tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79808586402684479482011-11-04T03:40:25.422-07:00Whatever happened to Earnie Shavers? Who would win in a fight between Marvin Hagler and Bernard Hopkins? Why did George Foreman lose to Muhammad Ali? Will Paul Williams and Antonio Margarito meet again for the title? We're going to talk about it all on Boxed Ears! Weigh in now!To Be Deletednoreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7980858640268447948.post-80624198138018354512008-07-21T17:13:00.000-07:002008-12-08T16:22:21.712-08:00

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. VS Emanuel BurtonBE's look back on the offensively thrilling fight of Floyd Mayweather, Jr. VS Emanuel Burton (Augustus) is a tribute to one of Floyd's most offensively brilliant fights and Emanuel Burton's most shining moments as an action-forcing warrior with nothing to lose and everything to gain. It is one of the few occasions that Floyd has been pushed to fight this

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ESPN Boxing Broadcast: Friday Night Fights.Jerome Ellis VS Richard GutierrezDate: July 18, 2008Division: Light MiddleweightRounds Scheduled: 8Place: Buffalo Bill's Star Arena, Primm, Nevada, USAFighters:Jerome Ellis:Record:11-8-1 with 10 kayosHeight: 5'8Weight: 153 LBSAge: 29Hometown: Maplewood, New Jersey, USA (From The Bahamas)*He's lost four straight coming into this bout, remarks Joe

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Hello everyone. As I said, I'd give you all an update on Oscar Diaz if and when I could find one. I remember looking around for information on whether or not Ray Oliviera had been okay after his disturbing scene at his fight with Emanuel Augustus who was really laying on some flush shots and frustratingly not finding anything. Luckily, information travels faster now.To recap a bit, last night

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ESPN Boxing Broadcast: Wednesday Night Fights.Devlin Rodriguez VS Oscar DiazDate: July 16, 2008Division: WelterweightRounds Scheduled: 12Place: Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio, Texas, United StatesFighters:Delvin Rodriguez:Record:22-2-1 with 13 kayosHeight: 6'0Weight: 147 LBSAge: 28Residence: Danburry, Connecticut, USA (Native to the Dominican Republic)*Delvin was knocked out by Jesse

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ESPN Boxing Broadcast: Wednesday Night Fights.Date: July 16, 2008Division: BantamweightRounds Scheduled: 4Place: Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio, Texas, United StatesFighters: Julio Valadez:Record:1-0 with 0 kayosHeight: 5'6Weight: 118 LBSAge: 19Residence: San Antonio, TexasEric Morin:Record: 0-0-0 with 0 kayos -Pro DebutHeight: 5'7Weight: 116.5 lbsAge: 22Residence: San Antonio, TexasBE's round

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ESPN Boxing Broadcast: Wednesday Night Fights.Date: July 16, 2008Division: WelterweightRounds Scheduled: 8Place: Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio, Texas, United StatesFighters: Alexis CamachoRecord:16-0 with 15 kayosHeight: 5'10Weight: 147.5 LBSAge: 27Residence: Austin, Texas (from Mexico)*Comes from a family of circus performers. To cut weight, Teddy Atlas remarks, Camacho came running in in

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1. Sonny Liston Vs George Foreman at heavyweightBE's pick: Foreman By Knockout2. Roberto Duran Vs Julio Cesar Chavez at lightweightBE's pick: Duran by decision or stoppage3. Sugar Shane Mosley VS Aaron Pryor at lightweightBE's pick: Draw4. Floyd Mayweather Junior VS Sugar Ray Leonard at welterweightBE's pick: Leonard by Floyd's first KO loss or by decision5. Larry Holmes Vs Lennox Lewis at

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BE's look back on Frazier VS Ellis I, a fight recently aired on the wonderful ESPN Classic channel. Set up: In 1970 the world of heavyweight boxing was still up in the air as far as the real heavyweight champion. The rightful owner of the title was Muhammad Ali but Ali's legal battles over the draft had seen him stripped of his championship status and his career on hold. Two champions emerged to

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Match Up News: What Do We Get?I'm reading Bad Left Hook and Max Boxing this afternoon about a much stronger possibility of Paul Williams fighting Kelly Pavlik. This comes straight from Bob Arum who thinks they have a deal with Dan Goossen, then implies that with Goossen, you never know. Williams/Pavlik was mentioned before but not this strongly. I never thought Paul would stay at welterweight.

