Miscellaneous Boxing News

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
 
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
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
 
Hrgovic decisions Joyce in heavyweight slobberknocker.
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
 
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
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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A full weekend of boxing this week.

April 18: Orlando, Florida (DAZN)​

  • Hendri Cedeno vs. Idalberto Umara, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
  • Kevin Hayler Brown vs. Esteuri Suero, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
  • Gurgen Hovhannisyan vs. Dajuan Calloway, 8 rounds, heavyweights
  • Lenier Pero vs. Detrailous Webster, 10 rounds, heavyweights
  • Christopher Diaz vs. Jose Antonio Meza, 8 rounds, junior lightweights
  • Abel Gonzalez vs. Ryan Wilczak, 8 rounds, super middleweights
  • Roberto Rivera vs. Ulises Carvajal, 6 rounds, junior lightweights
  • Carlos Lebron vs. Jose Leon, 4 rounds, junior featherweights
  • Jobed Collazo vs. Erion Johnson, 4 rounds, lightweights

April 19: Oceanside, California (DAZN)​

  • Title fight: Gabriela Fundora vs. Marilyn Badillo, 10 rounds, for Fundora's undisputed flyweight championship
  • Charles Conwell vs. Jorge Garcia Perez, 12 rounds, junior middleweights

April 19: Sheffield, England (DAZN)​

  • Dalton Smith vs. Mathieu Germain, 12 rounds, junior welterweights
  • Ishmael Davis vs. Ryan Kelly, 12 rounds, junior middleweights
  • Josh Warrington vs. Asad Asif Khan, 10 rounds, junior lightweights
  • Josh Padley vs. TBA, 10 rounds, lightweights
  • Giorgio Visioli vs. Kane Baker, 8 rounds, junior lightweights
  • Joe Howarth vs. Mario Valenzuela Portillo, 6 rounds, lightweights
  • Emmanuel Buttigieg vs. TBA, 6 rounds, middleweights

April 19: Buenos Aires, Argentina​

  • Anahi Ester Sanchez vs. Aldana Pons, 10 rounds, women's junior welterweights
  • Gustavo Lemos vs. TBA, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
  • Leandro Fabian Lopez vs. TBA, 6 rounds, lightweights
  • Santiago Aliberti vs. Lino Ramon Ruiz Ferreira, 4 rounds, super middleweights
  • Isaias Hernan Garay vs. TBA, 4 rounds, middleweights
  • Kevin Facundo Gomez vs. Gaston Adolfo Ayala, 4 rounds, light heavyweights
  • Luciano Matias Amaya vs. TBA, 4 rounds, junior welterweights

April 19: Albuquerque, New Mexico​

  • Abraham R Perez vs. Alejandro Murillo, 8 rounds, flyweights
  • Olivia Curry vs. Jordanne Garcia, 6 rounds, super middleweights
  • Fidel Maldonado Jr. vs. German Ivan Meraz, 6 rounds, lightweights
  • Xavier Madrid vs. Gabriel Gutierrez, 6 rounds, welterweights
  • Enrique Alvarez vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior middleweights

April 20: Birmingham, England​

  • Ben Whittaker vs. Liam Cameron, 10 rounds, light heavyweights
  • Lee Cutler vs. Sam Eggington, 10 rounds, junior middleweights
  • Frazer Clarke vs. Ebenezer Tetteh, 10 rounds, heavyweights
  • Tyler Denny vs. Elvis Ahorgah, 8 rounds, super middleweights
 
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....
White is right, I agree with you about the size difference and the lack of Stanionis' punching power. He was not going to win the fight.
 
A full weekend of boxing this week.

April 18: Orlando, Florida (DAZN)​

  • Hendri Cedeno vs. Idalberto Umara, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
  • Kevin Hayler Brown vs. Esteuri Suero, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
  • Gurgen Hovhannisyan vs. Dajuan Calloway, 8 rounds, heavyweights
  • Lenier Pero vs. Detrailous Webster, 10 rounds, heavyweights
  • Christopher Diaz vs. Jose Antonio Meza, 8 rounds, junior lightweights
  • Abel Gonzalez vs. Ryan Wilczak, 8 rounds, super middleweights
  • Roberto Rivera vs. Ulises Carvajal, 6 rounds, junior lightweights
  • Carlos Lebron vs. Jose Leon, 4 rounds, junior featherweights
  • Jobed Collazo vs. Erion Johnson, 4 rounds, lightweights

