IBF Action - Bika-Brinkley, Sylvester-Karmazin and Andrade-Lucas
by Brickhaus on Mar 17, 2010 10:52 AM EDT
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Montreal promoter Interbox won a purse bid for a title eliminator between Sakio Bika and Jesse Brinkley. Brinkley recently defeated Curtis Stevens to win the #2 position in the IBF's super middleweight rankings. Bika has kept a relatively low profile since obliterating Peter Manfredo, waiting for a big fight that never came. He had been scheduled to face Allan Green for the right to fight in the Super Six, but he pulled out for unspecified reasons. The winner will be the mandatory to fight Lucian Bute.
Interbox has also arranged another fight, likely to be on the same card, with IBF super middleweight implications. Librado Andrade will fight former titlist Eric Lucas, who has recently started a comeback. This could be an exciting fight between two relatively crude fighters who have been able to make the most of their careers by having a ton of heart. In addition, it has the side effect of getting Andrade back in front of the Montreal crowds, where he has started to develop a good fan base, against one of Montreal's favorite boxing sons. It seems relatively likely that this is a set up for a match up between Andrade and Adrian Diaconu somewhere down the line.
Elsewhere, Russian promoter Bash Boxing surprisingly won the purse bid for the title fight between Roman Karmazin and IBF middleweight titlist Sebastian Sylvester, meaning that bout will take place in Russia. The fight will likely be in St. Petersburg on June 5. Karmazin knocked out Dionisio Miranda in a fight where it looked like he had run out of gas to earn the title shot. This will be Sylvester's first fight outside of Germany.
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Bika TKO-4
Karmazin UD
Andrade TKO-9
Some people are acting like Pacquiao should be expected to have just gone, "Yeah sure, let’s do something I’ve never done before because your dad made some dumbass baseless comment."
(SC, 28/12/09; http://www.badlefthook.com/2009/12/27/1221143/mayweather-pacquiao-update-bob#comments)
I think Karmazin might have his hands full with Sylvester
For him to have a chance, he’ll need to improve his output again and keep the much shorter Sylvester at the end of his jab. I thought he looked poorly conditioned and pretty close to being shot in his last fight.
I’d be surprised if Andrade-Lucas lasts that long.
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
Hope so
Next week is STACKED. There are a few really good fights going on that as far as I know aren’t even being televised anywhere (like Anselmo Moreno vs. Nehomar Cermeno).
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
Meh
Just saw that the FNF card (Spinks-Bundrage and Cunningham-Brathwaite) was canceled. That puts a damper on things.
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
Not sure who to root for in the Karmazin-Sylvester. On one hand, if Sylvester wins, he’ll probably keep the belt hijacked in Germany going forward, whereas if Karmazin wins, I could see him going after the Pavlik/Martinez winner, and it would nice to have three titles unified. On the other hand, it would be painful to see Karmazin get beat down by Pavlik or Martinez. He could get seriously hurt.
Made in Hell would get smashed around like a truck by either guy. I really loved Roman’s gutsy old-fart performance against the green Miranda, but I thought it should have been his farewell kiss. He is pushing his luck now.
"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
Hey, you're back!!
Some people are acting like Pacquiao should be expected to have just gone, "Yeah sure, let’s do something I’ve never done before because your dad made some dumbass baseless comment."
(SC, 28/12/09; http://www.badlefthook.com/2009/12/27/1221143/mayweather-pacquiao-update-bob#comments)
Don King bullshit
Official story: there was a contract dispute between ESPN and Don King
Unofficial story: Don King never actually booked the venue where the fights were supposed to be held, and then when he had to book it somewhere that wouldn’t kick in extra money, he tried to extort ESPN into paying more money. Like a week and a half before the card was supposed to air. Or at least that’s the gist of what I’ve heard.
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
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