Please lock.

illphillip said:
I hope that fight goes down.

I rock with Danny. Obviously knew the Salka fight was a mismatch.

He's looked shaky in ONE fight. I'm not sure why people lose sight of this.

Somehow that outweighs wins over Khan, Morales, Matthysse, Judah etc.?
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No hate on his ability. I just feel that rather capitalizing on the streak he had against comp why pump tje breaks entirely?

He looked bad in 1 figjt thag was supposed to be a comi g out party in front of his home his heritage and laid an egg knly to come back and fight a total nobody.

Lets mot count judah as a quality win dude shuda been retired. Matthyse wasnt ready for that at all. I jus want 2 see him cintinue to dominate against the top not no name bums
 
monstar said:
illphillip said:
I hope that fight goes down.

I rock with Danny. Obviously knew the Salka fight was a mismatch.

He's looked shaky in ONE fight. I'm not sure why people lose sight of this.

Somehow that outweighs wins over Khan, Morales, Matthysse, Judah etc.?
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No hate on his ability. I just feel that rather capitalizing on the streak he had against comp why pump tje breaks entirely?

He looked bad in 1 figjt thag was supposed to be a comi g out party in front of his home his heritage and laid an egg knly to come back and fight a total nobody.

Lets mot count judah as a quality win dude shuda been retired. Matthyse wasnt ready for that at all. I jus want 2 see him cintinue to dominate against the top not no name bums
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I think your keyboard is broken.
 
BishopStrongBow said:
Lmao @ Matthyssee not being ready for that at all... Yet he was wrecking dudes and everyone had him killing Danny.
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Raises hand. Beating Khan surprised me, defeating "Machine" earned my complete respect. Met "Swift" in DC for Hopkins/Shumenov, dope dude. His bro and pops too.
 
I was hoping we would see Swift 3 times this year.. But maybe an early fight in 2015 and then summer and winter next year can happen depending on the level of comp they put him up against.
 
So according to Dan Rafael Wilder basically had no say. His contract forces him to turn it over to Haymon who has to approve of all deals or no fights take place.

Yes, he is satan.
 
HBO needs to blow them out of the water already. Speaking of which, if GGG, Kovalev, And Lomachenko win their next fights they should have an All Slav Everything PPV in 2015
GGG vs Korobov
Kovalev vs Beterbiev
Lomachenko vs ___

I know there's a few more Russian and Ukrainian cats in the woodworks that most of us haven't recognized yet. But I hear they're out there and will make a name for themselves in the States soon.
 
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Important language in Haymon’s form contract reads: “During the Term of this Agreement, ATHLETE agrees to render services solely and (more)


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That is why Quillin & Wilder could not accept deals from Roc Nation. #boxing


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Haymon's form contract provides for no minimum number of bouts per year and no minimum purse figures. #boxing

Yikes :lol:
 
Weekend wrap up.

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

Saturday at Cancun, Mexico
Cornelius "K9" Bundrage W12 Carlos Molina
Regains a junior middleweight title
Scores: 117-106, 116-109, 115-110
Records: Bundrage (34-5, 19 KOs); Molina (22-6-2, 6 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Bundrage is 41, but the man was in exceptional condition and seemed like he was on a mission to win. It was obvious in the way he fought. He knew he would probably have to dominate since he was fighting on enemy turf and that nobody was going to do him any favors. Molina, 31, was making his first defense, but just did not seem ideally prepared for the fight, which might be understandable given what he has been through in recent months, or the fact that he was coming off a 13-month layoff and looked rusty.

Molina, a longtime Chicago resident from Mexico, won the title in September 2013 by split decision against Ishe Smith on the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Canelo Alvarez undercard and his first defense was scheduled for March 8 against undefeated Jermall Charlo in Las Vegas on the Alvarez-Alfredo Angulo undercard. But a few days before the fight Molina was arrested on an outstanding warrant from an old case in Wisconsin. While in custody clearing that issue up, it was discovered that Molina was in the United States illegally. He was eventually deported to Mexico, where he had not lived since childhood. He was separated from his family and did not have it easy. With his mandatory due and unable to fight in the U.S., his promoter, Warriors Boxing's Leon Margules, convinced Bundrage, of Detroit, to come to Mexico for the fight.