April 19: Oceanside, California (DAZN)​

  • Title fight: Gabriela Fundora vs. Marilyn Badillo, 10 rounds, for Fundora's undisputed flyweight championship
  • Charles Conwell vs. Jorge Garcia Perez, 12 rounds, junior middleweights

April 19: Sheffield, England (DAZN)​

  • Dalton Smith vs. Mathieu Germain, 12 rounds, junior welterweights
  • Ishmael Davis vs. Ryan Kelly, 12 rounds, junior middleweights
  • Josh Warrington vs. Asad Asif Khan, 10 rounds, junior lightweights
  • Josh Padley vs. TBA, 10 rounds, lightweights
  • Giorgio Visioli vs. Kane Baker, 8 rounds, junior lightweights
  • Joe Howarth vs. Mario Valenzuela Portillo, 6 rounds, lightweights
  • Emmanuel Buttigieg vs. TBA, 6 rounds, middleweights

April 19: Buenos Aires, Argentina​

  • Anahi Ester Sanchez vs. Aldana Pons, 10 rounds, women's junior welterweights
  • Gustavo Lemos vs. TBA, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
  • Leandro Fabian Lopez vs. TBA, 6 rounds, lightweights
  • Santiago Aliberti vs. Lino Ramon Ruiz Ferreira, 4 rounds, super middleweights
  • Isaias Hernan Garay vs. TBA, 4 rounds, middleweights
  • Kevin Facundo Gomez vs. Gaston Adolfo Ayala, 4 rounds, light heavyweights
  • Luciano Matias Amaya vs. TBA, 4 rounds, junior welterweights

April 19: Albuquerque, New Mexico​

  • Abraham R Perez vs. Alejandro Murillo, 8 rounds, flyweights
  • Olivia Curry vs. Jordanne Garcia, 6 rounds, super middleweights
  • Fidel Maldonado Jr. vs. German Ivan Meraz, 6 rounds, lightweights
  • Xavier Madrid vs. Gabriel Gutierrez, 6 rounds, welterweights
  • Enrique Alvarez vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior middleweights

April 20: Birmingham, England​

  • Ben Whittaker vs. Liam Cameron, 10 rounds, light heavyweights
  • Lee Cutler vs. Sam Eggington, 10 rounds, junior middleweights
  • Frazer Clarke vs. Ebenezer Tetteh, 10 rounds, heavyweights
  • Tyler Denny vs. Elvis Ahorgah, 8 rounds, super middleweights
Yes it's a fairly busy weekend with even a Sunday card.

The card tonight has Big Gurg against Dajuan Calloway, this could be the one fight where the jumbo Armenian is the smaller man in a fight as Calloway has routinely fought at 3 bills+ and even has tipped the scales in the low 4 bills range. Calloway is fairly nimble for an obese man and isn't a true stiff but obviously at that weight he only can do so much due to stamina issues.

On Saturday England has another prospects card with Dalton Smith headlining the card and many White prospects are on the card too.

On Sunday Scottish veteran Liam Cameron has a winnable rematch with the overrated Ben Whitaker who was last seen pulling an old WWF wrestling act where he acted like he was hit over the head with chair and refused to continue after tumbling out of the ring. We shall see if more skullduggery occurs if things aren't going the way of the overrated prospect.

PS likeable but a danger to himself Frazier Clarke launches a comeback on the same card he was last seen litteraly getting his face rearranged by Fabio Wardley.

Could somebody get him is old event security job at the Copper Box arena.....

Updating the Friday night card and the big Armenian prospect dominated Dajuan Calloway from the opening bell. It's hard to grade what Big Gurg had in front of him as Calloway was much more immobile than I remember him in previous prospect bouts but then Calloway was 350ish pounds and now weighed in a biscuit over 420 pounds and was literally a human punch bag.

In the end Big Gurg felled his exhausted foe with a power combo to the head where his obese opponent was probably too exhausted to rise from the knee he took from the blow. I will grade this fight as an incomplete grade as Calloway had no business in the ring at that stupid weight.

This is further proof that the Florida boxing commission is a commission in name only as any serious commissioner would have nixed the bout due to the weight of Calloway and the danger it would be to his health but this is a commission that allowed a shot slurring Oldyfield fight a bout at near 60 years old a few years ago....
 
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Quick and maybe slightly unrelated question, woud you guys consider Arnold Barboza Jr as white?
 
