Let me just say im not a Top Rank fan but they really found something with this series its like ESPN with it being almost weekly but the budget is soooo much bigger we had Martisoyan-Ouma last week which was an excellent fight coming up. World title fights, high level prospects stepping up, top 10 fighters in action. If nothing else you get that gap filler we need when no HBO/Showtime fights are taking place like examples Jan 30th, Feb 20th and 27th. Also they start around 11 just when FNFs on ESPN is going off. Jan 29th Campillo vs Shumenov II WBA Light Heavyweight title Erislandy Lara vs Grady Brewer Jan 30th Jorge Arce vs Angky Angkota WBO Super Flyweight title Feb 6th Brandon Rios vs Jorge Luis Teron Feb 20th Mike Alvarado vs ??? Feb 27th Kendall Holt vs Kaizer Mabuza Mike Jones vs Henry Bruseles March 12th Rodel Mayol vs Manuel Vargas WBC Flyweight title Samuel Peter vs Nagy Aguilera
The Jan 29th card is not part of Top Rank's series. It is a Golden Boy card that is being broadcast on Fox Sports. I didn't even realize Alvarado was out of prison.
Ok I guess that explains why they have cards on back to back days. Not sure whats going on with Alvarado just he is listed as fighting and it would be nice to see him for sure.
I really have high hopes for this show, but the score cards for Martirosyan/Ouma were troubling. If that sort of things persists, it will be hard for Top Rank to get good fighters to take on their top propects. Also, I am very interested in the Lara/Brewer fight. Grady Brewer is in no way, shape, or form the same kind of journeyman they've been feeding Lara. Let me put it in perspective. If news broke that Lara was going to fight Bundrage or Forbes, most would say "that's to big a jump all at once." However, Brewer beat both those guys.
Ive heard shady things about the Ouma fight (i have yet to see it) that can go a long way to ruining a good thing.
It was a very close fight. I was on here hyping Vanes before the fight, but I had Ouma up by one point. The score cards read 97-92, 97-93, 97-93, and that's with Ouma scoring a clean knock down.
the vanes-ouma fight could have gone either way, it's when you hear the actual scores and realize that according to the judges, ouma had NO chance at winning is what is worrisome! BS for sure!
