***** Official ThePhins Boxing Thread ****

just an fyi haye and klitschko fight is off. I think haye got hurt.

 

friday night fights, if you don't watch it, you shou.d. It has some descent fights:

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ESPN2 Boxing
Fight Info >
Daniel Jacobs
16 W
0 L
0 D
14 KOs
vs.
George Walton
20 W
3 L
0 D
12 KOs
middleweight
Willie Lee
16 W
5 L
0 D
11 KOs
vs.
Erislandy Lara
6 W
0 L
0 D
4 KOs
light middleweight
Hylon Williams Jr.
8 W
0 L
0 D
3 KOs
vs.
Khadaphi Proctor
4 W
3 L
1 D
0 KOs
super featherweight
Seth Mitchell
11 W
0 L
0 D
7 KOS
vs.
Alvaro Morales
3 W
5 L
5 D
0 KOs
heavyweight
Jermell Charlo
7 W
0 L
0 D
3 KOs
vs.
Frederico Flores Jr
6 W
2 L
0 D
2 KOs
light middleweight
Friday July 10 2009
(TBA) Houston, Texas, USA
ESPN2
Fight Info >
Matt Godfrey
18 W
1 L
0 D
10 KOs
vs.
Shawn Hawk
18 W
0 L
1 D
16 KOS
cruiserweight
Shaun George
18 W
2 L
2 D
9 KOs
vs.
Chris Henry
23 W
2 L
0 D
18 KOs
cruiserweight
Friday July 17 2009
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
ESPN2 Boxing
Fight Info >
Ray Narh
22 W
1 L
0 D
19 KOs
vs.
Breidis Prescott
21 W
0 L
0 D
18 KOs
lightweight

 

from what I am hearing klitschko is finally getting some respect. That is good for the sport IMO. The masses love heavyweights.

 

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so I'm watching the third ali v frazier fight, and I'm thinking, isn't it interesting how they both seemed born just to beat the **** out of one another?

 

well re write it stoopid.

 

its cool man was mostly just ****ing with you. but would appreciate some quick hits on what you thought or something like that. if not no worries.

 

espn classics had a tribute to gatti yesterday. Hope you guys got to watch some/all of it.
It is looking like his wife killed him hopefully they find justice for him.

RIP Mr. Gatti. You were a warrior in that ring.

 

Interesting side note apparently they are making a movie about micky wards life. His brother apparently was a boxing champion who became a drug addict, but helped micky ward train for a bit. Apparently micky came up the hard way. I'm hoping to scoop the book soon. I'll give you guys a review when I do if you wish.

 

youtube it............ or watch espn classics. Theyve been showing mickey ward this whole week for some reason except for the gatti tribute. But youtube imo has alot of fights uploaded already.

 

the question arises I think were they both that good or did both of them have little to no defense to get knocked down that much thanks for the write up bro.

 

he's 37 he better do it quick


doug jones vs cassius clay on espn classics. Do I love this ****ing channel. Yes I do.

 

top 5 for sure, debatable as to greatest IMO.

 

hes number 3.........

 

Bernard Hopkins is a future hall of famer IMO......

 

i dont have hbo record them and send them to me!!! ishe smith v randall bailey right now. so far a good fight. friday night fights should be a good one as well.

 

number 7 lightweight about to go down............. prescott is about to lose to vazquez

 

and number 7 goes down in split decision, which is bs it wasn't even close.
I never realized gatti took some vicious combos from ward...

 

Lost another great champ Vernon "The Viper" Forrest. Light Middleweight and welterweight champion. Fought Sugar shane moseley. He died because some dude jacked his wallet. He then I'm taking it, ran after the guy with a gun and they had a shoot out. He died by getting shot.

RIP champ.


FYI sugar shane mosely just said he hopes to fight berto. :O

 

some of my thoughts about the matches tonight and such:

1) Gomez vs Karass:
-gomez has heart going out there while bleeding like that.
-good to see gomez got the belt after dominating karass. good rule by the nevada boxing comission, great ruling by the ref.
-Karass is an ex champion and can't seem to control his low blows. I find that hard to believe.
-gomez has some good defense. He avoided alot of karass's blows.

2)foreman vs. santos
- santos looked slow throughout this fight. not sure if yuris just that quick or santos is that rusty. i would tend to think its a combination of both.
- yuri makes history by retaining this belt.
- I love yuris movement. He bounced back and forth and that really helped him not take some shots.
- Having said that santos did not look horrible for being gone so long. Yuri better not party and better get ready because Im betting when santos comes back he will look much better.

3) chavez jr. vs rowland
- chavez is not his daddy. nowhere near it. He definately has work to do even at 41-0. I guarantee you his dad lands some of the shots jr did on rowland, rowland goes down.
- rowland did well for a guy coming back from a long layoff and who will probably be nothing more now then a journeyman.
- chavez jr needs to work on his defense or he is doomed to be like cotto, absorbing way to many punches.

4) pacman vs cotto
- pacman deserves the title of pound for pound and showed why tonight. He took some shots, from cotto a hard puncher, and kept on shaking it off. That is scary.
- Fight should have been called earlier. 9th round, cotto being dominated, cotto bleeding out of both sides of his face, cottos eyes swelling, if pacman doesn't lay off like he did, we could be in mourning for cotto.
- Having said that, cotto showed he is a warrior. He took a beating and was still landing combos, even if he looked about the 11th round like he was on dream street. Heart of a champion mr cotto.
- Cottos wife left the fight early, Good mommying by her. No reason to watch that or make her son do so.


Ive said it before Ill say it again, pacman mayweather has to happen. They match up so well its scary. Don't buy the hype folks this is about money, neither one of these guys is afraid of the other. Im sorry pacman was calling cotto to hit him some more, a power puncher, and mayweather coming back and fighting marquez a very good boxer. Fear has nothing to do with them not fighting. Given the money that a fight would sell between these two, it has to happen now.