Hello friends and welcome. Grab a Guinness and temper a porterhouse steak (or perhaps a veggie burger) - Heat up your grill, activate your immersion circulator and flip on the exhaust, we have a hot topic to discuss today. This week's Sunday Brunch is brought to you by Prometheus (the Sci Fi movie), but more on that later... In case you haven't heard by now, the man - Nay, … [Read more...]
Chavez Jr., Tim Bradley, Robert Guerrero And Orlando Cruz Are All (Mostly) In For It In The Mid-Week Hangover
First of all I would like to extend kudos to one Orlando Cruz who recently came out of the (no doubt fabulously color coordinated) closet. You should always be yourself and be proud of who you really are...Anyway, everyone was talking about Cruz for at least a few days and you can't buy that kind of exposure (the media coverage, not the In & Out/Brokeback Mountain kind of … [Read more...]
The Scorpion looks for his chance to sting the Cobra
Sakio 'The Scorpion' Bika (30-5-2, 21 KOs) is the latest fighter to throw his hat in the ring for the opportunity to throw the rest of himself in there when IBF Super Middleweight champion Carl 'The Cobra' Froch returns to action in early November. It's pretty much confirmed that rematches against Mikkel Kessler or Lucian Bute will happen but Froch has promised fans that we … [Read more...]
Stars Fail to Shine on HBO: Donaire Outpoints Mathebula, Pavlik Decisions Rosinsky
Home Depot Center, Carson, California-- It wasn't easy, but the judges' one-sided scorecards would give that impression as Nonito Donaire (29-1, 18 KOs) took a unanimous decision over Jeffrey Mathebula (26-4-2, 14 KOs) Saturday night on HBO's Boxing After Dark. Billed as a champion vs. champion showdown between WBO 122 lb. champ, Donaire, and IBF 122 lb. titlist, Mathebula, … [Read more...]
Kelly Pavlik, Still Coming Back, Faces Will Rosinsky on Donaire-Mathebula Undercard
On Saturday nights' HBO: Boxing After Dark series, live from the Home Depot Center in Carson, California, the fighting pride of Youngstown, Ohio will again try to convince his fans and handlers that he is ready to move back to the proverbial main stage of the sport. Kelly "The Ghost" Pavlik (39-2, 34KOs) will accept the challenge of the Queens born, New York club fighter, Will … [Read more...]