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Tomasz Adamek W12 Michael Grant
Scores: 118-111, 118-110, 117-111
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Rafael's remark: Adamek is the former cruiserweight champion and a former light heavyweight titlist. But he has established himself as a quality heavyweight contender at a time where they are not all that common. The Polish star, now based in New Jersey, won his fourth heavyweight bout in a row since moving up in weight last fall. Although Adamek had some rough moments against the big and experienced Grant, he still clearly won in what amounted to a dress rehearsal for a fight with champions Wladimir or Vitali Klitschko.
At 6-foot-7, Grant, who outweighed Adamek by 44 pounds (261-217) and had about a six-inch height advantage, was picked as the opponent for Adamek because of his size. Adamek's team wanted him to get the feel for fighting a really big heavyweight who is approximately the same size as the Klitschko brothers. But while Adamek, 33, did beat Grant, 38, it was a bit tougher than expected, despite the scores that could have been perhaps a tad closer. Adamek is clearly a top heavyweight, but nothing he did against Grant is going to give anyone the true belief that he will beat one of the Klitschkos. Still, that doesn't detract from what Adamek did. With a big Polish community in the Newark and Jersey City area, Adamek is one of the biggest draws in the United States. He drew passionate crowd of 10,972 to the Prudential Center, which has become his home base. One of the reasons he is such a good draw is because he usually makes excellent fights. Following up his quality victory against Cristobal Arreola in April, Adamek made for another entertaining fight against Grant, the faded former contender best known for being destroyed in two rounds in a 2000 heavyweight title challenge against Lennox Lewis.
Grant, 38, of Atlanta, was very tentative in the early going, giving away roughly the first five rounds of the fight -- an Integrated Sports pay-per-view headliner -- while he tried to figure out Adamek's speed and movement. Meanwhile, Adamek peppered him with shots, used a nice jab, gave him some angles and piled up points to the delight of the cheering and overwhelmingly pro-Adamek crowd. Grant finally found some success in the sixth round, wobbling Adamek and opening a cut over his right eye. He opened another cut over Adamek's left eye in the eighth round. Adamek was slowing down in the late rounds, but it was clear he would win if he could stay on his feet. Grant finally let it all hang out in the 12th round. He hurt Adamek, had him reeling and trying to hold on. Grant chased after him and looked like he was on the verge of doing serious damage, but Adamek somehow managed to stay upright and make it to the final bell in the dramatic final round. Had Grant started the fight a little quicker, perhaps the outcome would have been different.
Adamek may return to headline another Main Events-promoted card at the Prudential Center in November. Former contender Lance Whitaker, another giant sized heavyweight, has been mentioned as a potential opponent. Whomever Adamek faces, Main Events is going to keep him busy. They are not going to be held hostage by television networks who don't want to give him a date. Good for them. Adamek is becoming one of the few must-see fighters in the United States.
Grant had been largely irrelevant since a knockout loss to Dominick Guinn, but his eight-fight winning streak, all against no-name opponents, came to an end. So, too, probably has his opportunity for another major fight, although he fought pretty well over the second half of the fight.
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Joel "Love Child" Julio W10 Jamaal Davis
Scores: 99-93, 98-92, 97-93
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Rafael's remark: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, the Love Child! Julio rebounded from a rough loss in April, when Alfredo Angulo knocked him out in the 11th round on HBO in an interim title bout. It was another disappointing defeat for Julio, who has not lived up to the potential that made him the 2005 ESPN.com prospect of the year. When he has stepped up in competition he has lost. His losses have all come to top fighters: Carlos Quintana, Sergei Dzinziruk in a world title bout, James Kirkland and Angulo. So Julio dusted himself off and faced Davis, who proved to be the perfect opponent. He was sturdy and fought back, but got manhandled. Julio, 25, of Colombia and now living in Miami, hit him with everything, but give Davis credit for taking some massive shots and hanging in there to make it to the final bell. Julio and his handlers at Main Events said the plan is to bring him back to welterweight, where he had success early in his career. He weighed 152 for the fight with Davis and will try to move even lower for his next fight. He is probably better served being at welterweight, because at junior middleweight he does not have the kind of explosive power that got so many so excited about him a few years ago. Davis, 29, of Philadelphia, lost for the second time in his last three bouts.
