Las Vegas, Nevada: Juan Manuel Marquez 133.5 vs. Juan Diaz 135 Daniel Jacobs 159 vs. Dmitry Pirog 160 Sakio Bika 166 vs. Jean Paul Mendy 167 Joel Casamayor 138 vs. Robert Guerrero 138.5 Jorge Linares 132.5 vs. Rocky Juarez 132 George Groves 169 vs. Alfredo Contreras 169 Seth Mitchell 243 vs. Derek Bryant 201 Frankie Gomez 139 vs. Ronald Peterson* * Peterson will … [Read more...]
Why No Hype?
by Chris Milton This weekend, boxing kicks off a series of exciting fights with the wonderful HBO PPV card this Saturday night. A card so stacked with great fights that we at the Tribune keep having to check the date to make sure we haven't gone back in time to the Don King PPV shows of the nineties. Looking at the main event Marquez v Diaz 2, everyone seems to be coming … [Read more...]
Midweek Hangover – Ten Fights the Fans Want to See
by Chris Milton Over the past week or so we have run a thread on our forum www.thebtbc.com asking you what fights you want to see to close the year out. Over 30 different fights were chosen and it goes to show the strength of boxing at the moment with the fact only three fights were in everyone’s list. Enough chit chat onto the fights. 10. Shane Mosley v Andre … [Read more...]
Boxing Gets Back to Business
by Paul Magno With all the recent talk about negotiations, contracts and deadlines, you'd think boxing was a study of legal briefs and court orders instead of the business of fighting. But, take a deep breath, count to ten and come back home...Boxing is not about two prima donnas in a "he said-he said" hissy fit; It's about climbing in the ring and actually performing your … [Read more...]
Paul Magno’s Daily Grind: Thursday, July 15th
...Gonna Grind like it's 1999! * When HBO's Ross Greenburg recently ripped the Klitschkos and pretty much the entire heavyweight division a new one, he apparently didn't know that there was, indeed, an agreement in place to broadcast the upcoming Wladimir Klitschko-Alexander Povetkin on September 11th. The deal, according to Klitschko's manager, Bernd Boente, was that HBO … [Read more...]