Please lock.

If Manny ends up with Showtime, I believe the fight happens. If he stays committed to HBO? Not a chance.
 
Nice response by Pacquiao. Of course Mayweather won't accept the whole donate all the money to charity but it does scratch off the idea that Pacquiao just wants to now fight him because of his tax problems.

Wonder what will Floyd say
 
Pascal fights really dirty, hits behind the head far too much. Noticed this in his Hopkins fights and now again :smh:
 
HAWAII 5O said:
Although, Provodnikov isn't as popular yet, he would make the better fight for fans to see.
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I just meant because of reports saying Provodnikov doesn't want the fight since they both train with Roach and I think he even mentioned his relationship with Manny as one of the reasons too. He's a stand up guy and I respect him not just going after a pay-day, though I wouldn't blame him either.
 
After watching Bradley & Alvarado vs Provodinkov again last night, not too sure if Manny wanted any parts of Provodinkov.

As far as Manny vs Bradley 2, I think Bradley has something to prove so he'll be on his A game which should make the fight better than the first. That undercard has to be stacked if they expect more buys than the Rios fight.

Looks like GGG next fight on Feb 1st won't air live on HBO, gonna have to stream it or order from an independent PPV provider.


Should be some good fights this weekend with Mikey Garcia on HBO and Lamont Peterson on Showtime.
 
Canelo vs Angulo undercard has been set:

Leo Santa Cruz vs. Cristian Mijares
Carlos Molina vs. Jermall Charlo
Omar Figueroa vs. Ricardo Alvarez
Jorge Linares vs. Nihito Arakawa

Take notes Top Rank. That's how you put together an undercard.
 
Pascal puts to rest Montreal rivalry.

A roundup of the past week's notable boxing results from around the world:

Saturday at Montreal
Jean Pascal W12 Lucian Bute
Light heavyweights
Scores: 118-110, 117-111, 116-112
Records: Pascal (29-2-1, 17 KOs); Bute (31-2, 24 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: It was perhaps the biggest all-Canadian fight in boxing history, yet what a disappointment. Boxing fans throughout Quebec had talked about this fight for years and when they finally got it, with 20,479 filling up the Bell Centre, they got a fight that had clearly marinated for too long rather than a prime matchup when both fighters were at their best.

Pascal, the former light heavyweight champion, fought well enough and even looked dynamic in spots, seemingly energized by the presence of his pal, former pound-for-pound king and light heavyweight champ Roy Jones Jr. in his corner as an assistant trainer. There is no question that Pascal, 31, won the fight, and rather easily. But Bute? Oh, what a disappointment. It was as though the former super middleweight titlist's arms were caught in quicksand, because he just couldn't get off many meaningful punches, with the lone exception being the 12th round, when he briefly rocked Pascal and gave the impression that there was at least a chance for a miracle comeback. But it wasn't to be, and Pascal -- who was born in Haiti, came to Montreal as a small child and later represented Canada at the 2004 Olympics -- had a huge victory. Bute -- who was born in Romania, moved to Montreal as a young professional and became a citizen in 2012 -- on the other hand, looked like a fighter close to being done.

It has been a rapid fall from grace for the 33-year-old Bute, who as recently as late 2011 was in the midst of a dominant 168-pound title reign, having racked up his ninth successful defense. But then came a trip to England in May 2012 to defend his title against hometown hero Carl Froch. Bute was actually the favorite, but Froch walked through him in a resounding fifth-round knockout victory. Bute hasn't been the same, or close to it, since. His next fight was a titanic struggle in a points win against Denis Grachev, and then came a severe left hand injury that required surgery and forced the fight with Pascal to be postponed three weeks before they were scheduled to meet in May 2013. Coming off the 14-month layoff to face Pascal, Bute was rusty and seemingly lacked confidence, and Pascal took advantage.

While Pascal fired a lot of combinations and raised some minor swelling under Bute's left eye as early as the second round, Bute could do little else but follow Pascal around and land one punch at a time. Gone were Bute's big uppercuts and heavy body shots. Pascal, meanwhile, landed hooks and body blows and racked up points against his tentative rival.

