3/28 Showtime Championship Boxing (Official Thread) + Dan Vs. Brook (IBF welterweight title fight)

[ChocolateGiddyUp]

The Champ ready

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

I got Russell, Charlo and Brook as winners. I love Brook's fighting style. Very clean and precise. He walks down his opponents a good amount as well.

I concur with this.

 

[patscorpio]

In my head I think Charlo is going to win but i really want Vanes to get his shyt together and get a W...this is a winnable bout for him

 

[Big Boss]

Cruz @ 0:33

 

[TheNig]

WI'll have it recorded. Saturday is my mother's birthday.

 

[patscorpio]

On Saturday evening at The Palms in Las Vegas, Jhonny Gonzalez defends his WBC featherweight championship versus Gary Russell Jr. SHOWTIME will televise the event, its first since agreeing to a deal to showcase Al Haymon's Premier Boxing Champions series.
Gonzalez (57-8, 48KOs) checked in at 125 lbs. for the third defense of the title he regained with a 1st round knockout of Abner Mares in Aug. '13. Russell Jr. weighed 125.75 lbs. for his second attempt at a featherweight title. His previous shot resulted in the lone loss of his career, dropping a 12-round decision to Vasyl Lomachenko last June.
In the co-feature, Vanes Martirosyan and Jermell Charlo square off in a 10-round contest. There is no title at stake, therefore it is unclear if there is a hard weight limit in place for the agreed-upon junior middleweight clash.
Martirosyan weighed 153 lbs., but Charlo showed up at 154.75 lbs., nearly a full pound above the junior middleweifght limit.
A similar occurrence took place earlier in the month, when Adrien Broner was believed to be overweight for his 12-round bout with John Molina Jr. It was later revealed that the contract came with a +/- 1 lb. tolerance, common in non-title fights.
While event handlers sort out whether or not Charlo has to lose any more weight, the two fighters appeared ready to go. Trash talk emerged on stage, with Martirosyan lunging forward with his head before their respective camps intervened.

Kell Brook was all smiles at Friday's weigh-in ceremony and for very good reason. The unbeaten welterweight enjoys a triumphant homecoming this weekend, as he faces mandatory challenger Jo Jo Dan in their title fight Saturday evening in Sheffield, England.
Both fighters made weight—Brook at a primed-and-ready 145.6 lbs., Dan at a finely tuned 146.25 lbs.—for the 12-round clash, which airs live on Sky Sports in the UK and also in a rare Saturday matinee edition of Showtime Championship Boxing in the United States. The Showtime portion will precede its already scheduled doubleheader airing later in the evening from Las Vegas.
The bout is Brook's first since claiming a welterweight belt from Shawn Porter last August, though far more significant is what he's since overcome to make it to this point. Brook was the vicitim of a macheté attack while vacationing last fall, somehow managing to survive—ever the fighter—but wounded to the point of having to sit out the rest of a 2014 ring campaign that was his best yet.
In bringing the belt home, Brook (33-0, 22KOs) makes his first title defense. While the general thought process these days is that belts don't matter in the wake of a significant fight, Brook is in a very good place these days. Both he and fellow unbeaten welterweight Keith Thurman hold major bargaining chips for those who stand in line for an opportunity that will likely never come—eyeing the winner of the May 2 superfight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.
Dan (34-2, 18KOs) earned his shot at the alphabet belt thanks to a pair of closely contested split decision wins over Kevin Bizier. The win in their rematch last November came as a final eliminator, with the 33-year old Dan moving into the mandatory contender slot.
Saturday marks the first title bid for the Canada-based Romanian boxer, who has won his last five starts.

 

[HARLEM AL]

WI'll have it recorded. Saturday is my mother's birthday.

Enjoy big homie.


















With that said,

Hopefully you come home to Gary Russlle getting knocked out

 

[L68]

Goldenboy suing Jhonny

http://m.espn.go.com/extra/boxing/story?storyId=12572283

 

[patscorpio]

Goldenboy suing Jhonny

http://m.espn.go.com/extra/boxing/story?storyId=12572283

distraction for jhonny?

 

[TheNig]

Enjoy big homie.


















With that said,

Hopefully you come home to Gary Russlle getting knocked out

What sorcery is this?



And shame on @Newzz for dappin' this rubbish.

 

[TheNig]

distraction for jhonny?

Nah pat. Don't give these nikkas the satisfaction. Cause when Jr kicks his ass from pillar to post these nikkas gone be like, "But Oscar was fukkin with Jhonny's head leading up to the fight. "


Ain't no distractions. He getting his ass whupped fair and square.

 

[krackdagawd]

at the disrespect being shown to Gonzalez, if anything #TeamArmsTooShort should be glad he has him fighting on Showtime again and not Showtime extreme.

 

[Dr. Acula]

Riding for my dude Brook

 

[ChocolateGiddyUp]

#specialones we in here

 

[Newzz]

Start off showing The Ohio Powerhouse losing his title