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NAAZIM RICHARDSON BELIEVES MAKING WEIGHT IS A BIGGER PROBLEM FOR AMIR KHAN THAN HIS TRAINER
By Percy Crawford | July 17, 2012

According to world-class trainer Naazim Richardson, the biggest decision that former jr. welterweight champion Amir Khan has to make is whether or not it's time to leave the 140-pound division behind. After seeing Khan suffer his second loss in a row, the latest being a 4th round stoppage at the hands of Danny Garcia, Richardson believes that Khan's performances are partly due to the fact that it's been time for him to move up to the welterweight division. "Khan is a good fighter, but I tell you, I don't think Khan can make 140 pounds anymore," Richardson commented during a recent conversation with FightHype.com.

"He is one of those guys I remember when he approached me, I was looking at his shoulders and shit and he is a big dude. Zab probably should have been his last fight at that weight. Lamont dug in him a little bit and now Danny stopped him, so he needs to get out of that division I don't think it's an easy weight for him to make anymore," Richardson explained, also noting that Khan has been talking about the idea of moving up in weight for quite some time now. While it's doubtful that making weight had anything to do with the left hook that Garcia landed near the neck and ear of Khan, many people have noted that he never seemed to have his legs under him after that punch, which is exactly the opposite of what they were saying after Khan somehow whether the storm after taking a number of big punches from Marcos Maidana in their bout.

Did Khan's decision to change Strength & Conditioning coaches play a role in his ability to absorb Garcia's punch? Time will tell, but either way, perhaps Richardson is right and maybe it is time for Khan to put the 140-pound division behind him.
 
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I’M EXCITED FOR BOTH OF OUR TEAMS
July 11th, 2012 | by Andre Ward

I’m excited for both of our teams, the American Men’s Boxing Team and I’m really excited for the girls, because these girls are bad. I think, from top to bottom, the Female Team, they’re more than solid. You got winners on that squad and they’re beyond hungry; they’re famished. They can taste gold. Just listening to some of the feedback that I’m getting, and whenever I get a chance to talk to them personally and just get word from how they’re doing in training camp, I’m looking for big things from them.

I’m looking for big things from obviously the Men’s Team. I think these guys are really just tired of the United States of America not being a force to be reckoned with. I think they’re taking that personal, and you have to in order to turn things around, so I’m excited for both of our teams. I’m excited for all of the different sports that are going to be wearing the United States of America, the Red, White and Blue on their back. I’m just excited. It’s the biggest stage for an amateur athlete and it’s just a beautiful thing. Some people don’t follow professional sports, but the whole world, they know when they follow the Olympics and that’s what it’s all about
 
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Ortiz and Khan are done as fighters on a elite level. Ortiz has mental problems and Khan has an egg shell chin and fights with his chin up in the air. Steward or Cotto's new trainer would be good for Khan. Ortiz needs to go to a head doctor no trainer will help him, dude has all the boxing tools, but he has the heart of the cowardly lion and mental issuse.
a cowardly lion who had his jaw broke in the 5th round of a fight and still continued to carry on 4 more rounds while getting countered every last one of those rounds to boot? i can see the "cowardly" point of view if he ran and didn't throw any more punches the rest of the way...but he didn't go that route and still went toe to toe with Lopez.

i don't know about you but that is not cowardly at all.
 
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Unless I misheard him he said he broke it in the same round he quit on the stool in immediately after the fight. All the skills in the world won't save you from quitting twice in big fights. Just the way it is.
5th round. Like I told Bigface, carrying on an extra 4 rounds while still going toe to toe with a broken jaw is pretty bad ass no matter how you slice it.
 
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M @Mr. Promo eLaHoya I want to see Amir khan vs D @DJ FRESH ortiz at 147 and Danny Garcia vs E @EASTSIDEUP _Rios1 at 140 what you think?
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D @DJ FRESH ortiz Would destroy Amir Kahn in 4 rounds too.
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D @DJ FRESH ortiz: I am currently in talks with some of the best and biggest Trainers in Boxing today."
 

