Official 2013 Boxing Thread: Year is over, please lock.
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Y'all gotta stop jumping the gun on this stuff
I just got around to seeing it on an actual monitor. How did you guys get fooled? the pixels look like it came off Sega Genesis.
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I rather see Trout Fight Ortiz. I see Trout Vs Lara being a snooze fest. Two defensive minded fighters with little to no pop. No, Thanks. I really don't see Trout winning either fight though.
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and why should have to move his training camp? if Garcia camp or golden boy is pushing for testing pay the extra money so he can train where he wants and it worksI said it before, Matthysse should just move to Oxnard for training camp. Maidana And Martinez are there so he can feel at home.
I think its the same deal he had with golden boy, he can use either one fight by fight.
Garcia VS lucas is not official yet, the hold up is Garcia camp wants drug testing and Lucas trains outside the country and it will cost to much.
but Garcia camp wants drug testing but like morales fight go on after 2 failed test?
and by all reports matthysse signed his contract weeks ago, its Garcia side that hasn't.
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I think its the same deal he had with golden boy, he can use either one fight by fight.
Garcia VS lucas is not official yet, the hold up is Garcia camp wants drug testing and Lucas trains outside the country and it will cost to much.
but Garcia camp wants drug testing but like morales fight go on after 2 failed test?
I said it before, Matthysse should just move to Oxnard for training camp. Maidana And Martinez are there so he can feel at home.
and why should have to move his training camp? if Garcia camp or golden boy is pushing for testing pay the extra money so he can train where he wants and it works
and by all reports matthysse signed his contract weeks ago, its Garcia side that hasn't.
Agreed, I'm just saying he should do it so Danny Garcia won't be able to come up with any more excuses. It might stop the fight from happening all together.
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Donaire Darchinyan 2 supposedly this November
Nice 
Tyson Fury's camp confirmed they've signed a deal to fight Haye. Should be a fun fight while it lasts.
A day late but here's the weekend wrap up.
Tyson Fury's camp confirmed they've signed a deal to fight Haye. Should be a fun fight while it lasts.A day late but here's the weekend wrap up.
A roundup of the past week's notable boxing results from around the world:
Saturday at Liverpool, England
Tony Thompson TKO5 David Price
Heavyweights
Records: Thompson (38-3, 26 KOs); Price (15-2, 13 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Would it be a repeat for Thompson or revenge for Price? It was a repeat as Thompson, the 41-year-old underdog, once again stopped Price in their rematch -- a fantastic action fight in which the two big guys slugged it out nonstop until Thompson finished a gassed Price.
The rematch, which took place at Echo Arena in Price's hometown, came in the next fight for both men, following Thompson's stunning second-round knockout of Price on Feb. 23, also at Echo Arena. Price, a 2008 British Olympic bronze medal winner and the 2012 ESPN.com prospect of the year, was a heavy favorite in the first fight also. As one of boxing's most prominent heavyweight hopefuls, he was expected to buzz through Thompson, a southpaw from Washington, D.C., on his way to an eventual world title shot against Wladimir Klitschko, who owns two knockout victories against Thompson.
After Price lost the February fight, he and his team opted for the immediate rematch and added hype to the bout by bringing Hall of Fame former heavyweight champ -- and arguably Great Britain's greatest fighter -- Lennox Lewis to help Price during his training camp. If anyone knows about rebounding from a heavyweight upset knockout, it's Lewis, who did it twice before retiring as champion and one of boxing's all-time greats. But nobody, not even Lewis, could help once the bell rang and Price fought the entirely wrong fight.
Rather than rely on his four-inch height advantage and use his jab, Price allowed the 6-foot-6, 259-pound Thompson to drag him into a slugfest. For a little bit it looked as though the 6-9, 250-pound Price, who turned 30 on the day of the fight (not much of a birthday present, right?), would be OK when he dropped Thompson with a hard right hand in the second round. But Thompson is a wily veteran with vast experience and was able to survive the shot because he hadn't taken the full force of the blow.
Once Thompson made it out of the second round, you could sense Price would be in trouble. He was taking shots, throwing wildly and not pacing himself at all. It made for a tremendously exciting fight. Price almost dropped Thompson again in the third round when it appeared that the ropes held him up after he ate a right hand, but no knockdown was called. Thompson had the edge in the fourth round and was doing serious damage as the round ended. Price had exerted so much energy through the first four rounds that he was dead-tired in the fifth when Thompson unloaded. Thompson rained numerous punches on Price, who backed into the ropes and continued to eat shots. Finally, Price more or less turned his back and leaned over one of the corner posts, forcing referee Marcus McDonnell to issue an eight-count. When he was done counting, it was clear that Price was in no shape to go on and McDonnell called off the fight at 1 minute, 55 seconds, giving Thompson another huge upset and sending Price's career into free fall.
