Gorgeous KO by Angulo. Stick and movers will still give him trouble but I’d advise anyone to avoid the trenches with this guy.
Props to HBO for saying “Fuck you” to the WBC and their president Jose Sulaiman. The WBC suspended a very emotional Chris Arreola for cursing during his post-fight interview after his recent fight with Vitali Klitschko. HBO replayed a segment of it during a promotional piece for Chris’ next fight, and deliberately left the swearing in.
Apparently Taylor was damaged goods coming into the fight and Abraham pounded the remaining scraps of his career further into the ground.
As usual Arthur began slowly but came on as the fight progressed. He almost ended it in the ninth after landing a hard right to the jaw but Taylor survived. Then, in a near replay of his last fight versus Carl Froch, Taylor was knocked out in the final seconds of the bout. Only this time a single right hand bomb from Abraham sent him to sleep with his arms extended in the air.
According to Taylor’s promoter Lou DiBella, Taylor will remain in the hospital in Berlin for several more days.
“He has a severe concussion,” DiBella said. “He also had some short-term memory loss, and in the interest of being completely safe and overly safe, he’ll be in the hospital probably for several days. They believe the area of his head that was hurting him was from his head hitting the canvas. He’ll be in Berlin for another week because the doctors didn’t want him to fly, but his wife and his mother are with him.”
DiBella said when they were in the dressing room after the fight, Taylor asked him what round he was knocked out in. DiBella told him, but Taylor asked him again a few minutes later. And then, according to DiBella, Taylor asked his wife the same question twice because he could not recall which round he had been stopped in.
Hopefully Jermain will make a full recovery.
In the second bout of the Super Middleweight Tournament, Carl Froch won a disputed split decision over Andre Dirrell.
Dirrell used his superior speed to get in and get out against Froch. He landed more blows and even hurt Froch late in the bout, however at least half of the rounds were very close and the judges gave those to the champion. Dirrell was also penalized a point in the tenth round for holding however it did not affect the outcome of the bout.
Fight Report scored the bout 115-112 for Dirrell but the judges had it 114-113 for Dirrell and 115-112 twice for Froch.
The final bout in the opening stage of the tournament will take place on November 21st, in Oakland, CA between Andre Ward and Mikkel Kessler. Stage two and three matches are as follows:
Stage 2
Andre Dirrell vs Arthur Abraham
Mikkel Kessler vs Carl Froch
Jermain Taylor vs Andre Ward
Stage 3
Andre Dirrell vs Andre Ward
Carl Froch vs Arthur Abraham
Mikkel Kessler vs Jermain Taylor
After the three stages are complete, the four boxers with the most points will compete in a single-elimination tournament to determine the winner. Points in the first three stages are awarded as follows:
Win = 2 points
Draw = 1 point
Loss = 0 points
KO = 1 bonus point
Current Standings (#s in parenthesis = max # of pts the fighter can score)
Arthur Abraham: 3 (9)
Carl Froch: 2 (8)
Jermain Taylor: 0 (6)
Andre Dirrell: 0 (6)
Mikkel Kessler: 0 (9)
Andre Ward: 0 (9)
Damn, woke up today to find out that WBA Jr. Lightweight Champ Jorge Linares got stopped in 73 seconds last night by Juan Carlos Salgado in Tokyo. Salgado had an impressive record coming into the fight but there weren’t any names on there.
Salgado dropped Linares with a left hook to the temple early in the first. Jorge never recovered from the punch, and seconds after he got up he was trapped in the corner and pummeled into a TKO.
Linares is now 27-1, 18 KOs and Salgado is 21-0-1, 15 KOs.
The Tuaman was back in action after a two year layoff. He only needed two rounds to completely destroy Shane Carwin. Fast hands and massive power made Tua look like Tyson in the mid-80s when he was beating on bums. At 36 it’s unlikely Tua will threaten for the Championship but the devastating KOs he scores will still put asses in the seats. Video courtesy of RingTV.
