so it would be paulus moses...who just had a fight last month
well nihito arakawa is 4..its been in a while since i seen him fight..hell im surprised hes still fighting to be honest lol
Essential The Official Boxing Random Thoughts Thread...All boxing heads ENTER.
- Thread starter Jesus Is Lord
- Start date
well nihito arakawa is 4..its been in a while since i seen him fight..hell im surprised hes still fighting to be honest lol
King P
Legends Never Die
Perfect opportunity for Uncle Bob to get on the phone and put Vedejo back into the title picture
if he bob throws verdejo in the ring with beltran without a warmup its not going to end up well for verdejo lolPerfect opportunity for Uncle Bob to get on the phone and put Vedejo back into the title picture
seemorecizzy
Superstar
floyd would whip his ass and people will just cry and say he was drained
so what exactly would be the point of this fight
kovalev-shabranskyy now for the wbo 175 belt
I'm really thinking about going and maybe taking my pops with me to this...the Saturday after thanksgiving I'm just going to be chillin anyways...eating thanksgiving leftovers at my folks house and spending dough..might as well do something constructive lol..plus the train ride from there would be less than 2 hours..we will see I guess
Kovalev vs. Shabranskyy Approved For Vacant WBO World Title
By Keith Idec
Sergey Kovalev won’t get the third crack at Andre Ward that he wants, but he can become a light heavyweight champion again in his next fight.
The WBO announced through its Twitter account Thursday that its championship and ratings committee has voted to sanction Kovalev-Vyacheslav Shabranskyy as a fight for its vacant light heavyweight title. Russia’s Kovalev (30-2-1, 26 KOs) and Ukraine’s Shabranskyy (19-1, 16 KOs) are scheduled to fight November 25 in The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Kovalev, 34, owned the WBO 175-pound championship for three years, until Andre Ward defeated Kovalev by unanimous decision 11 months ago at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. After losing that controversial decision, Ward (32-0, 16 KOs) stopped Kovalev in the eighth round of their rematch June 17 at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.
_1.jpg)
The WBO championship became vacant after Ward announced his retirement September 21. Ward, 33, also relinquished the IBF and WBA 175-pound championships when the Hayward, California, native ended his 12-year pro career.
Kovalev is ranked No. 2 among the WBO’s light heavyweight contenders. Shabranskyy is rated No. 10 by the WBO.
HBO will televise the Kovalev-Shabranskyy bout as the main event of a “World Championship Boxing” tripleheader November 25.
The telecast also will include a 10-round bout between former WBA 130-pound champion Jason Sosa (20-2-4, 15 KOs), of Camden, New Jersey, and Mexico’s Robinson Castellanos (24-13, 14 KOs), as well as a 10-rounder that’ll pit Cuban light heavyweight contender Sullivan Barrera (20-1, 14 KOs) against the Dominican Republic’s Felix Valera (15-1, 13 KOs).
I'm really thinking about going and maybe taking my pops with me to this...the Saturday after thanksgiving I'm just going to be chillin anyways...eating thanksgiving leftovers at my folks house and spending dough..might as well do something constructive lol..plus the train ride from there would be less than 2 hours..we will see I guess
stupid WBA 
. @ChocolateGiddyUp @mr. smoke weed a possible fight for Chicago 
. @ChocolateGiddyUp @mr. smoke weed a possible fight for Chicago Kubrat Pulev vs. Fres Oquendo in Play For WBA Title
According to Bobby Hitz, the President of Hitz Boxing, he is in talks to possibly bring the first WBA Heavyweight Championship fight in over 35 years to Chicago.
“Yes, I can confirm that my co-promoter, Roy Jones, Jr.’s Square Ring Promotions, and I have spoken to Kubrat Pulev’s promoter, Sauerland Event in Germany, about promoting [Fres] Oquendo and Pulev for the WBA Heavyweight Championship here in Chicago sometime early next year,” Hitz said.
“There are large Puerto Rican and Bulgarian populations in Chicago, and it just makes sense to do the fight here. The last WBA heavyweight title fight that took place in Chicago was Mike Weaver vs. James “Quick” Tillis in 1981 and ever since the possibility of this fight was first leaked on a Bulgarian news site, I’ve been getting calls off the hook. I think it would be great to do this fight in the same building, the Allstate Arena, that hosted Weaver vs. Tillis and I am hopeful that we may be able to put this together.”
.jpg)
Oquendo fought Ruslan Chagaev in a controversial match for the WBA heavyweight title in Chechnya and afterwards sued in U.S. Federal court after his promised rematch was reneged on. Oquendo won the lawsuit which gave him the right to fight for the title next. When Chagaev retired, the WBA ordered Oquendo to fight Briggs. That bout was scheduled for June 3 in Miami but was cancelled after Briggs tested positive for anabolic steroids and the WBA suspended Briggs.
“Yesterday, I received a call from Chris Meyer at Sauerland, Pulev’s promoter, that Pulev is interested in fighting Oquendo after he recovers from the injury which derailed his fight with Joshua,” said John Wirt, CEO of Square Ring Promotions.
“Chris told me that Pulev will be fully recovered in a few weeks and that we could do the fight either in the U.S. or Bulgaria early next year. We’d like to do it here and our team is headed to Columbia this weekend for the annual WBA Convention. While there is a WBA resolution directly on point mandating that Oquendo fight Ustinov if Briggs fell out as an opponent, Ustinov announced that he is fighting Manuel Charr and under the WBA rules, he is not available. The next guy in line in the rankings is Pulev, and we are planning on lobbying the WBA to order that fight.”