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M @Mr. Promo eLaHoya I want to see Amir khan vs D @DJ FRESH ortiz at 147 and Danny Garcia vs E @EASTSIDEUP _Rios1 at 140 what you think?
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D @DJ FRESH ortiz Would destroy Amir Kahn in 4 rounds too.
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D @DJ FRESH ortiz: I am currently in talks with some of the best and biggest Trainers in Boxing today."
Ortiz would knock Khan out. Rios would beat the breaks off Garcia. Lets make it happen. Got Em!!
 
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It's hard to say whether Rios's power will carry to 140.
Plus Garcia has a chin. I think it's a very close fight. If Rios can bring his power up then Garcia is going to have to move much more. Doubt it will happen though.

Ortiz is out for at least 6 months. It could be a full year before he steps in the ring again.
Khan is going to fight in the UK.

Ortiz leaves Garcia but Khan stays with Roach?
Crazy...
 
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Are Amir Khan And Freddie Roach About To Split? Khan Says “I Want Someone Who Is With Me All The Way Through”

Amir KhanBy James Slater - Amir Khan has switched trainers before, more than once actually, and he may be about to do so again. In what would be a massive turn of events in his pro career if it actually happened, Khan has hinted he may part ways with ace trainer Freddie Roach: the man who rebuilt him after his shocking KO loss to Breidis Prescott.

Khan, still licking his wounds after that sizzler of an upset loss to new star Danny Garcia (who everyone, from Ajose Olusegun to Zab Judah, wants to fight next), spoke with The Daily Mirror and what he said sure sounded like he has plans for a major change.

“I want someone who is with me all the way through, like my conditioner Ruben Tabares is,” Khan said. “It’s hard when you’re with Manny [Pacquiao] and have to be the number two. Every fight is a big fight for me, I’m fighting top-10 guys and so I need the best guys with me all the way through. Now is the best time to sort these things out and my team will talk things over with Freddie.

“There are a few things I have to change to benefit me. Maybe we have to see if I’m doing the right training and have the right sparring.”

Khan has also spoken of the fatigue that can be picked up when he travels from the U.K to L.A, to The Philippines, and the 25-year-old is quite clear when he says it’s “hard being number two.” Does Amir feel Freddie, as great a trainer as he is, gives too much time to Pacquiao? Maybe. Khan has no ill feelings towards Roach, but maybe he is in need of a change, and a base camp set at home in the U.K?

Aside from the controversial points loss to admitted drugs cheat Lamont Peterson, Khan has lost just one fight under the guidance of Roach, but there have been whispers of cracks forming between Khan and The team at Wild Card for some time now. Still, who would Khan sign on as his new trainer if he did leave Freddie? There are a number of gifted and talented trainers in the U.K, and maybe Khan is already eyeing one of them up.

Of course, after the talk Khan has planned between he and Roach, all differences could be patched up. Despite the crushing loss he suffered this past Saturday night, Khan remains a special talent. Whether it’s with Roach or another trainer, I think we will see “King” Khan wearing another championship belt before too long.
 
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Roy Jones Jr: "I don’t feel like its a danger for me to continue my career, and if I did feel like it's a danger I will be the first to stop"

Exclusive Interview by Jenna Jay - The 173rd edition of On the Ropes Boxing Radio featured an exclusive interview with former 4 division world champion Roy Jones Jr (56-8, 40KOs), who discussed a wide variety of topics including his recent victory over Pawel Glazewski, potential bouts at cruiserweight, thoughts on Nonito Donaire, performance enhancing drugs, corruption in boxing, how long he sees his career continuing and much much more! Here is what Roy had to say.

Jenna Jay: Roy, you recently made a return to the ring over in Poland, you got a split decision victory. How do you feel about your performance?

Roy Jones Jr: I felt good about the performance. You know it was a difficult situation, because until the day before the fight I didn't know who I was actually going to be in the ring with the next day. And you know being a veteran, you don't deal with those situations too often, however it was a good situation, and it turned out it was. I got the victory, and that's all that matter to me. And that's how it goes.

Jenna: Alright, lets talk about the fight a little bit, I got a chance to watch and the first five rounds you had a pretty easy time. Then in the sixth round you got a little bit to comfortable and you got caught out of position, it was kind of flash knock down. Can you describe what happened in that round?

