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By Cliff Rold - There’s more boxing on television right now than almost anyone has time to watch.
That should be a good thing.
Often, it’s just a thing.
The slate of fights between now and October is of varying quality. Some of it looks good. The rematch between Jamie McDonnell and Tomoki Kameda, Abner Mares-Leo Santa Cruz, and Shinsuke Yamanaka-Anselmo Moreno are all high quality fights worth a calendar circle. There are two solid undercard fights, Roman Martinez-Orlando Salido II and Badou Jack-George Groves, for the big September pay show.
Most of everything else is a lot of run of the mill stuff one might have seen before on Friday Night Fights or now on ShoBox. It’s just on more platforms and more days of the week.
In the absence of the genuinely compelling, boxing can often count on matches where recognizable names combine for a curiosity. Shane Mosley-Ricardo Mayorga II might fall into that category. This Friday’s main event on Spike TV (9 PM EST) might as well.
There was a time when Steve Cunningham-Antonio Tarver might have been a calendar circle. Now, it’s a checkmark. It doesn’t look like must-see TV but, if one is home Friday night, it becomes ‘why not?’ TV pretty easy.
Cunningham (28-7, 13 KO), though 39, is still considered one of the better Heavyweights out there. The former Cruiserweight titlist is not likely to threaten Wladimir Klitschko and was already foiled by Tyson Fury. However, he has shown to be effective in the unlimited class with the right foes. He looked like he’d done more than enough to beat Tomasz Adamek in their 2012 rematch only to lose on questionable scorecards. The same could be said earlier this year against undefeated Vyacheslav Glazkov. [Click Here To Read More]
That should be a good thing.
Often, it’s just a thing.
The slate of fights between now and October is of varying quality. Some of it looks good. The rematch between Jamie McDonnell and Tomoki Kameda, Abner Mares-Leo Santa Cruz, and Shinsuke Yamanaka-Anselmo Moreno are all high quality fights worth a calendar circle. There are two solid undercard fights, Roman Martinez-Orlando Salido II and Badou Jack-George Groves, for the big September pay show.
Most of everything else is a lot of run of the mill stuff one might have seen before on Friday Night Fights or now on ShoBox. It’s just on more platforms and more days of the week.
In the absence of the genuinely compelling, boxing can often count on matches where recognizable names combine for a curiosity. Shane Mosley-Ricardo Mayorga II might fall into that category. This Friday’s main event on Spike TV (9 PM EST) might as well.
There was a time when Steve Cunningham-Antonio Tarver might have been a calendar circle. Now, it’s a checkmark. It doesn’t look like must-see TV but, if one is home Friday night, it becomes ‘why not?’ TV pretty easy.
Cunningham (28-7, 13 KO), though 39, is still considered one of the better Heavyweights out there. The former Cruiserweight titlist is not likely to threaten Wladimir Klitschko and was already foiled by Tyson Fury. However, he has shown to be effective in the unlimited class with the right foes. He looked like he’d done more than enough to beat Tomasz Adamek in their 2012 rematch only to lose on questionable scorecards. The same could be said earlier this year against undefeated Vyacheslav Glazkov. [Click Here To Read More]
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