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[tr][td][/td][/tr]Welterweight[tr][td]Records: Ali, 9-0, 5 KOs; Arroyo, 20-13-1, 4 KOs
Sadam Ali KO5 Lenin Arroyo
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[/table][table][tr][th=""]Saturday at Tijuana, Mexico[/th][/tr][tr][td]Junior lightweight[/td][/tr][tr][td]Records: Hernandez, 21-2, 14 KOs; Terry, 24-4, 14 KOs
Joksan Hernandez KO1 Ira Terry
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Guillermo Rigondeaux TKO7 Jose Angel Beranza
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Rafael's remark: If you've never heard of Rigondeaux, you're either not a boxing or you've been hiding under a rock somewhere. The 29-year-old Cuban defector is perhaps the greatest amateur in history. His two-time Olympic gold medals are only part of his legendary amateur career that included two World Amateur Championships gold medals, a Pan-American Games gold medal, seven Cuban national titles and nearly 400 fights. Finally, after a failed defection attempt in 2007 with teammate (and now fellow pro prospect) Erislandy Lara, Rigondeaux defected in February 2009 and now makes his home in Miami. He turned pro in May 2009, but his pro progress stalled due to all kinds of issues over his management and promotional contracts. However, a couple of months ago, the issues were resolved and Top Rank came on board as his promoter. This was Rigondeaux's first fight under the new deal, as well as his first fight with trainer Ronnie Shields, with whom he trained in Houston alongside one of Shield's other blue chippers, Lara. In the opening bout on "Top Rank Live," Rigondeaux thrashed Beranza, 34, of Mexico, who had no chance. Rigondeaux might as well have been pulling the wings off a fly. He counterpunched at will, slipped most of the return fire and dropped Beranza twice in the fourth round because Beranza never saw his incredibly fast hands coming. Rigondeaux punished him throughout the fight until he retired on his stool 10 seconds into the seventh round. Rigondeaux is on the ultra fast track. Top Rank plans to bring him back Nov. 13 on the Manny Pacquiao-Antonio Margarito HBO PPV undercard, possibly in a title eliminator against Ricardo Cordoba, and then, if he wins, a title fight could come his way within a couple of fights after that. With all that amateur experience and accomplishment, not to mention his age, there is nothing holding him back from moving very fast.
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[table][tr][th=""]Saturday at Erfurt, Germany[/th][/tr][tr][td]Cruiserweight[/td][/tr][tr][td]Records: Huck, 30-1, 23 KOs; Godfrey, 20-2, 10 KOs
Marco Huck TKO5 Matt Godfrey
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Rafael's remark: Huck, 25, who was fighting in front of his home crowd, gave them a treat as he absolutely dominated Godfrey for a punishing, one-sided destruction. Huck, making his fourth defense, was so clearly the superior fighter in every way, especially in terms of pure physical strength. Godfrey just had nothing to keep him off. Huck floored the 29-year-old from Providence, R.I., three times overall before the fight was finally called off. The first knockdown came at the end of the second round on a big-time right hand. Godfrey hit the deck again in the third round courtesy of an accidental low blow. In the fifth round, he was down twice more, on a right hand early in the round and then during a flurry that sent him down again, through the ropes and onto the ring apron. Godfrey was allowed to continue, but after taking roughly two dozen more unanswered shots over the next several seconds, referee Geno Rodriguez called off the annihilation at 2 minutes, 18 seconds. It was an excellent performance for Huck, who is a rugged, strong fighter with good power and a nose for the finish. His promoter, Sauerland Event, which promotes several other quality cruiserweights, including titlist Steve Cunningham (the only man to defeat Huck), intends to put on a Super Six-style tournament in the cruiserweight division beginning later this year. A rematch/unification fight between Huck and Cunningham is supposed to be part of it. For Godfrey, the trip to Germany was a waste because he showed nothing. It was his second fight in Germany and second defeat. He also lost a decision to Rudolf Kraj in a 2008 title eliminator. Godfrey wound up going to Germany because he had blown off a March fight with Cunningham for a vacant belt when it was briefly called off. When it was re-scheduled two days later, Godfrey said he had stopped training and withdrew from the fight, losing his opportunity to fight Cunningham and winding up in Germany, where he got crushed.