RJJ: Yes he caught me, I was kind off balance...out of position for a minute, he caught me with a good shot, and like I said, I don't complain and make excuses, it was a decent knock down, I was breezing through the first five rounds, that it got so easy that I probably got a bit complacent, because it had gotten so easy, and he woke me up with that one, and he probably won that round, I know he won that round and probably won round 7 and 8, but I got it back in rounds 9 & 10.

Jenna: Yes you definitely did close the fight strong. How did you feel in the later rounds?

RJJ: I felt good, I felt really good you know. You know, just making a few adjustments, and he was making adjustments but something we all have to do, especially when you have to perform at an older age. It felt a bit different, but I got to do what I go to do. So I had a great time. I felt wonderful and I am looking on to the next thing.

Jenna: Well the fighter you just beat was 17-0, he was ranked 9 by the WBC at light heavyweight. What do you think the win did for you.

RJJ: You know it just got me up and going, kept me busy, I really was looking to fight because I wanted too look for fight with the WBC cruiser weight champ, Wlodarczyk, however, since I got the win I heard talks that Lateef Kayode wants to fight me for the vacant IBO title now, because the IBO I guess stripped Tarver because of substance abuse or something, I am not sure of that case or what happened with it, but I heard Lateef Kayode say, that he wants to fight Roy Jones Jr at cruiser weight for the IBO title, so now its matter of who comes up first for the best situation for RJJ to fight, whether its Kayode or whether its Diablo over in Poland for the WBC title.


Let me tell you something about Glazewski, which is the guy I just fought in Poland, let me tell you about the guy I just fought, he was guy, who was looking for a great opportunity, they didn't pick him by chance I don't think, I think they knew from the beginning, you know, he was a decent fighter, that had better knock out power than he showed on his record, now it was only a flash knock down, but the guy showed great punching power for a light height. Actually I am looking to see him do much better and bigger things in LHW. I don't think he was a guy who was picked randomly to fight. But I knew that coming in, and that's why I knew when coming in I took it easy, took my time being careful and was very cautious about what I did.

(Roy Jones Jr. Interview starts at about the 32:00 minute mark)


Jenna: Now you mentioned a couple of opponents, Lateef Kayode and Diablo. You want to win the cruiser weight title, does it have any more importance for you to win the IBO belt, which is less regarded or the WBC belt.

RJJ: Well of course I want the WBC first, because it’s highly regarded, but to me, I want to win a cruiser weight title and if I need to win both, I can do that, because I love wining most of the belts, so either way it's fine with me.

Jenna: Now you mentioned Antonio Tarver, with what came up with him. He did test positive according CA commission. What are your thoughts on that whole situation?

RJJ: I mean The guy is a decent fighter, if he tested positive, I don't know for sure or what happened or how it happen, I mean in this sport, a lot of guys have been testing positive for steroid and things, I am not familiar for what he tested positive for, so I cant say really whole lot, because I don't know, as the story comes out more, or as they put more about, than you'll know, but you hate to see to happen to any athlete especially these athletes, because than it gives you indication, that wait a minute, about how long its been going on, but that's where you need to make sure things, but hey you know it could be true or it could false. I don't know

Jenna: Roy you mention a lot people are testing positives. You think steroids in boxing is problem?

RJJ: Yes, because so many guys have been testing positive, as matter of fact, there are several guys, who haven’t taken the test, they’ve been avoiding test, its got to be problem if its showing up so much, and I mean truthfully that's the problem Floyd is having with Manny Pacquiao, that’s the start, that he is worried about steroids, so its got to be a problem, because its one the key hold up in the biggest fight that could happen in boxing today. So that tells you it’s got to be a problem

Jenna: Well Roy your 43, and in your last fight you had to adjust to something’s differently, because you are a little bet older, how do u feel performing at this stage, how well do you think you can continue to do so?