In a very one-sided fight, Vitali Klitschko stopped Cristobal Arreola in 10 rounds tonight at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA to retain his WBC Heavyweight Championship.
Arreola was never in the fight. Few jabs, poor lateral footwork and a lack of head movement left him wide open for Klitschko. Vitali used his jab and right hand to keep Cris at bay. Whenever Cris managed to close the distance Vitali would circle out of harm’s way or tie him up. The few punches Arreola did land did not phase Klitschko.
Vitali landed 215 more punches than Cris and by the end of the tenth round, Arreola’s face was a mess. His trainer Henry Ramirez mercifully stopped the bout even though Cris likely would have made it to the twelfth.
Klitschko was gracious after the fight. “Arreola gave great performance, I was very surprised. He has great chin. And actually after I land right hook, many of my opponents go to the floor. He still stays. Big respect.” The crowd booed him loudly.
Arreola was an emotional wreck after the fight and I felt bad for him. Even though he got dominated he never quit. His trainer made that call for him. “I wanted to go the full 12 rounds. I knew he was fuckin me up but hey, I’m sorry guys… …He was just a smarter fighter in there. And whatever I did he’d find a way to counteract that. He just found a way to win and I found a way to lose… …I promise I’ll be back. This ain’t the last you’ve seen of me. Fuck that I’m coming back.”
With the win Klitschko improves to 38-2, 37 KOs while Arreola drops to 27-1, 24 KOs.
Power Punches
Klitschko 151 out of 283 (53%)
Arreola 24 out of 107 (22%)
Total Punches
Klitschko 301 out of 802 (38%)
Arreola 86 out of 331 (26%)
Juan Manuel Marquez took the worst beating of the weekend. In fact, Saturday night is a perfect illustration as to why Boxing is less safe than MMA. UFC 103 took place in Dallas and there were a lot of beatings on that card. But even if you add all of them together they still do not add up to the 36 minute beating Marquez took at the hands of Floyd Mayweather Jr. in Vegas.
This KO is from Friday’s Shobox card. Nineteen year old Bantamweight (118 lbs) Chris Avalos (12-0, 10 KOs) knocked out Giovanni Caro (13-8-4, 11 KOs) in four, exciting rounds. Official time was 2:25.
Centennial, Colo. – Aug. 24, 2009 – NCM Fathom, in association with Mayweather Promotions and Golden Boy Promotions, will bring live world championship boxing to the big screen in high definition for the first time ever with the showing of the highly anticipated 12-round welterweight fight between six-time world champion in five weight divisions Floyd “Money” Mayweather and five-time world champion in three weight divisions Juan Manuel “Dinamita” Marquez and televised undercard on Saturday, Sept. 19 at 8:30 p.m. ET/ 5:30 p.m. PT in select movie theaters nationwide.
Tickets for Mayweather vs. Marquez: “Number One/Numero Uno” Fight LIVE are available at participating theater box offices and online at www.FathomEvents.com. For a complete list of theater locations and prices, please visit www.FathomEvents.com (theaters and participants are subject to change).
“We are extremely pleased to welcome Fathom into the Golden Boy family of sponsors as their interest in the Mayweather vs. Marquez mega-fight is another indication of the sheer magnitude of the fight itself,” said Richard Schaefer, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions.
“Having the fight in high definition in movie theaters throughout the country is
unprecedented and gives boxing fans another outlet to watch the compelling action of a big-time fight.“
Mayweather vs. Marquez: “Number One/Numero Uno” Fight LIVE will take boxing fans ringside to experience every jab and hook thrown during this ultimate showdown from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The historic match marks the return of boxing to movie theaters for the first time in nearly three decades.
“Watching fights at the movies goes back to the 1940s,” said boxing historian Bert Sugar. “It’s the next best thing to being there. Seeing a fight at a movie theater is the ultimate virtual experience. You pretty much get everything but the sweat.”
