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The SituAsian
Oct 29, 2006

I'm a mess in distress
But we're still the best dressed
AKA just keeping it warm for The Ninth Layer, aka that's a lot of parentheses and commas

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Well here we are past the dog days of boxing and ready to get into the meat of the money fights again. The year in pay per view kicks off when Canelo Alvarez tries to reclaim his mantle as the next big thing in boxing by taking on a very dangerous fighter in Alfredo 'Perro' Angulo. Manny Pacquiao and Tim Bradley got the wins they needed to set up one of the biggest rematches in years. Marcos Maidana stopped the Adrien Broner hype train and is set for a massive payday-albeit in a likely futile effort-against the one of the only two real cash cows left in the sport (the other being Manny), Floyd Mayweather. Continuing the theme of redemption, Miguel Cotto bounced back from losses to Mayweather and Austin Trout by hooking up with Freddie Roach and crushing Delvin Rodriguez and was rewarded with Sergio Martinez in Madison Square Garden. But not the same Sergio Martinez who once destroyed Paul Williams with one punch. The one who robbed Martin Murray in Argentina and has been dealing with injury and ducking Gennady Golovkin. With Golden Boy and Top Rank Promotions having isolated their fighters onto the Showtime or HBO banner, the truly intriguing (Pacquiao/Mayweather, Garcia/ Bradley, Miguel Cotto/Canelo) matchups remain temporarily out of reach but business carries on.

But perhaps even more interesting than the known is talking about the unknown. Julio Ceasar Chavez Jr. bounced back from a hellacious, totally self-inflicted, 18 months to defeat hard-charging but clearly over matched Brian Vera. This opens up the door for all sorts of possibilities at 160 (lol) through 175 but each potential opponent has their own unique hurdle. Carl Froch will rematch George Groves May 31st and needs to win big to be a draw outside of the UK. Gennady Golovkin pulled out of an April 26th bout with Andy Lee following the sudden death of his father and, regardless, is more likely to be fighting next in Monte Carlo than Las Vegas due to the paucity of big name takers. Andre Ward tied up Edwin Rodriguez last November in his comeback after a 14 month layoff due to shoulder surgery but the consensus pound for pound number 2 fighter might have to be content humbling brave newcomers while waiting for JCC Jr/Froch /Golovkin or perhaps one of the emerging light heavyweights to get another signature fight. Lower on the weight scale but dealing with similar problems is Guillermo Rigondeaux. The two time Cuban Gold medalist boxed circles around Nonito Donaire and was forced to wait until December to do the same to Joseph Agbeko. With less than fan friendly styles Ward and Rigondeaux are two fighters who have the reverence of those who post on boxing scene and bad left hook comments but-by design-lack the go the war style which has made favorites out of Ruslan Provodnikov, Lucas Matthyse and Mike Alvardo among others.

One division which used to have this problem was the light heavyweight division where Jean Pascal, Chad Dawson and Bernard Hopkins engaged in a series of bouts more amusing for the press conferences than the fights. All of that changed when Adonis Stevenson knocked Chad Dawson out with one punch in Montreal in June and has been no less impressive wiping out Tavoris Cloud and Tony Bellew since. In the same time frame Sergey Kovalev annihilated Nathan Cleverly in Wales and did the same to Ismail Silakh on the under card of Stevenson-Bellew. Both being HBO fighters seems to make a clash inevitable but things have a funny way of working themselves out. On the other side of the coin B-Hop remains B-Hop and is amazingly a champion at 48 albeit known much more for excitement outside the ring than inside.

Of course the money division was once the heavyweights but that has not been the case in a long time. Vitaly Klitschko has stepped away from boxing to lead the opposition (government?) in Ukraine. Whatever you may think of his style his courage is nothing short of awe-inspring. Godspeed, Dr. Iron Fist. His brother Wlad continues fighting dudes in Germany because no one really gives a poo poo in America. He’s also engaged to Hayden Panettiere which really surprises people who didn't know that before.

