Palm Springs, CA- The 2010 boxing year has had more downs than ups for fans looking for excitement from their top athletes. For one reason or another we didn’t get the mega fight that most anticipated in the potential Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather clash. We also have been force fed matches by the powers that be (HBO) who have once again have illustrated that their only care is the bottom line. Fans simply need to stop paying for match ups we are not interested in just because they’re available on PPV.
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BOXING COMES TO RHODE ISLAND FRIDAY
Brockton, MA- A new wave of New England boxers will be featured on the aptly entitled “Labor Daze” card presented by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment and Sports, Inc. at the Twin River Event Center in Lincoln, RI on Friday night. Vladine Biosse, in the main event for the first time fights out of Providence, RI. Unbeaten at 7-0, 4 KOs, Vlad last bested Joey McCreedy for the New England super middleweight (168 lbs) title. READ MORE…
WRESTLING VILLAINS SKANDOR AKBAR & LUNA VACHON DEAD!
Skandor Akbar
San Francisco, CA- The beloved bad guy that was Skandor Akbar, a professional wrestler who found fame playing an Arab or Iranian sheik, a fixture in the days of of territorial wrestling of the 60s, 70s, and part of the 80s, passed away last week at 74. Born Jimmy Wehba, Akbar died from advanced Prostate Cancer just days after attending a National Wrestling Alliance get together in Charlotte, NC. Independent wrestler JC Bailey (Joseph Carl Bailey) was found dead Monday morning at home in Kentucky. Ex-WWE starlet Luna Vachon, 48, the second generation of the great Vachon wrestling family of Canada, died last week. Like Kentucky’s Bailey, the cause of death is still undetermined. I wrote last week about 29-year old Lance Cade (McKnaught) dying from an apparent heart attack.
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LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE MATCH GOES ROUTE
Boston, MA- In what was a highly anticipated fight card, UFC 118 turned out on one hand to be quite predictable, yet on another not so much. The intrigues of the rematch between lightweight champion (155 lbs) Frankie Edgar (13-1, 2 KO’s 3 subs) and former champ B.J. ‘The Prodigy” Penn (15-7-1, 6 KO’s 6 subs) proved to be just that, but the outcome was nothing anyone saw coming.
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ARREST COUTURE FOR “DOMESTIC VIOLENCE” ON TONEY
Boston, MA- In a matchup that can best be described as Rugby vs. NFL football, Randy Couture, 220, Portland, OR, SUB 1 James “No Lights On” Toney. In roughly two and a half minutes, Couture, now 47, owned Los Angeles’ Toney who is now 42 and 237 lbs., a former boxing champ at 160, 168 & 190 lbs. The end came at 3:19 of round one with Couture catching Toney with a arm triangle choke.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
INTEGRATED SPORTS PPV VIEWERS SEE CALDERON FALTER
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico- Giovanni Segura, (107.9 lbs) Bell Gardens, CA KO 8 Ivan Calderon, (107.8), Guaynabo, Puerto Rico (WBO/WBA 108 lb. titles) In what should be the fight of the year, WBA junior-flyweight world champion Segura (25-1, 21 KOs) scored a punishing eighth round KO over now former WBO champ Calderon (34-1-1, 6 KOs) to unify the 108 lb. championship.Â
IVAN HAD A LONG RUN AT 105 & 108 LBS.
Calderon displayed his beautiful boxing skills early on and stunned Segura in the first. But Segura turned it on and had Calderon in trouble in round five, when during the break the ex-champ complained about a thumb to his eye. Round six saw back a forth action, where Calderon survived some difficult moments, and regained his form in the seventh. Segura, however, continuously applied pressure to the 34 year old calderon and finally floored him for the count with a liver shot in round eight. Time was 1:34.
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TONEY-COUTURE HAS BEANTOWN TALKING
Las Vegas, NV- One match in particular at UFC 118 has piqued a lot of interest in both MMA and boxing alike as three division world boxing champion (160, 168 & 190 lbs) James “Lights Out” Toney (72-6-3, 44 KOs in boxing) steps into the world of mixed martial arts at 237 lbs tonight In Boston, MA against six time UFC champion (under 205 lbs, light heavyweight & over 205, heavyweight) Randy “The Natural” Couture (18-10, 7 KOs, 3 SUBs). For the most part, boxers have not fared too well in MMA as they typically lack several dimensions such as wrestling, grappling, submissions, and expanded striking (kicks, elbows, and knees) needed to succeed inside the cage.
