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By Cliff Rold - If you like boxing, there is more than enough right now to satisfy the appetite. If you love boxing, are the sort of ardent fan who is bothered by having to choose between once in a lifetime family events and a quality matchup at Jr. featherweight, this is as good a time to live as there has ever been. Hardc...
Japan’s Naoya Inoue has yet to be really tested. Saturday night in Orlando, we may finally have found a candidate for the job. In what was the toughest fight of his young career to date, Emanuel Rodriguez showed tremendous skill early and tremendous resolve later in withstanding a fiery late stand from Jason Moloney. It was two men who still had lots to prove, didn’t know how to lose, and who left the viewers at home and in the sadly sparse arena with an investment worth their time.
For the third week in a row, the World Boxing Super Series will present quarterfinal action in the bantamweight division and, for the second in a row, in the cruiserweight division. We have two distinctly different types of matches on hand. At bantamweight, we have two undefeated young men who are still light on resume with plenty to prove. At cruiserweight, we have veterans in their 30s who know the pain of defeat and how far back in line a loss here could push them in a division with one clear champion.
Pick It: TBRB #7 Emanuel Rodriguez vs. Jason Moloney (Saturday, DAZN, 8 PM EST). Last weekend was arguably the first real dud in any of the World Boxing Super Series events. Tete-Aloyan and Tabiti-Fayfer are unlikely to be on anyone’s replay list. This looks like a more dependable source of action this week. Staying in the bantamweight and cruiserweight divisions, the actions comes west for this Florida card.
By Cliff Rold - Fans of divisions where depth holds the potential for plenty of both good and makeable fights might find middleweight frustrating sooner than later. The biggest news of the boxing week is the signing of Saul Alvarez to an exclusive contract with online streaming outlet DAZN. It was the sort of news that reac...
One week after UFC went about a 4 on the Bowe-Golota fight riot Richter scale, a building tide of trash talk and animosity ended with a highlight worthy hard sell in the boxing world on Friday. A shove from the challenger, a just missing right hand haymaker from the defending titlist…tune in Saturday to see what happens next (ESPN, 10:30 PM EST).
One of a handful of fighters seriously in the debate about the best overall fighter in the world continues his journey in a third weight class. The 31-year old former lightweight and Jr. welterweight champion, Crawford (33-0, 24 KO) makes his first defense of the WBO welterweight belt against a Benavidez (27-0, 18 KO) who briefly held an interim belt at 140 lbs. and still has a lot to prove.
By Cliff Rold - It’s hard to have a division more locked down than Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk (15-0, 11 KO). Following his win over Murat Gassiev in the finals of the World Boxing Super Series, Usyk owns every major title and reestablished the lineage of the 200 lb. class. He’s not resting on his laurels either. After going on the road to Latvia and Russia to best their undefeated native sons Mairis Briedi...
A single combination was all it took. Boxing followers can be a cynical lot. There may be some who find reasons to be less than impressed with what Naoya Inoue did on Sunday in Japan. He was supposed to win and did. Sometimes, it’s okay to be impressed even by the expected. Juan Carlos Payano is a two-time Olympian and former WBA titlist with wins over Anselmo Moreno and Rau’Shee Warren. He’s a proven a solid, capable professional who had never been stopped.
It’s been a month and change since the last update and plenty of changes have taken place. This exercise in keeping track of boxing’s confusing title picture, and the statistics that accumulate along the way, also comes with a new feature.