On paper it did not shape up as an exciting matchup. Both fighters have been involved in some stinkers. But, in a pleasant surprise, they turned in an entertaining fight that started with a bang as Bundrage caught Molina with a clean right hand to knock him down in the first round. He had Molina in some trouble again in the second round and again in the eighth round. But in the eighth round, Bundrage also caught Molina with a shot behind the head and American referee Kenny Chevalier took a point from him.

Bundrage was the heavier puncher than Molina and cracked him with a lot of nice overhand rights and body shots. Molina never got in a rhythm on offense and his defense was porous. He got knocked down for the second time in the 10th round when Bundrage landed a hard right hand to the jaw. Molina, clearly rusty from the 13-month layoff, was not badly hurt, but it was a clean shot. At that point it seemed as though Molina would need a knockout to win and he simply does not have significant firepower.

Bundrage, a former contestant on "The Contender," regained the belt he once owned and successfully defended twice before losing it in February 2013 to Smith, who in turn lost it to Molina in his first defense. Bundrage bounced back from the title loss to easily outpoint Joey Hernandez in January in the title eliminator to become Molina's mandatory challenger.

Saturday at London
Lee Selby TKO9 Joel Brunker
Featherweight
Title eliminator
Records: Selby (20-1, 8 KOs); Brunker (27-1, 15 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Selby, 27, of Wales, and Brunker, 28, of Australia, who was fighting in England for the first time after two previous road fights in the United States, were meeting in a final eliminator for the right to challenge the winner of the Nov. 29 bout between world titleholder Evgeny Gradovich and Jayson Velez.

Selby was the big favorite to turn back Brunker and he did so in solid style. He did a very good job of boxing against Brunker, who had no answers and could not keep pace with Selby, who showed a full arsenal with a nice jab, good left hook and effective right hand (although he is a little wild with it at times). Basically Selby outclassed Brunker and put on a clinic until he finished him in the ninth round. First, Selby badly hurt him with a body shot and a right hand along the ropes. He survived that onslaught and was looking to get away, but Selby chased him down and forced him into the ropes with a left hook to the head. A few shots later, including a right and a left to the head, and Brunker sank into the ropes, sitting down on the middle rope as referee Marcus McDonnell waved off the fight at 2 minutes, 49 seconds. Selby simply dismantled Brunker in an excellent performance.

Anthony Joshua TKO2 Denis Bakhtov
Heavyweight
Records: Joshua (9-0, 9 KOs); Bakhtov (38-10, 25 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: It's easy to understand why people are so excited about Joshua's potential. The 2012 British Olympic gold medalist has been destroying opponents with ease even as he is gradually stepping up the level of his opposition. Promoter Eddie Hearn is desperate for him to get in some rounds and he just can't find an opponent who can take the 24-year-old past the third round.

Many thought Bakhtov, 34, a native of Kazakhstan living in Russia, would be the guy. The reason he was selected as the opponent for Joshua's first scheduled 10-round bout and his first regional title fight was because he was expected to go deeper into the fight than the past opponent. After all, the experienced Bakhtov had only been stopped once since 2005 by former world title challenger Manuel Charr, but that was from a hand injury.

Instead, Joshua, who has gained additional experience as a sparring partner for heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, tore Bakhtov apart in a great performance. Joshua took control immediately, hurting Bakhtov with a right hand just a minute into the fight that already had him on unsteady legs. For good measure, Joshua also opened a nasty cut over Bakhtov's left eye in the opening round and also had him in big trouble near the end of the round when he landed several more hard shots.

It was more of the same in the second round as Joshua pounded Bakhtov with right hands with abandon until referee Ian John-Lewis intervened to stop the fight at 1 minute. All Joshua needs is more experience and more rounds. If he proves he can take a shot as good as he can dish one out, you're looking at a future heavyweight champion. He is due back in the ring against British journeyman Michael Sprott in Liverpool, England, on Nov. 22 on the Nathan Cleverly-Tony Bellew rematch undercard.

