On Saturday June 8th at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada - Adonis Stevenson will challenge “Bad” Chad Dawson for his WBC Light Heavyweight title in a 12-round bout. HBO Sports will air the event. Dawson(31-2, 17 KO’s) will be looking to get back in the win column after his nightmarish dip down to Super Middleweight where he was dropped several times and finally … [Read more...]
The Boxing Tribune Year-End Awards: 2012
In a lot of ways, 2012 was the best of times and the worst of times for fight fans. Competition for the eyeballs of fight fans created at least the hint of an effort to deliver good fights to the public and, although Golden Boy and Top Rank still insist on playing promotional turf war, both companies did a decent job of making some of the best fights within their power to make. … [Read more...]
Malaise at Light Heavyweight
The light heavyweight division is no longer the weight class that brought us talents such as Roy Jones Jr. and Michael Spinks or hardcore legends like Archie Moore and Bob Foster. Over the years, the 175 lb. class has morphed into some sort of odd boxing limbo, full of photo ops and media-directed tough talk about bouts that nobody really has any intention of making. Nothing … [Read more...]
Ward Stops Dawson in Ten, DeMarco Crushes Molina in One
Oracle Arena, Oakland, California-- Hunger is something that can't be taught to a fighter-- and that was the big difference in Saturday night's Andre Ward-Chad Dawson bout on HBO's World Championship Boxing. Dawson (31-2, 17 KOs), the WBC light heavyweight champ coming down to challenge for Ward's WBC and WBA super middleweight belts, displayed the same lack of intensity and … [Read more...]
The Boxing Tribune Fight Previews (Ward-Dawson, DeMarco-Molina, Rubio-Baldomir, Bellew-Miranda, Adamek-Walker…more)
Andre Ward (25-0, 13 KOs) vs. Chad Dawson (31-1, 17 KOs) Oracle Arena, Oakland, California For better or worse, this is as close to an All-American mega-bout as we're going to get these days. From a curiosity standpoint, alone, fans have to be looking forward to this defense of Ward's WBC/WBA world super middleweight titles. Both fighters do frustrate, though. Ward looks … [Read more...]