marlon b. wright Stories - Bad Left Hook
Poll: Worst referees
With no major fights this weekend, it's been a slow news week, so this is more of a discussion piece than anything. Stemming from the conversation in the last Mandatory Eight Count thread, who do you think is the worst referee out there? Here are a few nominees - this is far from being a...
Zuniga threatening to pull out if Wright refs Bute bout
Promoters for super middleweight contender Fulgencio Zuniga are threatening to back out of their Friday night bout with 168-pound titlist Lucian Bute if Montreal's Marlon B. Wright referees the contest. From the Montreal Gazette: “If it’s Marlon Wright, it could be a big...
Andrade-Tsypko co-featured on April 4 Showtime card
Super middleweight contender Librado Andrade (27-2, 21 KO, No. 3 Ring rankings) will return to the ring on April 4 in Montreal to take on Ukraine's Vitali Tsypko (22-2, 12 KO) in an IBF eliminator, the main co-feature beneath the Timothy Bradley-Kendall Holt junior welterweight title...
Timekeeper falls asleep, Urango wins IBF title in Montreal
Though the scoring was weird and the referee was Marlon B. Wright, the biggest officiating goofiness of tonight's Friday Night Fights main event in Montreal came courtesy of the timekeeper. Colombian Juan Urango beat Montreal resident Herman Ngoudjo by unanimous decision to win the vacant IBF...
Howard Grant suspended for Ngoudjo-Urango title fight
The Montreal Gazette reports (link via BoxingScene.com) that 140-pound contender Herman Ngoudjo will be without trainer Howard Grant this Friday night in Montreal when he fights Juan Urango for the vacant IBF junior welterweight title. Grant has been suspended until the end of March for shoving...
The 2008 Bad Left Hook Awards
Since the year is all but over and there are but a few even semi-major fights left, and no big American TV cards (I'm not counting the Valuev-Holyfield PPV circus as a big card), it's about time to get into some awards here at BLH. We'll do a top 20 for fights sort of like we did last year, but...
Mondays with Boxers: October 27, 2008
Couldn't not have a major controversy this year, could we? I BRAKE FOR MONSTER BUTE "Oh, yes." -- super middleweight contender Librado Andrade, asked by Showtime's Steve Farhood if he thought he was robbed of a victory on Saturday night "He was completely out." -- Andrade "The fight was 30...
Referee Marlon B. Wright ruins sensational finish in Montreal, Bute retains on ridiculous officiating
I realize this is rambling, semi-incoherent, and probably doesn't even make a lot of sense if you didn't see the fight. For that, I apologize. But I am madder than hell about how this fight finished. I am going to try to keep this clean because I know people read at work, I know there's a chance...
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