Boxing Off-Topic

[JayBee74]

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busy weekend for Boxing. Brandon Cook (18-0 11ko's) a Super-Welterweight that fights on my shows quite often, went to Montreal to take on Steven Butler (18-0 15ko's) and was a 9-1 underdog (no reason other than local hype for the montrealer) Brandon got the stoppage beating this kid up, but afterwards was hit in the head with a bucket AND pushed down by Butler almost simultaneosly. The father of Butler also stepped over him and previous to that was screaming at the Ontario promoter who was ringside. Also numerous fights in the stands broke out, pretty much an insane atmosphere. That story is shown here first in the link, after the main it's just other fights before.

http://www.tvasports.ca/2017/01/28/steven-butler-perd-son-combat

I'm doing another show in February, Brandon won't be fighting, but I may interview him because it was just so crazy. I've never seen sore losing to that extent.

I didn't know anything about either fighter but that was quite an upset.

[JayBee74]

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Some smack talk from Terence Crawford's trainer/manager regarding a potential 140 showdown with Mikey Garcia:

“We welcome Mikey’s challenge, if he comes up to 140 pounds,” said Crawford’s trainer/co-manager Brian McIntyre. “We will do him like we did him in the amateurs.”

Crawford apparently outpointed Garcia by a wide margin.

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[allBthere]

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Sounds like a wild night at the fights! Is there an English version of the story, or is google translate going to have to do?

There are now english write-ups one here;

http://www.torontosun.com/2017/01/29/ugly-end-to-great-bout

re the upset comment - because of the odds? Most people from Ontario had a feeling Brandon would win. He's a very old-school fighter that really works the body hard early with hooks and uppercuts. He prefers fighting taller opponents and has been in tough (and in trouble). Many Montreal fighters have inflated ego's and haven't been in tough and build up great records. A perfect example is david lemieux. Remember the huge upset when he got stopped by an elder Rubio?

Everyone from ontario that went to the fight made lots of money - if I could have gone and saw those odds I would have dropped $200, nothing I would miss, and walked away with just shy of 2k. You can't beat that lol. The odds were just way off. Other intersting things were just the day before the curveball that cook had to fight in 8oz gloves, when, everywhere else anything above welter is 10oz, so there was a big disagreement and it was solved by actually flipping a coin!

[sheredia]

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Some smack talk from Terence Crawford's trainer/manager regarding a potential 140 showdown with Mikey Garcia:

“We welcome Mikey’s challenge, if he comes up to 140 pounds,” said Crawford’s trainer/co-manager Brian McIntyre. “We will do him like we did him in the amateurs.”

Crawford apparently outpointed Garcia by a wide margin.

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sounds like mikey has a plan.....not sure what crawford's trainer meant, get a lead on mikey and run again? lol. j/k.

[JayBee74]

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sounds like mikey has a plan.....not sure what crawford's trainer meant, get a lead on mikey and run again? lol. j/k.

Agree, but it would still be a tough fight for Garcia. The indication is he will be moving up to 140 by the end of this year or early 2018. That would reduce the chances for a super fight between him and Lomachenko.

EDIT: I might have spoken too soon. I can't pull up the BoxingScene website (down) but the headline off of the Google search quotes Garcia, "If Presented With Lomachenko At 135, I'll Take It."

2ND EDIT:
Garcia-Lomachenko??

[sheredia]

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Agree, but it would still be a tough fight for Garcia. The indication is he will be moving up to 140 by the end of this year or early 2018. That would reduce the chances for a super fight between him and Lomachenko.

EDIT: I might have spoken too soon. I can't pull up the BoxingScene website (down) but the headline off of the Google search quotes Garcia, "If Presented With Lomachenko At 135, I'll Take It."

2ND EDIT:
Garcia-Lomachenko??

good looking out, jaybee.....lomachenko should take this fight. who else wants to fight him after what he did to walters?

[JayBee74]

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good looking out, jaybee.....lomachenko should take this fight. who else wants to fight him after what he did to walters?

Funny you should say that- BoxRec shows him scheduled for an April 8th fight against no one!

Even though they're now both super featherweights Salido has no interest in giving Lomachenko a revenge opportunity. This from Salido three weeks ago:

"Hey, why do I want to fight a guy in Lomachenko who I know is going to run, grab and hold when I can go Mexican-to-Mexican with Francisco Vargas and give the people what they really want see."

[JayBee74]

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Too bad. I wanted to see that fight. Something is always going on with Kirkland.

Cotto-Kirkland Off

Apparently Teddy Atlas is not impressed ENOUGH with GGG-Go figure.

Atlas' GGGless Top Ten

[sheredia]

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Too bad. I wanted to see that fight. Something is always going on with Kirkland.

Cotto-Kirkland Off

Apparently Teddy Atlas is not impressed ENOUGH with GGG-Go figure.

Atlas' GGGless Top Ten

me too....ugh.

[sheredia]

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Funny you should say that- BoxRec shows him scheduled for an April 8th fight against no one!

Even though they're now both super featherweights Salido has no interest in giving Lomachenko a revenge opportunity. This from Salido three weeks ago:

"Hey, why do I want to fight a guy in Lomachenko who I know is going to run, grab and hold when I can go Mexican-to-Mexican with Francisco Vargas and give the people what they really want see."

wonder what the purse would be against lomachenko as opposed to vargas.....

[JayBee74]

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wonder what the purse would be against lomachenko as opposed to vargas.....

Lomachenko has been making in the $850 K-$1 million range. There's nothing specific, but Salido was offered less then $500K for a rematch. Despite losing a split decision Lomachenko has some leverage because Salido came in overweight for their bout.

[sheredia]

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Lomachenko has been making in the $850 K-$1 million range. There's nothing specific, but Salido was offered less then $500K for a rematch. Despite losing a split decision Lomachenko has some leverage because Salido came in overweight for their bout.

good point....

[JayBee74]

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Must have just been announced but Fonfara (with new trainer Virgil Hunter) gets an ultimate crossroads fight with Chad Dawson March 4th.

[sheredia]

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Must have just been announced but Fonfara (with new trainer Virgil Hunter) gets an ultimate crossroads fight with Chad Dawson March 4th.

interesting fight for both fighters since both need to win....

[JayBee74]

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interesting fight for both fighters since both need to win....

Definitely and that crossroads fight has just been added to the Garcia-Thurman under-card.

That might not make the CBS telecast because also newly added Erickson Lubin VS Jorge Cota is locked in on TV with the main event.

Lubin-Cota