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After one of the best weekends of boxing all year, maybe in the last couple years, this weekend is headlined by something any fight fan can miss.
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Ward, Froch Make Statements on the Way to Each Other?
by Cliff Rold - Making the second defense of his WBA Super Middleweight title in front of an enthusiastic hometown crowd at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California, 26-year old Andre Ward (23-0, 13 KO) used skilled infighting and some savvy disregard for a few of the rules of the trade to earn a unanimous decision win over 31-year old Cameroonian Sakio Bika (28-5-2, 19 KO) of Sydney, Australia on Saturday night. It was Bika’s third failed shot at a major title but, as always, the “Contender” Season Three winner gave a good account of himself in defeat. Both men weighed in spot on the division limit of 168 lbs. The bout capped off the final weekend of the “Super Six” Super Middleweight tournament’s three preliminary rounds though it was not officially part of the brackets. Ward will enter the “Super Six” semi-finals as the number one seed. Bika opened the fight with a double left hook, nasty intentions on both punches. Ward calmly covered up. The first clinch saw Bika rough Ward up with lefts in close, referee Dan Stell stepped in with a firm separation. Ward landed a left hook from range, Bika answering with a right. An accidental head butt drew a complaint from Ward, Bika throwing punches while those complaints fell on deaf ears.
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2 Networks, 1 Marquez, The Six: Pre-Fight Report Card
With turkey certain to still be digesting for some, boxing readies a full plate of action for the weekend. There are big fights just about everywhere in the world this weekend. Fight fans in the U.S. get to be the most gluttonous.
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Andre Ward: Professionally Waiting
By Cliff Rold - With all the obstacles, injuries, outright pratfalls, that have dogged the “Super Six” Super Middleweight tournament so far, it was no shock to find fully half the original field gone when the final preliminary round kicked off a few weeks ago. It was no shock to find the tournament leader, 2004 U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist and current WBA 168 lb. titlist Andre Ward (22-0, 13 KO), scrambling for a new opponent. Andre Dirrell (19-1, 13 KO), his former Olympic teammate and schedule foe, claimed lingering concussion affects from his disqualification win over Arthur Abraham (31-1, 25 KO). Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain talking about money on the Fight Camp series of course.
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Hasegawa vs Burgos: The Pre-Rebound Report Card
As rebound outings go, it’s unusually stiff. After speculation about difficulty making the Bantamweight limit, Hozumi Hasegawa has made the choice to go up not one but two weight classes. It might be fair to say he had some help. Diet didn’t look like the problem in April. The fists of Fernando Montiel were.
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BoxingScene.com's Television Picks of the Week
It was a lemon punch, the sort of shot that makes viewers wince when they see it, on replay, and later trying to explain it. Sergio Martinez etched a permanent spot on the highlight reel of great Middleweight championship moments. So did Paul Williams, if for reasons he would rather have avoided.
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And Still Champion, With a Bang!: Review, Ratings Update
Sugar Ray Robinson-Gene Fullmer II? Nah. Michael Nunn-Sumbu Kalambay?
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Sergio Martinez-Paul Williams II: Pre-Fight Report Card
by Cliff Rold - Following their epic first fight last December, the post-fight report card headline read “Williams, Martinez Both Better Than Imagined.” Can the rematch possibly meet what the imagination can now conceive? The status of both men has grown since, and because of, their encounter. It was the sort of war that makes stars of both combatants. Williams was already recognized as one of the best in the world. For Martinez, it was but a penultimate moment. Both men came off the floor in round one and then, for eleven more frames, they took turns laying the leather on each other.
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Martinez-Williams: Secretly Already Rooting for Three?
By Cliff Rold - Boxing is unhealthy, on its deathbed, irrelevant. Etc. It’s all been said before and it’s never quite true. Last weekend, over 40,000 showed up to watch Manny Pacquiao play the prohibitive favorite. A lively crowd showed up in the U.K. for a backyard brawl sensible money said David Haye would win easy. Manny won every round. Haye knocked out Audley Harrison as soon as he opened up. The paying masses, the butts in the seats, seemed pleased at the closing bell. The three most storied divisions in boxing are Heavyweight, Middleweight, and Welterweight. The old saying is something like, “As the Heavyweights go, so goes boxing.” The reality is that strong fields (or at least strong matches) at Middle and Welter have always been able to weather weaker Heavyweight waters. So, if all three divisions can offer a fight fans don’t just want, but need, to see, then rumors of the sports demise are exaggerated.
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BoxingScene.com's Television Picks of the Week
After the sport's most popular, and most exciting star, has left the stage, what can boxing do for an encore?
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