By Fox Doucette Short of setting off a brick of C-4, it's hard to imagine more explosiveness in a boxing ring than junior welterweight Ruslan Provodnikov (20-1, 13 KOs) and lightweight Ji-Hoon Kim (22-7, 18 KOs). Both are in action on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights series this week; Provodnikov faces David Torres (21-2-2, 13 KOs) and Kim squares off against Yakubu Amidu (20-2-1, … [Read more...]
You’re On TV, Fight Like It: The Southpaw
By Fox Doucette The fastest way to inspire a poor performance seems to be to say something nice about someone. Or so fans would be led to believe after all the glowing reviews of the 2011 Friday Night Fights season on ESPN2, where the matchmakers at the Worldwide Leader were rightly praised for putting on some tremendous fight cards, including the Fight of the Year between … [Read more...]
Sylvester, Geale Victorious; The Rest of the Weekend Action
Courtesy Fightnews.com: Sylvester dominates Oral By Karl Freitag In one of his most impressive performances, IBF middleweight champion Sebastian Sylvester (34-3-1, 16 KOs) successfully defended his title for the third time with a one-sided twelve round unanimous decision over #10 rated Mahir Oral (28-3-2, 11 KOs) on Saturday night at the Stadthalle in Rostock, … [Read more...]
The Boxing Tribune’s World Rankings: A Look at the Lightweights
As detailed earlier, The Boxing Tribune World Rankings offer a fair and accurate look at each of boxing's seventeen weight classes. Using a unique formulaic criteria based on activity and level of opposition within a fighter's own division, The Boxing Tribune stands firmly behind it's world rankings and hopes that others will use them as a standard of fairness in the … [Read more...]
Vazquez Wins IBF Gold, Mijares Smashes; The Rest of The Mexican Action
Laredo, Texas-- Miguel Vazquez (26-3, 12 KOs), of Guadalajara, Mexico, claimed the vacant IBF lightweight title via wide unanimous decision over Korean pressure fighter, Ji Hoon Kim (21-6, 18 KOs). Employing smart movement and sharp counters throughout all twelve rounds, Vazquez rendered Kim's come-forward style practically useless. The Korean would never let up the pace, … [Read more...]