Once again, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr was given the opportunity to show that he was something more than a silver-spoon-fed champion who walked the yellow brick road to money, titles and notoriety and once again he failed in spectacular fashion being on the wrong side of a beating delivered by Saul Alvarez in last weekend’s infomercial for Alvarez/Golovkin in the fall. Chavez’s … [Read more...]
Chaos in Twilight. Miguel Cotto and Juan Manuel Marquez Still Aiming For Fight.
Former four-division champion and future Hall of Famer Miguel Cotto still remains one of boxing’s biggest names even though he hasn’t stepped foot in a boxing ring in nearly two years. Cotto is hoping to call an end to his legendary career by the end of 2017, having to hopefully fight two or three more times before calling it a career, but Cotto’s grand finale has misfired from … [Read more...]
Canelo Alvarez-James Kirkland…I’m Seeing Red: The Sunday Brunch
Hola familia, amigos y enemigos. Welcome to a cilantro, lime and guajillo chili pepper flavored edition of Central America's highest rated, most hard-hitting investigative pugilistic paper this side of the Panama Canal, The Sunday Brunch - We are to run-on sentences what Manny Pacquiao is to impromptu shoulder surgeries. This week we're touching on Canelo's rousing decapitation … [Read more...]
My Next Five Favorite Rounds: 6-10
My first five were as follows: 1. Diego Corrales vs. Jose Luis Castillo I (2005): Round 10. 2. Jake LaMotta vs. Laurent Dauthuille (1950): The 15th round 3. “Yaqui” Lopez vs. Matthew Saad Muhammad II (1980): Round 8. 4. Lee Roy Murphy vs. Chisanda Mutti (1985): Round 12: 5. Roy “Tiger” Williams vs. Earnie Shavers (1976): Round 10 Here are my next five: 6. Micky … [Read more...]
Ring Muggings: Part Twelve
Nobuhiro Ishida vs. James Kirkland (April 2011) "Kirkland is supposed to beat the hell out of him."—Max Kellerman "This is such a shocking upset that we didn’t have a [translator] on hand tonight." --Kellerman James Kirkland (27-0) had been in jail from April 2009 to September 2010 and had scored two stoppages on his return to the ring. Although he was a bit rusty in … [Read more...]