RJJ: I can perform wonderful, there were days in the gym. I felt my self performing, and I was like wow 43 and you could still do this. And it just totally amazed me. Just to be able to do it like that totally shocked me, and its like why would you just stop, when u can perform at this level, it shows people, and its encouraging to other people just because you get older, doesn’t u have to stop what your doing, you may have to make few changes, but you don’t have to stop

Jenna: Alright, besides being boxers, you are also HBO analyst, you recently called a couple of fights on the network, both the Pavlik and Nonito Doniare fights. What did you think?

RJJ: They were great fights. Kelly Pavlik I was glad to see him come back from his tragedy, well not tragedy, but the situation his being going through, you love to see a guy come back form a bad story and turn it around, and make them good. So I am glad to see Kelly Pavlik in the ring and back in the action. As you know Nonito is one of my favorite fighters to watch. To see him go out there and challenge himself, and face a guy who was six foot tall 122 pounds, was a beautiful thing. However, this guy probably did put more of a fight, than what I would think he would give him credit for, but Nonito handled the situation and in he 1th round made adjustment and finished the fight strong.

Jenna: Well Nonito Donaire is getting a lot attention, his moved up from 112, 115, 118, now122. He is already talking about fighting at 126. Do you think maybe he is taking on too much too soon by fighting all these big guys.

RJJ: No I don't think you take on too much too soon at all. He is a guy who is capable of handle himself in any weight class. So I think he is doing a wonderful thing by going up and challenging and finding the next big challenge and take it on. I love it.

Jenna: Let’s talk about something’s going around the sport. Some hot topics of the sports. One thing that’s seeing lingering for a while, Manny Pacquiao's decision loss to timothy Bradley, this fight in the world stage got so much negative press attracted so much attention to negative. You yourself were involved in a high controversial fight back in the amateurs, back in the Olympics. I'm just curious what your thoughts about all the press that decision got the one against Pacquiao and Bradley compare the one you got.

RJJ: It's a lot of similar press. But the problem with me is. And I am not saying this, because you got to understand, my hat still goes off to Timothy Bradley, because timothy Bradley said best said it him self, I don’t know, I was going and look at it and see what happens before I make that call so that shows you that he didn't feel comfortable about the decision or that he truly dominated or that he defeated Pacquiao in a dominating fashion. However, he did want to go back and look to see if did he do enough to make it a close fight or make it seem like it could of been close than what it seems by most of the viewing public, so that to me said a lot about Timothy Bradley. Secondly I though Pacquiao pretty much dominated the fight, but here is the real problem, the real problem is, when organization, or higher up personal go and they review the fight, just like the IOC did in my Olympic case, and you go back and you review the fight and you realize that the judges made a bad decision or made a mistake and it could of been do to any reason they could of been of mad, because Pacquiao held up the fight watching the basketball game that night, any reason they could of made a mistake, sometimes we makes mistakes out of anger, but when you realize that there was a mistake made, you don’t go reschedule another fight, you fix the mistake first, and if the IOC had fix the decision, you know what these guys made a bad decision, and RJJ won the fight, and what were going to do, is were not going blame Parsky Hearns for the fight but what will do is say is RJJ is gold medal 2 and maybe this year we gold medal a & b instead of gold, silver, bronze, you understand, because of the situation, we want to fix it, this kid dedicated a year of his life to become a gold medalist so they robbed him out, so were not going to let that go unfixed, and were going to fix that situation, and punish the judges.

That makes the next set of judges very aware, that if you cheat a guy, that something could happen to, and it makes it less likely that it will happen. And if you cheat a guy, it won’t do any good, because were going to go back review it and were going fix it. Now that discourages you from cheating! Why didn't the WBO go back and say you know we see clearly that Pacquiao won the fight were going too give Pacquiao his title back and were going to ask Pacquiao if you don’t mind coming back and fighting Timothy Bradley again. Which I am sure Pacquiao would do because you know what I got some decent money for it and it wasn’t a hard fight so why not fight him again, I beat him once and next time I am going to knock him and show you how I feel about it. You understand me? That makes it right, because now WBO came back and fixed the situation that was wrong. Not order a new fight, a new fight don't fix the first one. Because timothy Bradley shouldn't go to the second fight as a champion. That's my problem with it.

