Mandatory Eight Count - Prospects and Legends
by Brickhaus on Jun 7, 2010 8:45 AM EDT
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Pacman-Floyd Jr. bout can still happen | GMA News
According to GMA, Bob Arum and Roger Mayweather are optimistic that the bout between seven-division world champion Manny Pacquiao and unbeaten Floyd Mayweather will happen on November 13 as both camps are silently negotiating on the terms of the fight.
Carl Froch to face Arthur Abraham in Montreal on September 18 | The Daily Mirror
Boxing Former world champion Carl Froch will meet Germany's Arthur Abraham in their huge final round Super Six fight in Montreal on September 18. Not only is Montreal about as good of a neutral boxing location as the two could expect to find, but it also might help set up a future fight between one of them and Lucian Bute or Librado Andrade.
Dmitry Pirog-Daniel Jacobs in Talks For July 31 PPV? | Boxing Scene
Six years after Bernard Hopkins unified all four middleweight titles, all of the titles are now officially separated as Sergio Martinez has been stripped of his WBO middleweight belt. Talks for the vacant title have started between #1 and #2 contenders Dmitry Pirog and Daniel Jacobs, which is a very solid prospect-prospect fight. Both kids have lots of skill, and it could be an interesting style matchup between Jacobs' movement and outside boxing and Pirog's pressure and body punching. The fight would potentially take place on the Marquez-Diaz II undercard.
Green to defend title against Briggs | Sydney Morning Herald
"Legend" Danny Green will be taking on his second past-it Aussie in a row, facing Paul Briggs in the next defense of his fringe cruiserweight title. While this would have been an awesome fight once upon a time, Briggs has been retired for nearly three and a half years now.
HBO miffed about Top Rank's bait and switch | Dan Rafael's ESPN blog
According to Rafael, a promised Gamboa-Caballero / Soto-Peterson double header has morphed into Yuriorkis Gamboa against Orlando Salido or Jorge Solis and Humberto Soto against Brandon Rios. While I'm as big of a Pelenchin booster as anyone, it still looks like a pretty solid card to me. Soto-Rios, on paper, looks like a coming-out party for Rios to me, and Gamboa-Salido would easily be Gamboa's toughest fight to date.
Japanese Scene: Kameda moving to 115, Lee & Miura Successfully Defend Titles | The Boxing Bulletin
Recaps and analysis of this past weekend's Japanese boxing action, featuring wins by Ryol Li Lee and Kaeshita Miura in domestic title bouts. In addition, Sidney Boquiren reports that Koki Kameda will be moving up to super flyweight rather than trying to rematch Pongsaklek Wonjongkam.
Ross: The heartbreak kid | Toronto Sun
Somewhere in a hospital room in Germany, Troy Ross is lying in his bed, undoubtedly wondering what he did to offend the boxing gods. In each of the biggest fights of his career, he's ended up on the wrong side of some questionable refereeing.
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Marquez/Diaz II
As of right now, Golden Boy seems to be trying to put together this PPV broadcast:
Juan Manuel Marquev v Juan Diaz II
Amir Khan v Joel Casamayor
Jorge Linares v Rocky Juarez
Daniel Jacobs v Dimitri Pirog
That is a card that I’d buy in a heartbeat. It is also a card, however, that seems about as likely as a pig turning into a fly fish that shits fireballs and eats only common moths that live in farmer’s beehives for their manufacture of lightbulbs.
Nice card
Shame Casa is a bit on the shot side.
"All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him." - Jack Dempsey
by Drunken cutman on Jun 7, 2010 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Whoa! That 7/31 card, if it actually happens (it won’t), will be sweeeeeeeet. Jacobs-Pirog is a fun one.
Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
Agree and disagree
I’m with you guys on Jacobs-Pirog. Very cool match-up. I like Linares-Juarez as a test for whether Linares is ready again for the big time. It would be his most important fight since his win over Larios three years ago. And even though I’m decidedly underwhelmed by Khan-Casamayor (I think at this point that Katsidis has passed Cassamayor as a fighter), this is basically a stay-busy showcase fight for Kahn so as an undercard bout I’m quite fine with it.
My problem with the card is the main event. I know it was a deserving FOTY last year. But aside from my belief that losing (in reality twice) to Malignaggi shouldn’t earn you a LW title fight, I suspect Diaz is a shot fighter. Assuming JMM is not a shot fighter, I don’t expect this fight to be competitive. Guess we’ll find out.
So with my boxing brain still firmly stuck in the 1980s, I still expect a card I have to pay for to have a better main event. Still, a number of fun fights so what the hell.
by geraldmcgrew on Jun 7, 2010 11:17 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm fine with paying PPV prices
for a well rounded card with good, competitive fights. If this is the card that is made, I expect it to be far more entertaining than a lot of cards I’ve recently shelled out $60 for.
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
I wonder how are they going to promote the fight, do they ask Interbox for help?
"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 wouldn't be surprised
They’ve worked with Sauerland before. Sauerland used to have options on Bute from the Berrio fight, although I believe they worked out some kind of deal where Sauerland never used them (they had been trying to work out a fight with Mads Larsen, but it never happened).
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
And Hennessy has promoted a number of fights in Montreal
And Hennessy’s Sky fights are televised on Canadian Super Channel.
Bad Left Hook - The SB Nation boxing blog
"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
Re: HBO Top Rank card
Either Solis or Salido would be Gamboa’s toughest fight to date, but I wouldn’t exactly call them step-up fights. If Gamboa’s people don’t think he’s ready for Caballero, that’s understandable. At this point I’d really like to see him in with R. Marquez, which I’d think would make some pretty decent coin (would that be nixed by a TR-GB or HBO-Showtime conflict?). If he were to win that, he should stop ducking Caballero. I like Rios-Peterson. For a BAD, it’s a good card.
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