In one of Showtime’s supporting bouts Saturday night, WBC super-middleweight champion Sakio Bika (32-5-3, 21 KO’s) will defend the title against Anthony Dirrell (26-0-1, 22 KO’s) for the second time. The two fought a 12 round draw in December when they met at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. In the first contest, Dirrell handled himself well early on, his superior … [Read more...]
Crawford, Gamboa And What’s Right With Boxing: The Sunday Brunch
Hola family and welcome home to a thyme, rosemary and laurel leaf scented edition of Omaha's 145th most popular bite-sized weekly pugilistic paper, The Sunday Brunch - We combine like the boxing column equivalent of the real diecast Voltron, not those fake plastic re-release ones that came out years later, I'm talking a serious choking hazard, people...This week we're … [Read more...]
Klitschko, Mayweather, and the Mismatch; Magno’s Monday Rant
All mismatches are not alike. When Aussie truck driver, Alex Leapai made his ring walk to meet Wladimir Klitschko at the Stechert Arena in Germany on Saturday afternoon, he inspired all the confidence of portly ESPN boxing writer Dan Rafael taking his mark next to Usain Bolt in a 40-yard dash. And Klitschko-Leapai, as a main stage, supposedly elite-level contest was, … [Read more...]
Matthysse-Molina Steals Thunder of Thurman, Figueroa Showcase Wins
StubHub Center, Carson, California-- An anticlimactic mismatch in the main event between Keith Thurman and Julio Diaz was easy to forgive after two entertaining co-features on Saturday night's triple-header on Showtime. Predictably, the evening's welterweight main event saw a 25-year-old Thurman (23-0, 21 KOs) hitting a well-worn 34-year-old Diaz (40-10-1, 29 KOs) hard and … [Read more...]
Big Guns, Shaky Matchmaking This Saturday on Showtime
There's good news and bad news to be had this Saturday at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. The good news is that three of the sport's best offensive fighters will be on display in a Showtime triple-header. The bad news is that there's a distinct possibility that all three televised bouts will be ugly mismatches. In the main event, Keith Thurman (22-0, 20 KOs) … [Read more...]