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[/table][table][tr][th=""]Saturday at Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic[/th][/tr][tr][td]Junior welterweight[/td][/tr][tr][td]Records: Diaz, 7-0, 5 KOs; Perez, 23-40-4, 18 KOs
Felix Diaz TKO2 Alex Perez
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Mercito Gesta KO7 Genaro Trazancos
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Erislandy Lara TKO1 Willie Lee
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Rafael's remark: It's only a matter of time until Lara, the exceptional former Cuban amateur standout, gets a title opportunity. The 2005 world amateur champion defected and turned pro in 2008. The blue chip prospect has been on the fast track since. Lara, 27, now based in Miami, needed a mere 108 seconds to blast out Lee, 30, of Gulfport, Miss, in the main event of an ESPN2 card. Lara, a southpaw in his second fight with trainer Ronnie Shields, who now also trains Lara's amateur buddy Guillermo Rigondeaux, dropped Lee with a quick right-left-right combination. Lee went down to his rear end but was up quickly. Lara, however, was unrelenting. He went after him and pounded him with a series of left hands against the ropes during a follow-up attack, forcing referee Laurence Cole to intervene. Tremendous performance for Lara, but not entirely unexpected. Lee has been stopped in his six of his seven defeats and five of them have been by knockout, including his previous fight, which was a third-round knockout loss to 2004 U.S. Olympian Vanes Martirosyan. Lara's handlers would love to match him in something meaningful in his next fight. They would love to get a fight with Alfredo "Perro" Angulo or a title fight. They think he's ready.
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Yordanis Despaigne W10 Frank Paines
Scores: 100-89, 99-90, 96-93
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Yordenis Ugas TKO2 Marqus Jackson
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2010 Official Boxing Thread: Soto/Antillon, 2010 Fight of the Year.
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Sorry there's no need for cruiserweihht super 6. El diablo got that hemmed up since USS Cunningham Took a step back
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im reading this list of names and keeping asking myself who the +%+! is that
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Watch your %%%$@@$ mouth Gunna.
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im die laughing if james tony wins this weekend
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SOLIS .....was a beast , i think he's only like 29-30....he DESTROYED hayes in the olympics
at the slurping of hayes from the commenters
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If I were Pascal's people, I'd stay away from that fight.
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I'd take it in a heartbeat...
Pascal WILL BEAT Hopkins. It'll put a HOF name on his resume.
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It's a lose/lose situation.
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Pascal doesnt gain anything for beating a future HOF'er??
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a 45 yr old who has looked bad in his last 3 fights?
what would he gain? who's gonna be like "O snap, Pascal just ran thru the eXecutioner" !?
Hopkins must not really think much of Pascal neither, cus it was about a yr ago Hopkins wanted no parts of a fight with Chad Dawson, claiming he didnt want to mess up the future fighters of our sport (
) but now he's almost in hurry to fight Jean.
what would he gain? who's gonna be like "O snap, Pascal just ran thru the eXecutioner" !?
Yvon Michel, promoter for WBC/IBO light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal, says an all-Canadian super-fight with IBF 168-pound king Lucian Bute is not going to happen. Michel reached out to Bute's promoters, InterBox, who showed little interest in the match. He believes Bute's promoters are afraid to take a chance.
"It's difficult to say. But publicly, the owner of InterBox, and the promoter of Lucian Bute have said that they are not interested in moving up to light heavyweight. They prefer to stay at 168. But in my opinion, it's really because they are afraid that Bute will lose and look bad against Jean Pascal," said Michel.
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer has a fighter who is ready, willing and able to fight Pascal at the Bell Centre in Montreal. Bernard Hopkins advised Schaefer of his interest in accepting the fight. Pascal would love to take the fight. Before anything, Michel has to crunch the numbers.
