Hola family and welcome back to a cilantro, lime and guajillo chilli infused edition of Central Florida's number one foul-filled weekly pugilistic paper, The Sunday Brunch. We are the shell fragment that totally ruins your otherwise creamy scrambled eggs. In this episode we'll be discussing the "Krusher" and how he'd fare in a Kumite-sponsored brick destroying contest with … [Read more...]
Kovalev Steamrolls Caparello, Rios Takes DQ Over Chaves
HBO's split-site triple-header was capped off by an ugly, thrilling, but ultimately unfulfilling welterweight clash which saw Brandon Rios (32-2-1, 23 KOs) win a ninth-round DQ over Diego Chaves (23-2, 19 KOs) at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. Chaves, who barely made it into the US from his native Argentina on Thursday due to visa issues, gave Rios all … [Read more...]
Crawford, Gamboa And What’s Right With Boxing: The Sunday Brunch
Hola family and welcome home to a thyme, rosemary and laurel leaf scented edition of Omaha's 145th most popular bite-sized weekly pugilistic paper, The Sunday Brunch - We combine like the boxing column equivalent of the real diecast Voltron, not those fake plastic re-release ones that came out years later, I'm talking a serious choking hazard, people...This week we're … [Read more...]
Ruslan Provodnikov Challenges Brandon Rios
As you would in 2014, in our ultra-connected modern boxing culture, WBO junior welterweight champion, Ruslan Provodnikov (23-2, 16KOs) has taken to his personal Twitter page and issued a challenge to fellow Top Rank all-action fighter, Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios (31-2-1, 23KOs). “We can make the fight…” Provodnikov Tweets “[But] there is an issue with weight. I’m willing to put … [Read more...]
Pacquiao-Bradley II, Set For April 12
Promoter Bob Arum announced on Saturday that Manny Pacquiao (55-5-2, 38 KOs) and Timothy Bradley (31-0, 12 KOs) have reached a deal for a bout on April 12 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The bout would be a rematch of a highly-controversial June, 2012 meeting that resulted in Bradley taking the WBO welterweight title from Pacquiao via dubious split decision. Controversy … [Read more...]