StubHub Center, Carson, California-- An anticlimactic mismatch in the main event between Keith Thurman and Julio Diaz was easy to forgive after two entertaining co-features on Saturday night's triple-header on Showtime. Predictably, the evening's welterweight main event saw a 25-year-old Thurman (23-0, 21 KOs) hitting a well-worn 34-year-old Diaz (40-10-1, 29 KOs) hard and … [Read more...]
Big Guns, Shaky Matchmaking This Saturday on Showtime
There's good news and bad news to be had this Saturday at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. The good news is that three of the sport's best offensive fighters will be on display in a Showtime triple-header. The bad news is that there's a distinct possibility that all three televised bouts will be ugly mismatches. In the main event, Keith Thurman (22-0, 20 KOs) … [Read more...]
The Boxing Tribune Year-End Awards: 2013
There were a lot of bright, glowing moments in 2013 for long-suffering hardcore boxing fans. A return to stacked (or semi-stacked) undercards saw some solid PPV co-features as well as some genuinely entertaining triple and quadruple-headers on HBO/Showtime. The cold war between Top Rank-Golden Boy and HBO-Showtime, instead of "ruining" the sport, actually saw all parties … [Read more...]
John Molina Vs. Andrey Klimov Headlines This Week’s Friday Night Fights Card
This Friday at Little Creek Casino Resort in Shelton, Washington, ESPN2's Friday Night Fights will feature hard-hitting lightweight, John Molina (25-2, 20 KOs) in his second bout back after an embarrassingly short 44 second TKO at the hands of then-WBC 135 lb. champ, Antonio DeMarco. Molina will be taking on undefeated Russian Andrey Klimov (15-0, 8 KOs) in a 10-round … [Read more...]
Mike Dallas Jr., FNF Poster Boy?: The Southpaw
by Fox Doucette Your columnist has had the pleasure of watching Mike Dallas Jr. (19-3-1, 8 KOs) fight on ESPN2 a total of four times, in which Dallas went 2-2 and by rights should've been 3-1 (Mauricio Herrera, who ought to change his ring nickname to “El Bandito” for his tendency to win robbery decisions, did not beat him fairly.) As Friday Night Fights regulars go, Dallas … [Read more...]