At Kanagawa, Japan (beIN Sports Espanol): Takashi Miura vs. Edgar Puerta, 12 rounds, for Miura's WBC junior lightweight title­; Roman Gonzalez vs. Rocky Fuentes, 12 rounds, for Gonzalez's WBC flyweight title At Liverpool, England (AWE): Nathan Cleverly vs. Tony Bellew, rematch, 12 rounds, cruiserweights; Scott Quigg vs. Hidenori Otake, 12 rounds, for Quigg's WBA "regular" junior featherweight title; Jamie McDonnell vs. Javier Chacon, 12 rounds, for McDonnell's "regular" WBA bantamweight title; Anthony Joshua vs. Michael Sprott, 10 rounds, heavyweights; Callum Smith vs. Nikola Sjekloca, 12 rounds, WBC super middleweight eliminator; James DeGale vs. Marco Antonio Periban, 12 rounds, super middleweights; George Groves vs. Denis Douglin, 12 rounds, super middleweights; Vincent Feigenbutz vs. Oleg Fedotovs, 8 rounds, super middleweights ; Bradley Saunders vs. TBA, 8 rounds, junior welterweights These are the cards of the weekend that TRUE boxing fans should be paying attention to. Not the other drivel that is getting force-fed down our throats.
UK cards usually kick off in the early afternoon. And with so many good prospects on that card, you probably want to catch it from its inception. Not sure about the Japan card; those times tend to vary with regard to when the main event starts. Sometimes main events in Japan won't start until 9 am U.S. eastern.
Actually the entire week is pretty forgettable. I agree the Macau card is mostly empty hype (Lomachenko and Shiming are truthfully in very light with their padded-record Thais; Vargas will probably take a boring UD over DeMarco or be well on his way to one before getting KTFO in the 9th or 10th, a'la DeMarco vs. Linares...) but these cards aren't great. Miura and Gonzalez in mismatches. Joshua ought to blitz Sprott, in literally a minute flat. Groves is fighting a JMW. Quigg is defending his world title against Japanese domestic-level Otake. (who never fought outside Tokyo) McDonnell's opponent is a sub on just five days' notice. Cleverly and Bellew are both fat & irrelevant cruisers now. The only decent competitive match-ups all weekend are DeGale vs. Periban and Pacquiao vs. Algieri - maybe Smith vs. Sjekloca, but that's all. Hell, even the battle of giant kiwi old-timers (Cameron vs. Meehan) is more of a mouth-watering prospect than virtually all the rest.
Ah yeah, thanks, fixed that. Obviously I did know that, as I mentioned DeGale vs. Periban later in the post. :good
:nono Only Bellew is fat, and while I agree that neither of them will go on to accomplish anything at CW this is a fairly high profile fight for the division, and it helps put it on the map. CW has been an underrated division for far too long. Hopefully this kickstarts public interest in it again, at least in England.
High profile domestically because of their past rivalry and because of what they accomplished down at 175lbs. Utterly meaningless in terms of the CW division.
It might come down to haters, and you do write a lot of stuffs on a lot of boxers who may have a lot of fans. Therefore, you may have a lot of haters.
If you can't be bothered by these so-called snoozer of cards, then maybe you should take the weekend off. You act like you're some kind of demigod on this board or something. You are completely full of yourself--which is why you just wrote what you wrote. If you tried to actually hook off the jab, you'd probably poke yourself in the eye. Stop pretending that you're somebody important and that you are in some way above the rest of us. You're a spoke on the wheel just like the rest of us and nothing more. Boxing would still be boxing if you weren't here dazzling us with your pretentious comments.
