June 8, great boxing card.

maidana lopez is gaurenteed to be an absolute blood bath

and its great to see lara back in the ring i really had high hopes for him but his really been dealt a shitty hand throughout his career

 

not bad at all.

Except Bika. Why does he keep getting title shots!!!!

 

poor angulo, he's not going to win 10 seconds of that fight. that's a horrible mismatch

 

Maidana Vs. Lopez
Lara Vs. Angulo
Bika Vs. ??

Good fights!

I got Lopez by UD, Angulo w/a Hail Mary KO & Bika by SD.

 

Marco Antonio Periban. :good

Nice prospect from Mexico, big puncher, although his defense is a work in progress and he doesn't seem to have the chin to get away with banging against everyone (which he is accustomed to). Some people jumped off his bandwagon after he struggled a bit and got hurt by journeyman Lester Gonzalez...but he wasn't "exposed" IMO - his pure offense style was always going to cause him to eat some flush bombs when he finally ran into someone who didn't topple over easily, and he could still make some noise.

He probably doesn't have the power to seriously hurt Bika (which takes a lot) but maybe enough to get his respect and forestall the sort of dirty mugging affair wherein Bika's in his element.

If Bika walks through everything Periban has and lays those heavy hands on him and/or Periban hasn't made any improvements defensively, it'll be game over in a hurry.

 

Good lineup although I feel those fights are easy to call.

 

Hope the winners of Lara-Angulo and Alvarez-Trout meet.

 

We are definitely going to this card. Any other ESBers who plan on going, send me a PM when we get closer to the event.

 

TOPRANK also working on a june 8th card in texas...featuring the heavyweight ANDY RUIZ JR

 

Having been at Home Depot before, I expect a very pro-Mexican, very loud crowd. It's great. Look for Angulo and Lopez to get a ton of support. Periban will also have the crowd behind him, but not to the same degree.

Side note: this likely means catching a glimpse of Mrs. Bika live and in the flesh. Not sure if that's a good thing.

 

This is code for "I don't follow boxing closely enough to know who he is; therefore a perfunctory glance at Boxrec qualifies me to dismissively say he is an unproven nobody".

Diehards have been high on Periban for a while. Some, as I said earlier, abandoned ship after the Lester Gonzalez scare, but prior to that he was being put on the shortlist of future elites once the Super Six generation moves onward and/or upward (to retirement or light heavyweight).

If he is stopped by Sakio Bika, it won't come as much of a surprise given how porous his D was shown to be against the first live body that really hit back with gusto combined with a chin that isn't absolutely iron - but it's hardly glass, either. Gonzalez was throwing with all his might and caught the man flush, and MAP did remain undefeated (and has continued to since, while slowly stepping up competition)...

If he gets through Bika, however, it won't be some mind-blowing upset scored by a padded record bum coming from left field. It'll be a top prospect beating a hard-luck gatekeeper who's a h2h nightmare even for champs.

Basically his chances all depends on how much he lets Bika touch him up, which as I said earlier comes down to a) how much he can make Bika respect his own power (and remember, Bika may seem invincible at times but did unquestionably feel and get rattled by Jaidon Codrington's...) and b) how much he's improved technically.

If he can prevent Bika from teeing off unabated, I don't actually see it as even a mild shock if he gets the belt. Judges don't always like to reward Bika's rough & dirty MO, while Periban has the prototypical "aggression-favoring observer's darling" style.


Bika TKO or Periban UD are both very likely outcomes; I wouldn't say one any more than the other.

 

dude Bika has to be one of the best SMW's to never win a title. when guys like Magee, Stieglitz and Abraham who would likely all lose to Magee get a title and Bikas been toiling away fighting the divisions elite and giving them hell for 8 years it's a load of ****! Bika is the man and I really hope he gets his title finally. He deserves recognition as world champ in this day and age where guys like Magee, Bundrage, Senchenko etc are recent champs.