Upcoming TV schedule courtesy of Bad Left Hook
Saturday, May 17

The Forum, Inglewood, CA (HBO): Juan Manuel Marquez vs Mike Alvarado, catchweight (143 lbs), 12 rounds; Viktor Postol vs Selcuk Aydin, junior welterweights, 12 rounds; Diego Magdaleno vs Oscar Bravo, super featherweights, 10 rounds.

Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff, Wales (Sky Sports): Nathan Cleverly vs Sean Corbin, cruiserweights, 12 rounds; Lee Selby vs Romulo Koasicha, featherweights, 12 rounds; Gary Buckland vs Gavin Rees, rematch, lightweights, 12 rounds; Callum Smith vs Tobias Webb, super middleweights, 10 rounds.
Wednesday, May 21

First Direct Arena, Leeds, England (Sky Sports): Gavin McDonnell vs Josh Wale, super bantamweights, 12 rounds; Josh Warrington vs Martin Lindsay, featherweights, 12 rounds; Khalid Yafai vs Yaqub Kareem, super flyweights, 12 rounds; Stephen Smith vs Fernando David Saucedo, super featherweights, 10 rounds.

Friday, May 23

Turning Stone Casino, Verona, NY (ESPN2): Brandon Adams vs Willie Monroe Jr, middleweights, 10 rounds, Boxcino tournament final; Petr Petrov vs Fernando Carcamo, lightweights, 10 rounds, Boxcino tournament final.

Saturday, May 24

Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (SHO): Adonis Stevenson vs Andrzej Fonfara, light heavyweights, 12 rounds, for Stevenson's WBC title; David Lemieux vs Fernando Guerrero, middleweights, 10 rounds; Jermell Charlo vs Charlie Ota, junior middleweights, 10 rounds; Eleider Alvarez vs Alexander Johnson, light heavyweights, 10 rounds; Mikael Zewski vs Prince Doku Jr, welterweights, 10 rounds; Julian Williams vs Michael Medina, junior middleweights, 8 rounds; Kevin Bizier vs Carlos Leonardo Herrera, welterweights, 8 rounds.

TBA, United States (HBO): Bryant Jennings vs Mike Perez, heavyweights, 12 rounds, WBC eliminator; Daniel Geale vs Matthew Macklin, middleweights, 12 rounds; Edwin Rodriguez vs Marcus Johnson, super middleweights, 10 rounds.

Saturday, May 31

Wembley Stadium, London, England (HBO/Sky Box Office): Carl Froch vs George Groves, rematch, super middleweights, 12 rounds, for Froch's IBF and WBA titles; James DeGale vs Brandon Gonzales, super middleweights, 12 rounds, IBF eliminator; Jamie McDonnell vs Tabtimdaeng Na Rachawat, bantamweights, 12 rounds, for vacant WBA "regular" title; Kevin Mitchell vs Ghislain Maduma, lightweights, 12 rounds; Anthony Joshua vs TBA, heavyweights, 8 rounds.

Cotai Arena, Macao, China (HBO2 (Tape Delay)): Simpiwe Vetyeka vs Nonito Donaire, featherweights, 12 rounds, for Vetyeka's WBA title; Nicholas Walters vs Vic Darchinyan, featherweights, 12 rounds, for Walters' WBA title; Evgeny Gradovich vs Alexander Miskirtchian, featherweights, 12 rounds, for Gradovich's IBF title; Chris Avalos vs Yasutaka Ishimoto, super bantamweights, 12 rounds.

König Palast, Krefeld, Germany (SAT1): Felix Sturm vs Sam Soliman, rematch, middleweights, 12 rounds, for Sturm's IBF title.

Tropicana Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV (HBO Latino): Javier Fortuna vs Juan Antonio Rodriguez, super featherweights, 10 rounds; Luis Orlando Del Valle vs Luis Rosa, super bantamweights, 10 rounds; Sergio Mora vs Samuel Rogers, middleweights, 8 rounds.

Thursday, June 5

House of Blues, Boston, MA (FOX Sports 1): Logan McGuinness vs Mike Oliver, super featherweights, 10 rounds; Alexis Santos vs TBA, heavyweights, 8 rounds.

