Comments Thread For: Early Shobox Results From Monroeville, PA

[JakeNDaBox]

Mike Tyson makes his eagerly awaited return to Showtime, though this time it's as a promoter. A fixture on the network throughout the mid-to-late 1990's and into the 2000's, the former heavyweight champ promotes his first Showtime-televised card Friday evening from the Monroeville Convention Center in Monroeville, Pennsylvania.

In the main event, unbeaten prospect Alexei Collado squares off against local favorite Rod Salka in a scheduled 10-round super featherweight contest. Also appearing on the show, Felix Diaz - an unbeaten super lightweight and a 2008 Olympic Gold medalist for the Dominican Republic - faces Emmanuel Lartey.

The feature attraction of the evening is local welterweight Sammy Vasquez. The unbeaten knockout artist comes with an intriguing back story, a family man who served in the U.S. military, which included two tours in Iraq.

The welterweight prospect faces fellow unbeaten Juan Rodriguez Jr., which Vasquez' involvement on the show prompting the Armed Forces Network to pick up the live feed, allowing over 1 million military members to tune in around the world. [Click Here To Read More]

[damit305]

So the three Irish Cubans haven't panned out. Luis el leon Garcia has been MIA since 2011. Mike Perez brought it all vs Magomed but disappointed in his next fight and now this with Collado.

[tostao]

where did those so called 'matchmakers' find this fake cuban ? he looked more like guantanamo prisoner released on amnesty . and now you want to say salka will fight figueroa for the wbc title ? al haymon and co. have turned boxing into con art !!!

[ChestRockwell]

Aww, some white boy made this Cuban look like a fool and now he's not a real Cuban. **** Cuba and **** Cubans. Crybabies. Cuba Gooding Jr.

[Dafoo]

Last night was my first time watching Alexei Collado fight. I was quite surprised at how sloppy he looked to be considered a top prospect. He kept throwing the weirdest right hand I've seen. The commentators kept calling it a looping right hand, but it looked more like a pushing right hand that could be seen coming a mile away. The other guy was able to basically counter with good short hooks in between those shots that I believe really made the difference in the fight. Hats off to the guy who beat him. Collado needs to go back to the gym and fix that awkward right hand he throws, otherwise, he'll be seeing more losses and potentially ko's in his future.

[OnePunch]

matching the Lubin kid wont get any easier or cheaper. Finding decent opponents for a 6 foot southpaw welter who can crack a bit isnt fun.........

[richardt]

Someone needs to challenge that 300 amateur and 18-0, 16 KO's record because there is no way a fighter with that record against anyone would throw those looping, off-balance shots and not be able to take punches from a guy with 3 KO's. Someone needs to do a background check, Collado is obviously a complete fraud.