Top Rank Promotions has just announced that former eight-division world champ and current WBO welterweight champ, Manny Pacquiao, will be defending his belt against Australian Jeff Horn on ESPN. The Pacquiao-Horn bout has been slammed by critics since the very moment it was announced, but the fact that the bout is on basic cable TV rather than pay-per-view, does change … [Read more...]
The Lowly End of Yuriorkis Gamboa
The writing had been on the wall long enough to know that Yuriorkis Gamboa was headed for a fall sooner than later. His in-ring appearances had been sporadic with those performances coming meandering at best against pedestrian level opposition and had been fighting above his optimal weight for far too long. Finally, at the age of 35 and just two fights into a deal with … [Read more...]
Tony Harrison Beats Up The Janitor: ESPN Friday Night Fights Recap
by Fox Doucette Tony Harrison (21-0, 18 KOs) moved one step closer to graduating from the Deontay Wilder School of Early-Career Opponents as he knocked out Pablo Munguia (20-7, 11 KOs) in three rounds in a farce of a main event on ESPN2 Friday Night Fights from the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut. In the co-feature, we learned what happens when a guy who can't … [Read more...]
Tony Harrison To Clobber Pablo Munguia: ESPN Friday Night Fights Preview
by Fox Doucette Some main events are intensely competitive, closely fought affairs that lead to the good kind of controversy when a split decision could easily have gone to either fighter. Then...there's this week's Friday Night Fights main event on ESPN2 from Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut. Tony Harrison (20-0, 17 KOs), barely over a month removed from beating … [Read more...]
Three KOs and a Huge Boxcino Upset: ESPN Friday Night Fights Recap
by Fox Doucette Three fights may have gone chalk, but the fourth one was one huge upset as the ESPN2 Friday Night Fights Boxcino tournament semifinals went down at the Sands Casino Ballroom in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. In the heavyweight division, Andrey Fedosov (27-3, 22 KOs) stopped Lenroy Thomas (19-4, 9 KOs) and Donovan Dennis (12-1, 10 KOs) utterly flattened Razvan Cojanu … [Read more...]