Friday, June 6

Turning Stone Casino, Verona, NY (SHO): Hugo Centeno Jr vs Domonique Dolton, middleweights, 10 rounds; Eddie Gomez vs TBA, junior middleweights, 10 rounds.

Saturday, June 7

Madison Square Garden, New York, NY (HBO PPV): Sergio Martinez vs Miguel Cotto, middleweights, 12 rounds, for Martinez's WBC title; Wilfredo Vazquez Jr vs Marvin Sonsona, rematch, featherweights, 10 rounds; Jorge Melendez vs Yuri Foreman, junior middleweights, 12 rounds; Andy Lee vs John Jackson, middleweights, 10 rounds.

Sport and Congress Center, Schwerin, Germany (ARD): Juergen Braehmer vs TBA, light heavyweights, 12 rounds, for Braehmer's WBA title; David Price vs Yaroslav Zavorotnyi, heavyweights, 8 rounds.

Saturday, June 14

Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY (HBO): Ruslan Provodnikov vs Chris Algieri, junior welterweights, 12 rounds, for Provodnikov's WBO title; Demetrius Andrade vs Brian Rose, junior middleweights, 12 rounds, for Andrade's WBO title.

Saturday, June 21

TBA, Los Angeles, CA (SHO): Gary Russell Jr vs Vasyl Lomachenko, featherweights, 12 rounds, for vacant WBO title; Robert Guerrero vs Yoshihiro Kamegai, welterweights, 10 rounds.

Mohegan Sun Pocono Downs, Wilkes-Barre, PA (NBC Sports): Anatoliy Dudchenko vs Nadjib Mohammedi, light heavyweights, 12 rounds, IBF eliminator.

Friday, June 27

Braehead Arena, Glasgow, Scotland (Sky Sports): Ricky Burns vs Dejan Zlaticanin, lightweights, 12 rounds; Willie Limond vs Curtis Woodhouse, junior welterweights, 12 rounds; Jon Slowey vs Chris Hughes, featherweights, 10 rounds.

Saturday, June 28

CenturyLink Center, Omaha, NE (HBO): Terence Crawford vs Yuriorkis Gamboa, lightweights, 12 rounds, for Crawford's WBO title.

Wednesday, July 2

Foxwoods Resort, Mashantucket, CT (ESPN2): Michael Farenas vs Mark Davis, super featherweights, 12 rounds.

Saturday, July 12

MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, NV (SHO PPV): Canelo Alvarez vs Erislandy Lara, junior middleweights, 12 rounds, for Lara's WBA "regular" title; Juan Manuel Lopez vs Francisco Vargas, super featherweights, 10 rounds.

Saturday, July 19

Cotai Arena, Macau, China (TBA): Zou Shiming vs TBA, flyweights; Guillermo Rigondeaux vs Jonathan Guzman, super bantamweights, 12 rounds, for Rigondeaux's WBA and WBO titles; Brian Viloria vs TBA, flyweights.
Friday, July 25

UIC Pavilion, Chicago, IL (ESPN2): Caleb Truax vs TBA, middleweights, 10 rounds; Mike Lee vs TBA, light heavyweights, 8 rounds; Mike Mollo vs TBA, heavyweights, 6 rounds.

Saturday, July 26

Phones4u Arena, Manchester, England (BoxNation): Tyson Fury vs Dereck Chisora, rematch, heavyweights, 12 rounds, for Chisora's European title and vacant British title.

Saturday, September 6

TBA, Germany (RTL): Wladimir Klitschko vs Kubrat Pulev, heavyweights, 12 rounds, for Klitschko's IBF, WBA, and WBO titles.

