by Fox Doucette Three fights may have gone chalk, but the fourth one was one huge upset as the ESPN2 Friday Night Fights Boxcino tournament semifinals went down at the Sands Casino Ballroom in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. In the heavyweight division, Andrey Fedosov (27-3, 22 KOs) stopped Lenroy Thomas (19-4, 9 KOs) and Donovan Dennis (12-1, 10 KOs) utterly flattened Razvan Cojanu … [Read more...]
Boxcino Has Its Own Final Four: ESPN Friday Night Fights Preview
by Fox Doucette What a Final Four we just witnessed in men's college basketball, huh? Well, now it's time for boxing's Final Four---two of them, in fact---in the junior middleweight and heavyweight Boxcino tournaments from the Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem, PA on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights. Stanyslav Skorokhod (9-0, 7 KOs) takes on John Thompson (15-1, 5 KOs) and Brandon … [Read more...]
Brandon Adams, Stanyslav Skorokhod Score Big Boxcino KOs: FNF Recap
by Fox Doucette The quarterfinal round of the Boxcino junior middleweight tournament is in the books. Four men advanced; four men went home. The biggest punch of the night was the last, as pre-event favorite Brandon Adams (16-1, 11 KOs) fired off a right hook that matched his nickname of “The Cannon” to blast Alex Perez (18-2, 10 KOs) out in the fifth round. The other big KO … [Read more...]
ESPN Friday Night Fights Preview: Boxcino Returns
by Fox Doucette Live from the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, CT, the junior middleweights get their turn as the Boxcino tournament on Friday Night Fights pits up-and-coming fighters against each other to crown a new star contender in an already very deep 154-pound division. No main events (unless you count the favorite getting a good test), no co-features as such, just … [Read more...]