more of the recent speculation has pointed towards Adamek. Adamek's next fight, against an opponent to be named, has tentatively been scheduled for April 16 in Katowice, Poland, about 30 miles away from Adamek's hometown of Zywiec.
Bute to defend IBF title against Magee | Montreal Gazette
You may have picked this up in passing during Showtime's Hopkins-Pascal broadcast, but Lucian Bute's next title defense will come against European champ Brian Magee. The fight will be a couple days after St. Patrick's Day, in Montreal. On the undercard, Steve Molitor will rematch his mandatory Takalani Ndlovu, and Renan St. Juste and Edison Miranda will face each other in a match of sluggers. This article notes that Interbox did indeed try to get Robert Stieglitz and Dmitri Sartison, probably the best fighters available, for this bout, but that they declined. Whether Interbox's offers of $500,000 and $400,000, respectively, are fair is up for you to decide.
Ricardo Mayorga Could Challenge Miguel Cotto | Boxing FanHouse
Miguel Cotto's next fight, to take place on March 12, is starting to take shape. The possible candidates for the fight are Pawel Wolak (who still seems to have the inside track), Vanes Martirosyan and Ricardo Mayorga. Rigoberto Alvarez and Cornelius Bundrage, who were previously mentioned, no longer appear to be possibilities. Mayorga got his first win in three years last weekend, while fighting at middleweight, although Mayorga in any prominent fight at least means you get some very entertaining trash talk. The fight would be on Top Rank PPV, possibly competing against Sergio Martinez's next fight, which Bob Arum has said could become "an issue" between Top Rank and HBO.
Acosta-Rios, DeMarco-Sanchez Doubleheader in The Works | Boxing Scene
So for all the bluster about Brandon Rios getting to face the Soto-Antillon winner, it looks like Top Rank will actually have Rios face Miguel Acosta, for whom Soto is the mandatory challenger. Maybe the timing just didn't work, but usually when something like this happens, it means Top Rank's matchmaker Bruce Trampler saw something in one of the fighters he didn't like for that matchup. On the undercard, Antonio DeMarco would face Reyes Sanchez in what would also be a title eliminator. The card would air on Showtime on February 26.
Cunningham, Sylvester to defend titles | Sauerland Event
Steve Cunningham had a busy weekend. First, his third child was born, and then a couple days later his next title defense was announced. He'll face Enad Licina, who recently beat Felix Cora to become the mandatory challenger. On the same card, Sebastian Sylvester will face Mehdi Bouadia, as Sauerland tries to milk the mediocre Sylvester for as long as possible before he needs to face his mandatory challenger Daniel Geale.
Jean Pascal-Bernard Hopkins rematch will have to wait because of contract obligations | ESPN
No surprises here, but an immediate rematch between Jean Pascal and Bernard Hopkins, who fought to a disputed draw this weekend, will have to wait. As was reported all along, Chad Dawson has a rematch clause with Pascal, and at this point everyone as agreed that Pascal's next fight will be the Dawson rematch. No word on the where and when of the bout.
Will Smith and Mark Wahlberg offered $1 million each to fight each other | Mail Online
Okay, so it will never happen in a million years, but it is sort of entertaining to think of the actor from Ali actually boxing the actor from The Fighter.
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1. Glad it’s Bute-Magee. Just about the best fight that Bute can make right now, and though he’s an overwhelming favorite, Magee has earned it as much as anyone else available has.
2. Fuck it, I’ll take Cotto-Mayorga.
3. Hope everyone’s ready for Dawson to beat Pascal and then for Dawson-Hopkins to drag out in half-assed negotiations for the rest of 2011.
4. Will Smith blows his nose into million dollar bills.
Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
Is there such a thing--
million dollar bills??
Anyway, he loses to the movie Micky Ward.
And it would be a little fitting if Manny lost to Shane.
by Don From Prov on Dec 21, 2010 6:22 PM EST up reply actions
I say, if Pac wants to fight a senior citizen, fight Bernard Hopkins! At least he will be live! (Oh, if only…) God, I hate the idea of Pac/Mosley.
Fire Steve Addazio
I will not buy any PPV promoted by Bob Arum.
huh?
I don't take personal insults well. My wires are such so that when it happens, i'm not going to put on head gear, lace up the gloves and put in the mouthpiece. I'm going to drop the gloves and just let the adrenaline take off.
I anxiously await Will Smith and Marky Mark’s induction into the HOF…
Matador versus Cotto is sort of a sham, but mostly because Matador is a tough guy to actually get into a ring these days. He is more of a “rumored opponent” like Zab Judah.
"My God, kids today think that the laces are for tying up the gloves."
-- Fritzie Zivic
I'm just saying
I don’t think Pacquiao-Mosley would be as bad as everyone thinks. If you look back at the year Mosley had he probably isn’t AS over the hill as everyone thinks. Coming off his domination of Margarito in ’09 Mosley was next slated to fight Berto in January and was well into his training camp when that fight was canceled. Then, he went into training camp for his May fight against Mayweather. Then, he finished the year with yet another training camp for his September fight against Mora. The three training camps in less then a year has to be taken into account and I think Mosley has as good a shot as the man who he destroyed did against Pacquiao.