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New York, NY- An historical fight will take place at UFC 118 this Saturday between five-time UFC champion and MMA legend Randy Couture and multiple division boxing champion James Toney. Thus, the stage is set for an epic showdown. So why are boxing and MMA still fighting for respect?
FIGHTING’S BEEN AROUND SINCE CAVEMEN
Combat sports have probably been around since the dawn of mankind. There are ancient artifacts and historical data that dictate hand to hand combat and certain forms of self-defense have been practiced in one form or another for thousands of years.
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New York, NY- Once again, boxing’s usually busy summer schedule heats up this weekend offering a twin bill of cards being dealt out by separate cable outlets. As a bonus; in a twist from the norm, two fighting worlds collide in a scrap that promises to entice any fight fans preference of style when a decorated former boxing champ tries his luck in the octagon against a Mixed Martial Arts legend. First, let’s check out the action that will transpire within the squared circle.
LITTLE GUYS LOOKING TO MAKE A BIG STATEMENT
Feather fisted, but gifted pug Ivan Calderon (34-1, 6 KOs) will meet Giovanni Segura (24-1-1, 20 KOs) over 12 scheduled rounds of throw down in unification showdown to claim supremacy in the light flyweight (108) division in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, Saturday night at 9 PM ET on Intergrated Sports PPV.
SHOW ME SOMETHING KID
Aside from not capturing a knockout win since 2006, Ivan Calderon READ MORE…
Salvador Sanchez
ANTONIO BECERRA HAS SOME “BRAGGING RIGHTS”
After going 18-0 with 17 whacks, Sanchez lost a split decision for the vacant Mexican bantamweight (118) title to Antonio Becerra in 1977. It would be Sal’s only loss. A bit of trivia, in 1979 Sanchez knocked out Felix Trinidad Sr. in five, he being the father of Puerto Rican icon Felix Jr. Besides a draw with Juan Escobar in 1978, getting dropped in the process, Sanchez’s resume is pristine.
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OVER 4,000 MMA TRAINING CENTERS IN US & FEDOR
San Francisco, CA- The latest count according to MMA TV is that there are over 4,000 registered MMA training facilities in the USA…Fabrice Werdum, the Brazilian who upset Fedor Emelianenko in April on Showtime in what has been called, “the tap heard around the world,” had elbow surgery and he’s out until January or February. Looks like Strikeforce heavyweight champ Alistair Overeem will face Fedor with the winner to meet Werdum. The real fight for Fedor is with UFC champ Brock Lesnar, but his manager Vadim Finkelchtein of M-1 Global knows that probably means a KO loss and then having to admit to UFC supremacy, something they are deathly afraid of.
DAVE BAUTISTA “DIFFERENT ANIMAL” THAN SISSY LASHLEY
Although he has yet to ink a Strikeforce deal, (or at least announce it publicly) one has to wonder what ex-WWE star Dave Bautista was thinking as he watched Bobby Lashley “punk out” last Saturday night? Pathetic performance for Lashley who left the WWE, then TNA to go MMA 24-7. Better go back to the fake stuff Boooby! As for Dave Bautista, the now 240 lb. (down from 290) Filipino-American, he beat the snot out of Booker T (Huffman) in a “real” locker room fight.
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MOSLEY OR MARQUEZ BIGGER FIGHT THAN “CHEATO”
San Francisco, CA- With Texas apparently willing to license him, disgraced Mexican boxer Antonio Margarito, the guy that had been caught with “loaded hand wraps” meant to disfigure his opponent Shane Mosley. That being said, why doesn’t Manny Pacquiao fight Mosley? He beat Margarito like a drum. In addition, Mosley is the man that went 12 rounds with Floyd Mayweather, rocking him once in the process.
OLD SLOW SHANE “STILL TOO” FAST FOR MANNY?
Mosley can still move around the ring, glide at times, this even though he is 38. But the reason why Manny Pacquiao has never, and I mean never mentioned Shane Mosley as a foe, is that Shane fights Black. Yes I said it again, and Pacman needs a guy with cement-like feet to stand there and let the Philippine phenom chop him down.
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