Jenna: Roy, what do you think boxing could do to fix the bad decisions, that continuously are happening, I mean you don’t see it once, its just not one fight, there have been plenty of bad decisions that are happening more and more.

RJJ: The way you fix it you go the problem who build it the judge? OK. If you make a bad decision, were going to reverse and were ban you from boxing or were going to suspend you for a year or two. You understand me? Now we suspend you for making bad decisions. So if you get involved in a bad decision that's obvious, your gone you’re out here. That way we don't have to worry about dealing with you no more. Right or wrong?

Jenna: Do you think Judges should be ranked, some of the best judges out there, should get the biggest call for the biggest fights, so these mistakes don’t happen.

RJJ: No, that's not going to happen because you never know what instances it will happen. Because you got to think of it like this, when money is involved, anything can happen. So what if somebody came up to him and say hey were going to give you 2 million to rob this guy. And he say 2 million, well I am gong to be suspended for 2 years or for a year, but for 2 million I don’t mind being suspended. Would you? Wouldn't you not, making that kind of money anyway so you understand me...? That don't fix the problem. What fixes the problem is if you go back and have these decisions reversed and fix the decision, because its no good to cheat the guy, because the organization that sanctions the fight is going to go back and reverse the decision anyway. Now than it does you no good too cheating Manny Pacquiao, because they came back and fix it. So that's the biggest issue.

Jenna: You know Roy after all these years, especially regarding you and what happened to you in Olympics, I am just curious do you have any ill feelings that they did give you gold, even though its been prove that there was something wrong done.

RJJ: Yeah I have ill feelings, because it decreases the integrity of the sport. When you can cheat somebody and don’t do anything about it. That’s like saying were going to go let a man going around here and rob a lady, and we know he did it, and we know what he did one tape, and were not going to do nothing to him, and were not going to give her money or whatever he stole from her back, than what good does it do to us to have a judicial system. Right or wrong. Integrity dies. If you let people go around and do whatever they want, what good does it do to us to have a judicial system? If your not going to fix it what good does it do u to have organization. It's automatic no way. No way you can cheat and get away with it.


Jenna: Let me go back and what you were talking about before, and that was Manny Pacquiao and that was the fact you know what he should do next, a lot of people don't want to see him fight Bradley. What do you think his next move should be?

RJJ: I don’t want him to fight Bradley either because to me that’s a waste of time and there is no reason he should be fighting Bradley, first of all he should have his title back, second of all if he wants to fix the fight, and he wants to create something go beat Marquez, because that’s the fight that’s always up in the air, that’s the fight we all wonder who won, we ain't wondering who won in the Bradley fight we know who won that, we wonder who won the Marquez fight so go fix what’s unproven that’s something you could do, I think the fight could of gone either way 1st time, I think it should of been a draw, I had the fight 6-6, but people want to see winner emerge from those bouts. No true winner has emerge, every time its been a wonderful fight, without a true winner, so if you want to do something, and prove something to yourself and us, go beat Marquez, not a timothy Bradley, that wasn’t even a hard fight for Pacquiao.

Jenna: You know that's the fight that people want to actually see right now, and if Pacquiao can beat Marquez, we all know the fight that people truly want to see, Mayweater vs. Pacquiao, Do you think it will happen?

RJJ: Yeah after that we would like to see him in a Mayweather fight, but because of the situation, because of the abuse of the steroids, which happens in professional sports today, people are afraid to make some of those calls and make some of those decisions, so people are having second guesses about certain fights, because they're worried about that, which makes sense, but at the same time you know boxing fans suffer. So we don't know what's going to happen there.

Jenna: Pacquiao obviously hasn't wanted to take steroid testing, because apparently he is afraid of needle’s. Do you think he should move pass that to make the big fight.

RJJ: It's not my call to make, and Pacquiao is a man of his own, and you cant really blame a guy for you know if he has something that bothers him like that, and you can't get mad at him for that, that's just what it is, if he has afraid of needles, than he has fear of needles, nothing we can do about that, nothing we should worry about hats not our fear, thats his fear, so same thing goes with Floyd, well if Floyd says no I want to fight him because of x, y, z well if he don’t want to fight because of that, than that’s Floyd decision to make, and Floyd says, and I ask Floyd, if he doesn’t want to take it I don’t want the fight. Okay than we have to respect that. But than at the same time its not my call to say who should move past what, because people have different feelings about different things.

