Number 9-ranked jr. welterweight contender Mike Alvarado (32-0, 23 KOs) will take on ESPN Friday Night Fights alum, Mauricio Herrera (18-1, 7 KOs) on Saturday, April 14 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on the undercard of the Marquez vs. Fedchenko split-site pay-per-view also featuring Brandon Rios vs. Richard Abril. Alvarado, the former 2001 … [Read more...]
Juan Manuel Marquez and Brandon Rios Headline Patchwork PPV
Juan Manuel Marquez and Brandon Rios, both dealing with last minute substitutes, will co-headline a split-site pay per view on April 14th. Marquez (53-6-1, 39 KOs), who will be fighting in Mexico City, will take on the Ukraine's Serhiy Fedchenko (30-1, 13 KOs) for a hastily created WBO interim junior welterweight title. Fedchenko, whose career high-water marks are wins … [Read more...]
Thankful Thoughts and Terrible Turkeys: The Southpaw
By Fox Doucette Thanksgiving Day is upon us here at Southpaw World HQ and to steal a line from Max Kellerman, “These four things I know are true.” Turkey will be turned into plywood at homes across the nation. Some family will sit the birther Tea Party Republican conspiracy theorist next to the kid they had to drag away from the Occupy Wall Street protests to spend time with … [Read more...]
10 Attention-Worthy Fights in the Second Half of 2011
by Tim Harrison As we head into a weekend devoid of a marquee fight on HBO or Showtime, boxing fans in the states will be left to make do with only 3 televised cards this weekend: ESPN’s Friday Night Fights, Telefutura’s Solo Boxeo, and Saturday’s Top Rank Live on Fox Sports. In the spirit of spending the weekend looking for hidden internet streams of foreign fights, I’ve … [Read more...]
Bleed Him Dry: FNF Recap
by Fox Doucette Back in the early 1990s, Urge Overkill had a hit with “Sister Havana”, in which singer Nash Kato encouraged the titular character to “come around to my way of thinkin'.” The judges at ringside for tonight's Friday Night Fights card at Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula, California got brought around to a way of thinking that led to a flat-out robbery in the … [Read more...]