5/30 - Francesco Pianeta (29-1-1, 16 KO’s) vs. Mickael Vieira (14-3-1, 7 KO’s) - Energie Verbund-Arena, Dresden, Sachsen, Germany In his second contest back since Wlad stopped him a year ago, Pianeta looks to add to his German International heavyweight title when he faces Vieira, who makes his 12 round debut, for the vacant WBO European heavyweight title. In December he … [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...]
Hatton, Senchenko & Ortiz. Plus The Living Fossil Record With Hasim Rahman; The Sunday Brunch
by Jesse Ian Lardies The Ghost of Hasim Rahman made his (hopefully) final appearance within the confines of a professional boxing ring this past Saturday against the undefeated Russian, Alexander Povetkin. Let's just say at age 39, The Rock hasn't aged as gracefully as some other fighters have. A painful loss was imminent and it was blatantly obvious from Rahman's abysmal … [Read more...]
Povetkin Smashes Rahman in Two Rounds, Pulev Stops Ustinov
Sporthalle, Alsterdorf, Hamburg, Germany-- It was hard to tell if Alexander Povetkin (25-0, 17 KOs) was that good, Hasim Rahman (50-8-2, 41 KOs) was that bad, or if it was a combination of both, but the defending WBA "regular" heavyweight champ had no trouble walking through the 40-year-old former world titlist en route to his third defense of the WBA's paper title. Russia's … [Read more...]
Alexander Povetkin: Between a Rahman and a hard place
Technically, Alexander Povetkin (24-0, 16 KOs) has a world title and, technically, he'll be defending that title against Hasim Rahman (50-7-2, 41 KOs) this Saturday in Germany. But Povetkin-Rahman is really more of a quick trip to the go-nowhere blankness of heavyweight purgatory than a title fight-- Two fighters with nowhere to go, for very different reasons, fighting to stay … [Read more...]