Jenna: Roy, you yourself have also been crtiziized in the past for fight big fight that did not happen, with the lineal champion at LHW. Why is it that fight never happened?

RJJ: I must mention this two I was asked about that situation in Germany, right before I was getting ready to fight in Poland and they kept trying to imply to me that I was never going to Germany to fight Dariusz Michalczewski, well it wasn't that I was afraid to go to Germany you know, Germany is cool just like is the United States and I will visit anywhere but at the time like I told them I was, at the time I was the top fighter in the world, why would I go to his turf to fight him, and when I had 7 titles and he only had 1. So it's not like I won't go to Germany I'd go to Germany if it was a good situation for me, I heard a lot of bad things about Germany to enough, but you know people always have bad stories especially when things don't go there way so I was never truly afraid to go to Germany just that it had to be the right situation and the right money. They offered him $5 million to come to U.S but he said No, but he will fight me in Germany. But that prompted me to say something is wrong, you know I am not going on your turf you feel me? But not that I was afraid to come to Germany that I was going on his turf on his terms and I had the most belts.

Jenna: Since you brought that up, 3 of your last 5 fights have been overseas, is this is a trend were going to continue to see from you?

RJJ: Most definitely, because I got to go where the champs are that have the belts right now if your not the man, you have to find the champs. And that's what I was telling about Dariusz, I was the man you should come find me, so right now I am looking for the people that have the belts. Wherever the champ is, is who I am going to go. If I have to go to Africa to get it that's where I am going. If I have to go to Egypt that's where I am going. If I could it find it in the united states that's where I ma going, because right now I want cruiser weight title, I don’t care where it comes, I want it, so I go to go where ever I got to go to get it.

Jenna: Roy that was the one belt you never did win. If you do win a true cruiser weight title belt will that be the piece that you need in career where you will say I've done all I could do.

RJJ: That's enough for me. That will be enough for me.

Jenna: Speaking of that, I did mention before that you are 43. How more many fights do you think you got in you Roy?

RJJ: I probably got about 10 left, but I don’t want to use them all up (Laughs) So I want to do maybe 2 or 3 maybe the 5 at the most. I hope I don't have to fight that many, but In Poland they say want me to say to do 3, so I did 1, if they want 2 more, they still got that right, the option for 2 more. Lateef Kayode, he says he wants some of me, if its for the IBO cruiserweight title, I will chose that, because that's what I am looking for. So whatever happens you know I am willing to do whatever, and if they say well, after you fight Kayode and you win the belt, which I want to do, but you still have to fill you obligation in Poland, I say will finish the 3 fights, and win them.

Jenna: Final 2 questions. Between Krzysztof Wlodarczyk and Lateef Kayode who would be stylistically would be a good stylistic match for you Roy?

RJJ: I don't know they're both pretty tough, they are both pretty strong, for me it don't matter, you got to fight, you got to fight it don’t matter who you fight stylistically both of them aggressive hard punching fighters that counter very similar you know your going to have to go Poland on Diablo's turf to fight him, so it's not neutral turf. In the United States fight with Lateef, you fight him on neutral turf. It's toss up, but I got to do what I got to do to get it.

Jenna: You got a lot of fans out there Roy, you have had a lot of and through out your career anything you want to say to them?

RJJ: Yes, thanks to all my fans for all the support I do understand the concern about boxing about a late age however most of the people that got messed up that I know in boxing got messed up at the end of there career, or they got messed up early in there career before they realized they could get messed. I've been having a wonderful career, I’ve been enjoying myself, I still feel really well, better than I did 5 years ago, so you know with that being said, I don’t feel like its a danger for me to continue and if I did feel like its a danger I will be the first to stop, because I want to be able to have fun, play basketball, and enjoy my kids, so I am not going to be doing things that hurt myself, and do things that will hurt me in the long run, I thank every one for that concern, but Roy knows Roy.
 
