**** Kirk's ESB Championships 2011 ****

R.I.P. Smokin' Joe.

 

Well, looks like Lou DiBella jumped the gun. Frazier is still fighting back, he's not dead.

 

Nice Touch KIRK.

 

atsch I cannot think of a team name. Any ideas? Badlok I know is part. Also do you know what page more info on what we do as a team is?

 

Kiiiiiiirk! That's awesome updates. Awesome!!!

 

Hey everyone!

Stupid tweeters... Smokin' Joe is still with us, the Champ is fighting back!

 

11/07 - Jesus Silvestre vs. Paipharob Kokietgym - Interim WBA Minimumweight title
11/11 - Diego Magdaleno vs. Emmanuel Lucero
11/11 - Austin Trout vs. Frank LoPorto - WBA Light Middleweight title
11/12 - Gennady Golovkin vs. Lajuan Simon - WBA Middleweight title
11/12 - Tyson Fury vs. Neven Pajkic - Commonwealth Heavyweight title
11/12 - Martin Rogan vs. Matt Skelton II

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11/12 - Timothy Bradley vs. Joel Casamayor -

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11/12 - Juan Carlos Burgos vs. Luis Cruz
11/12 - Breidis Prescott vs. Mike Alvarado
11/19 - Billy Dib vs. Alberto Servidei - IBF Featherweight title
11/19 - Jose Rodriguez vs. Nethra Sasiprapa - Interim WBA Light Flyweight title
11/19 - Francios Botha vs. Michael Grant
11/19 - Selcuk Aydin vs. Ionut Dan Ion - WBC Welterweight eliminator
11/19 - David Price vs. John McDermott
11/19 - Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs. Peter Manfredo Jr. - WBC Middleweight title
11/23 - Thomas Oosthuizen vs. Francisco Sierra - IBO Super Middleweight title
11/23 - Kaizer Mabuza vs. Steven Wills - IBO Light Welterweight title
11/25 - Giacobbe Fragomeni vs. Silvio Branco - WBC Silver Cruiserweight title
11/26 - Kermit Cintron vs. Saul Alvarez - WBC Light Middleweight title

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11/26 - Adrian Broner vs. Vicente Martin Rodriguez - WBO Super Featherweight title
11/30 - Danny Green vs. Krzysztof WLodarczyk - WBC Cruiserweight title
11/30 - Ricardo Castillo vs. Will Tomlinson - IBO Super Featherweight title

 

Fight list update for those lazy sobs who cant be arsed to look for it:

11/11 - Diego Magdaleno vs. Emmanuel Lucero
11/11 - Austin Trout vs. Frank LoPorto - WBA Light Middleweight title
11/12 - Gennady Golovkin vs. Lajuan Simon - WBA Middleweight title
11/12 - Tyson Fury vs. Neven Pajkic - Commonwealth Heavyweight title
11/12 - Martin Rogan vs. Matt Skelton II
11/12 - Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez III - WBO Welterweight title
11/12 - Timothy Bradley vs. Joel Casamayor - WBO Light Welterweight title
11/12 - Juan Carlos Burgos vs. Luis Cruz
11/12 - Breidis Prescott vs. Mike Alvarado
11/19 - Billy Dib vs. Alberto Servidei - IBF Featherweight title
11/19 - Jose Rodriguez vs. Nethra Sasiprapa - Interim WBA Light Flyweight title
11/19 - Francios Botha vs. Michael Grant
11/19 - Selcuk Aydin vs. Ionut Dan Ion - WBC Welterweight eliminator
11/19 - David Price vs. John McDermott
11/19 - Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs. Peter Manfredo Jr. - WBC Middleweight title
11/23 - Thomas Oosthuizen vs. Francisco Sierra - IBO Super Middleweight title
11/23 - Kaizer Mabuza vs. Steven Wills - IBO Light Welterweight title
11/25 - Giacobbe Fragomeni vs. Silvio Branco - WBC Silver Cruiserweight title
11/26 - Kermit Cintron vs. Saul Alvarez - WBC Light Middleweight title
11/26 - Adrian Broner vs. Vicente Martin Rodriguez - WBO Super Featherweight title
11/30 - Danny Green vs. Krzysztof WLodarczyk - WBC Cruiserweight title
11/30 - Ricardo Castillo vs. Will Tomlinson - IBO Super Featherweight title

 

11/11 - Diego Magdaleno vs. Emmanuel Lucero - Magdelano UD
11/11 - Austin Trout vs. Frank LoPorto - Trout TKO
11/12 - Gennady Golovkin vs. Lajuan Simon - Golovkin TKO
11/12 - Tyson Fury vs. Neven Pajkic - Fury TKO
11/12 - Martin Rogan vs. Matt Skelton II - Rogan SD
11/12 - Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez III - Pacquiao UD
11/12 - Timothy Bradley vs. Joel Casamayor - Bradley UD
11/12 - Juan Carlos Burgos vs. Luis Cruz - Cruz TKO
11/12 - Breidis Prescott vs. Mike Alvarado - Alvarado UD

 

First of all, legendary updates Kirk :good

Now down to business...
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It was a (very) bad weekend for me predicition wise (I don't know how bad yet and I don't wanna know), but it was an incredible weekend boxingwise!

Let's start of with something most of us already knew (expected) but actually seeing it for me was a comination sadness, hilarity, anger, recognition, pity and a "I told you so" moment. Friday we saw Denis Lebedev vs James Toney for the bogus "interim" WBA Cruiserweight title in Russia and it looked awful!
Not from Denis' side of course who was himself like always, but that drunk low level journeyman in a Toney suit he bought for Halloween who was impersonating good ol' James was just plain wrong!