After the fight, Thompson called for another title shot, this time against Vitali Klitschko (Wladimir's older brother and fellow titleholder). He also said he would be happy to return to England to face brash contender Tyson Fury. Neither fight is likely to happen any time soon, but Thompson is viable for any top contender at this point. But Price? He needs to re-evaluate his career and basically start over. His team needs to take it slow, get him more experience and more rounds. Can he fulfill his potential or is he ruined? Time will tell.
Saturday at Dortmund, Germany
Felix Sturm TKO4 Pedrag Radosevic
Middleweights
Records: Sturm (38-3-2, 17 KOs); Radosevic (27-1, 9 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Sturm, a three-time middleweight titleholder, has looked a bit long in the tooth recently, losing his belt in a unification fight to Daniel Geale of Australia last September followed by a decision loss to Sam Soliman in a February title eliminator. However, Soliman tested positive for a banned substance after the fight and the result was changed to a no-decision. Fighting for the first time since that controversial situation, Sturm, 34, of Germany, returned to action in an easy fight against a hand-picked opponent. Radosevic, 28, of Montenegro, has a glittering record, but he had never faced anyone remotely close to being a name opponent and, based on his knockout ratio, isn't much of a puncher.
The fight couldn't have gone any more according to plan for Sturm, who dominated. Sturm still has his boxing skills and will beat opponents like Radosevic all day long. Sturm has always had a terrific jab, which he put to good use against Radosevic. In the third round, he dropped Radosevic and then knocked him down twice more in the fourth round.
Sturm had been softening up Radosevic's body when he dropped him to a knee with a solid left hook to the flank in the fourth round. Radosevic was in major pain but got up at the count of seven and gingerly continued. Sturm hurt him again with a right hand to the head that sent Radosevic flying into the ropes. Sturm continued to pepper him with shots and was in total control when he landed another really hard left hook to Radosevic's body. Radosevic went down to a knee, and as referee Marlon Wright began counting, Radosevic's corner threw in the towel, prompting Wright to call off the fight at 2 minutes, 17 seconds.
Sturm is due to get another shot at Geale as long as Geale retains his title in an Aug. 17 defense against Darren Barker of England.
Saturday at London
Kevin Mitchell W8 Sebastien Benito
Lightweights
Score: 80-71
Records: Mitchell (34-2, 24 KOs); Benito (10-7, 3 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: When last seen in the ring, England's Mitchell, 28, was blown out in a fourth-round stoppage by lightweight world titleholder Ricky Burns last September. Making his return to the ring, Mitchell set himself up for bigger business with a dominant win as he shook off the rust of the layoff against Benito, who was outclassed but awfully game.
Mitchell dominated with his jab, which hurt Benito. He also dropped Benito just before the end of the seventh round en route to a shutout decision, which was rendered solely by referee Terry O'Connor, the way some nontitle bouts are judged in Great Britain. Considering Benito, 28, of France, took the fight on only a week's notice, he hung in there quite well against Mitchell, whom many expected to get the knockout. Benito lost his third fight in a row.
For the fight, Mitchell was back working with his amateur trainer, Tony Sims. Promoter Eddie Hearn said after the fight that the plan for Mitchell is a 10-rounder next and then "a big domestic fight." That could be a showdown with Anthony Crolla, who beat Gavin Rees two weeks ago, or a possible fight with the winner of the Derry Mathews-Tommy Coyle vacant Commonwealth lightweight title bout this coming Saturday.
Saturday at Tepic, Mexico
Omar Chavez W10 Charlie Navarro
Junior middleweights
Scores: 97-93 (twice), 96-94
Records: Chavez (30-2-1, 22 KOs); Navarro (22-7, 17 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Chavez, 23, of Mexico, is the son of legend Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. and the younger brother of former middleweight titlist Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. He has the name and the fighting spirit, just not the talent. Still, he gives a good effort and did so again versus Navarro, 33, of Venezuela, an experienced opponent who lost a welterweight world title bout in 2010 in Ukraine to Vyacheslav Senchenko. Navarro pushed Chavez hard, but he didn't have enough in his arsenal to win the fight.
