Mosely is gonna get the brakes beat off him. Manny is soo much faster than him.
Had to re-read that statement, Gunna...thought you said Mosley is gonna beat the brakes off of him.
I just want to know...is this fight seriously gonna generate money like Arum thinks it will? Who in their right mind thinks Mosley has a chance? At least against Floyd...he was coming off the Margarito W.
Hell, if you want to get technical...Mosley hasn't looked good since he fought and lost to Cotto. He looked like garbage against Mayorga until the 12th, I still believe once he got caught...Margarito proved to be extra ordinary, Floyd is well...Floyd, and Sergio Mora makes EVERYBODY look terrible.
EDIT:@ B-Hop.
Originally Posted by MFr3shM
Yup, Pascal couldn't even look at Bernard straight in the eyes. I got B-Hop winning a decision.
The Mosley/Pacquiao fight should've taken place after Mosley beat Margarito, but Freddy Roach said Mosley was too big for Pacquiao.
However, now that Mosley is over the hill and looked terrible in his recent fights they decide to fight him. Manny is going to tear Mosley to shreds.
The thing is with Shane..
Everything was set up perfectly for middleweight Daniel Jacobs. The 2009 ESPN.com prospect of the year had been moved quickly up the pro ranks and was set to fight for a vacant world title July 31 in Las Vegas against little known Russian Dmitry Pirog.
Even though Jacobs' beloved grandmother, Cordelia Jacobs, who helped raise him, had died a week before the fight, he was determined to go through with it. It would have been understandable had he pulled out.
But Jacobs started off well enough and held a slim lead on all three scorecards as the fight went to the fifth round. Then everything fell apart. The prospect was suddenly suspect after Pirog laid him out with a right hand to claim the belt.
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Just like that, the 23-year-old Jacobs was no longer a can't-miss kid. And now, five months later, he returns to the ring claiming that he has learned from his mistakes against Pirog.
"I want to get back on track where I left off," Jacobs said. "There are a few kinks to work out. I lost a fight. I didn't lose my skills. I still got to work on some things. Once they are worked out, I'll be a better fighter and a more experienced fighter."
Jacobs (20-1, 17 KOs) figures to plow through Dallas' Jesse Orta (7-13-2, 4 KOs), who is 1-7-1 in last nine fights, when they meet in an eight-rounder on the untelevised portion of the Jean Pascal-Bernard Hopkins light heavyweight championship fight Saturday night (Showtime, 10 ET/PT) at the Pepsi Coliseum in Quebec City.
While Orta is obviously a lesser-caliber fighter, Jacobs is just eager to get back in the ring and put the loss behind him. One of the things he worked on was staying off the ropes, a mistake he made against Pirog, who took advantage and drilled him.
"Staying off the ropes. That was my main thing," Jacobs said. "I was so used to fighting off the ropes with no worry, but I wasn't fast enough against Pirog, so now we got to go a different route and now stay off the ropes and keep my hands up. You can't just be one-dimensional."
Jacobs got by with the bad habit not only of laying on the ropes, but also leaving his hands down.
"It became clear to me this is something we need to make a priority," he said. "The guys I was sparring wouldn't take advantage of my flaws. Now we're stepping up with the big boys who will capitalize on every mistake. I've learned that."
Jacobs said he's at peace with the defeat and has put it behind him.
"Mentally, I'm fine," he said. "I've taken a loss before [in the amateurs]. It's no different. It's just a sport. Mainly, I want to focus on the things we did wrong. It didn't get me too down or have a traumatic effect on me. I still have the same skills as I had before. I am real excited about the future."
Golden Boy CEO promoter Richard Schaefer said the company still believes strongly in Jacobs' star potential and ability to become a champion.
"He's so young and I think he had this incident with his grandmother dying, who was like his mother. So I think there were distractions," Schaefer said. "Danny was maybe distracted, maybe a little underestimating Pirog, but I think Danny learned from that. You learn from these experiences and you start again."
About a week after the fight, Jacobs watched himself get knocked out on video. He's watched it a few times since. He said what gets to him more than the fact that he was stopped was that a lot of people saw it. But he said he still has confidence because he believes the loss happened because he did something wrong -- lay on the ropes with his hands down.
