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By Jake Donovan - We’re back!
We’re not all the way back, but there is more than enough significant boxing action this weekend to announce our return from summer vacation.
Over course of the next 16 weekends, all but three will feature major fight cards accessible on American airwaves. Most of what you’ll find gracing your TV screen on a Saturday night will be indicative of the sport at its very best.
This weekend, however, is an instance of quantity over quality.
Not that it’s a bad thing. Think about it, how often is the first game of any season the best you will watch all year? How many season premieres truly open with a ****?
Every once in a while, you get that first episode with a surprise plot twist.
Otherwise, it’s almost always a prelude of great things to come.
Such is precisely what Showtime has in mind with Saturday’s split site doubleheader (10PM ET/PT), the only card of the night that doesn’t come at a premium to the home viewer.
October 17 marks the official kickoff for Showtime’s “Super Six” super middleweight round-robin tournament. Two of the three first-round matchups will air that night; the final bout of the opening round goes down November 21.
That’s if both Mikkel Kessler and Andre Ward survive this weekend’s showcases - which translates to expecting a head-on collision in two months.
Some will apply the Buster Douglas-Mike Tyson “anything can happen” logic, and create an argument that Gusmyr Perdomo (16-2, 10KO) and Shelby Pudwill (22-3-1, 9KO) both stand better than a zero percent chance of winning their respective fights against Kessler and Ward. [details]
We’re not all the way back, but there is more than enough significant boxing action this weekend to announce our return from summer vacation.
Over course of the next 16 weekends, all but three will feature major fight cards accessible on American airwaves. Most of what you’ll find gracing your TV screen on a Saturday night will be indicative of the sport at its very best.
This weekend, however, is an instance of quantity over quality.
Not that it’s a bad thing. Think about it, how often is the first game of any season the best you will watch all year? How many season premieres truly open with a ****?
Every once in a while, you get that first episode with a surprise plot twist.
Otherwise, it’s almost always a prelude of great things to come.
Such is precisely what Showtime has in mind with Saturday’s split site doubleheader (10PM ET/PT), the only card of the night that doesn’t come at a premium to the home viewer.
October 17 marks the official kickoff for Showtime’s “Super Six” super middleweight round-robin tournament. Two of the three first-round matchups will air that night; the final bout of the opening round goes down November 21.
That’s if both Mikkel Kessler and Andre Ward survive this weekend’s showcases - which translates to expecting a head-on collision in two months.
Some will apply the Buster Douglas-Mike Tyson “anything can happen” logic, and create an argument that Gusmyr Perdomo (16-2, 10KO) and Shelby Pudwill (22-3-1, 9KO) both stand better than a zero percent chance of winning their respective fights against Kessler and Ward. [details]
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