The first boxing match publicly shown in movie theaters was the Eric Boon vs. Arthur
Danaher fight in London seen in only three theaters on Feb. 23, 1939. The first boxing match shown in U.S. movie theaters was the Joe Louis vs. Lee Savold bout from Madison Square Garden in New York on June 15, 1951. The last fight to be widely shown in movie theaters was Sugar Ray Leonard’s victory over Roberto “Fists of Stone” Duran in the famous “No Mas” fight on Nov. 25, 1980.
A 1996 Olympic Bronze medalist for the United States, Floyd Mayweather (39-0, 25 KO’s) has since gone on to strike gold in the professional ranks, firmly establishing himself as the best fighter of his era. Mayweather won his first world title – the WBC Super Featherweight World Championship – at the age of 21 in 1998. The Grand Rapids, Mich. native defended that title eight times before moving up to lightweight and taking the 135-pound belt in 2002. He went on to win the junior welterweight and welterweight world titles, respectively. Mayweather defeated Oscar de la Hoya in May of 2007 for the World Junior Middleweight Championship in a record-setting pay-per-view super-fight and in his last fight in December 2007, knocked out Ricky “Hitman” Hatton in the tenth round, handing the British superstar his first professional defeat. Mayweather announced his retirement from boxing soon after that fight. He went on to achieve crossover fame as a contestant on the hit show “Dancing with the Stars” and as a participant in WWE’s “Wrestlemania XXIV.”
“I can’t wait to get back into the ring to reclaim my rightful place as boxing’s pound-for-pound king while fans in movie theaters across the country experience it all live in high definition on 40-foot-screens,” said Mayweather. “If you can’t be ringside, this is another great way to see my return to the ring.”
Mayweather vs. Marquez: “Number One / Numero Uno” will take place on what is
historically considered boxing’s biggest weekend – Mexican Independence Day or El
Grito de Independence. “Floyd has always wanted to appear on the big screen so this is just great,” said Leonard Ellerbe, CEO of Mayweather Promotions. “It’s going to be a great night of boxing and watching it in high definition on such a large screen will be a great treat for the fans who go to theaters to watch it.”
Mexico City’s Marquez (50-4-1, 37 KO’s) has long been revered by boxing purists as one of the best in the sport, having won 29 of his first 30 pro bouts before finally getting a world title shot in 1999. Following a loss in that fight, he didn’t lose again for the next seven years.
Marquez won the IBF Featherweight World Championship in 2003 and in the same year, also captured the WBA Featherweight title. Marquez would lose his belt via controversial decision in 2006, but he returned to win the WBC Junior Lightweight World Championship in March 2007. Marquez moved up to the 135-pound weight class in September of 2008 and won the Ring Magazine Lightweight World Championship. The 36-year-old added the WBA and WBO World Lightweight belts to his trophy case in his most recent fight on February 28, 2009.
“This fight against Floyd Mayweather is undoubtedly the biggest in my professional
career,” said Márquez. “The fact that this long awaited battle will be on the big screen in movie theaters across the United States is fantastic. I invite the fans everywhere to go to movie theaters so they can see everything live and in high definition on the big screen.”
Mayweather vs. Marquez: “Number One/Numero Uno” Fight LIVE appears on the big
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“NCM Fathom continues to offer something for everyone on the big screen and it does not get bigger than this,” said Dan Diamond, vice president of Fathom. “This is the first boxing event offered through Fathom’s network to a select number of theaters across the country and fight fans won’t want to miss being ringside to see two of the greatest fighters of this era battle in a larger-than-life experience on the big screen.”
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About Golden Boy Promotions, Inc.
Los Angeles-based Golden Boy Promotions was established in 2002 by Oscar de la Hoya, the first Hispanic to own a national boxing promotional company. In 2007, in its fifth year of promoting, Golden Boy Promotions set a record by selling over 2.5 million in pay-per-view homes in a single night. Also in 2007, Golden Boy Promotions established the record for highest grossing pay-per-view homes in a single year with more than 4 million total. Golden Boy Promotions is one of boxing’s most active and respected promoters, presenting shows in packed venues around the
United States on networks such as HBO, HBO Latino, TeleFutura, SHOWTIME, Versus and ESPN.