"It's something I saw that I did wrong in that fight," he said. "It gives me a great boost of confidence because I was still winning the fight. I still feel I belong."
Jacobs hopes to eventually get a rematch with Pirog.
"I want that more than I want a belt and a title shot," Jacobs said. "Deep down in my heart I feel like I can beat this guy. I don't feel I was overmatched. He had a little more experience but I felt I had the skills."
As for the fight Saturday, Jacobs doesn't consider it a big fight but said he has addressed his issues in the gym and is ready get back at it.
"Not that we overlook anyone, but this fight I want to try to target the things I've done wrong," he said. "I dot know if [Orta] will give me the pressure, but I will try to work on the things we said we would work on -- stay off ropes, take away his right hand."
[h3]Prescott wants rematch with Khan[/h3]
John Gichigi/Getty ImagesThere's more where that came from for Amir Khan if Breidis Prescott gets his way.
In 2008, unheralded Breidis Prescott of Colombia went to England and crushed Amir Khan in a mere 54 seconds to pull the huge upset at lightweight. Now they are both junior welterweights -- Khan owns a world title -- and Prescott hopes to fight him again.
"Khan said he specifically chose [Marcos] Maidana for an opponent and kept calling that fight his redemption for being knocked out by me," said Prescott, who is 3-2 since that win. "How does beating anyone other than me make up for what I did to him? If he wants his true redemption, if he truly wants to prove what happened was a fluke and remove all doubt from his name, then let's do it again. I'll go right to his backyard and knock him out again. Maybe he knows that and that's why he chose someone other than me to try and prove what I did wasn't real?"
Warriors Boxing's Leon Margules, who co-promotes Prescott with Lou DiBella, added, "You don't wrestle a polar bear to prove you can beat a tiger. They're two different fighters [Prescott and Maidana]. If Amir Khan wants to erase the memory of what happened to him, there's only one fighter he can do that against. Breidis Prescott is the man who knocked out Amir Khan, so if Khan is looking for true redemption, tell him it's a phone call away."
[h3]Huck faces Lebedev[/h3]
Boris Streubel/Getty ImagesMarco Huck, above, is expecting his toughest title defense to date when he meets Denis Lebedev.
Cruiserweight titlist Marco Huck of Germany makes his fifth, and perhaps toughest, title defense against mandatory challenger Denis Lebedev of Russia on Saturday in Berlin.
Lebedev (21-0, 16 KOs), a southpaw, is coming off a spectacular second-round knockout of Alexander Alekseev in a July title eliminator and the fight with Huck (30-1, 23 KOs) figures to be a slugfest.
"You never know, but I have a feeling that this fight will be my toughest test to date. Lebedev is believed to be very strong," Huck said. "He might very well be the best cruiserweight out there after me. Then again, maybe it will be a very easy fight for me. Who knows? It is impossible to tell before a fight. I am highly motivated, so let's see how it goes."
Huck admitted that he is nervous about the fight, but he views his nerves as a good thing.
"Being nervous is a very good sign. It shows that I take the fight seriously and it makes me cautious," Huck said. "I think the fans will witness an exciting clash. We have both proven that we are capable of finishing our opponents. It will be an exciting night."
Lebedev is confident: "Huck is in trouble on Saturday night. He is a very good fighter, and I respect all that he has achieved, but I plan to crush him."
Also on the card: Yoan Pablo Hernandez (22-1, 11 KOs) meets Ali Ismailov (18-3-1, 13 KOs) in a cruiserweight title eliminator with the winner to get a shot at titlist Guillermo Jones or interim titleholder Steve Herelius. Heavyweight contender Alexander Povetkin (20-0, 15 KOs) is also on the card, staying busy against Nicolai Firtha (19-7-1, 8 KOs).