Bute's only chance for the win in the 12th round was a knockout, and he went for it. He rattled Pascal with a series of shots and had him cornered, but Pascal kept his composure and survived, later trying to get folks to believe he had let Bute nail him repeatedly to make the end of the fight interesting in order to stoke interest in a rematch.

But even in Montreal, there is probably no interest in a sequel. Still, Pascal will always have this big win against the man who for years had been the more beloved of the two Montreal stars. Bute is going to have to think long and hard about what's next, while Pascal has plenty of options, including the potential for another huge all-Montreal fight against reigning world light heavyweight champ Adonis Stevenson, who watched Pascal-Bute ringside. They have some history together: Pascal beat Stevenson twice in amateur meetings. A pro fight would be quite the spectacle, one that ideally wont take too long to make.

Mike Perez D10 Carlos Takam
Heavyweights
Scores: 95-95 (twice), 96-94 Takam
Records: Perez (20-0-1, 12 KOs); Takam (29-1-1, 23 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: By now, boxing fans are acutely aware of what happened in Perez's most recent fight on Nov. 2. That's when he waged an all-out slugfest with Russian banger Magomed Abdusalamov and won a unanimous decision, only to learn the next day that Abdusalamov had required emergency brain surgery to remove a blood clot as a result of their extremely violent fight. Abdusalamov was put into a medically induced coma for more than a month, suffered a stroke and was expected to die. Although he survived and was eventually stable enough to be moved to a rehabilitation center, it was a severe brain injury and he is unlikely to make a full recovery. So with Abdusalamov still bedridden, unable to walk, talk or recognize those close to him, Perez set out to continue his career while his team wondered whether he would still have the zest for combat that he did before Abdusalamov's injury.

Wearing "Mago" stitched into his trunks and vowing to contribute a portion of his purse to the fund created to help Abdusalamov's family pay the mounting bills for his medical care, Perez, 28, a former member of the Cuban national amateur team who defected to Ireland, squared off with Takam, 33, a 2004 Olympian for Cameroon who lives in France and was largely unknown.

What we got was a tale of two fights. For the first four or five rounds, Perez was in total control of a slow-paced bout in which Takam, who had just won a fight on Dec. 18, did almost nothing except bust open a terrible cut over Perez's right eye courtesy of an accidental head-butt in the third round. Abel Sanchez, Perez's trainer and cutman, did a great job of closing the wound, although Perez said afterward that he had been woozy from the butt.

With Perez seemingly on his way to an easy decision against an unwilling opponent, Takam suddenly came alive in the sixth round, in which he landed a number of hard punches and rocked Perez with a strong right hand near the end of the round. Takam seemed to win every round from the sixth through the end of the fight, increasing his punch output while Perez failed to find the next gear on offense as he had in November.

Although many saw Takam winning the fight 6-4 in rounds, a draw is hard to argue with. Takam closed the gap in the second half of the fight when, according to CompuBox statistics, he outlanded Perez 133-102 over the final five rounds. Whether Perez was dazed from the bad head-butt early in the fight or has been affected by the Abdusalamov tragedy, nobody quite knows. But the numbers are telling: Perez threw 81 punches per round against Abdusalamov but averaged only 51 against Takam.

Although the result was a draw, it was more like a win for Takam, the heavy underdog with the low profile. For Perez, the draw has to be considered a setback given his poor performance over the second half of the fight.

Eleider Alvarez W10 Andrew Gardiner
Light heavyweights
Scores: 99-91, 97-93, 96-93
Records: Alvarez (14-0, 8 KOs); Gardiner (10-1, 6 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Alvarez, 29, a native of Colombia fighting out of Montreal, is one of boxing's top prospects. Coming off his biggest win, a decision against former super middleweight and middleweight contender Edison Miranda in September, Alvarez was due to face super middleweight contender Thomas Oosthuizen (who was going to move up in weight) in a fight that was supposed to be featured on the HBO telecast. It was a huge opportunity for Alvarez, but when Oosthuizen got injured and then released by his promoter two weeks before the fight, it was called off. Alvarez's shot to impress a national television audience also went down the drain when a suitable opponent couldn't be found on such short notice.

