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Don Wassall said:
George Foreman was a beast when he was young, a very powerful puncher. He mellowed into a likeable big teddy bear type as he got older and he was an unabashed capitalist, making lots of money off his name and reputation, such as the George Foreman Grill. He was also eccentric; if memory serves he had five or six sons, all named George.

I didn't read every obit, but the ones I did such as the BSPN one above, didn't mention Foreman waving the US flag in the ring after winning the gold medal at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Like everything else in 1968, the Summer Olympics were very eventful and chaotic, probably best remembered for the black power fists raised by John Carlos and Tommy Smith on the medal stand after the 200 meters sprint. Foreman waving the flag in the ring following Carlos and Smith's stunt was something that made Foreman, then 19 years old, very popular in the eyes of the general public, which was then still mostly kneejerk very patriotic and reactionary and was sickened by the black power protest. Critics can say it was a calculated move by Foreman and maybe it was, but then again just about everything is political and was even then. It certainly was a huge part of Foreman's legacy, then and for the rest of his life, and to deliberately ignore it in obituaries certainly was also a calculated move by the regime's corporate media arm.

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George Foreman was the kind of man that everyone should use as an example to their children relevant to sport icons. He was devout in his Christian faith, devoted husband, committed father, well-spoken gentleman, saavy businessman, and patriotic to his core.
 
A full boxing weekend from Las Vegas to Australia to England and Kazakhstan.

April 5: Las Vegas (ESPN+)​

  • Richard Torrez Jr. vs. Guido Vianello, 10 rounds, heavyweights
  • Lindolfo Delgado vs. Elvis Rodriguez, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
  • Abdullah Mason vs. Carlos Ornellas, 10 rounds, lightweights
  • Albert Gonzalez vs. Dana Coolwell, 8 rounds, featherweights
  • Steven Navarro vs. Juan Esteban Garcia, 6 rounds, junior bantamweights
  • Art Barrera Jr. vs. Daijohn Gonzalez, 6 rounds, welterweights
  • Jahi Tucker vs. Troy Williamson, 10 rounds, middleweights
  • DJ Zamora vs. Hugo Castaneda, 8 rounds, junior lightweights
  • Sammy Contreras Jr. vs. Robert Jimenez, 4 rounds, junior welterweights

April 5: Astana, Kazakhstan (ESPN+)​

  • Title fight: Janibek Alimkhanuly vs. Anauel Ngamissengue, 12 rounds, for Alimkhanuly's IBF and WBO middleweight titles
  • Sultan Zaurbek vs. Azinga Fuzile, 10 rounds, junior lightweights
  • Batyrzhan Jukembayev vs. Kane Gardner, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
  • Otabek Kholmatov vs. Jason Canoy Manigos, 8 rounds, featherweights
  • Balaussa Muzdiman vs. Maria Theresa Pinili, 8 rounds, women's bantamweights

April 5: Manchester, England (DAZN)​

  • Joe Joyce vs. Filip Hrgovic, 10 rounds, heavyweights
  • Jack Rafferty vs. Cory O'Regan, 12 rounds, junior welterweights
  • David Adeleye vs. Jeamie Tshikeva, 10 rounds, for the vacant British heavyweight title
  • Juergen Uldedaj vs. Gerardo Mellado, 10 rounds, cruiserweights
  • Khaleel Majid vs. Alex Murphy, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
  • Royston Barney-Smith vs. Cesar Ignacio Paredes, 8 rounds, junior lightweights
  • Mark Chamberlain vs. Miguel Angel Scaringi, 8 rounds, junior welterweights
  • Nelson Birchall vs. Rodrigo Matias Areco, 6 rounds, featherweights
  • Alfie Middlemiss vs. Alexander Morales, 4 rounds, featherweights
  • Delicious Orie vs. Milos Veletic, 4 rounds, heavyweights
  • Ramtin Musah vs. Robbie Chapman, 4 rounds, super middleweights

April 6: New South Wales, Australia​

  • Tim Tszyu vs. Joseph Spencer, 10 rounds, junior middleweights
  • Koen Mazoudier vs. Dan Hill, 10 rounds, junior middleweights
  • Endry Saavedra vs. Mikkel Nielsen, 10 rounds, middleweights
  • Brandon Grach vs. Liam Talivaa, 8 rounds, heavyweights
  • Andrei Mikhailovich vs. Blake Wells, 6 rounds, middleweights
  • Callum Peters vs. William Lenehan, 4 rounds, super middleweights
  • Cody Beekin vs. Ryan Daye, 5 rounds, middleweights
  • Brent Walton vs. Isaias Sette, 4 rounds, super middleweights
  • Cooper O'Connell vs. Benjamin Amos, 4 rounds, junior welterweights
 
Booth said:
A full boxing weekend from Las Vegas to Australia to England and Kazakhstan.