Chavez, 23, of Mexico, has won two fights in a row since losing a decision for the second time to Jorge Paez Jr., son of the former featherweight titlist, last July. Navarro lost his second fight in a row, having also lost a decision to Paez Jr. last October.
Friday at Hartford, Conn.
Billy Dib W10 Mike Oliver
Featherweights
Scores: 96-92 (twice), 94-94
Records: Dib (36-2, 21 KOs); Oliver (25-4, 8 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: The main event of rapper star/promoter Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's first solo promotion was supposed to be a 180-pound bout between light heavyweight prospect Eleider Alvarez (12-0, 8 KOs) and faded former super middleweight title challenger Allan Green (32-4, 22 KOs). But first Green weighed in at 186 pounds, six over the contract limit, on Thursday. Then on Friday, just hours before the fight, he pulled out, claiming food poisoning from eating bad Chinese food.
With the fight off, former featherweight titlist Dib's match with Oliver, the hometown fighter from Hartford, was elevated to main-event status and they put on a surprisingly good show. Most figured Dib, 27, of Australia, would blow through Oliver, 33, who was coming off a 22-month layoff and a second-round knockout loss to former featherweight titleholder Juan Manuel Lopez. Oliver was also stopped in his other two losses and wasn't expected to give Dib much competition.
But he made it a fight and kept Dib off balance quite a bit with his moving, ducking, feinting and southpaw stance. But Dib did enough to win the decision, even if one judge had it even. He connected on more shots and landed the harder blows as he rebounded from losing his world title to Evgeny Gradovich by split decision in a grueling fight March 1.
Referee Michael Ortega inserted himself far too often in the fight and docked a point from Dib for an accidental low blow (and not an egregious one) in the second round. Oliver had gone down, but not from the low blow. He went down from the clean left hand to the ribs that Dib landed just before the borderline low shot, but Ortega missed it. Ortega docked another point from Dib on another weak low-blow call in the third round and threatened to disqualify him for another infraction. Dib laid off the body attack after that but still did enough to win the fight. Ortega never warned Oliver, who flopped to the mat multiple times in an apparent effort to get another point deducted from Dib.
Oliver, who landed a lot of counter right hands, opened a cut over Dib's left eye in the fourth round, which Dib needed six stitches to close after the fight.
Dib had a rematch clause in his contract with Gradovich, but it allowed Gradovich to take an interim fight, which he will do against mandatory challenger Mauricio Munoz on July 27 in Macau, China. A Gradovich victory would set up a rematch with Dib, who said after beating Oliver that he intended to exercise his right to a rematch.
Saturday at Liverpool, England
Tony Thompson TKO5 David Price
Heavyweights
Records: Thompson (38-3, 26 KOs); Price (15-2, 13 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Would it be a repeat for Thompson or revenge for Price? It was a repeat as Thompson, the 41-year-old underdog, once again stopped Price in their rematch -- a fantastic action fight in which the two big guys slugged it out nonstop until Thompson finished a gassed Price.
The rematch, which took place at Echo Arena in Price's hometown, came in the next fight for both men, following Thompson's stunning second-round knockout of Price on Feb. 23, also at Echo Arena. Price, a 2008 British Olympic bronze medal winner and the 2012 ESPN.com prospect of the year, was a heavy favorite in the first fight also. As one of boxing's most prominent heavyweight hopefuls, he was expected to buzz through Thompson, a southpaw from Washington, D.C., on his way to an eventual world title shot against Wladimir Klitschko, who owns two knockout victories against Thompson.
After Price lost the February fight, he and his team opted for the immediate rematch and added hype to the bout by bringing Hall of Fame former heavyweight champ -- and arguably Great Britain's greatest fighter -- Lennox Lewis to help Price during his training camp. If anyone knows about rebounding from a heavyweight upset knockout, it's Lewis, who did it twice before retiring as champion and one of boxing's all-time greats. But nobody, not even Lewis, could help once the bell rang and Price fought the entirely wrong fight.
Rather than rely on his four-inch height advantage and use his jab, Price allowed the 6-foot-6, 259-pound Thompson to drag him into a slugfest. For a little bit it looked as though the 6-9, 250-pound Price, who turned 30 on the day of the fight (not much of a birthday present, right?), would be OK when he dropped Thompson with a hard right hand in the second round. But Thompson is a wily veteran with vast experience and was able to survive the shot because he hadn't taken the full force of the blow.