Saturday at Merida, Mexico
Jorge Paez Jr. Tech. Draw 6 Aaron Herrera
Welterweight
Records: Paez Jr. (37-5-2, 22 KOs); Herrera (27-3-1, 17 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Paez, 26, of Mexico, the son of showman Jorge Paez Sr., a former featherweight titleholder, was looking to rebound from a majority decision loss in an upset against badly shot former junior welterweight titlist Vivian Harris on March 22. Herrera, 24, of Mexico, was looking to extend his winning streak to three fights in a row since back-to-back losses, including a knockout to fringe contender Selcuk Aydin 15 months ago.

Instead, they put on an entertaining scrap before it ended in an odd technical draw. After rumbling into the sixth round of a back-and-forth fight, Paez caught Herrera (seemingly accidentally) with a hard right hand behind the head during a three-punch combination. Referee Miguel Angel Canul immediately warned Paez about the foul and as he was admonishing him, Herrera walked across the ring and went down to his knees in a corner as he held the back of his head. After being given time to recover and having the ringside doctor check him out, Herrera was unable to continue and the fight was declared a technical draw. Can't you just feel a rematch coming?

Miguel Berchelt KO3 Antonio Escalante
Junior lightweight
Records: Berchelt (24-1, 21 KOs); Escalante (29-7, 20 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Berchelt, 22, of Mexico, blew out badly faded former junior featherweight contender Escalante (29-7, 20 KOs), 29, a Mexico native living in El Paso, Texas. Berchelt knocked Escalante down twice in the third round before referee Miguel Angel Canul stopped the bout at 2 minutes, 36 seconds.

Escalante has lost three of his last four fights with each loss coming by knockout. He probably should not be boxing anymore. Berchelt scored his 10th knockout in a row in his victories. His one loss, however, came during the stretch and came by first-round stoppage.

Friday at Indio, Calif.
Robinson Castellanos TKO5 Ronny Rios
Junior lightweight
Records: Castellanos (20-10, 13 KOs); Rios (23-1, 10 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Upset alert! Rios, 24, of Santa Ana, California, had been working his way toward a world title shot as one of the better up-and-coming featherweights out there and had looked good in recent fights. That is until he ran into Castellanos, 32, of Mexico, and got destroyed in stunning fashion in a fight for which Rios was the significant favorite. Although most of Castellanos' losses came early in his career -- he lost eight of his first 13 professional bouts -- he was coming off a ninth-round knockout loss Rene Alvarado in February and was supposed to be a quality steppingstone for Rios. But Castellanos was on his game. He was sharp and strong and battered Rios.

They came out quick and went right after each other. An accidental head but in the first round opened a cut over Castellanos' left eye. But he was getting the better or Rios throughout the round. He was also in control in the second round. He landed several shots that had Rios on shaky legs and then knocked him to his rear end with a short right hand during the onslaught. Rios looked like he was in big trouble when he got to his feet and was lucky to survive the round as Castellanos blasted away and nearly had him out on his feet.

Castellanos continued to stalk Rios and was landing hard right hands and doing damage. He applied relentless pressure on a fading Rios, who barely made it out of the fourth round. His corner could have done him a huge favor by stopping the fight right then, but they let him come out for the fifth round and Castellanos greeted him with a clean right hand to the head and followed up with a barrage, which forced referee Ray Corona to stop the bout 11 seconds into the round.

Antonio Orozco W8 Steve Forbes
Welterweight
Scores: 80-72 (three times)
Records: Orozco (21-0, 15 KOs); Forbes (25-14, 11 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Orozco, 26, of San Diego, is a rising contender who should be facing more meaningful opposition than Forbes at this point. Forbes, a 37-year-old long-faded junior lightweight titleholder, held a belt in 2000 and 2001 and has been nothing but a light-punching steppingstone for the past several years. The Los Angeles resident lost his sixth fight in a row and lost for the 11th time in 14 fights. And he was not even remotely competitive as Orozco, who outboxed him and outpunched him with ease to win a clean shutout in a totally forgettable fight.