Instead, Alvarez wound up facing Gardiner, 26, of Ottawa, lower down the card. Alvarez won the fight, without question, but it wasn't the sort of impressive performance he probably had hoped for. Gardiner, as tough as they come, had some success in the middle rounds and won over the crowd, which booed Alvarez's uneven performance and cheered for Gardiner when it was over. Alvarez certainly didn't endear himself to the crowd by running and holding throughout the final round, probably figuring he had the win secured.

Also on the undercard, Quebec welterweight prospect Mikael Zewski (23-0, 18 KOs), 24, scored a seventh-round knockout of Krzysztof Szot (18-11-1, 5 KOs), 35, of Poland, in their scheduled eight-round bout. Zewski dished out a beating to Szot. He dropped him to his knees twice in the seventh round with body shots before referee Steve St-Germain called it off at 46 seconds.

Saturday at Hermosillo, Mexico
David Sanchez KO4 Marcos Demecillo
Junior bantamweights
Records: Sanchez (24-2-2, 19 KOs); Demecillo (19-2-1, 14 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Fighting to move a step closer to a shot at a vacant 115-pound world title, Sanchez, 22, picked up a solid victory in front of his hometown crowd in an exciting fight. It was a shootout that started fast, with both fighters having success. They both went on the attack from the outset, giving the fight a fast pace. They both landed plenty of shots, but Sanchez was getting the better of the action with his hooks and body shots. It was toe-to-toe all the way before the sudden ending.

Sanchez was lashing Demecillo, 23, who was fighting outside his native Philippines for the first time, with hooks and right hands to the body late in the fourth round. Although Demecillo was still throwing punches back, Sanchez was walking through the shots. Eventually, after taking several shots from Sanchez, Demecillo went down under heavy fire. As he got almost upright, he fell again and referee Gabriel Peralta waved off the fun slugfest at 2 minutes, 56 seconds, sending Sanchez's fans into a raucous celebration.

Demecillo dropped to 1-2 in his past three bouts and suffered his first knockout loss.

Saturday at Guadalajara, Mexico
Horacio Garcia KO1 Fernando Lumacad
Junior featherweights
Records: Garcia (25-0, 17 KOs); Lumacad (29-7-3, 12 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Garcia, 23, of Mexico, is a prospect who took a mild step up in competition by facing Lumacad, 27, of the Philippines, an experienced fighter who has lost to the likes of Jorge Arce, Hernan "Tyson" Marquez, Carlos Cuadras and Felipe Orucuta. Fighting in his hometown, Garcia made it an easy night's work. Lumacad was tentative from the outset, almost immediately backing into the ropes as Garcia came forward. Garcia popped him with a jab and a right hand, and Lumacad only covered up. Garcia also landed a body shot early.

Then, in an odd-looking sequence, Garcia landed a hard right hand directly on Lumacad's left wrist. Lumacad took a step back, shook his hand and Garcia didn't stop firing, landing a right and a left as Lumacad went down to a knee along the ropes. He immediately began pointing to his hand and wincing in pain. Referee Gelacio Perez counted him out barely a minute into the fight.

Lumacad was in severe pain and received medical attention right away, but first had to go through the agonizing process of having his glove removed. Lumacad dropped to 2-3 in his past five bouts. Garcia was fighting for the second time in two weeks.

Friday at Memphis
Ivan Redkach W10 Tony Luis
Lightweights
Scores: 99-90, 97-92, 97-93
Records: Redkach (16-0, 13 KOs); Luis (17-2, 7 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: The 27-year-old Redkach, a 2008 Olympic alternate for Ukraine now fighting out of Los Angeles, has been tearing opponents apart as a professional. He is a relentless pressure fighter. However, he hadn't faced any serious threats. At least Luis, 26, of Cornwall, Ontario, represented a step up in competition and gave Redkach, a southpaw, all he could handle in a very good fight.

