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February 23, 2009
Loaded Week For Boxing
By Tim Starks
It should be a truly excellent week of boxing on television, both in the quality and quantity departments. Just take a look at the schedule:
It's time, already, for this season's "The Contender" season finale. Wednesday on Versus, cruiserweights (200 lbs.) Troy Ross and Ehinomen "Hollywood Hino" Ehikhamenor will square off for all the marbles. We'll have a fuller preview before the show, which I expect to be a good one. (Unfortunately, a Contender alum who should probably move on from boxing, Jaidon Codrington, is slated to resume his career in a super middleweight [168 lbs.] bout on the undercard of the June heavyweight David Tua-Shane Cameron fight that's going to be big in New Zealand. It's too bad Codrington's continuing his career, considering how bad he looked in his last go.)
Also later this week, we'll have previews and predictions for the excellent Saturday HBO card pitting lightweight (135 lbs.) champion Juan Manuel Marquez against Juan Diaz, with featherweights (126 lbs.) Chris John and Rocky Juarez on the undercard. It has a chance to be the best card of the whole year.
AND we'll have a preview and prediction for the Showtime card on Friday featuring cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek defending his lineal Ring magazine belt against Johnathon Banks. (No preview or prediction for the intriguing middleweight [160 lbs.] bout between Giovanni Lorenzo and Dionisio Miranda on the undercard, though.)
AND lastly, we have one of the better ESPN2 Friday Night Fights headline events, a rematch between light heavyweights (175 lbs.) Glen Johnson and Daniel Judah. (No preview piece for that one, either.)
If all those fights break the way I expect, it could be one thrilling bout after another, which should be the antidote to a mostly underwhelming past weekend, as I reviewed here. Because that's plenty workload for one man this week, best just to unload all my Quick Jabs now.
Loaded Week For Boxing
By Tim Starks
It should be a truly excellent week of boxing on television, both in the quality and quantity departments. Just take a look at the schedule:
It's time, already, for this season's "The Contender" season finale. Wednesday on Versus, cruiserweights (200 lbs.) Troy Ross and Ehinomen "Hollywood Hino" Ehikhamenor will square off for all the marbles. We'll have a fuller preview before the show, which I expect to be a good one. (Unfortunately, a Contender alum who should probably move on from boxing, Jaidon Codrington, is slated to resume his career in a super middleweight [168 lbs.] bout on the undercard of the June heavyweight David Tua-Shane Cameron fight that's going to be big in New Zealand. It's too bad Codrington's continuing his career, considering how bad he looked in his last go.)
Also later this week, we'll have previews and predictions for the excellent Saturday HBO card pitting lightweight (135 lbs.) champion Juan Manuel Marquez against Juan Diaz, with featherweights (126 lbs.) Chris John and Rocky Juarez on the undercard. It has a chance to be the best card of the whole year.
AND we'll have a preview and prediction for the Showtime card on Friday featuring cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek defending his lineal Ring magazine belt against Johnathon Banks. (No preview or prediction for the intriguing middleweight [160 lbs.] bout between Giovanni Lorenzo and Dionisio Miranda on the undercard, though.)
AND lastly, we have one of the better ESPN2 Friday Night Fights headline events, a rematch between light heavyweights (175 lbs.) Glen Johnson and Daniel Judah. (No preview piece for that one, either.)
If all those fights break the way I expect, it could be one thrilling bout after another, which should be the antidote to a mostly underwhelming past weekend, as I reviewed here. Because that's plenty workload for one man this week, best just to unload all my Quick Jabs now.