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By Cliff Rold - The bricks are being laid in the foundation of what plenty in boxing’s power circles hope will be a mega-event. The idea of, eventually, getting to a showdown between an undefeated Anthony Joshua and an undefeated Deontay Wilder just smells like money. How much money, whether it could get from what would already be a pretty big fight to the area of legitimate supe...
It’s the sort of fight where the judges can come up with a pair of opposing seven rounds to three scorecards and one can sort of get it. There are nights like that; fights like that. To these eyes, Adrian Granados had too much work rate to go with the punches he was landing to give many rounds to the selective, if fairly effective when throwing, Adrien Broner. That doesn’t mean you couldn’t see what both guys were doing in there. Even as Broner initiated tons of clinches, the fight never got dull. It remained intense and engaging straight through a raucous final round that saw a little bit of the best of both men.
25-year old welterweight gunslinger Pedro Campa (25-0, 19 KO), 141, of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, overcame a few rocky moments to record a brutal fourth round knockout of 30-year old former lightweight title challenger Marvin Quintero (29-8, 25 KO), 141, of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
One thing is guaranteed this Saturday on Showtime. The winner of the main event (9 PM EST/6 PM PST) will be able look across the ring and taunt the loser by saying “Yo (insert winner’s first name spelling), I did it!” In a vacuum this fight would look like one with an obvious winner. Broner has been better against a wider range of foes. But, because it’s Broner, there is some drama considering the style match. Granados is a strong willed, physical professional who needs this win badly. His upset of undefeated Amir Imam in 2015 suggested he might be the sort of guy who is still leaning on the job.
By Cliff Rold - Jr. bantamweight, Jr. middleweight, and cruiserweight have all seen their fortunes rise in the last year or two in conversation about boxing’s best division. Heavyweight is quickly returning to its perch as the surest road to riches. One class still combines both a chance for wealth and serious depth. All it tak...
Lightweight: Mike Garcia returns to the ratings for the first time in well more than a year. In the second fight of his comeback, after being shelved by contract matters, he obliterated a tough opponent in Dejan Zlaticanin. His return sends Zlaticanin plummeting and forces Felix Verdejo from the top ten.
The steady climb to contention continued in the main event on Friday night at the Buffalo Run Casino in Miami, Oklahoma for 24-year old Russian Jr. welterweight Ivan Baranchyk (14-0, 10 KO), 140, of Brooklyn, New York. It wasn’t easy but it sure was fun as he found himself in one of the most exciting of a slew of early 2017 crowd pleasers. Down in the third, Baranchyk dropped 25-year old Abel Ramos (17-2-2, 12 KO), 139 ½, of Phoenix, Arizona in the third and fourth en route to a ten round unanimous decision.
By Cliff Rold - Mikey Garcia’s brutal knockout win of Dejan Zlaticanin was the sort of win that gets people excited. The win also put Garcia in the thick of an interesting lightweight division. It returned Garcia to the title ranks. Now holding a major belt (WBC) in his third weight class, one fight removed from a two-ye...
Fans looking for an exciting, currently under the radar prospect to follow in the rich 147 lb. division might look no farther than Jaime Munguia (20-0, 17 KO), 147, of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Munguia picked up his eleventh straight knockout win with a second round knockout of 22-year old Juan Macias Montiel (19-4-1, 19 KO), 147, of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico. The referee was Salvador Barcenas.
By Cliff Rold - Over the past two years, the volume of boxing on the air has made for plenty of nights that can come, go, and be forgotten altogether without much consequence. That’s a natural byproduct of more. Every game doesn’t really matter in an NFL season. Every pitch isn’t pivotal during baseball’s September stretch drive. Most of the basketball season is a framing devi...