The 99-90 scorecard was way too generous for Redkach, although there's no question he won the fight. He is going to make good TV fights for the next several years, but Luis, the chief sparring partner for junior featherweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux, also showed Redkach and his team that he isn't ready for the top lightweights -- at least not yet.

The action got off to a quick start in the first round when Luis appeared to score a knockdown on a left hand that forced Redkach to touch his glove to the canvas to steady himself. It was clear as day on the replay, but referee Randy Phillips, who was brutal all fight long, incorrectly ruled it a slip. (Phillips also crowded the fighters to the point that they might have thought they were fighting two guys and constantly broke them up for no reason, often robbing the bout of its flow.)

Redkach was landing a lot of shots late in the first round and then nailed Luis with a right hand that sent him to the canvas and almost through the ropes, although he wasn't badly hurt. In the sixth round, Redkach rocked Luis with a flush right hand and almost dropped him. Later in the round there was an accidental head-butt that left Luis with a nasty gash on his forehead and blood all over his face. In the end, Redkach was the harder hitter, but Luis was game to the end and made him work for everything.

Frank Galarza KO2 John Thompson
Junior middleweights
Records: Galarza (12-0-2, 8 KOs); Thompson (14-1, 5 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Galarza, 28, of Brooklyn, N.Y., fought just 11 amateur bouts before turning pro in 2010. He had the most memorable performance on the card, scoring a sensational knockout to take Thompson's undefeated record.

The fighters felt each other out in the first round, which was largely a jabbing contest. But then -- boom! -- Galarza jumped all over Thompson, 24, of Newark, N.J., who paints and is a ballet dancer away from the ring, as soon as the second round began. He immediately staggered Thompson with a right hand and kept throwing until connecting with a savage left hook that rendered Thompson like a rag doll. Thompson fell to the mat face-first, going down very awkwardly as his head was twisted to the side with his weight on his neck. He tried to get to all fours but then fell over, prompting referee Keith Hughes to call off the fight 16 seconds into the round.

It's early, but this could be in the honorable mention running for knockout of the year. Galarza couldn't have asked for a more impressive performance.

Antoine Douglas W8 Marquis Davis
Middleweights
Scores: 80-72 (twice), 79-73
Records: Douglas (12-0, 7 KOs); Davis (8-1-2, 5 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Douglas, 21, of Burke, Va., who scored a third-round knockout in his previous fight six weeks ago, was forced to go the distance with Davis, 24, of Tampa, Fla., but put on a strong performance in an entertaining, one-sided victory.

Douglas, who was a standout amateur, set the tone with a dominant first round -- he landed 41 of 65 punches, according to CompuBox -- and never let up. He wasn't able to score a knockdown, but in the sixth round, he did knock one of Davis' teeth out. Davis spit it into his glove and then dropped it on the mat before kicking it out of the ring. That's not something you see every day.

Douglas and Davis were a bit chippy with each other, throwing punches after the bell ended rounds and again when the fight came to an end. The way Douglas started, it seemed like he might get the stoppage, so Davis at least deserves a little credit for hanging in there through a very tough fight.

Maurice Hooker D8 Abel Ramos
Junior welterweights
Scores: 76-76 (twice), 77-75 Hooker
Records: Hooker (12-0-2, 9 KOs); Ramos (8-0-1, 4 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Hooker, 24, of Dallas, and Ramos, 22, of Casa Grande, Ariz., were both getting their first national TV exposure and fighting in a scheduled eight-round bout for the first time. Ramos had never even fought in a six-round fight before, so Hooker was a bit more experienced, including the fact he has also trained in camps with Miguel Cotto and Ruslan Provodnikov.

But Ramos was up to the task as the fighters put on a good give-and-take bout that ended in a reasonable draw. Ramos, fighting outside of Arizona for the first time, was trailing going into the final round but put together a big round to pull out the draw.

Delay in Maidana-Broner rematch.

Welterweight titlist Marco Maidana and Adrien Broner are still headed toward a rematch, but it isn't going to be in April, as Golden Boy Promotions chief executive Richard Schaefer and Showtime had planned.