Quick and maybe slightly unrelated question, woud you guys consider Arnold Barboza Jr as white?
I would say no but according to government statisticians if he were a rapist, school shooter, drug lord, etc he would be one. So in other words in real life if he robbed me at a local 7/11 I wouldn't describe him as a White male to the officer who arrived to the scene.

Wrapping up the weekend results and in the highest profile fight for a White boxer, Scot Liam Cameron was caught reaching for cookies in the boxing cookie jar in the 2nd round by Mulatto Ben Whitaker and was mercilessly pounded on while being forced to sit on the ropes the "A Star" referee Howard Foster decided to stop the fight rather an issue a count.

I don't have the luxury of reading the eyes of the Scottish veteran but if he didn't have the vacant stare of concussed fighter the stoppage would be premature as this was still in the second round.

Cameron lost his chance for a big time fight off of this loss and will have to stay at the British domestic level. If the Saudi boxing commission did their job properly he at least should have fought a non prospect opponent for a larger purse and had the Whitaker rematch in his back pocket as a fall back plan down the road but this is incompetent and crooked boxing where nothing is ever that easy.

As noted above Dalton Smith made easy work of his opponent but I missed this card and haven't watched the replay so I can't comment on the rest of the card.
 
Scottish veteran Liam Cameron

Scot Liam Cameron

I don't have the luxury of reading the eyes of the Scottish veteran but

Are you assuming he's scottish cause his surname is Cameron:D

He's English he's from Sheffield:p

Strange how the 2nd fight was conpletely different to the first. Cameron had his number in the first fight.

Another terrible early stoppage from Howard Foster smh.
 
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Anyone been watching the WBC Grand Prix Tournament?

I watched the heavyweights and Tsotne Rogava and Marko Milun looked good



 
I watched Rogava fight live back in June of last year when he fought a really limited club fighter named Jon Bolden. Bolden is the epitome of a club fighter who is at best a local level and Rogava just didn’t look good against him. He looked soft, out of shape and really didn’t seem to press the action much. He won an easy decision but he really should have been able to put Bolden away. Perhaps the travel to the northwest US and the time difference caused him to have an off night. He looks much much better in the video above and he has an impressive amateur background. Hopefully he continues to improve as he steps up the competition.
 
I watched Rogava fight live back in June of last year when he fought a really limited club fighter named Jon Bolden. Bolden is the epitome of a club fighter who is at best a local level and Rogava just didn’t look good against him. He looked soft, out of shape and really didn’t seem to press the action much. He won an easy decision but he really should have been able to put Bolden away. Perhaps the travel to the northwest US and the time difference caused him to have an off night. He looks much much better in the video above and he has an impressive amateur background. Hopefully he continues to improve as he steps up the competition.

Oh right, I missed that fight maybe he had an off night. Because I've seen numerous of his pro fights and he's been impressive in all of them, I think he can be a dark horse in the division. He has power, is skilled and pretty fast.

He's never gonna be body beautiful (or facially) I don't think lol doesn't seem to have the genetics.
 
This is the main card for this weekend. Eubank came in overweight and was fined. As of right now, the fight's still on.

Saturday, April 26​

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, England (PPV)​

  • Chris Eubank Jr vs Conor Benn, middleweights, 12 rounds
  • Liam Smith vs Aaron McKenna, middleweights, 10 or 12 rounds
  • Anthony Yarde vs Lyndon Arthur, third fight, light heavyweights, 10 or 12 rounds
  • Chris Billam-Smith vs Brandon Glanton, cruiserweights, 10 or 12 rounds
  • Viddal Riley vs Cheavon Clarke, cruiserweights, 10 or 12 rounds
 
Anyone been watching the WBC Grand Prix Tournament?

I watched the heavyweights and Tsotne Rogava and Marko Milun looked good




Thanks for the info about the tournament. I hadn't seen anything about it.
 
Are you assuming he's scottish cause his surname is Cameron:D

He's English he's from Sheffield:p

Strange how the 2nd fight was conpletely different to the first. Cameron had his number in the first fight.

Another terrible early stoppage from Howard Foster smh.
Yes I assumed that...

This weekend really only has the Benn vs Eubank card as relevant card for the general boxing public. I can't make heads or tails of the card but it will do a big PPV number in GB and the hype is similar to the Laila Ali vs Jackie Frazier fight a good two decades ago.