ChocolateGiddyUp
Superstar
we get no love
BlackManLiveFromLondon
New God
Right so he wouldn't be drained like the #GGGoodboys are saying in here :Drinking:
So thats one excuse you can no longer use :Drinking:
Notice the GGGoodboys here have made excuses when it comes to potential matchups against Floyd and Ward (the 2 GOATs
) ... :Drinking:
Exactly what I said if it's at 154.
@LeVraiPapi your thoughts on @seemorecizzy comments which mirror mine?
reservoirdogs
Superstar
Shabranskyy hasn't done shyt since he got KTFO by Barrera to earn this shot
they better order the winner immediately to face Barrera
David_TheMan
Veteran
He is a disgrace to his name, and he needs to get rid of the New nickname.‘The New’ Ray Robinson wants a piece of Thurman, Crawford and Garcia
Welterweight contender 'The New' Ray Robinson. Photo credit: Rachel Wisniewski
25
Oct
by Michael Woods
With that name, the guy has to be good…no…ideally he’s great because enter a boxing ring and have Michael Buffer announce “Ray Robinson,” well, expectations are immediately heightened.
Eyes are on you, and the critiques will be sharper, because who the heck has the temerity to enter a boxing ring and have his name be Ray Robinson? Someone with some chutzpah, at the very least…
Ray Robinson (24-2, 12 knockouts), the welterweight born in 1986, fighting under the Lou DiBella promotional umbrella, hails from fighting Philadelphia. I touched base with him a short time ago and I will admit I was struck by his easy charm and humility. (Believe it or not, he was calling people out but doing so in a charming way.) So, I perked up and listened that much more intently when he told me whom he’s gunning for…
“Danny Garcia,” the lefty hitter, who most recently gloved up on June 30 and downed Breidis Prescott in Atlantic City, told me. “I feel like Danny Garcia has just been running from the tough competition. Philly boxers are known for their heart and I just feel like Danny Garcia don’t have one. It’s just that simple! He don’t have one! Philly trying to give him back; we don’t want him!”
Point taken…
Now, Garcia sure did go in tough his most recent outing, against Keith Thurman. But before that, he’s been roundly ridiculed for not seeking the sternest competition, looking to get maximum money for minimum risk. Hey, smart business model for Team Garcia, in the long run but at what price? His earnings have popped but is his rep where he wants it to be? Is he respected all around? Will he have the legacy, as a fighter, that he desires when he hangs up the mitts?
Robinson is ranked as high as No. 9 by a sanctioning body. Would Garcia do an intra-city challenge for his comebacker, after his loss to Thurman last March? “At the end of the day, Danny Garcia and his father know they don’t want this kind of work. I’m tall, good southpaw. I got power.”
Noted, I’d think Garcia is in a place to be wanting to fight names for money, no?
“What’s a bigger name than mine?” Robinson asked, with a sly smile.
This Ray Robinson, managed by the Split-T Management group, is clearly hungry, wants to chomp down on the big name-big game in this field. “I beat Terence Crawford in the amateurs,” he informed me. “That was a long time ago,” maybe 10 years ago but he’d love a crack at “Bud.” “I’d welcome him to the welterweight division!”
Robinson is eyes wide-open and knows Crawford, the undisputed junior welterweight champion, wouldn’t want to start out at 147 against a top-tier test. He knows he’s not (yet) regarded that loftily. Any other names he wants to call out? “I hear (WBA/WBC welterweight titleholder) Keith Thurman is looking for a test. He don’t want to fight a champion, so I’m number 10. Let me at it. It’s not my style to be an a**hole but I feel like that’s how I need to be,” he said, talking about stirring the pot, shaking trees, poking beehives. “I need to get in these guys’ faces, convince these guys that I’m here to fight. I’m tired of smiling and all that…Nice guys sometimes finish last, so I’m calling these guys out. I feel like they haven’t really fought anybody. In my head, I feel like Keith Thurman is a basic fighter. I’m being honest; he don’t really move me. Danny Garcia don’t got no heart. I feel like when he fought Keith Thurman – you know when you’re a fighter; you know when you’re losing – I felt like Danny Garcia didn’t get his feet in the mud and really try and win that fight! He gave up! So right there, he ain’t got no heart! I don’t respect a fighter that won’t put their feet in the mud and go get that win! That’s my opinion: These guys got paid good-ass money!”
Robinson, a pro since 2006, met Shawn Porter in 2010 and, he said, when he was knocked down, knew he had to get cooking or he’d be toast. He said his team should look back at the fight, and see how he responded, with heart, “My coach, back then, told me to box. I told him, ‘Are you crazy? It’s time to fight now. It’s in (Porter’s) hometown. (Incidentally, the bout took place in Southaven, Mississippi, not Porter’s home state of Ohio.) We gotta rumble. I’d rather get knocked out. Let’s work.”
My three cents: Love the attitude and ambition. I say give this kid a chance. Garcia, Crawford, Thurman, all are coming off a loss, injury or going to a new weight class and want a perceived lighter touch. Robinson is aware that he’d be in that slot and is OK with it. Props to a hungry man who wants to get a taste of finer fare – and is willing to fire walk to get to the table.
'The New' Ray Robinson wants a piece of Thurman, Crawford and Garcia - The Ring
Only thing I remember about this dude is that King Solomon outclassed him with no problems
David_TheMan
Veteran
Joseph Parker won't be fighting until next year.
Might be perfect fight for Dibella to make, let Wilder get get another belt
Might be perfect fight for Dibella to make, let Wilder get get another belt