Archive for February, 2006

Mosley Tops Vargas, Brock drops Lawrence

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

Didn’t care, didn’t watch it, still think it’s about as prime an example of PPV rip-offs as you’re likely to find. Personal bitterness aside, however, it apparently wasn’t a bad fight.
Luckily there are plenty of professionals out there with more dedication and/or greater funds than myself . (The fact that they also know more […]

Margarito drops Gomez in 1, Viloria handles Aguirre

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

It took Antonio Margarito’s right hand 74 seconds to take out Manuel Gomez and retain the WBO welterweight title last night.
Margarito, whose record now stands at 33-4 (25), will no doubt want a shot at the winner of Mayweather-Judah. His fan base will surely grow even larger after the impressive win over […]

Taylor-Wright Back On

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

It’s on, it’s off, it’s on again. Apparently Lou DiBella and Gary Shaw were finally able to work out the difficult math that previously eluded them, because Jermain Taylor and Winky Wright have agreed to lace up the gloves and step into the same ring on June 17.
I don’t have the patience to recap all […]

Speaking of heavyweights…

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

Check out JE Grant’s updated list of the top 25 heavyweights. You won’t find a better one-stop resource to acquaint yourself with the current state of the division, and with Toney-Rahman and Byrd-Klitschko approaching — 4 of his top 5 — now’s the time.
Make sure to read deep — he’s got the skinny on fighters […]

Byrd and Klitschko to Mix it up again

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Just when I’m about to give up on the heavyweight division for good, the big boys go and decide they want to start fighting one another again. Next month James Toney and Hasim Rahman will meet in Atlantic City, and now Chris Byrd 39-2-1 (20) and Wladimir Klitschko 45-3 (40) have agreed to compete on […]