The only thing James has left is his amazing chin, wich only made it worse for the living and still "boxing" legend. Well, not the only thing... he hasn't lost his big mouth and delusion also, judging from his statement directly after the fight :-(


Now to a lighter note... Saturday's British showdown Ricky Burns vs Michael Katsidis was a "real" fight, and turned out to be one of the best matchups of the year. Kats was constantly chasing Burns down, flooding him with punches while Ricky was countering him with clean and good shots.
Fighting from the opening bell until the last (or actually about 3 seconds after) it was all action and pure entertainment.
So it went the distance, wich we know is bad for the "away" fighter and that clearly showed on the wide scorecards from the judges who had Michael only winning 3 rounds. I had it a clean Draw, but could see it 115-113 Burns too (depended on the 12th and final round) and that seemed to be the score the majority had it in IB's famous RbR. So, no harm no faul.
It was however a loss on my Kirk sheet, wich is never pleasant!

Then on our way to one of the coolest places in the world, CANADA! :canada
Where Pier Olivier Cote apparently crushed Jorge Luis Teron by a 2nd round KO (didn't see footage of that fight yet) and handed me another Kirk loss :twisted: But the main attraction was the according to many "make or break" fight between Super Middleweights Lucian Bute and one of the sport's toughest guys Glen Johnson.
The fight started earlier as I expected, so I missed the firt 2 rounds. Eventually that didn't make much difference because it was one way traffic all the way, and I had trouble scoring one round for old Glen in the 10 I saw. Sadly there wasn't much action in it and it kinda reminded me of a Klitschko fight, with Bute standing in the middle of the ring pecking away on poor Glen and countering him when he tried to engage. At the end Lucian was looking for the stoppage wich eventually he didn't get.
Aside fromsome morons scoring this fight close, everyone sane scored it in the 120-108 to 118-110 range wich it obviously was.

End of the night, Bute passed the test with flying colors and seemed to have shown the world he is the real deal. Either that, or Johnson really got old overnight and Lucian just got to him at the right time.
The way I look at it is what it has been for the last couple of years... The Super 6 winner better watch out!


Then we move down the map to Mexico! That's where they hosted the main event of the weekend between James "T" Kirkland and Alfredo "Perro" Angulo at LMW, the Peter "Kid Chocolate" Quillin vs Craig McEwan Middleweight fight and on another location in the same country we had the already determined outcome between Heavyweights Chris Arreola and Raphael Butler. Let's start with that last one, wich was pretty much like one man punishing another toward a TKO3 victory.

Now that's out of the way, on to the real fights... First the Quillin vs McEwan wich I haven't seen so I'll be short about it. Apperantly it was a "British referee stoppage" with Peter landing a couple of punches in a row on Craig's defence and got awarded a TKO6 victory for his effort.
Like I said, I didn't see it so don't kill me if I've got it all wrong.

Then the moment the people here still reading it were waiting for. The war between Angulo and Kirkland for something called the "WBC Continential Americas Light Middleweight Title"... Who comes up with that crap?!
Who cares what "title" this was for, it lived up to it's promise and soooo much more!
Before the fight most people agreed on one thing, this would be a slugfest and James' chin would problably not hold up, or he would find a way to stop Perro before that happened.
Well, it certainly was a slugfest! They went at it from the opening bell with seemingly Kirkland landing the bigger punches.
But then I saw James go down, and I really had the "there you have it" feeling. Wich became even stronger in the minute that followed with Perro furiously going for the finishing blow... Then in my idea it might have been that everybody who understands boxing a little had the same idea at the same time... "Perro was punching himself out!".
James turned the fight around with Alfredo on the ropes with huge blows landing almost at will... In another corner and Perro goes down... Hard!
End of the first round, wich probably took a year out of both boxers lives.
Round of the year! Clearly, none of this years fights even come close to that onslaught!
Even if the conclusion of this fight seems like a letdown compared to round 1 it clearly wasn't. Kirkland controlled the fight from that point on, but still took some heavy shots from the deadly tired Angulo who clearly didn't have even half his power left after round one but still was very dangerous. Also he didn't seem to even know how to spoil, whitch nobody would have held against him if he did to take a breather now and then.
Until in round six a series of unanswered blows from Kirkland forced the referee to step in and end the event of the year.

It caused another loss on my Kirk sheet, but in this case I don't care much about that cause let's face it, this is why we watch and love boxing.
We can celebrate technical ability of some fighters who outbox their opponents every round towards a 120-108 decision and leaving the ring without a scratch on them, but this was the ****!
I'm already signing on to see Angulo vs Kirkland II: Appetite for destruction! :bbb

There were other big fights this weekend, like Takahiro Ao SD's Devis Boschiero, Shinsuke Yamanaka TKO's Christian Esquivel Suriyan, Mariusz Wach TKO's janson Gavern, Guillermo Jones TKO's Michael Marrone and Sor Rungvisai UD's Nobuo Nashiro.... maybe I even missed a few, but it's just too much!


To end this amazing boxing weekend, there's something that casted a shadow over the whole thing... "Smoking" Joe Frazier, I hope you have another couple of rounds left in you man and be victorious at least one more time!


To not spoil the mood too much, here a picture of Peter "Kid Chocolate" Quillin taken directly after the fight.

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I,ll try to thimk of something , Malden is with us ?

 

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11/07 - Jesus Silvestre vs. Paipharob Kokietgym - Interim WBA Minimumweight title

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Pretty close obviously.