"We have a letter from Bernard Hopkins' lawyer who said that they would like to have a meeting or a conference call with us to discuss the possibility of a fight with Hopkins," said Michel. "I know that Jean Pascal would be thrilled to fight Bernard Hopkins. But I don't know financially speaking if it's feasible or not."
Hopkins is not the only possible candidate in the running for Pascal. Don King contatced Pascal's agent, Don Majeski, trying to set up a unification with IBF champion Tavoris Cloud. And a rematch with Chad Dawson, who Pascal recently decisioned, is also another option.
"I know that Don King contacted our agent, Don Majeski, of the possibility of a fight with Tavoris Cloud. That's one of the goals of Jean Pascal to unify the titles at some point, so there's a possibility of that as well," said Michel.
"I have a meeting with Mr. [Senior Vice President of Sports] Kery Davis of HBO, and he had expressed interest in the rematch with Chad Dawson. That's another possibility that we could go directly with a fight with Chad Dawson. But we can take a fight in between. So after my meeting with Kery Davis, we'll sit with HBO and we will see what we'll do and what the preference is."
"It's difficult to say. But publicly, the owner of InterBox, and the promoter of Lucian Bute have said that they are not interested in moving up to light heavyweight. They prefer to stay at 168. But in my opinion, it's really because they are afraid that Bute will lose and look bad against Jean Pascal," said Michel.
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer has a fighter who is ready, willing and able to fight Pascal at the Bell Centre in Montreal. Bernard Hopkins advised Schaefer of his interest in accepting the fight. Pascal would love to take the fight. Before anything, Michel has to crunch the numbers.
"We have a letter from Bernard Hopkins' lawyer who said that they would like to have a meeting or a conference call with us to discuss the possibility of a fight with Hopkins," said Michel. "I know that Jean Pascal would be thrilled to fight Bernard Hopkins. But I don't know financially speaking if it's feasible or not."
Hopkins is not the only possible candidate in the running for Pascal. Don King contatced Pascal's agent, Don Majeski, trying to set up a unification with IBF champion Tavoris Cloud. And a rematch with Chad Dawson, who Pascal recently decisioned, is also another option.
"I know that Don King contacted our agent, Don Majeski, of the possibility of a fight with Tavoris Cloud. That's one of the goals of Jean Pascal to unify the titles at some point, so there's a possibility of that as well," said Michel.
"I have a meeting with Mr. [Senior Vice President of Sports] Kery Davis of HBO, and he had expressed interest in the rematch with Chad Dawson. That's another possibility that we could go directly with a fight with Chad Dawson. But we can take a fight in between. So after my meeting with Kery Davis, we'll sit with HBO and we will see what we'll do and what the preference is."
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if bernard beats pascal at age 46 , im seriously putting him in my top 15
whats he's done past the age of 35 makes about as much sense a fish with *******
whats he's done past the age of 35 makes about as much sense a fish with *******
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Bernard looked bad against Kelly Pavlik???Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT
a 45 yr old who has looked bad in his last 3 fights?
what would he gain? who's gonna be like "O snap, Pascal just ran thru the eXecutioner" !?
Hopkins must not really think much of Pascal neither, cus it was about a yr ago Hopkins wanted no parts of a fight with Chad Dawson, claiming he didnt want to mess up the future fighters of our sport () but now he's almost in hurry to fight Jean.
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Yea I didnt mean the Pavlik fight but Im guessing you missed Ornelas fight, Hopkins Looked BAD, just as bad as he looked vs Roy.
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Forreal.
This is what they should honestly do for that fight:
1 Round Boxing
1 Round Wrestling
1 Round MMA
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Sounds good to me.Originally Posted by Proshares
Talking about going straight to the semis w/Dirrell-Ward and Froch-Abraham and just kicking Green out.
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I didn't miss it. I'll admit, he didn't look the greatest but he was offlike 14 months and maybe ring rust was a factor. Ok I'm prolly being a little biased since I'm a die hard BHop fan. Lol