The SituAsian fucked around with this message at 02:05 on May 18, 2014

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The SituAsian
Oct 29, 2006

I'm a mess in distress
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Full Fights
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-8zGw-1YAM Oscar De la Hoya vs Manny Pacquiao, "The Dream Match", 12/6/08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iWcc1Me7xw Floyd Mayweather vs Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez, "The One", 9/15/13
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xofs84_miguel-cotto-vs-manny-pacquiao-2009-11-14_sport Manny Pacquiao vs Miguel Cotto, "Firepower", 11/14/09
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyaphs_andre-berto-vs-robert-guerrero_sport Robert Guerrero vs Andre Berto, 11/24/12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIlVQO71PbQ Timothy Bradley vs Ruslan Provodnikov, 3/15/13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFJ_2cRDAsA Danny Garcia vs Amir Khan, 7/24/12

(more to come including, hopefully, The Ninth Layer's updated pound for pound rankings)

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Declan MacManus
Sep 1, 2011

damn i'm really in this bitch

The slate for the next few weeks isn't exactly inspiring :/

Ninja PD
Jul 21, 2006
I think I'm more excited for Cotto/Martinez than Floyd's cinco de mayo show. Pac/Bradley 2 is going to be huge. Excellent OhPizzle.

The Ninth Layer
Jun 20, 2007

Haha serves me right for taking so long. I have a pretty comprehensive top 20 list that I still want to get out there, maybe in another thread. I had some awards written up too but it's probably a little past their expiration date.

I'm hoping I can find a bar in San Francisco showing the Canelo fight. The place I usually would go to around here is saving their money up for the Mayweather fight in May :/

Canelo-Angulo should be a good scrap between two game guys who are both in a bit of a do-or-die situation. This isn't really Pacquiao-Rios where we all knew who was going to come out looking good. Angulo's a hard hitter and he's aggressive as gently caress (maybe a lttile too aggressive for his own good). He's a better pressure-fighter than anybody Canelo has ever fought.

I would be hard-pressed to bet against Alvarez, and my feeling is that he'll come out looking sharp and focused right from the opening bell, putting some early hurt on Perro's fragile eye from the outside. I'm just not convinced that Canelo has the defensive chops or reflexes of a guy like Erislandy Lara, and he's been hurt by smaller guys before.

doctor thodt
Apr 2, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Canelo-Angulo is playing in movie theaters if you can't/don't want to find a bar. It's like $15 but totally worth it to watch the entire card on a huge screen.

The SituAsian
Oct 29, 2006

I'm a mess in distress
But we're still the best dressed

doctor thodt posted:

Canelo-Angulo is playing in movie theaters if you can't/don't want to find a bar. It's like $15 but totally worth it to watch the entire card on a huge screen.

This is what i did for canelo-Floyd. To anyone wondering about this I would highly recommend it to shelling out the money for the ppv at home or :files: Most of the energy was coming from the Canelo supporters (other than some guy yelling "lets go money team!" in between rounds) so even if Angulo isn't a big draw per se the atmosphere should be live.

It's pretty disappointing that only Golden Boy does these events and really goes to show how dependent Showtime as a centerpiece of its programming whereas boxing is really ancillary to hbo's lineup.

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
Nietzsche's Mustache
Canelo had to pay Angulo 100k to move the weight limit up to 155. There will be additional fines if he weighs in over 168 this morning (no such penalty for Angulo).

doctor thodt
Apr 2, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Molina-Charlo is off due to Molina apparently being a pedophile or somesuch, but that probably wasn't going to be much of a fight anyway. Canelo's brother Ricardo's fight will now move up to the televised PPV card.

ForbiddenWonder
Feb 15, 2003

Gregor Samsa posted:

Canelo had to pay Angulo 100k to move the weight limit up to 155. There will be additional fines if he weighs in over 168 this morning (no such penalty for Angulo).

Fuckin lol. Time to get fed to ggg or kovalev.

The Ninth Layer
Jun 20, 2007

There's already talk of canelo moving up in weight for the Cotto - Martinez winner, tbh I don't think either fight is realistic due to both of them being more or less HBO guys these days.

The Ninth Layer fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Mar 9, 2014

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
Nietzsche's Mustache

ForbiddenWonder posted:

Fuckin lol. Time to get fed to ggg or kovalev.