It could be a big mismatch as the natural size advantage is held by Eubank Jr but he has been chinned at this weight and has proven to be only fringe world class fighter with his spotty record against fellow world rated fighters. Benn is really the mystery man in this bout as he has only fought faded guys or never was fighters.

CBS has a comeback fight on this card and Liam Smith is fighting in the semifinal bout of this card.

Yesterday's card White fighters had fairly predictable results as Chris Billam-Smith won an obvious decision over the fairly obscure Brandon Glanton. From what I read from reports he was made to work hard but was an obvious winner in his comeback fight after his previous unification title bout loss.

Also Aaron McKenna pounded out a wide decisive decision over former world champion Liam Smith. This could launch the career of McKenna to world level fights and probably closes the window on Smith as a world level fight. If Smith fights on he may become a domestic level gate keeper type.

Concerning the main event the two half caste sons of British boxing legends put on a worthy successor to their fathers classic trilogy. It was at points savage action that I didn't think either fighter could sustain for various reasons.


While Eubank has shown that he probably isn't a truly elite world level fighter at the British domestic level he can be an elite foil to any fighter of that level.
 
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Aaron Mckenna was really impressive, you'd expect him to win a world title at Middleweight. I made a thread on Mckenna here years ago, good to see he finally got an opportunity and is now showing his talent to a bigger audience.

People on forums were hyping the paki bum fraud Hamzah Sheeraz, and none of them were talking about the far better Aaron Mckenna.
 
This weekend's boxing schedule. It is a loaded weekend of boxing. Alvarez vs Scull is for all 4 super middleweight titles, and Inoue vs Cardenas for Inoue's jr. featherweight title.

May 2: New York City (DAZN PPV)​

  • Ryan Garcia vs. Rolando "Rolly" Romero, 12 rounds, welterweights
  • Devin Haney vs. Jose Ramirez, 12 rounds, welterweights
  • Title fight: Teofimo Lopez Jr. vs. Arnold Barboza Jr., 12 rounds, for Lopez's WBO junior welterweight title
  • Levale Whittington vs. Reito Tsutsumi, 6 rounds, featherweights

May 3: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (DAZN PPV)​

  • Title fight: Canelo Alvarez vs. William Scull, 12 rounds, for Alvarez's WBC, WBO and WBA super middleweight titles and Scull's IBF super middleweight title
  • Title fight: Badou Jack vs. Norair Mikaeljan, 12 rounds, for Jack's WBC cruiserweight title
  • Jaime Munguia vs. Bruno Surace, 10 rounds, super middleweights
  • Martin Bakole vs. Efe Ajagba, 10 rounds, heavyweights
  • Brayan Leon vs. Aaron Rocha Guerrero, 8 rounds, light heavyweights
  • Marco Verde vs. Michel Galvan Polina, 4 rounds, middleweights

May 4: Las Vegas (ESPN/ESPN+)​

  • Title fight: Naoya Inoue vs. Ramon Cardenas, 12 rounds, for Inoue's undisputed junior featherweight championship
  • Title fight: Rafael Espinoza vs. Edward Vazquez, 12 rounds, for Espinoza's WBO featherweight title
  • Rohan Polanco vs. Fabian Maidana, 10 rounds, welterweights
  • Emiliano Vargas vs. Juan Leon, 8 rounds, junior welterweights
  • Ra'eese Aleem vs. Rudy Garcia, 10 rounds, featherweights
  • Mikito Nakano vs. Pedro Marquez, 10 rounds, featherweights
  • Art Barrera Jr. vs. Juan Carlos Guerra, 6 rounds, junior middleweights
  • Patrick O'Connor vs. Marcus Smith, 4 rounds, cruiserweights
 
This weekend's boxing schedule. It is a loaded weekend of boxing. Alvarez vs Scull is for all 4 super middleweight titles, and Inoue vs Cardenas for Inoue's jr. featherweight title.

