I Love Boxing

But only if they had the foresight to provide said youngster with blazing hand speed. Boxing =/= American Football. Left tackles just don't do that much of interest with their upper bodies compared to boxers.

YAEH!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUvyjE6o65A

Put 'em in a real ring, get some classy, intelligent announcers (wherefore the skinhead-grapplin' Emanuel Steward?), and maybe I'll watch one all the way through.

But that's all off-topic. I do kind of suspect that as long as Fedor Emilianenko is heavyweight champ over there and his brother Alexander refuses to fight him, maybe the smart thing for Alexander to do is get into the heavyweight boxing division. I haven't seen a whole hell of a lot of him, but what I did see of his hand skills looked like it had potential.

who in NYC wants to go to Rumble by the River (free) next Thurs?

http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/Calendar/RUMBLE.htm

Those flyweights really pound the crap outta each other.

I'd go if I lived there!

oh god, Ricky "The Hugger" Hatton strikes again.

not as much as kellerman et. al are overdoing it, but castillo did look slow and old...i'll still be waiting for hatton to fight a real figher.

What was Kellerman on? Bug eyes, yelling into the mic, barely coherent.

Finally a forum to air this gripe: 95% of the fights aired on ESPN Classic fall well short of classic status, and a lot of them weren't even worth watching the first time around. Am I right!? This confuses me. Maybe sticking to the canon of Classic bouts would be limiting, but I'd like it. A boxing fan never tires of the true classics.

not as much as kellerman et. al are overdoing it, but castillo did look slow and old...i'll still be waiting for hatton to fight a real figher.

wtf Castillo's not a real fighter?

Great body shot from Hatton to finish it but it was a messy four rounds tbh.

Limond vs Khan: great fight. Khan did well to get up off his overhyped arse and beat Limond. Getting decked off a guy with a ~50% stoppage record might be a sign that Khan will get sparked out when he faces world class opposition. Why didn't the ref stop the fight after the Khan knockdown? He was given an 8 count and asked to raise his gloves and walk forward and he sank down to his knee again.

Skelton vs Sprott: If I never see either of these fighting again it'll be too soon. That people are even considering giving either of these a world title shot shows how woeful the heavyweight division is. Bruno at his peak would have stopped both of these in minutes.

Pryce v Anthony "Sugar Ray Clay Jones Junior" Small: Don't you love it when a guy with a stupid nickname enters the ring with a Scream mask on and gets holes punched in his 17-0 record? lol@spitting blood and counting stars while complaining about the stoppage. Ref was spot on.

kind of looking forward to margarito v. paul williams tonight...

Skelton vs Sprott what a dire fight that was. Those 2 judges must've fallen asleep to have had Sprott even near skelton on the points. Sprott wasn't interested in fighting at all.

is it wrong that I always really enjoy Gatti getting tore up like a punching bag?

You've enjoyed it for the last time, he retired after the fight.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2007-07-15-2867980343_x.htm

You really can't beat a couple of WRITERS pounding each other bloody in a "sparring exhibition" (ie, because they're 31 and 43 it can't be a sanctioned match) ... July 24 at Gleason's Gym, NYC:

http://www.jonathanames.com/blog/blogger.html

http://www.penguinblogs.ca/davidson/archives/00000162.html

Don't know how much interest there is for boxing around here but there have been some awesome developments lately.
1. The supermiddleweight tourney sponsored by Showtime! Froch, Tyalor, Kessler, Ward, Direll(spelling?), and Abraham. A new tactic. Should bring the fireworks.
2. Pacquaio and Cotto. No idea who to pick here. Will be paying for it though.
3. Mayweather looming...
4. Amir Khan. Fluke?

Seeing that Cotto almost got sparked by Ricardo Torres, Manny Pacquiao will probably finish the job.

Khan is good, but I was hardly impressed by that performance. Moving and pittypatting is good against a guy like Kotelnik who never comes out of his shell, but against a real puncher he's eventually going to have to actually plant his feet and gain their respect. I actually would pick Hatton against him.

Most of the boxing talk gets posted here The Joe Calzaghe/Rolling Boxing Thread

Big night for women's boxing! Waiting on the Taylor-Serrano main event, and this whole card is great.

I'm betting (figuratively) on Serrano by stoppage in the back half.