Mayweather vs. Marquez Rescheduled on September 19th; Dzinziruk-Williams in September? – News

By Dave Lahr: The mega bout between unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Juan Manuel Marquez has been rescheduled for September 19th after Mayweather, 32, injured his ribs in training and couldn’t make the orignal July 18th date of the fight. This is good news, however, because ticket sales for the July 18th bout were reportedly anemic with few tickets having been sold for the fight.

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Dzinziruk Defeats Julio – Latest Boxing News

dzinziruk332.jpgBy Erik Schmidt: Undefeated World Boxing Organization (WBO) light middleweight champion Sergiy Dzinziruk (36-0, 22 KOs) easily defeated Colombian knockout artist Joel Julio (34-2, 31 KOs) by a 12-round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Koenig Pilsener Arena, in Oberhausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Dzinziruk, 32, had too much skill for the slower, more limited Julio, whom he jabbed at will open Saturday night making the Colombian look like a rank amateur. Julio, 23, had his moments in the earlier rounds in which he was able an occasional power shot against Dzinziruk, but for the most part, Julio was picked off while coming in by Dzinziruk’s hard jabs to the head.

In many ways, the fight was a repeat of Julio’s 12-round point’s loss to Carlos Quintana in June 2006, a fight from which Quintana easily defeated Julio by literally boxing circles around him and making him eat a lot of jabs and counter punches. Following that bout, Julio reeled off seven straight wins, beating the likes of Ishe Smith and Cornelius Bundrage along the way. It was hoped that Julio would have improved enough with his boxing skills to defeat a polished fighter like WBO champion Dzinziruk. However, as it turned out, Julio was beaten just as easily – if not worse – by Dzinziruk as he was by Quintana in 2006.

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