April 5: Las Vegas (ESPN+)​

  • Richard Torrez Jr. vs. Guido Vianello, 10 rounds, heavyweights
  • Lindolfo Delgado vs. Elvis Rodriguez, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
  • Abdullah Mason vs. Carlos Ornellas, 10 rounds, lightweights
  • Albert Gonzalez vs. Dana Coolwell, 8 rounds, featherweights
  • Steven Navarro vs. Juan Esteban Garcia, 6 rounds, junior bantamweights
  • Art Barrera Jr. vs. Daijohn Gonzalez, 6 rounds, welterweights
  • Jahi Tucker vs. Troy Williamson, 10 rounds, middleweights
  • DJ Zamora vs. Hugo Castaneda, 8 rounds, junior lightweights
  • Sammy Contreras Jr. vs. Robert Jimenez, 4 rounds, junior welterweights

April 5: Astana, Kazakhstan (ESPN+)​

  • Title fight: Janibek Alimkhanuly vs. Anauel Ngamissengue, 12 rounds, for Alimkhanuly's IBF and WBO middleweight titles
  • Sultan Zaurbek vs. Azinga Fuzile, 10 rounds, junior lightweights
  • Batyrzhan Jukembayev vs. Kane Gardner, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
  • Otabek Kholmatov vs. Jason Canoy Manigos, 8 rounds, featherweights
  • Balaussa Muzdiman vs. Maria Theresa Pinili, 8 rounds, women's bantamweights

April 5: Manchester, England (DAZN)​

  • Joe Joyce vs. Filip Hrgovic, 10 rounds, heavyweights
  • Jack Rafferty vs. Cory O'Regan, 12 rounds, junior welterweights
  • David Adeleye vs. Jeamie Tshikeva, 10 rounds, for the vacant British heavyweight title
  • Juergen Uldedaj vs. Gerardo Mellado, 10 rounds, cruiserweights
  • Khaleel Majid vs. Alex Murphy, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
  • Royston Barney-Smith vs. Cesar Ignacio Paredes, 8 rounds, junior lightweights
  • Mark Chamberlain vs. Miguel Angel Scaringi, 8 rounds, junior welterweights
  • Nelson Birchall vs. Rodrigo Matias Areco, 6 rounds, featherweights
  • Alfie Middlemiss vs. Alexander Morales, 4 rounds, featherweights
  • Delicious Orie vs. Milos Veletic, 4 rounds, heavyweights
  • Ramtin Musah vs. Robbie Chapman, 4 rounds, super middleweights

April 6: New South Wales, Australia​

  • Tim Tszyu vs. Joseph Spencer, 10 rounds, junior middleweights
  • Koen Mazoudier vs. Dan Hill, 10 rounds, junior middleweights
  • Endry Saavedra vs. Mikkel Nielsen, 10 rounds, middleweights
  • Brandon Grach vs. Liam Talivaa, 8 rounds, heavyweights
  • Andrei Mikhailovich vs. Blake Wells, 6 rounds, middleweights
  • Callum Peters vs. William Lenehan, 4 rounds, super middleweights
  • Cody Beekin vs. Ryan Daye, 5 rounds, middleweights
  • Brent Walton vs. Isaias Sette, 4 rounds, super middleweights
  • Cooper O'Connell vs. Benjamin Amos, 4 rounds, junior welterweights
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Yes a busy weekend with the Joyce vs Hrgovic fight being the highest profile fight of the weekend. Hrgovic has to beat the fading Joyce who seems to have had his chin cracked after years of walking through bombs. The winner will probably get a high profile fight on a Saudi card but the loser will have their career circling the drain.

Also Richard Torrez Jr fights Guido Vianello and similar to the previous fight the winner should be positioned for a Saudi card bout but if the Italian national loses he could have a similar dilemma as the previous bouts loser.

On Saturday afternoon in Kazakhstan Eurasian unified champion Janibek Alimakhunly defends his unified titles against an unknown French based African fighter this should be a blowout showcase bout and the card will clash with the British card timeline wise.

On Saturday night Tim Tszyu fights Joey Spencer. Before his blowout loss in his last bout this would be a showcase bout that should have been over before your coffee was brewed but after his last bout Tszyu might be in a career freefall and will certainly be in one if he loses to the more limited White American in this home soil bout.

Tszyu has also banned his pops from his camp and sitting ringside for the bout but I can't see Kotsya being the reason why he was bounced like a beach ball in his previous bout.
 
There's a lot of notable white heavyweights fighting this weekend - Filip Hrgovic, Richard Torrez Jr vs Guido Vianello, Bakhodir Jalolov, Hughie Fury, Viktor Vykhryst
 
freedom1 said:
Hrgovic decisions Joyce in heavyweight slobberknocker.
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I watched this live but without sound as my main television had another sport on and it's possible Hrgovic had stamina issues because he took the fight on short notice.

Yes it was a back and forth fight and Joyce surprisingly showed some life in him but still the same awful skillset. Hopefully for the Croatian he gets a Saudi card bout out of this crossroads win.

Also last night Richard Torrez Jr won a fairly wide decision over Guido Vianello in a fight that 2 or 3 momentum swings.

Early in the bout the White Mexican American seemed to be ready to blast out the Italian national whenever he landed a power combination but Guido did his best impersonation of John Ruiz and held his opponent to the point that the referee took a point and threatened to disqualify him. This actually made the Italian fight and he seemed to win rounds and had Torrez slightly stunned in the mid rounds. In the end Vianello tired down the stretch and Ramirez cemented the win but it seemed he had a few rounds baked into the scorecards as I tended to agree with television commentary card who had it a tight win for the American prospect.

