3/20 – Michael Katsidis (30-7, 24 KO’s) vs. TBA - The Melbourne Pavilion, Flemington, Victoria, Australia The former lightweight champ looks to rebound after a second round stoppage loss to Tommy Coyle in October. Assuming he finds an opponent, this is an eight rounder. 3/20 – Ronny Rios (23-1, 10 KO’s) vs. Jesus Navarro (22-9-1, 16 KO’s) - Fantasy Springs Casino, Indio, … [Read more...]
Under the Radar: November 20th – 26th, 2014
11/20 – Shawn Estrada (15-0, 13 KO’s) vs. Alfredo Contreras (13-17-2, 5 KO’s) - Sportsmans Lodge, Studio City, California, USA A 2008 U.S. Olympian, Estrada picks up a six rounder against the more experienced but not so dangerous Contreras, who has lost his last four bouts. 11/20 – Haskill Rhodes (22-0, 11 KO’s) vs. Miguel Angel Huerta (28-12-1, 18 KO’s) - Sportsmans Lodge, … [Read more...]
Under the Radar: Fights That Didn’t Make the Big Headlines – April 3rd – April 9th, 2014
4/3 - Leonard Zappavigna (31-2, 21 KO’s) vs. Shuhei Tsuchiya (15-3, 13 KO’s) - The Melbourne Pavilion, Flemington, Victoria, Australia Zappavigna looked like he was headed for big things when he beat Ji-Hoon Kim in an IBF eliminator nearly four years ago. After losing his world title shot to Miguel Diaz, he was stopped in his next bout by Ammeth Diaz and has reverted to … [Read more...]
Under the Radar: Fights That Didn’t Make the Big Headlines- July 26th, 2013
Koki Kameda (31-1, 17 KO’s) vs. John Apolinario (17-3-3, 4 KO’s) –Tokyo, Japan Kameda is making the seventh defense of his WBA world bantamweight title. The wildly popular Japanese fighter is a three time world champion, also having held the light flyweight and flyweight titles. His lone defeat came at the hands of Pongsaklek Wonjongkam in 2010, it cost him the flyweight belt, … [Read more...]
Apathy and Afterthoughts: The Southpaw
by Fox Doucette With one single exception (Pacquiao-Bradley on the 9th of next month), the entire sports universe is focused on the NBA and NHL playoffs and will be through about Father's Day. Huge media markets in hockey (LA in the west, NY/NJ in the east), big storylines in hoops (the Zombie Sonics looking to forcibly seize the torch from Tim Duncan, who is trying to make … [Read more...]