Canelo to return in November, likely against Kirkland

07/16/2014 by BoxingNerd

canelo777 By DA: Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (44-1-1, 31 KOs) has been in talks with his promoter Oscar De la Hoya and hinted Alvarez will return in November against an opponent still to be determined. Chepo Reynoso the manager of Canelo Alvarez also stated after the Lara fight his team is interested in James Kirkland next.

The reported venue could be in San Antonio at the Alamadome where its capacity is 40,000 seats. Due to the cheap tickets and huge fan base Alvarez and Kirkland would pull it’s not a surprise the fight would take place in Texas, because Alvarez has a large Hispanic following there and James Kirkland is from Texas himself.

Canelo vs Lara: The mere Truth

07/15/201407/14/2014 by BoxingNerd

By DA: Last Saturday night the boxing world erupted after Saul “Canelo” Alvarez won a 12 round split decision over Erislandy Lara which many believed was controversial at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. That fight was indeed close and both fighters had their moments. Though it wasn’t as exciting as I thought it would be. You have to give credit for Canelo for taking the fight instead of just avoiding Lara.

My scorecard was 115-113 for Alvarez, and the reason was I felt Lara gave away rounds he could’ve won and instead did more movement than fighting. He had a good start, but he failed to make any adjustments after Canelo started pressuring the Cuban boxer. Canelo on the other hand made adjustments to try and cut the ring off and work Lara’s body. If history tells us anything folks it’s told us judges do not like when a fighter stays on his bike for large amounts of time.

Canelo vs. Lara full card analysis and predictions

06/28/2014 by BoxingNerd

lopez9 By DA: Well, boxing family we’re roughly 2 weeks away from seeing the most anticipated boxing card of this year so far, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (43-1-1, 31 KO’s) vs Erislandy Lara (19-1-2, 12 KO’s) on July 12th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. I’ve been seeing some great debates on how Lara will or how Canelo will win, and it just makes me wish the fight was tomorrow.

Like me, I’m sure there are tons of fans ready for this fight and I often get so caught up with the main event, I forget about the great undercard it has.

Saul “Canelo” Alvarez vs. Erislandy Lara – What the future holds/Analysis

03/14/2014 by BoxingNerd

By D.A: Since my last article on Manny Pacquiao vs. Tim Bradley 2 received positive comments, I intend to do the same with my analysis of Saul “Canelo” Alvarez vs. Erislandy Lara, which is a possibility for Canelo’s July 26th PPV bout. Earlier today I read an article on Canelo (43-1-1, 31 KOs) looking at Lara as a future opponent and Alvarez to be talking to his promoters at the Golden Boy headquarters in the coming weeks for his future opponent.

Pacquiao vs. Bradley 2 breakdown

02/05/2014 by BoxingNerd

pac6788 By DA: On April 12th Manny Pacquiao (55-5-2, 38 KOs) will get a shot at redemption against Timothy Bradley (31-0, 12 KOs) who controversially defeated Pacquiao with a 12 round split decision and in the process taking his WBO Welterweight title. I’m gonna point out the facts, Pacquiao missed a lot of his punches and HBO’s biased commentary would applaud everything he threw when clearly he did not land. But for Tim he didn’t do much at all to Pacman but stay on the defensive.

The Compubox shows who the clear cut winner should’ve been and it was indeed Pacquiao. Pacquiao out-landed Bradley by roughly over 80 punches. Though not many people know this, Compubox do not determine winners in a boxing match. Judges do not view Compubox and only view what’s going on at ringside.

Why Matthysse vs. Broner should happen

12/23/2013 by BoxingNerd

By D.A: Last week we saw Adrien “The problem” Broner suffer his first defeat in a lopsided 12 round unanimous decision to Marcos “El Chino” Maidana in San Antonio, Texas. Broner took a hellacious beating and suffered his first 2 career knockdowns.

From what I was seeing by many boxing fans, casual or hardcore at least 90% were saying Broner would outbox “Chino” with ease and Maidana was tailor made. I am one who rooted for Maidana and was proven right. Now we know Broner is not the future nor is he the next Floyd Mayweather Jr., and never was to be exact. But a few months ago we saw Danny “Swift” Garcia outclass Lucas “The Machine” Matthysse on the undercard of “The One”.