May 2: New York City (DAZN PPV)​

  • Ryan Garcia vs. Rolando "Rolly" Romero, 12 rounds, welterweights
  • Devin Haney vs. Jose Ramirez, 12 rounds, welterweights
  • Title fight: Teofimo Lopez Jr. vs. Arnold Barboza Jr., 12 rounds, for Lopez's WBO junior welterweight title
  • Levale Whittington vs. Reito Tsutsumi, 6 rounds, featherweights

May 3: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (DAZN PPV)​

  • Title fight: Canelo Alvarez vs. William Scull, 12 rounds, for Alvarez's WBC, WBO and WBA super middleweight titles and Scull's IBF super middleweight title
  • Title fight: Badou Jack vs. Norair Mikaeljan, 12 rounds, for Jack's WBC cruiserweight title
  • Jaime Munguia vs. Bruno Surace, 10 rounds, super middleweights
  • Martin Bakole vs. Efe Ajagba, 10 rounds, heavyweights
  • Brayan Leon vs. Aaron Rocha Guerrero, 8 rounds, light heavyweights
  • Marco Verde vs. Michel Galvan Polina, 4 rounds, middleweights

May 4: Las Vegas (ESPN/ESPN+)​

  • Title fight: Naoya Inoue vs. Ramon Cardenas, 12 rounds, for Inoue's undisputed junior featherweight championship
  • Title fight: Rafael Espinoza vs. Edward Vazquez, 12 rounds, for Espinoza's WBO featherweight title
  • Rohan Polanco vs. Fabian Maidana, 10 rounds, welterweights
  • Emiliano Vargas vs. Juan Leon, 8 rounds, junior welterweights
  • Ra'eese Aleem vs. Rudy Garcia, 10 rounds, featherweights
  • Mikito Nakano vs. Pedro Marquez, 10 rounds, featherweights
  • Art Barrera Jr. vs. Juan Carlos Guerra, 6 rounds, junior middleweights
  • Patrick O'Connor vs. Marcus Smith, 4 rounds, cruiserweights
I have never seen a weekend like this in 40+years of watching boxing.

I remember when a big PPV was on a Saturday night and ABC would have a non marquee champion defending his crown that afternoon and then after the fight ABC would do a preview of the PPV but this isn't that this is two stacked cards back to back and then a "normal" card headlined by the best sub 126 pound fighter in the world.

The first card is the equivalent of a town square fight card where X blocks of the most dense city in the United States is blocked off for the ring and viewing by the fans and for security reasons for the fighters and boxing dignitaries. All for no site fees and no fees for watching the fight live.

If I didn't know any better I would be thinking I was watching a remake of this comedy....

PS the fight card from last weekend was uploaded for the public by the Saudi promoters all fights including the opening bouts of the Eubank vs Benn feud...


Updating the Friday card and in strange start time (around 6pm) Lopez easily beat the more limited Barbosa at times this looked like a sparring session with Barbosa mainly hitting air and Lopez peppering his slower more mechanical opponent.

Also concerning the audience it seemed like connected people had ringside seats as I saw a 2020's version of Heidi Klum at ringside but regular fans didn't have direct view of the ring and had to watch the large monitors in the square or the rare fan who had a bird's eye view because they worked in a store or paid for a 5 dollar latte and stood on their seat in a store near the square.

Continuing the update on the card from last night and Ryan Garcia slept walked his way to an obvious points defeat to the on paper thoroughly beatable Rolly Romero. He just never got in gear and the fight looked like a sparring session less the violent knockdown which was similar to Garcia hitting the deck against Luke Campbell.

I recall many boxers and other athletes in violent sports taking a leave of absence and being calmer and seeming shot when they had to crank it up a gear at critical point in their bout. This could be the case for Garcia, his rebuild might be a tough long haul off of the way he looked last night.

On Saturday night we had the second PPV card and it was back to back lead balloon cards.

In the semifinal bout Noel “Dark Horse” Mikaelian seemed to fade down the stretch against 41 year old Swedish Mulatto Badou Jack and lost a majority decision. The fight seemed to be in the balance late in the fight but it was Jack with the stamina to win the championship rounds and not the younger Armenian. The short camp for Mikaelian could have been a factor in the bout.

In the main event Canelo Alvarez had to learn a new Afro-Cuban dance as William Scull was in the ring to move and flick soft jabs and pose. Alvarez didn't do much more because he didn't want to expose himself charging in but he seemed slightly too measured for my tastes. He did whip in powerful body shots but very little head shots as Scull never exposed his skull. In the end it was a wide decision for Alvarez less one judge who must have thought he was scoring a dance contest as he had it 7 rounds to 5 for Alvarez.

PS2 I listen to the Paulie Malignaggi podcast and he brought up the possibility of Ryan Garcia having his hormones out of whack doing to the fact he fought clean or at least cleaner. This is a distinct possibility as he looked fatter than the Haney fight and similar to various stars in the big 4 leagues that have comeback clean his physical reflexes didn't look the same.
 
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