Also on the undercard: 20-year-old Mexican junior featherweight Diego De La Hoya (7-0, 5 KOs), a first cousin of Hall of Famer Oscar De La Hoya (also his promoter), rolled to a shutout six-round decision against Luis Alfonso Ruiz (5-3-1, 2 KOs), 21, of Mexico. All three judges had the bout 60-54.

Wednesday at Biloxi, Miss.
Jermain Taylor W12 Sam Soliman
Wins a middleweight title
Scores: 116-109, 116-111, 115-109
Records: Taylor (33-4-1, 20 KOs); Soliman (44-12, 18 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: That Jermain Taylor is still fighting is surprising enough. That he got a shot at a world title even more surprising. That he actually won another belt? Wild.

Taylor, 36, of Little Rock, Arkansas, reigned as undisputed middleweight world champion after beating Bernard Hopkins in 2005 (and again in a rematch) and made four successful defenses before suffering four losses in a five-fight stretch, including three brutal knockouts between 2007 and 2009 to Kelly Pavlik, Carl Froch and Arthur Abraham. The crushing 12th-round KO to Abraham in the Super Six World Boxing Classic left Taylor with bleeding on the brain. Taylor was OK but most thought his career was over. Indeed, he dropped out of the tournament and was out of the ring for 26 months. After undergoing every brain test imaginable, Taylor was re-licensed in Nevada and mounted a comeback in late 2011. He won four fights in two years and, after 10 months off, got the unexpected shot at Soliman, 40, of Australia, who won a belt in May against Felix Sturm in Germany and got the biggest payday of his life (about $1 million or so) to defend it against Taylor.

Although it was a bit of a sloppy, ragged fight, mainly because the awkward Soliman does a lot of holding, moving and wild punching, Taylor dominated.

Taylor was in great shape and even though he must have a lot on his mind -- he faces two felony charges after allegedly shooting his cousin inside his house and firing and missing another person during a dispute -- he fought pretty darn well. Is he what he was at his peak? No. Is he still capable of competing with top middleweights? It looks that way.

The fight was somewhat competitive through the first four rounds but then Taylor took over. He was credited with knockdowns in the seventh, eighth, ninth and 11th rounds as the bout became an eventual blowout. Soliman was severely hampered after hurting his right leg when he got dropped by a right hand in the eighth round. He showed heart to keep going despite a limp and an inability to put his full weight on the leg, but Taylor gets credit for inflicting the injury and cruising to the victory in a fight few would have believed would happen a few years ago.

Andre Dirrell TKO4 Nick Brinson
Super middleweight
Records: Dirrell (23-1, 16 KOs); Brinson (16-3-2, 6 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Dirrell, 31, of Flint, Michigan, was a 2004 U.S. Olympic bronze medalist and the older brother of super middleweight world titleholder Anthony Dirrell. Many thought Andre would also have won a world title at this point in his career. But he lost his only shot to Carl Froch by split decision in 2009 during the Super Six World Boxing Classic. Dirrell dropped out of the tournament after his next fight, an 11th-round disqualification win against Arthur Abraham, who knocked him out with illegal punches after Dirrell had slipped to the mat.

Since that October 2010 bout, Dirrell has fought just four times. But two of them have come in the past two months since he reunited with adviser Al Haymon. Dirrell dominated Vladine Biosse in a fifth-round knockout win on Aug. 1 and returned with a similarly dominant victory in another mismatch against Brinson, 27, of Albany, New York.

Dirrell took his time and showed a lot of patience in the first few rounds as he tried to set Brinson up. In the fourth round, Dirrell hammered Brinson with a hard counter left hook. The shot nearly spun Brinson around and he nearly touched his glove to the mat but somehow stayed on his feet. But he was hurt and Dirrell pounced. He forced Brinson to a corner and was teeing off with abandon until referee Keith Hughes rightfully stepped in to stop the fight at 2 minutes, 12 seconds. Dirrell probably will fight again in December as he steamrolls toward an inevitable second title shot.
 
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