David Lemieux vs. James De La Rosa

Maciec was a good scalp, but yeah, that came off a ten month layoff and he fought just once more in a tuneup and has nothing scheduled. :!:

He was building up momentum after the J-Rock scare but seems to be squandering it.

 

Where did you see that it was going to PPV?

 

Yeah. To paraphrase Sir Charles Barkley, how my Yank ass taste? :smh

 

Cheers man. I've been hearing that for years. If only I had the free time...

 

We had a bunch of quality matchmaking on tap for this weekend and have lost most of it, sadly.

Keith Thurman injured his neck in a car wreck, and that in turn wrecked the entire Showtime event scheduled for Saturday night. That means we get deprived of Mares vs. Montiel II and Edwin Rodriguez vs. Thomas Williams Jr., both tentatively rescheduled (possibly still packaged into the postponement date for Thurman vs. Porter, yet to be determined). Rocky Martinez also sustained an injury, to his left hand, forcing him to withdraw from a scheduled WBO junior lightweight defense on Mexico Azteca. Would-be challenger Miguel Berchelt, the #1 contender, will now meet WBO Intercontinental champ and 6th-ranked George Jupp of the UK for the interim belt.

We do still have a few passably zestful attractions left in store, however.

This is one. (and the other, in terms of meaningful action, is Jürgen Brähmer vs. Eduard Gutknecht II ...and Edith Soledad Matthysse vs. Jelena Mrdenovich II on Friday, if you want to push boundaries of "meaningful". The card in France, also on Friday, is full of showcase mismatches...and do any of us really care about Zab Judah's comeback versus Josh Torres, honestly?)

Lemieux has opened favored at 1/14 over JDLR, so even this one is a foregone conclusion in the eyes of the bookies. (compare with Brähmer, only favored at 1/7 over someone he thwarted via UD three years ago...competitively fought, but Gutknecht has regressed and Brähmer despite being 37 has aged like fine wine)

 

Oh and more happy news - this card was picked up by Fox Deportes, set to air from 10pm EST! :happy

 

BONUS - we might even get to see fan-favorite journeyman Darnell Boone, positioned for a possible upset over Haitian-Canadian local draw Schiller Hyppolite. More likely, though, we are going to see a "somebody's 0 must go" co-feature between Québécois prospect Steven "BANG-BANG" Butler and Sladjan "The Tiger" Janjanin of Bosnia & Herzegovina, for the vacant IBF Youth 154lb title. :conf

If we're very lucky (and/or we get some early knockouts) we might even get all 3.

 

I forgot to mention Derry Matthews vs. Terry Flanagan, that's nothing to scoff at. I'd put that somewhere above Lemieux vs. DLR in terms of importance, maybe on par with Brähmer vs. Gutknecht II or actually just above since, while a domestic clash, there is a world title on the line..

 

vBookie thread:

http://www.boxingforum24.com/showthread.php?t=560829