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Okay, I won't go over what I said in the live, round by round posting that I did, you can go back and see it. I will simply conclude that Klitschko was not great but similarly to Bonavena VS Ali, you can have an ugly, awkward and unimpressive performance and if you score a KO, all is forgiven by fans and history. This bears a very similarity in many ways. Oscar Bonavena was knocked out for the

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The OUTCOME OF KLITSCHKO VS THOMPSON: RD 11: for Klitschko: Wlad leans all over Thompson on the ropes and Thompson goes down again. I'd penalize him for that crap. He goes back and starts it again when Tony gets up. He was in sneakers, his boxing shoes were gone. It may have bothered him. A straight right hand knocks Thompson down. Thompson doesn't stand straight in time. He got to his feet by

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RD 10: for Klitschko: Emanuel Steward says that Thompson has bad balance in the corner. Thompson's people still urging Thompson although they sound like they know it's a futile effort. Harold Lederman has it 8-1 for Wlad now. Thompson starts going back to the body after a long break from them, though they were really his only good punches with meaning in the fight. It looks like Wlad and Thompson

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RD 9: for even: In the corner before the round, Thompson's people tell him if he loses, it's going to be a long ass flight home. He just isn't mustering anything up. It's not that he's hurt really in any way but only that he seems to be broken spirited. The tape on Thompson's glove needs fixed in a time out. Lampley says it's time for Thompson to start a brawl because he's not going to win a

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RD 8: for Klitschko: In the corners, Emanuel is happy with Wlad's performance in the previous round and says his experience is starting to show. Thompson's corner tries to breathe life into him, frustrated by his inactivity. Thompson isn't going after Klitschko's cut, amazingly. He might be able to end the fight and pull an upset if he did. Wlad's cut seems to be completely dry and Thompson's is

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RD 7: for Klitschko: Harold has it for Wlad 5 rounds to 1 for cleaner and more effective punching, agreeing with Larry's assertion that Thompson can't win the HW title fight by just touching Wlad. I think some of Thompson's punches however are landing respectably clean, he's just not a huge puncher. Lewis and Lampley agree that Wlad is more relaxed and confident in this round but worry that

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RD 6: for Klitschko: Close round. Could have been a draw but Klitschko was the harder puncher so I give him the edge. Very competitive, both guys still seem calm enough. Larry Merchant asks if Thompson can win the fight with his lighter punches in a title match. Lewis says NO.

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Rd 5: for Thompson: Thompson's several body shots see a few going too low again. Both fighters get a few punches that loop to the back of each other's heads, Thompson looked briefly to the ref about one of Wlad's. Thompson outpointed Wlad with body shots. Wlad looks tired.

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RD 4: for Klitschko: Thompson is getting some good shots in, most of which are body shots. I don't think he did enough to take the round.

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RD 3: for Klitschko : A head butt is suspected for cutting Thompson and Klitschko. Thompson has a damn good chin showing almost no effect from Wlad's biggest punches. Both fighters are bleeding from above their right eyes. They still aren't 100% sure it's a cut.

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RD 2: for Klitschko: Thompson hits the canvas, Cortez calls it a slip. Emanuel Steward tells Wlad he lost the first round. Thompson has never been knocked out. Klitschko and Thompson are both cut called by Lewis and Lampley. Wlad puts a lot of pressure on Thompson and nails him with several right hands.

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RD 1: for Thompson: Thompson's soft body shots go too low a few times it seems. The crowd is very enthusiastic. Wlad is fighting off of his back foot as usual. I call it Thompson's round by a narrow margin. It's a generally cautious round.

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HBO Broadcast Currently Airing:Called By: Jim Lampley, Lennox Lewis, Larry MerchantPlace: Hamburg, GermanyTitle Match: IBF heavyweight title, WBO heavyweight title, IBO heavyweight titleRef: Joe CortezJudges: Manfred Kuchler of Germany, Michael Pernick of USA and John Stewart of USAThe Fighters:Wladimir ''Doctor Steelhammer'' Klitschko:Record: 50-3-0 with 44 kayosAge: 32Height: 6'6.5-6'7Weight:

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Boxed Ears Would Like To Wish Julio Cesar Chavez A Happy Birthday.Chavez is without a doubt one of the greatest fighters in the history of boxing across the globe. He's given the sport one hell of a lot. He was born on July, 12 1962 in Ciudad Obregon, Mexico. He honored us with his presence fighting in 115 total fights and knocked out his opponents on nearly 90 crushing occasions in a career