⢠Super middleweight titleholder Lucian Bute's first fight of his new Showtime contract will come March 19 at the Bell Centre in Montreal. One potential opponent under discussion for Bute (27-0, 22 KOs) is Brian Magee (34-3-1, 24 KOs) of Northern Ireland. On the undercard, junior featherweight titlist Steve "The Canadian Kid" Molitor will make a mandatory defense against South Africa's Takalani Ndlovu (31-6, 18 KOs), whom Molitor has already defeated twice. Top Rank's Carl Moretti told ESPN.com he had worked out a deal with Bute promoter InterBox to put Molitor's fight on the card "but we don't know if it will be on Showtime," he said. "It was a natural. Molitor brings a crowd from Toronto to Montreal and that helps Bute and the Montreal crowd gets exposed to Molitor, so it's a win-win." Top Rank owns the rights to Molitor-Ndlovu after winning a recent purse bid for $215,000. It will be the first fight for Molitor (33-1, 12 KOs) since signing with Top Rank.
⢠Middleweight champion Sergio Martinez and interim titlist Sebastian Zbik have been ordered by the WBC to begin negotiations on the mandatory fight. If the sides decide to not make a deal, a purse bid has been scheduled for Jan. 7. Martinez, however, is coming off a huge second-round knockout win against Paul Williams in their Nov. 20 rematch and is looking for a much higher-profile fight, so it is unlikely he will face Zbik, meaning he might be stripped of his alphabet title -- although he is the lineal champion.
⢠In the immediate aftermath of Maidana's exciting (but losing) performance against Khan in their junior welterweight title bout last Saturday in Las Vegas, Golden Boy's Schaefer, who promotes Khan and co-promotes Maidana, and DiBella talked about a possible fight next year between Maidana and Andre Berto. Berto is in the running to land a May 7 shot against Manny Pacquiao, but he's a long shot to get the fight. However, it looks like a Berto-Maidana fight is unlikely. "Richard said he would explore it, but he needs to talk to Maidana and HBO told me [Wednesday] that they didn't think it would happen because Maidana wants to stay at 140," DiBella said. "HBO would be happy to buy the fight, but they don't think it can be made."
⢠Junior middleweight prospect Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (35-0-1, 26 KOs), a 20-year-old rising Mexican star, scored a near-shutout of former junior welterweight titlist Lovemore N'Dou on Dec. 4 in Mexico, but is headed back to the United States for his next fight. Schaefer said Alvarez's next bout likely will take place at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles in February or March. Schaefer said two opponents being discussed are welterweight titleholder Vyacheslav Senchenko and European welterweight champ Matthew Hatton, younger brother of Ricky Hatton. Schaefer said he was working with HBO to come up with a date because the network is interested in putting on Alvarez's next fight.
⢠The Klitschko brothers' K2 Promotions usually only has boxing cards televised on major German network RTL when either of them are fighting. But for the first time K2 and RTL are putting on a non-Klitschko card Feb. 26 in Ludwigsburg, Germany, when K2 heavyweight Johnathon Banks (25-1-1, 17 KOs) headlines against Germany's Luan Krasniqi (30-4-1, 14 KOs), the former European champion who is quite popular in his home country. "Krasniqi is definitely the toughest opponent I have fought as a heavyweight," said Banks, a former cruiserweight who has fought numerous times in Germany on Klitschko undercards. "I have a lot of respect for him but will not underestimate him and I will be in good shape to put on a great performance. I am the wrong opponent for him to choose as a comeback fight. I am 11 years younger than him and in the prime of my career." Krasniqi, who has lost two in a row by knockout to Alexander Dimitrenko and Tony Thompson, hasn't fought in two years. "I am looking forward to this opportunity to challenge a top-rated fighter like Banks because a win will move me closer to a fight with one of the Klitschkos," Krasniqi said. "I know that Banks is very talented and fast but he is not a big puncher and I will be ready for this fight. I am returning to the ring to get that title shot against Klitschko, not for the glory, attention, money or any other reason. I want to become the second German world heavyweight champion after Max Schmeling."