Also last night Tim Tszyu had a few feel out rounds before he lowered the hammer on Joey Spencer and unloaded the kitchen sink on the overwhelmed American. The pops of Spencer threw in the towel but it would have been a mere moment or two before the referee intervened as Tszyu was doing a speed bag drill on the face of Spencer.

We will need to see a chin check before we know if Tszyu is back to championship form but he certainly looked like a predator in the ring again.
 
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The boxing schedule for this weekend. It's not as deep as last week, but worth watching. Ennis vs Stanionis is for the WBA welterweight title.

April 10: Nuevo Leon, Mexico​

  • Daniel Valladares vs. Mario Alberto Cardenas Gloria, 8 rounds, junior flyweights
  • Oziel Santoyo vs. Jose Gutierrez Bolanos, 8 rounds, middleweights
  • Angel Antonio Contreras vs. Jorge Valencia Diaz, 6 rounds, featherweights
  • Emiliano Hernandez vs. Oscar Emanuel Perez Medina, 6 rounds, flyweights
  • Bralton Munoz vs. Carlos Daniel Garcia Lopez, 6 rounds, bantamweights

April 12: Atlantic City, New Jersey (DAZN)​

  • Title fight: Jaron Ennis vs. Eimantas Stanionis, 12 rounds, for Ennis' IBF welterweight title and Stanionis' WBA welterweight title
  • Raymond Ford vs. Thomas Mattice, 10 rounds, junior lightweights
  • Arturo Popoca vs. Christian Carto, 10 rounds, junior featherweights
  • Shakhram Giyasov vs. Franco Maximiliano Ocampo, 10 rounds, welterweights
  • Tahmir Smalls vs. Earl Bascome, 8 rounds, welterweights
  • Omari Jones vs. William Jackson, 6 rounds, junior middleweights
  • Francisco Rodriguez vs. Naheem Parker, 6 rounds, lightweights
  • Zaquin Moses vs. Alex Pallette, 4 rounds, junior lightweights
 
Booth said:
The boxing schedule for this weekend. It's not as deep as last week, but worth watching. Ennis vs Stanionis is for the WBA welterweight title.

April 10: Nuevo Leon, Mexico​

  • Daniel Valladares vs. Mario Alberto Cardenas Gloria, 8 rounds, junior flyweights
  • Oziel Santoyo vs. Jose Gutierrez Bolanos, 8 rounds, middleweights
  • Angel Antonio Contreras vs. Jorge Valencia Diaz, 6 rounds, featherweights
  • Emiliano Hernandez vs. Oscar Emanuel Perez Medina, 6 rounds, flyweights
  • Bralton Munoz vs. Carlos Daniel Garcia Lopez, 6 rounds, bantamweights

April 12: Atlantic City, New Jersey (DAZN)​

  • Title fight: Jaron Ennis vs. Eimantas Stanionis, 12 rounds, for Ennis' IBF welterweight title and Stanionis' WBA welterweight title
  • Raymond Ford vs. Thomas Mattice, 10 rounds, junior lightweights
  • Arturo Popoca vs. Christian Carto, 10 rounds, junior featherweights
  • Shakhram Giyasov vs. Franco Maximiliano Ocampo, 10 rounds, welterweights
  • Tahmir Smalls vs. Earl Bascome, 8 rounds, welterweights
  • Omari Jones vs. William Jackson, 6 rounds, junior middleweights
  • Francisco Rodriguez vs. Naheem Parker, 6 rounds, lightweights
  • Zaquin Moses vs. Alex Pallette, 4 rounds, junior lightweights
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Yes a slow weekend compared to last weeks multiple cards that even had event overlap. Ennis vs Stanionis is the crown jewel fight of the weekend and could be a fight of the year candidate if recent form of the two combatants are similar tomorrow.

As far as I can tell Stanionis is the only White boxer on the card. Giyasov is a Eurasian from Uzbekistan but is a blue chip prospect who could be tabbed to fight either fighter from Saturday's main event down the road...

Updating the lone card from last night and Sharhram Giyasov blew out his over matched opponent and stopped him in the 4th round with a body shot. I missed this bout but heard the commentators talk about his bout and they mentioned him as an opponent for the winner of the unification bout down the road.

In the main event Stanionis was stopped on his stool at the end of the 6th round after being dropped from a body shot and absorbing a beating in the same round. I don't know if he had lingering issues coming into the bout or he showed signs of a concussion but it seemed slightly premature to me as he still had some fight in him (IMO).

As for the other rounds the Baltic former champion didn't fire enough punches to keep Ennis honest and might have been hindered by the huge weight gain that Ennis had in the bout where it seemed like Ennis was a full division larger than Stanionis.

https://www.boxingscene.com/articles/marvin-somodio-on-why-he-stopped-jaron-ennis-eimantas-stanionisPS here is the logic of the Stanionis corner and I agree with the percentage chance of him winning after the 6th round beating....
 
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