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Youtube video info credited as: Courtesy of Sauerland Event (Boxen.com) Sunday June 21, 2008 9 PM ET on Showtime I have little doubt that Arthur Abraham is on Pavlik's radar as much as anyone, save his former sponsor unfortunately. Abraham was born in Yerevan, Armenia and fights out of Berlin, Germany and is the current IBF middleweight champion. It goes like this: Kelly Pavlik is famous for

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Boxed Ears would like to congratulate Emanuel ''The Drunken Master'' Augustus, formerly Emanuel Burton on his recent success. Augustus, a fighter famous for being far better than his record, as well as a gutsy and entertaining athlete, has hit a well deserved jackpot. He's given a lot to his sport and gotten robbed on a few occasions as well but now he is getting something back. He's just signed

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Thursday Morning Boxing News:ESPN Boxing Broadcast: Wednesday Night Fights.Chris '' Hard Hittin' '' Henry VS Rubin ''Mr. Hollywood'' Williams Date: July 09, 2008Division: CruiserweightRounds Scheduled: 10Place: Houston, Texas, U.S.A.Fighters: Chris HenryRecord:21-1 with 17 kayosHeight: 6'0Weight: 183 LBSAge: 27Hometown: Orange, Texas*Henry's only loss came from highly regarded Romanian fighter,

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Thursday Morning Boxing News: ESPN Boxing Broadcast: Wednesday Night Fights.Austin ''No Doubt'' Trout VS Byron ''Buddy'' Tyson Date: July 09, 2008Division: Light MiddleweightRounds Scheduled: 8Place: Houston, Texas, U.S.A.Fighters:Austin Trout:Record:13-0 with 10 kayosHeight: 5'10Weight: 152.5 LBSAge: 22Hometown: Las Cruces, New Mexico*Trout is a southpaw with a distinguished amateur background.

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Thursday Morning Boxing News:ESPN Boxing Broadcast: Wednesday Night Fights.ESPN fight: Aaron Lyons VS Eugene Hill. Division: HeavyweightRounds Scheduled: 6Place: Houston, Texas, U.S.A.Set up:Fighters:Eugene Hill: listed at 5'11, comes into the fight very overweight at 248 lbs. Hill comes in with the less impressive body but the more impressive record at 11-0 with ten kayos.Aaron Lyons: listed 6'1

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Police halt probe into threat against boxing champ Pavlik - USATODAY.comKelly Pavlik, the Youngstown, Ohio native holding the WBC and WBO middleweight championship titles is reportedly in serious danger. Having been only briefly haunting athletic stardom after destroying Edison Miranda then Jermain Taylor to become World Champion, he has now filed a serious report with the law. The report, filed

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What's going on?1. I've already posted news of Mando Ramos passing away at the age of 59 so I won't go over that again. The current news right now is as follows:2. WBA Middleweight champion, Felix Sturm, defeats American, Randy Griffin in a Unanimous Decision. Scott Gilfoid at http://www.boxingnews24.com/ thought Sturm's performance was far from a shut out and would've agreed with a draw.3.

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I've just heard that former world champion Armando ''Mando'' Ramos has died at the age of 59. He will be missed. Let's take a brief moment to tell those that don't know or remember him about Mando to pay our respects.Mando, similarly to Mike Tyson in his Heavyweight career, turned pro young and reached the top in a whirlwind. Ramos was a gutsy and exciting phenomenon that gave much to the sport.

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Max Baer on top, Max Schmeling on the bottom.Classic Fights: BE's look back:An often overlooked battle of the Maxes was a classic fight. Overlooked, mostly because they both are famous for specific other fights. BE's look back on Schmeling VS Baer will hopefully give you an idea of the fight's place in boxing history as well as a pundit's look on how it went.Section 1: The FightersMax Baer:Baer

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Fight Commentary: David Diaz Vs. Manny Pacquiao for the WBC lightweight title on HBO PPV.Make no mistake, David Diaz is a fine fighter. He's big hearted and a true champ. He's a former Olympian and a world champion. He came into this fight with only one loss and one draw in 36 professional bouts. Let's not say that this was completely predictable. I've heard this. I don't believe it. Keeping in

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What's going on in boxing? Another list makes me cringe!Well, BE's first official chat post shouldn't come across as being negative (I hope). I was just reading the boxing blog, In the ring with Ron Lewis, and his Top 50 middleweights ever - the final list and I find myself very uneasy with the list. I can accept Harry Greb on this list although of course, there are reservations about the time he

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