Once Thompson made it out of the second round, you could sense Price would be in trouble. He was taking shots, throwing wildly and not pacing himself at all. It made for a tremendously exciting fight. Price almost dropped Thompson again in the third round when it appeared that the ropes held him up after he ate a right hand, but no knockdown was called. Thompson had the edge in the fourth round and was doing serious damage as the round ended. Price had exerted so much energy through the first four rounds that he was dead-tired in the fifth when Thompson unloaded. Thompson rained numerous punches on Price, who backed into the ropes and continued to eat shots. Finally, Price more or less turned his back and leaned over one of the corner posts, forcing referee Marcus McDonnell to issue an eight-count. When he was done counting, it was clear that Price was in no shape to go on and McDonnell called off the fight at 1 minute, 55 seconds, giving Thompson another huge upset and sending Price's career into free fall.
After the fight, Thompson called for another title shot, this time against Vitali Klitschko (Wladimir's older brother and fellow titleholder). He also said he would be happy to return to England to face brash contender Tyson Fury. Neither fight is likely to happen any time soon, but Thompson is viable for any top contender at this point. But Price? He needs to re-evaluate his career and basically start over. His team needs to take it slow, get him more experience and more rounds. Can he fulfill his potential or is he ruined? Time will tell.
Saturday at Dortmund, Germany
Felix Sturm TKO4 Pedrag Radosevic
Middleweights
Records: Sturm (38-3-2, 17 KOs); Radosevic (27-1, 9 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Sturm, a three-time middleweight titleholder, has looked a bit long in the tooth recently, losing his belt in a unification fight to Daniel Geale of Australia last September followed by a decision loss to Sam Soliman in a February title eliminator. However, Soliman tested positive for a banned substance after the fight and the result was changed to a no-decision. Fighting for the first time since that controversial situation, Sturm, 34, of Germany, returned to action in an easy fight against a hand-picked opponent. Radosevic, 28, of Montenegro, has a glittering record, but he had never faced anyone remotely close to being a name opponent and, based on his knockout ratio, isn't much of a puncher.
The fight couldn't have gone any more according to plan for Sturm, who dominated. Sturm still has his boxing skills and will beat opponents like Radosevic all day long. Sturm has always had a terrific jab, which he put to good use against Radosevic. In the third round, he dropped Radosevic and then knocked him down twice more in the fourth round.
Sturm had been softening up Radosevic's body when he dropped him to a knee with a solid left hook to the flank in the fourth round. Radosevic was in major pain but got up at the count of seven and gingerly continued. Sturm hurt him again with a right hand to the head that sent Radosevic flying into the ropes. Sturm continued to pepper him with shots and was in total control when he landed another really hard left hook to Radosevic's body. Radosevic went down to a knee, and as referee Marlon Wright began counting, Radosevic's corner threw in the towel, prompting Wright to call off the fight at 2 minutes, 17 seconds.
Sturm is due to get another shot at Geale as long as Geale retains his title in an Aug. 17 defense against Darren Barker of England.
Saturday at London
Kevin Mitchell W8 Sebastien Benito
Lightweights
Score: 80-71
Records: Mitchell (34-2, 24 KOs); Benito (10-7, 3 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: When last seen in the ring, England's Mitchell, 28, was blown out in a fourth-round stoppage by lightweight world titleholder Ricky Burns last September. Making his return to the ring, Mitchell set himself up for bigger business with a dominant win as he shook off the rust of the layoff against Benito, who was outclassed but awfully game.
Mitchell dominated with his jab, which hurt Benito. He also dropped Benito just before the end of the seventh round en route to a shutout decision, which was rendered solely by referee Terry O'Connor, the way some nontitle bouts are judged in Great Britain. Considering Benito, 28, of France, took the fight on only a week's notice, he hung in there quite well against Mitchell, whom many expected to get the knockout. Benito lost his third fight in a row.
For the fight, Mitchell was back working with his amateur trainer, Tony Sims. Promoter Eddie Hearn said after the fight that the plan for Mitchell is a 10-rounder next and then "a big domestic fight." That could be a showdown with Anthony Crolla, who beat Gavin Rees two weeks ago, or a possible fight with the winner of the Derry Mathews-Tommy Coyle vacant Commonwealth lightweight title bout this coming Saturday.
