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Worldwide Saturday Results: Rosas upsets Nongqayi; Sartison defeates Gevor; Bika DQed
Hamburg, Germany Sebastian Zbik won a decision over Jorge Sebastian Heiland on scores of 117-111 (twice) and 116-111. Alexey Sukachev of BoxingScene.com describes the decision as "scandalous." In a pretty darn good fight, Dimitri Sartison beat Khoren Gevor in a 12 round unanimous decision. Both...
TV and Internet Fight Schedule - Weekend of July 30
Friday, July 30 Gofightlive.tv, 7:30 p.m. Eastern ($TBD), Derek Ennis vs. Gabriel Rosado. This one's a pretty solid fight between two Philly fighters for the USBA light middleweight title. Over the last few years, Ennis has been able to beat a pretty solid slate of domestic opponents, including...
Mandatory Eight Count: People Are Mad Edition
Kevin Cunningham explodes (BoxingScene.com)Kevin Cunningham doesn't buy Freddie Roach's claim that Amir Khan will go after Devon Alexander (his fighter) and Tim Bradley after Paul Malignaggi. Cunningham is getting incredibly vocal, and echoes something we said the other day: "Buildup. We hear about...
Fight Day Notes: Cotto-Clottey
Tonight's Miguel Cotto-Joshua Clottey WBA welterweight title fight will go live on HBO at 10:35 ET. We'll be here with live, round-by-round coverage and scoring. In case you missed it, both men made weight. Cotto came in at 146, with Clottey at the 147 limit. You can watch the weigh-in...
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...
Tomato Cans: May 11, 2008
With Timothy Bradley upending Junior Witter to win the WBC's version of the 140-pound title, the immediate question, as always, is, "What's next for both guys?" It could be a rematch. Bradley indicated that he'd be willing to do an immediate rematch with the former champion, which is manly of him...
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