⢠British heavyweight prospect Tyson Fury (12-0, 9 KOs), now being trained by Hall of Famer Emanuel Steward, makes his North American debut Saturday night on the Pascal-Hopkins undercard in Quebec City. Fury will face Galen Brown (33-15-1, 20 KOs), who is 1-5 in last six with four knockout losses in the stretch. But even though the 6-foot-9 Fury, 22, has been considered soft, he had a rigorous training camp preparing for the fight. He trained in the camp of heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, whom Steward also trains, while he was getting ready to defend the title against Dereck Chisora. Klitschko-Chisora was eventually called off four days before the fight because of Klitschko's torn abdominal muscle. Fury, however, found it beneficial to train alongside the champ. "Camp with Wlad was terrific," Fury said. "It gave me a great deal of confidence to train alongside such a champion. I'm in terrific shape and very happy to be fighting on such a stellar bill with Pascal and Hopkins."
⢠Top Rank closes out "Top Rank Live" series Saturday night (Fox Deportes, 10 ET) when Mexican star Jorge Arce (55-6-2, 42 KOs), who gave up his junior bantamweight title earlier this year, faces Colombia's Adolfo Ramos (18-10-1, 10 KOs) in a junior featherweight bout in Campeche, Mexico. Arce hopes to get a shot against junior featherweight titlist Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. in 2011. Also on the card, Mexico's Ramon Garcia (14-1-1, 8 KOs) defends his junior flyweight title against Puerto Rico's Omar Soto (15-6-1, 6 KOs), a former title challenger who took the fight this week in place of Panama's Carlos Melo, who dropped out for undisclosed reasons.
[h3]Quotables[/h3]
"I'm going to knock out Mike Walker in two rounds. My mother could knock him out in two rounds." -- former welterweight champ Ricardo Mayorga, making a prediction on how his first fight in 27 months will go when he faces Walker in a middleweight bout on Don King's card at Miami's American Airlines Arena on Friday night.
"I would love to fight them. I'm ready to fight anybody. The Klitschko brothers offer their opponents little money. If they want to fight me and offer the right amount of money, I will fight them. HBO is interested in a fight with David Haye." -- heavyweight contender Tomasz Adamek, who knocked out Vinny Maddalone last week, on his desire to fight for a world title.
He doesn't have to fight an African American because Bernard Hopkins says he ducks them.
LAS VEGAS (AP)âA Las Vegas judge has issued an outstanding arrest warrant for boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. on a misdemeanor battery complaint alleging he poked a security guard in the face several times.
Las Vegas police Officer Bill Cassel said Thursday that the warrant issued Dec. 8 requires Mayweather to turn himself in or face arrest at any time.
FILE - This Sept. 10, 2010, fâ¦
AP - Dec 7, 7:16 pm EST Boxing Gallery Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Tony Abbatangelo signed the arrest warrant for Mayweather after a Dec. 7 hearing, then immediately recalled it. It was reinstated after prosecutors complained Mayweather had received special treatment.
The battery allegation stems from a Nov. 15 confrontation over parking tickets between the undefeated champion and a security guard outside Mayweatherâs home.
Mayweather faces a a six-month jail sentence and a $1,000 fine if convicted
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Originally Posted by TCERDA
Alright this has to be said. Why is Lucian Bute gettin so much hype??? I just dont understand. Not saying he is just ultra trash but dude has yet to fight a B+ fighter. The boxing world is making it seem like the Super 6 has to prove themselves to get a shot at Bute. A complete joke in my book. Any thoughts my fellow boxing heads?
Dope avyOriginally Posted by thacapt
Originally Posted by TCERDA
Alright this has to be said. Why is Lucian Bute gettin so much hype??? I just dont understand. Not saying he is just ultra trash but dude has yet to fight a B+ fighter. The boxing world is making it seem like the Super 6 has to prove themselves to get a shot at Bute. A complete joke in my book. Any thoughts my fellow boxing heads?
I never got the hype about him either.
Him and Lemieux are Canada's only hope after this Saturday.
Originally Posted by TCERDA
Dope avyOriginally Posted by thacapt
Originally Posted by TCERDA
Alright this has to be said. Why is Lucian Bute gettin so much hype??? I just dont understand. Not saying he is just ultra trash but dude has yet to fight a B+ fighter. The boxing world is making it seem like the Super 6 has to prove themselves to get a shot at Bute. A complete joke in my book. Any thoughts my fellow boxing heads?
I never got the hype about him either.
Him and Lemieux are Canada's only hope after this Saturday.B-Hop is that dude