Saturday at Tepic, Mexico
Omar Chavez W10 Charlie Navarro
Junior middleweights
Scores: 97-93 (twice), 96-94
Records: Chavez (30-2-1, 22 KOs); Navarro (22-7, 17 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: Chavez, 23, of Mexico, is the son of legend Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. and the younger brother of former middleweight titlist Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. He has the name and the fighting spirit, just not the talent. Still, he gives a good effort and did so again versus Navarro, 33, of Venezuela, an experienced opponent who lost a welterweight world title bout in 2010 in Ukraine to Vyacheslav Senchenko. Navarro pushed Chavez hard, but he didn't have enough in his arsenal to win the fight.
Chavez, 23, of Mexico, has won two fights in a row since losing a decision for the second time to Jorge Paez Jr., son of the former featherweight titlist, last July. Navarro lost his second fight in a row, having also lost a decision to Paez Jr. last October.
Friday at Hartford, Conn.
Billy Dib W10 Mike Oliver
Featherweights
Scores: 96-92 (twice), 94-94
Records: Dib (36-2, 21 KOs); Oliver (25-4, 8 KOs)
Rafael's remarks: The main event of rapper star/promoter Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's first solo promotion was supposed to be a 180-pound bout between light heavyweight prospect Eleider Alvarez (12-0, 8 KOs) and faded former super middleweight title challenger Allan Green (32-4, 22 KOs). But first Green weighed in at 186 pounds, six over the contract limit, on Thursday. Then on Friday, just hours before the fight, he pulled out, claiming food poisoning from eating bad Chinese food.
With the fight off, former featherweight titlist Dib's match with Oliver, the hometown fighter from Hartford, was elevated to main-event status and they put on a surprisingly good show. Most figured Dib, 27, of Australia, would blow through Oliver, 33, who was coming off a 22-month layoff and a second-round knockout loss to former featherweight titleholder Juan Manuel Lopez. Oliver was also stopped in his other two losses and wasn't expected to give Dib much competition.
But he made it a fight and kept Dib off balance quite a bit with his moving, ducking, feinting and southpaw stance. But Dib did enough to win the decision, even if one judge had it even. He connected on more shots and landed the harder blows as he rebounded from losing his world title to Evgeny Gradovich by split decision in a grueling fight March 1.
Referee Michael Ortega inserted himself far too often in the fight and docked a point from Dib for an accidental low blow (and not an egregious one) in the second round. Oliver had gone down, but not from the low blow. He went down from the clean left hand to the ribs that Dib landed just before the borderline low shot, but Ortega missed it. Ortega docked another point from Dib on another weak low-blow call in the third round and threatened to disqualify him for another infraction. Dib laid off the body attack after that but still did enough to win the fight. Ortega never warned Oliver, who flopped to the mat multiple times in an apparent effort to get another point deducted from Dib.
Oliver, who landed a lot of counter right hands, opened a cut over Dib's left eye in the fourth round, which Dib needed six stitches to close after the fight.
Dib had a rematch clause in his contract with Gradovich, but it allowed Gradovich to take an interim fight, which he will do against mandatory challenger Mauricio Munoz on July 27 in Macau, China. A Gradovich victory would set up a rematch with Dib, who said after beating Oliver that he intended to exercise his right to a rematch.
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Here we go again
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Here is the REAL poster. This one doesn't look like it was done with crayola.
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That poster is clean. The other one looked amateurish lol.
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Stevenson vs Cloud in the works! Should be fireworks.
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Should be good...rumored Sergio Martinez vs Cotto fight. I actually think that would be a solid match up and exciting to watch, assuming we get the good Cotto
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Cotto is to small and will lose IMO, wouldnt mind watching it though.Hopefully after that Martinez fights Canelo, I think Martinez loses a decision but at least he gets a fat pay check and can retire.
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After his last fight I don't know how much Sergio has left.
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alvarado/provodnikov is in the works..
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that poster is 
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The Garcia vs Matthysse fight is happening. The news should break in the next few days.
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Lawd. :x
If Provodnikov puts forth half the effort he did against Bradley, he'll have two candidates for fight of the year this year.
That Bradley/Ruslan fight was vicious.
I just wish we could have a four-way fight. Bradley, Rios, Alvarado, and Ruslan. Last man standing.
Maybe Mike will pull back the reigns a bit, because he's a much better boxer than his Rios fights will give him credit for.
Feel bad for the guy though. His paycheck looks nothing like Rios' after his upcoming Manny fight.
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In what should be no surprise to anyone, Gary Russell Jr. has turned down a proposed fight with Ponce De Leon.
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Glen Tapia should make easy work out of Abraham Han tonight.
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