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This week's edition of "Who's Hot and Who's Not" takes a look at last week's controversial cruiserweight battle between O'Neil Bell and Dale Brown, this weekend's debacle with Andrew Golota and so much more.
Who's Hot
Oscar De La Hoya - The man earned bathtubs full of money during his career as a prizefighter and is quickly rising to the top of the mountain as a promoter. De La Hoya's stable includes featherweight king Marco Antonio Barrera, middleweight king Bernard Hopkins, unbeaten Demitrius Hopkins and WBO champion Jorge Barrio. Just when you thought Oscar was going to sit back and relax, the man is doing the opposite and locking down more top talent. The word going around the boxing world is that Oscar has signed IBF junior middleweight champion Kassim Ouma to a promotional contract. This a major coup for Oscar who picks up the hottest star at 154 pounds. Since Winky Wright moved up to the middleweight division, Ouma has been appointed as the best fighter at junior middleweight. It will interesting to see if Oscar can get Ouma in the ring with the returning Ricardo Mayorga, WBO champion Daniel Santos or Fernando Vargas.
Lamon Brewster - Finally one of the good guys in the sport of boxing gets a break. Brewster has had a rough career and never got respect from the boxing public. This past Saturday night, Lamon showed the world that he deserves to be called champion by knocking out the heavily favored Andrew Golota in 53 seconds of the first round. Brewster not only got a huge TKO win, but he got the victory before 20,000+ fans in Golota's hometown of Chicago. In my opinion, Brewster's next bout should be a rematch against rebounding Wladimir Klitschko. Both men recently picked up big TKO wins and a rematch is warranted to settle all the post fight conspiracies that transpired following their first encounter. It's a good thought, but I have a feeling that Brewster is hoping to land a fight with brother Vitali because a much bigger bag of green is involved. [details]
Who's Hot
Oscar De La Hoya - The man earned bathtubs full of money during his career as a prizefighter and is quickly rising to the top of the mountain as a promoter. De La Hoya's stable includes featherweight king Marco Antonio Barrera, middleweight king Bernard Hopkins, unbeaten Demitrius Hopkins and WBO champion Jorge Barrio. Just when you thought Oscar was going to sit back and relax, the man is doing the opposite and locking down more top talent. The word going around the boxing world is that Oscar has signed IBF junior middleweight champion Kassim Ouma to a promotional contract. This a major coup for Oscar who picks up the hottest star at 154 pounds. Since Winky Wright moved up to the middleweight division, Ouma has been appointed as the best fighter at junior middleweight. It will interesting to see if Oscar can get Ouma in the ring with the returning Ricardo Mayorga, WBO champion Daniel Santos or Fernando Vargas.
Lamon Brewster - Finally one of the good guys in the sport of boxing gets a break. Brewster has had a rough career and never got respect from the boxing public. This past Saturday night, Lamon showed the world that he deserves to be called champion by knocking out the heavily favored Andrew Golota in 53 seconds of the first round. Brewster not only got a huge TKO win, but he got the victory before 20,000+ fans in Golota's hometown of Chicago. In my opinion, Brewster's next bout should be a rematch against rebounding Wladimir Klitschko. Both men recently picked up big TKO wins and a rematch is warranted to settle all the post fight conspiracies that transpired following their first encounter. It's a good thought, but I have a feeling that Brewster is hoping to land a fight with brother Vitali because a much bigger bag of green is involved. [details]
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