by Fox Doucette Your columnist has had the pleasure of watching Mike Dallas Jr. (19-3-1, 8 KOs) fight on ESPN2 a total of four times, in which Dallas went 2-2 and by rights should've been 3-1 (Mauricio Herrera, who ought to change his ring nickname to “El Bandito” for his tendency to win robbery decisions, did not beat him fairly.) As Friday Night Fights regulars go, Dallas … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2013
Cory Spinks-Carlos Molina Headlines ESPN2 Friday Night Fights
by Fox Doucette Bring your cricket bats, because it's Zombie Night on ESPN2. Two guys, one in the main event, the other in the co-feature, top the “wait, what do you mean he's still fighting?” rankings. Cory Spinks (39-7, 11 KOs) takes on Carlos Molina (20-5-2, 6 KOs, and not to be confused with the junior welterweight of the same name) in the main event, while Jose Luis … [Read more...]
Women’s Boxing: The Weekly Wrap-Up & News
Women’s action kicked off Thursday night in Oklahoma City where Jessica Rakoczy (33-3, 12 KO’s) met Ada Velez (20-5-3, 6 KO’s) for the vacant WIBA super bantamweight championship. Despite her lack of activity over the last three years, Rakoczy took a one sided decision win to claim the title. Scores were 99-90 across the board for the new champ. Velez, a former world … [Read more...]
Cool Hand Lucas and Swifty Garcia; Magno’s Monday Rant
Last week, we talked about Gennady Golovkin and how the man with zero wins against top 10 middleweights paved his way to middleweight pre-greateness and most feared man-beast status by devouring flat-lining journeymen and undersized pretenders. A good fighter with great potential, Golovkin is very much the product of a boxing media with a burning desire to find the "next big … [Read more...]
Brian Vera Ends Serhiy Dzinziruk’s Career on ESPN2 Friday Night Fights
by Fox Doucette “What have you done for me lately”, the lament of many a jilted lover, describes the messy divorce between Serhiy Dzinziruk (37-2-1, 24 KOs) and his career as a legitimate player in the fight game. Thanks to a barrage of southpaw-killer right hands from Brian Vera (22-6, 13 KOs), Dzinziruk found himself down and out in the corner in the tenth round of the main … [Read more...]