Great, so Mosley has almost no shot, just like Margarito. I didn’t like Pacquiao-Margarito, either.
Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
by Scott Christ on Dec 21, 2010 9:03 PM EST up reply actions
Who knows?
But if you take that attitude – that no one has a shot, so we’ll just fight the guy who makes most economic sense at the time – then you wind up losing a lot of respect and a lot of fans.
Such were the days, still, hot, heavy, disappearing one by one into the past, as if falling into an abyss for ever open in the wake of the ship; and the ship, lonely under a wisp of smoke, held on her steadwast way black and smouldering in a luminous immensity, as if scorched by a flame flicked at her from a heaven without pity.
by Oli Goldstein on Dec 22, 2010 5:03 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
I doubt it. Not after his historic ascent and unprecedented run.
He could have said I want an easy fight to chill for a bit and catch my breath…and any reasonable fight fan would have granted him the privilege.
After all, who has fought up like Pacquiao in successive battles and performed from round one though to their respective ends. Who else has genuine obligations to an endeavor as meaningful as serving a political constituency. Who else can justify fighting every six months…because of a seperate agenda as big as boxing.
The fact is no matter who Manny chose to fight, someone would bitch. If he fought Juanma, Many would point correctly to JM’s lame performance at welter against Floyd. If he fought Berto, so what. If he fought Williams, Williams loss to Martinez would be used to diminish the result.
There really aren’t that many options. Not good ones at least.
I don’t love this fight….but I think he beats any contender at welter except maybe Floyd. The problem is there really aren’t any.
Why should he take an ‘easy’ fight though? Why should any fighter take an ‘easy’ fight? Let’s be straight, here. Every guy Manny has fought since JMM has turned into an ‘easy’ fight. Just because they looked good on paper – and Clottey and Margarito didn’t even look good on paper, as we all knew – doesn’t mean they were hard fights.
Manny’s a great man, but people aren’t ‘bitching’ about this fight. This fight is absolute horse shit. There is absolutely no defense for it. Shane Mosley is 0-1-1 in his last two, and hasn’t looked good since Jan ‘09. By the time this fight comes around, that will have been 30 months ago. 30 MONTHS! You can’t paper over the cracks with your rhetoric. This fight stinks.
Such were the days, still, hot, heavy, disappearing one by one into the past, as if falling into an abyss for ever open in the wake of the ship; and the ship, lonely under a wisp of smoke, held on her steadwast way black and smouldering in a luminous immensity, as if scorched by a flame flicked at her from a heaven without pity.
by Oli Goldstein on Dec 22, 2010 5:44 AM EST via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
hand to God, I'd rather see Pacquiao-Cotto II than Pacquiao-Mosley
Mosley’s a cooked goose. I love Manny, I just think this fight stinks.
Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
by Scott Christ on Dec 22, 2010 10:47 AM EST up reply actions
I've said this before, so
I’m sorry (not really) but more fights and fights that didn’t have to be “events” would go a long way.
Everyone complains about boxing becoming too much of a business but then we argue about which one fight makes the most sense: About six or seven fights on HBO (not PPV—or very reduced PPV) earning him a few million each, puts him out there on a regular basis and against opponents with differing styles and is much more interesting than widely scattered “events.” Since few think that anybody but Floyd (or someone who is too big) will beat Manny anyway, a version of “Bum (I know, I hate the term) of the month” could be compelling, and due to shortened time between fights, doesn’t leave us much room to complain about any one opponent—another would be coming up. Plus, Manny would have one or two “lapses” and there very well might be moments of actual tension.
by Don From Prov on Dec 23, 2010 5:53 PM EST up reply actions
I like the idea
but who would you have in there? If you had to pick, say, six opponents for a chain of fights to last 9 months? (six weeks between fights?)
Most fight fans would not spend a dime to watch Van Gogh paint 'Sunflowers', but they would fill Yankee Stadium to see him cut off his ear. (Bill Nack)
Brian Magee.
Decent bloke and all that, but he was absolutely hammered by Frochy a couple of years back. I kind of feel he’s not quite top drawer. Not seen much of Bute, but from what I read on here, Brian has a hard night ahead if him.
Magee doesn't have the world's greatest beard by any stretch
But I think it’s hyperbole to say he was absolutely hammered by Froch. They fought even for about half the fight (Magee won four rounds on the cards), and Froch eventually knocked him out. He was also knocked down by Robin Reid four times in a fight where Magee won nearly every minute of every round except for the times he got knocked down. He’s not a bad fighter. But he’ll get knocked out. He’s not really world level in my opinion, but neither was Brinkley, and both are/were top 15 SMWs. It just speaks to the complete lack of depth in the division after the top 12 or so.
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Bute
needs some fights against top competition.
Pascal-Hopkins
Sounds like Showtime and HBO can lowball the Dawson rematch to get Pascal out of it. They’re smart enough to buy the Hopkins rematch instead. Hopefully HBO doesnt take the Dawson fight just to keep Pascal-BHop off Showtime.
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