Shediac, New Brunswick (May 12, 2012) – Shediac’s Festival Arena was packed to near capacity last night with eager fight fans, who turned out in droves to see rising New Brunswick prospects Chris ‘The Natural’ Norrad (12-0-0, 6KO) of Boisetown and Brandon ‘L-Jack’ Brewer (7-0-1, 3KO) of Fredericton on an exciting boxing card organized by Fightin’ Fisherman Promotions.
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Chisora should come to U.S to fight Deontay Wilder
By Scott Gilfoid: The proposed June 15th fight between American heavyweight Deontay Wilder (28-0, 28 Ko’s) and British heavyweight Dereck Chisora (16-4, 10 KO’s) may not happen for a number of reasons, one of which is Deontay’s legal issues stemming from his May 4th arrest in Las Vegas, Nevada for domestic battery.
It’s unclear whether Deontay can travel outside of the U.S next month with that issue still not having been taken care of. However, that doesn’t mean that Chisora can’t come to the U.S to fight Deontay if Chisora and his promoter Frank Warren really want the fight that badly.
Burns to be back in September in likely voluntary defense
By Scott Gilfoid: WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns’ promoter Eddie Hearn ruled out a rematch against the hard-hitting Jose Gonzalez last night after Burns dodged a bullet in beating him on an injury stoppage after the 9th round in Glasgow, Scotland.
Hearn wants Burns to fight in September in Glasgow. He didn’t mention who the opponent will be, but it seems pretty obvious that they’ll go soft with a nice bottom dwelling contender for Burns’ voluntary defense.
It makes a ton of sense for Burns to fight Gonzalez again because when you get dominated for the first seven rounds of the fight like Burns was; it tells you that his skills just weren’t matching up well with Gonzalez.
Rios: I was picked for Pacquiao because I lost my last fight
By Chris Williams: Brandon Rios (31-1-1, 23 KO’s) figures that the only reason he was given a big money fight against Manny Pacquiao (54-5-2, 38 KO’s) on November 24th this year is because Rios is coming off of a loss to Mike Alvarado in a fight that he didn’t look good in last March.
Rios said to the bostonherald.com “He [Pacquiao] picked me because I lost. They probably think ‘Brandon is easy to hit. Brandon gets hit all the time.’ It’s a very different story when you get in the ring with me…they made a mistake picking me.”
WBO Champ Ricky Burns superb in beating Gonzalez
By Stevie Ocallaghan: The thing I would like to start with is that I do not judge a fighter on nationality, color or race, I judge a fighter on his ability in the ring.
Last Saturday night at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow we witnessed a war between WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns and Jose Gonzalez. What should be judged is that Ricky Burns retained his title when Gonzalez quit on his stool. No hollow victory, Gonzalez quit.
Great fighters in the past have quit, Roberto Duran, Vitali Klitschko, Don Curry and many more have quit through exhaustion or injury. It happens, but when a guy quits for whatever the reason, don’t belittle the winner as being lucky or fortunate.
Burns victorious over Gonzalez
By Stevie Ocallaghan: First things first, WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns retained his WBO lightweight title last Saturday night at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow by stopping challenger Jose Gonzalez after the 9th round.
Burns was not at his best, but I honestly think that was down to the supreme talent that Jose Chelo Gonzalez was. Gonzalez, arguably out fought Burns in the first half of the fight, but as I’ve written before there are not many fighters with the heart and fitness of Ricky Burns.
Gonzalez won the first 5 rounds fairly easily, the 6th was shared then round 7 was a barnstormer. Gonzalez threw everything he had and at one point looked to have Burns ready but Burns came back with everything he had. What a round and Burns did enough to share that round.
Darchinyan stops Gallo
By Jim Dower: #3 WBC 122 lb. contender Vic Darchinyan (39-5-1, 28 KO’s) potentially put himself in position for a world title shot tonight in beating Javier Gallo (18-7-1, 10 KO’s) in an easy fourth round knockout at the Uni-Trade Stadium, in Laredo, Texas, USA.
Darchinyan, 37 knocked Gallo down four times in the fight, 3 times in the 2nd round, and a final time in the 4th round. The fight was halted at 0.26 of the fourth round.
It’s good that Darchinyan won the fight, but he was stunned once in the fight by the little known Gallo and that’s not a good sign for Darchinyan with him wanting to get a title shot against WBC super bantamweight champion Victor Terrazas.
Burns’ victory over Gonzalez was a hollow one
By Scott Gilfoid: If there was ever win that was a tainted one it was WBO lightweight champion Ricky Burns’ win tonight over Jose Gonzalez (22-1, 17 KO’s) in Glasgow, Scotland. I mean, I’ve never seen Burns schooled like that before.
I shudder at the thought of what would have happened had Gonzalez not stopped fighting when he did. Burns looked totally out of his depth in the fight, and you could see it on his face. The man was desperate.
I like Burns as a fighter, but to see him win like that was sad because he really struggled against Gonzalez and couldn’t handle his jab, speed, power and movement.
RIP Andrew Millwall
By Mark Havey: To be famous in boxing it is customary to have exceptional talent in either fighting, training or matchmaking. Writers, commentators and pundits at times share the recognition that boxing brings. I can’t remember a time when a fan of boxing became famous, essentially for being a fan.
Three most underrated fighters
By Bob Smith: Earlier I wrote that in my opinion the two most overrated fighters currently are heavyweight Tyson Fury and junior middleweight Canelo Alvarez. But what about the most underrated fighters? I name three: Vitali Klitschko, Wladimir Klitschko, and Gennady Golovkin.
Why are they are underrated? It is simple – boxing announcers, promoters and commentators are strikingly similar between the mid-80s and currently – if you watch the old Tyson fights or other 1980s fights of the era, there is Al Bernstein and Harold Lederman commenting, with Bob Arum as a promoter in the background. I don’t dispute that they are excellent commentators or promoters, but boxing commentary and promotion does have a lot of barriers to entry (otherwise they would have had some competition in the last 27 years or so). Basically, they still have a Cold War mentality and are biased against Russian/Ukrainian fighters. And this goes for the network heads as well.