Boxing discussion thread

[TheAdmiral]

NBC 3/7

Adrien Broner vs. John Molina Jr.
Adrien Broner wins by unanimous decision.
Scores: 120-108, 120-108, 118-110

Keith Thurman vs. Robert Guerrero
Keith Thurman wins by unanimous decision.
Scores: 120-107, 118-108, 119-109
Guerrero down in the 9th.

Abner Mares vs Arturo Santos Reyes
Abner Mares wins by unanimous decision.
Scores: 96-93, 98-91, 99-90
Reyes down in the 2nd.

 

[bobjustbob]

We didn't get the 3rd fight in NY. Ratings were good. I hope this takes off. Haymon Boxing is shelling out over $20M a year to NBC for this.

 

[RodgerBama]

I am with you Bob hopefully this will continue and grow. I think you are like I am and remember watching prize fights on network tv. Remember the days when you could turn on the tv and see a top ranked prize fight.

 

[bahodeme]

The third fight wasn't bad. I will say whoever was the ref in the second fight was no Larry Hazard. Hopefully that will be the only time I see him. But this was the first card so things should improve.

 

[bobjustbob]

They will have to strategically schedule the fights. NHL playoffs end in June but now you are competing with summer activities (people not staying home). Once you get back to school. you've got football and a new television season. They'll have the months after football to establish it's self but they'll have to gap that time with something engaging. Interest could easily be lost during that time.

 

[Baill Inneraora]

Not exactly timely, but I had the pleasure of meeting the champ James Buster Douglass at a charitable event he put on a couple weeks ago celebrating the 25th anniversary of him knocking out Mike Tyson to become the heavyweight champion of the world.

 

[TheAdmiral]

Spike 3/13

Shawn Porter vs. Erick Boné
Shawn Porter wins by 5th round KO.

Chris Arreola vs. Curtis Harper
Chris Arreola wins by unanimous decision.
Scores: 76-75, 78-73, 77-74

Andre Berto vs. Josesito Lopez
Andre Berto wins by 6th round TKO.

 

[TheAdmiral]

HBO 3/14

Steve Cunningham vs. Vyacheslav Glazkov
Glazkov wins by unanimous decision.
Scores: 116-112, 115-113, 116-112

WBA/IBF/WBO Light Heavyweight titles
Sergey Kovalev vs. Jean Pascal
Kovalev wins by TKO in Round 8.
Pascal down in the third.

 

[TheAdmiral]

Boxing adviser and manager Al Haymon's "Premier Boxing Champions" series is coming to ESPN and will replace stalwart show "Friday Night Fights" as the network's platform for live boxing beginning this summer, ESPN announced Wednesday.

ESPN and Haymon Boxing Management have finalized a long-rumored deal under which Haymon has purchased time on the network that will see the return of regular big-time fights to ESPN in prime time -- not ESPN2, where FNF has aired since 1998.

http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/i...pions-series-replace-friday-night-fights-espn

 

[TheAdmiral]

CBS 4/4

Artur Beterbiev vs Gabriel Campillo
Beterbiev wins by KO in Round 4.
Campillo down in the 1st.

WBC Light Heavyweight title
Adonis Stevenson vs Sakio Bika
Stevenson wins by unanimous decision.
Scores: 115-111, 116-110, 115-110
Bika down in the 6th.
Bika down in the 9th.

NBC/NBCSN 4/11
Peter Quillin vs Andy Lee
The bout was declared a draw.
Scores: 113-112 Lee; 113-112 Quillin; 113-113
Lee down in the 1st.
Lee down in the 3rd.
Quillin down in the 7th.

Danny Garcia vs Lamont Peterson
Garcia wins by majority decision.
Scores: 114-114; 115-113; 115-113

Errol Spence Jr vs Samuel Vargas
Spence wins by TKO in Round 4.
Vargas down in the 2nd.

Marcus Browne vs Aaron Pryor Jr
Marcus Browne wins by TKO after Round 6.

Felix Diaz vs Gabriel Bracero
Diaz wins by unanimous decision.
Scores: 97-91; 96-92; 98-90
Bracero down in the 8th.
Bracero down in the 9th.

 

[TheAdmiral]

https://twitter.com/Alexis_Texas/status/597186308864217089

 

[TheAdmiral]

Heavyweight Denis Boytsov has been involved in a serious non-boxing accident.

Boytsov has serious head trauma, is in a drug induced coma, was drunk, and is going to be a father in three weeks

 

[TheAdmiral]

Official attendance for Canelo/Kirkland was 31,588 at Minute Maid Park.

 

[TheAdmiral]

Gennady Golovkin and Roman Gonzalez both turned in excellent performances Saturday night

 

[TheAdmiral]

9 days to Golovkin/Lemieux!

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

This Mayweather-McGregor fight is a circus.


I would pay good money though to see McGregor tear that woman-beater within an inch of his life in a street fight. That would be money well spent.