It has arrived: that special feeling only a fight fan can possibly understand; that blend of utter excitement and nerves that comes when a big fight is just around the corner. And here, on fight week, as we brace ourselves for the biggest middleweight title fight in years, fight fans around the globe have that feeling in their bones.
Joshua vs Pulev will break record set by Ali-Spinks II
Go back 39 years, to when an ageing but still brilliant (in and out of the ring) Muhammad Ali fought Leon Spinks is a return bout, and the word record was set for biggest indoor attendance for a boxing match.
Ali-Spinks II, the fight that saw “The Greatest” make history as the only man to have won the world heavyweight crown three times, took place at The Superdome in New Orleans and an incredible 63,315 fans paid to attend. But next month’s Anthony Joshua-Kubrat Pulev fight is on target to smash that record.
Video: Gennady Golovkin On Canelo’s Buff Physique
Video: Gennady Golovkin On Canelo’s Buff Physique: “Maybe He’s Heavy, Maybe Hes Slower, But I Know My Job!” In This Canelo Vs Golovkin Video, Marcos Villegas Speaks To Gennady Golovkin About His Canelo Vs Golovkin Fight
“Chocolatito” suffered “career ending KO” in loss to Rungvisai – a look at some champions who managed to bounce back from similar destruction
Is the career, or the high level career, of one-time Pound-for-Pound king Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez over? This is what many people are firmly suggesting is the case, due to the quite nasty fourth-round KO the Nicaraguan star suffered at the hands of Thai beast Srisaket Sor Rungvisia on Saturday night in Carson.
And maybe the now 46-2 former champ will indeed take one big look inside and wonder if it’s worth keeping on carrying on. Certainly no-one would hold it against Gonzalez if he did call it a, great, career.
Video: Adrien Broner in more trouble as he viciously lays out an unknown man on Las Vegas Strip!
It seems Adrien Broner just cannot keep himself out of trouble. “The Problem,” (and how much is the former four-weight champ going to live to regret choosing that particular ring nickname!) has been captured on video hitting an unknown man on the Las Vegas Strip this past Friday night; sending the man down and out with a vicious, apparently unprovoked punch to the head.
Is there any way back for Gonzalez? Can anyone stop Rungvisai!
In a year that has been full of stunners, last night’s truly shocking result in Carson, California might just have topped the lot. Srisaket Sor Ringvisai, AKA Wisaskil Wangek, absolutely destroyed one-time Pound-for-Pound king Roman Gonzalez.
Last night’s fight was a rematch of a great action fight that saw the tough, strong and, as we saw last night, viciously powerful Thai southpaw score an upset decision win over a 46-0 “Chocolatito” – what happened last night blew that win off the charts.
Results: Estrada defeats Cuadras
Former WBA/WBO flyweight champion Juan Francisco Estrada (36-2, 25 KOs) overcame a slow start to come on in the second half of the contest to defeat former WBC super flyweight champion Carlos Cuadras (36-2-1, 27 KOs) by a 12 round unanimous decision at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
The win for Estrada, 27, makes him the No.1 WBC mandatory challenger to WBC 115 lb. champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai. As good as Rungvisai looked tonight, Estrada might be better off moving back down to 112 and picking up where he left off in beating all comers.
Sergey Kovalev to return against Vyacheslav Shabranskyy on Nov. 25; Orlando Salido could feature on card
It has been confirmed by HBO how former light-heavyweight king Sergey Kovalev will make his ring return on November 25, against once-beaten contender Vyacheslav Shabranskyy of Ukraine. The bout will take place at Madison Square Garden Theatre and it’s possible Mexican warrior Orlando Salido could also return on the same card.
Kovalev, 30-2-1(26) is of course coming off back-to-back losses to Andre Ward, the second fight in June being a KO defeat for “Krusher.” Some people felt the Russian puncher would take a considerable amount of time off after being halted the way he was by Pound-for-Pound king Ward, but, no, he’s back less than six months on – and against a pretty good fighter.
Srisaket Sor Rungvisai destroys Roman Gonzalez – Results
WBC super flyweight world champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (43-4-1, 39 KOs) dealt former multiple world champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (46-2, 38 KOs) a terrible defeat in knocking him out in the 4th round on Saturday night in the main event of the “SuperFly” Card on HBO Championship Boxing at the StubHub Center in Carson. California.
Rungvisai was hitting Gonzalez at will with huge power shots in rounds 1-3. In the 4th, Rungvisai knocked Gonzalez down hard with a big shot to the head. Gonzalez got back up but was quickly knocked down a second time.
Results: Usyk stops Huck
As many expected to happen, WBO WBO World champion Oleksandr Usyk (13-0, 11 KOs) toyed with the past his prime former 200 lb. champion Marco Huck (40-5-1, 27 KOs) in defeating him by a 10th round TKO on Saturday night at the Max-Schmeling-Halle in Berlin, Germany.
This was the first fight of the World Boxing Super Series. Usyk, the No.1 seed, showed that he’s going to be hard to beat with his boxing and slugging that he was doing all night against Huck. The fight was stopped at 2:18 of round 10.