Hello team and welcome to another star-studded episode of boxing's Sunday Brunch. This week we're chopping some big fights from over the weekend - from the Former Soviet Union all the way to the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey - Hold on to your locally grown blueberries and crack open an ice cold cerveza Quilmes (the national beer of Argentina), we're about to get … [Read more...]
Matthysse Crushes Peterson in Three, Alexander Walks Over Purdy
Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey-- Argentina's Lucas Matthysse (34-2, 30 KOs) walked right through Lamont Peterson (31-2-1, 16 KOs) Saturday night on Showtime, further making the case that he very well could be the best junior welterweight in the world or, at the very least, the most powerful. Competing at an odd 141 lb. catchweight, both fighters seemed to be … [Read more...]
Dierry Jean Eyes Lamont Peterson’s IBF Title
by Hans Olson “À bois nouex, hache affilée” is an old French saying, translating into what anglophones know as “an eye for an eye,” or “treating roughness with roughness.” Last Saturday at the Buffalo Run Casino in Miami, OK, Dierry Jean did just that. Against Los Angeles native Cleotis “Mookie” Pendarvis in a 140 lb. IBF eliminator live on Showtime, things indeed got … [Read more...]
Lamont Peterson vs. Lucas Matthysse: A throwback throwdown
by Tim Harrison A common complaint about modern boxing is that too many of the biggest stars in the sport have it too easy. The money that flooded the sport and exists today has created a business model that has guys brought up being fed a steady diet of pugs he’s sure to beat. That guy is always the star, and the opponent is nothing more than an opponent, brought in to lose … [Read more...]
The problem with The Problem (part two): This is boxing’s Sunday Brunch
Hello family and welcome to another episode of boxing's Sunday Brunch. This week we're taking a peek at the fallaciously glamorized life of Adrien Broner and how he is trying to parlay his success off of Floyd Mayweather's. We're all about the billions this Sunday so without further ado grab your Paydays™ and hold on to your stripper glitter, we're about to take a giant swig … [Read more...]