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...]
Boxcino Has Its Own Final Four: ESPN Friday Night Fights Preview
by Fox Doucette What a Final Four we just witnessed in men's college basketball, huh? Well, now it's time for boxing's Final Four---two of them, in fact---in the junior middleweight and heavyweight Boxcino tournaments from the Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem, PA on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights. Stanyslav Skorokhod (9-0, 7 KOs) takes on John Thompson (15-1, 5 KOs) and Brandon … [Read more...]
Petr Petrov Sticks Fork In Gamaliel Diaz: ESPN Friday Night Fights Recap
by Fox Doucette Some nights you just want the referee to shut his gob and let guys fight. Despite the best efforts of Jack Reiss to talk the fighters to death for ten rounds, there was some actual boxing, as Petr Petrov (36-4-2, 17 KOs) scored a unanimous decision win over former world champion Gamaliel Diaz (38-12-3, 17 KOs) from Corona, California, in the ESPN Friday Night … [Read more...]