Maidana scored two knockdowns and outpointed Broner to hand him his first defeat and win a 147-pound title in a dramatic fight on Dec. 14 in San Antonio. Earlier this month, Broner exercised his contractual right to a rematch and Schaefer said it would take place either April 19 or April 26.

But that was news to Maidana.

Although Maidana and manager Sebastian Contursi acknowledge Broner's right to a rematch, Contursi said Maidana won't be available to fight in April.

"After [Schaefer's] announcement [about April] had been made, [Maidana adviser] Al Haymon called me on the phone and we had this chat in which I explained to him that April was to soon for Maidana," Contursi told ESPN.com. "We did not get into any specifics of the potential rematch at all, but I've explained to him that Maidana is having a long-deserved vacation and, on top of that, his girlfriend Mariana is due to have their daughter in mid-March, and Maidana wants to be around for the birth.

"We've thought Maidana's impressive win was gonna earn him a unification fight against Mayweather in May. But one thing is Mayweather, and a totally different thing is Broner, needless to say. Mayweather is the best and he obviously calls the shots, but Broner is coming off a beating at the hands of Maidana, so if Al and [Golden Boy] think that a rematch is the best option, we need to understand Maidana [wants] to rest a bit before engaging himself in yet another fight with the guy he's just beaten. I think Al understood it and he said we'll talk again in the next few days."

All of this means that a rematch between Maidana (35-3, 31 KOs) and Broner (27-1, 22 KOs) probably will be pushed into at least the early summer.
 
No rush to see that Broner rematch, it'll probably be entertaining though. Would like to see how much **** he talks beforehand though :lol:
 
maddog345 said:
Canelo vs Angulo undercard has been set:

Leo Santa Cruz vs. Cristian Mijares
Carlos Molina vs. Jermall Charlo
Omar Figueroa vs. Ricardo Alvarez
Jorge Linares vs. Nihito Arakawa

Take notes Top Rank. That's how you put together an undercard.
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Jorge Linares vs. Nihito Arakawa will be shown on Showtime an hour before (8:00 pm EST) the PPV starts.
 
Lol @ the idea of getting Floyd anywhere near a ring for free. You guys have not been paying attention.
 
RavageBX said:
Lol @ the idea of getting Floyd anywhere near a ring for free. You guys have not been paying attention.
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I don't think anyone is expecting Floyd to accept that offer, not even Manny :lol:. It was just an attempt to get Floyd to stop mentioning Manny's financial issues as a reason for the fight.
 
Degenerate423 said:
 
RavageBX said:
Lol @ the idea of getting Floyd anywhere near a ring for free. You guys have not been paying attention.
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I don't think anyone is expecting Floyd to accept that offer, not even Manny
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. It was just an attempt to get Floyd to stop mentioning Manny's financial issues as a reason for the fight.
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But the flip side of that coin is expecting us to believe that Manny would actually do that. Nope lol. Neither of these guys interested in fighting for free and neither should. Ridiculous assertion from Manny. Both of these guys trying to sway the peoples perception.
 
What serious fighter in their right mind is going to fight a serious and meaningful fight to donate 100% to charity?

It's just posturing back and forth and then fans just come and either say "Oh, well Manny doesn't deserve the fight because he's desperate for now and now agrees to everything" or "Manny will fight for charity, he's definitely not broke and Floyd will never agree to those terms so he's afraid."

:lol:

I think they (and their camps) should shut the hell up about it already.
 
I think manny would really and truly fight for free. Of course it won't happen and nobody in his camp or around him would let it happen but I feel his intent was genuine. He wants this fight that bad that he would fight for free.

Like y'all said money mayweather ain't doing **** for free. And I'm not sure why he's ducking manny now in 2014. at 1 point it was because of the juice we know this but now it's like wtf are u ducking so hard for?

Still think he would beat manny tho and I don't think it would be close
 
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Anybody headed to Barclays for Ortiz/Collazo? Vic always receives a lovely reception.

Marcus Browne fighting again on the undercard. Would like to see him utilize the jab and box more, instead of seeking one flush KO shot.
 
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