HBO, homie. Ain't gunna happen.

doctor thodt
Apr 2, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
This is better anyway.

http://www.badlefthook.com/2014/3/7/5483074/golovkin-vs-chavez-being-worked-on-for-july-12-at-the-forum

doctor thodt
Apr 2, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
:drat: thank god the Molina fight got canceled

Slaine
Feb 26, 2001
Hoping Angulo knocks Canelo on his rear end at least once.

balancedbias
May 2, 2009
$$$$$$$$$

Linares-Arakawa has been quite the battle :woop:

thehappyprince
Apr 4, 2006

Alastair Cock

i'm picking canelo tbh. i don't think angulo's chin and head movement is good enough. would love angulo to win tho

balancedbias
May 2, 2009
$$$$$$$$$

Lopsided but compelling action fights: The PPV

doctor thodt
Apr 2, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I guess Angulo's team are big Jose Sulaiman fans??

1st AD
Dec 3, 2004

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: sometimes passing just isn't an option.
I don't watch enough boxing to know poo poo about Angulo but I'm rooting for him based on this bizarre walkout song choice.

Prolly gonna lose a commanding decision, right?

ForbiddenWonder
Feb 15, 2003

This walkout song rules.

doctor thodt
Apr 2, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

1st AD posted:

I don't watch enough boxing to know poo poo about Angulo but I'm rooting for him based on this bizarre walkout song choice.

Prolly gonna lose a commanding decision, right?

He made Lara look bad and might have beaten him had the fight continued. Never count Angulo out, especially now under Virgil Hunter.

thehappyprince
Apr 4, 2006

Alastair Cock

angulo coming to the ring with a dog reminds me of the british bulldog and matilda

Slaine
Feb 26, 2001
Not too familiar with Angulo other than that he has heavy hands, but he's real slow. I see why he was picked for a comeback fight.

Canelo was throwing hard shots in that first round.

Marching Powder
Mar 8, 2008



stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.
jesus that first round must've felt like an eternity for angulo. canelo throwing fire.

1st AD
Dec 3, 2004

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: sometimes passing just isn't an option.
Angulo looks a lot better out the gate this round.

thehappyprince
Apr 4, 2006

Alastair Cock

what is angulo doing

Dangersim
Sep 4, 2011

:qq:He expended too much energy and got tired:qq:

I'M NOT SURPRISED MOTHERFUCKERS
This is a mauling.

Slaine
Feb 26, 2001
Angulo has zero snap on his punches. Somehow he looks arm weary from round 1. Seems like Canelo has hurt him badly already.

doctor thodt
Apr 2, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
You never see Virgil Hunter get that animated

Fentry
Mar 7, 2003



Jesus this is really one sided

1st AD
Dec 3, 2004

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: sometimes passing just isn't an option.

thehappyprince posted:

what is angulo doing

Trying hard not to die

Marching Powder
Mar 8, 2008



stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.
what the gently caress is angulo's head made out of?

Fentry
Mar 7, 2003



Marching Powder posted:

what the gently caress is angulo's head made out of?

Extremely tenderized meat

Dangersim
Sep 4, 2011

:qq:He expended too much energy and got tired:qq:

I'M NOT SURPRISED MOTHERFUCKERS
I'm getting a post sparring headache just watching this.

Mikemo Tyson
Apr 30, 2008
My god Angulo is getting hammered. Brilliant stuff from Canelo but it looks like he ran out of steam a bit in that round.

1st AD
Dec 3, 2004

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: sometimes passing just isn't an option.
Me too

But I've been drinking heavily so

KidDynamite
Feb 11, 2005

I wonder if Angulo will have anything for Canelo's 7th round slump.

balancedbias
May 2, 2009
$$$$$$$$$

Canelo always gasses but he can coast due to speed difference.

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Dangersim
Sep 4, 2011

:qq:He expended too much energy and got tired:qq:

I'M NOT SURPRISED MOTHERFUCKERS
Announcers didn't say anything but Canelo just buckled him with a jab.

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