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De La Hoya says “Look at what Pacquiao did to me – he destroyed me”, in hyping Alvarez-Lopez fight
July 17th, 2012

By Dan Ambrose: Just to show you how desperate Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya has become to try and get boxing fans excited about the September 15th mismatch between WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez and the slender light welterweight Josesito Lopez that has been hand-picked by Golden Boy, De La Hoya has resorted to bringing up how he was thrashed by the much smaller Manny Pacquiao back in 2008 to show that size doesn’t matter. Unfortunately it does matter.

De la Hoya said this at the recent Alvarez-Lopez press conference: “People can say he’s a welterweight [light welterweight in this case], people can say that that he’s never been on the big stage with a great champion [great?] like Canelo Alvarez. Do you remember when I fought Manny Pacquiao and people said he was too small for me. Look at what he did to me. He destroyed me. So there’s no fighter out there who has no chance or no shot at all, because inside that squared circle, you never know what’s going to happen and this is living proof right there [De La Hoya then points to Lopez]. Josesito Lopez has the desire, the heart, he’s living the Rocky moment.”

A couple things here. The crowd didn’t seem to react positively to De La Hoya’s speech. One it seemed like a really desperate move on De La Hoya’s part to bring up that painful memory of his fight with Pacquiao. But more importantly it was something that has no bearing to the mismatch between Lopez and Alvarez. This is a whole different fight. When De La Hoya fought Pacquiao, De La Hoya was a part time fighter at that point in his career, who had only had a small handful of fights in the past five years. De La Hoya was basically a shot fighter. He may have been bigger than Pacquiao, but he wasn’t in his prime any longer. But then De La Hoya messed things up for himself by going on a crazy diet to lean down to 147 instead of doing what most fighters do by simply dehydrating down to make the fight and then putting the weight back on after the weigh-in. That sank whatever chance that De La Hoya had in winning the fight. Pacquiao was in his prime in 2008, and someone who would have been a problem to most fighters at welterweight with the exception of Floyd Mayweather Jr possibly. But the Lopez-Alvarez fight involves a young junior middleweight with excellent power and great boxing skills in Alvarez facing a skinny light welterweight who got lucky in his last fight against Victor Ortiz when Ortiz suffered a broken jaw. Ortiz would have won that fight if not for the injury.

It was just sad to see how desperate De La Hoya looked in trying to hype the Lopez-Alvarez fight, and how non-responsive the crowd was to his message. It’s a bad fight, but what makes it even worse is that it comes on the same night as the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. vs. Sergio Martinez fight on HBO. Golden Boy should have found someone better than Lopez to face Alvarez, preferably a junior middleweight instead of them combing the light welterweight division to find a skinny guy to fight Alvarez.
 
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Schaefer: Josesito Lopez has earned the right to fight Canelo Alvarez
July 17th, 2012

By Dan Ambrose: While a lot of boxing fans are turned off by the idea of Golden Boy Promotions deciding to match light welterweight Josesito Lopez (30-4, 18 KO’s) up against WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (40-0-1, 29 KO’s) on September 15th, Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer is perfectly fine with the fight, and he feels Lopez deserves to be in with Alvarez despite the fact that Lopez is basically just a 140 pound fighter being asked to move up two entire divisions to make fight happen.

Schaefer told sportsillustrated.cnn.com “Josesito has earned the right to fight Canelo, and he earned it the hard way – with his fists.”

What Schaefer is referring to in saying that Lopez has earned the shot against Alvarez is Lopez’s recent 9th round stoppage win over Golden Boy fighter former WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz last month. It wasn’t much of a win, however, but rather a win that came after Ortiz suffered a broken jaw and couldn’t continue fighting. Ortiz was well ahead at the time of the stoppage and would have probably won the fight no problem had he toughed it out and not quit. To be sure, Lopez technically got the win but it was one of those ugly type of wins where you’re given the victory but you really didn’t do anything to deserve it other than not quitting. Like I said, Ortiz was well ahead in the fight and all he had to do was stay on his feet for the next three rounds and he won. Unfortunately, he quit.

But what is so troubling about the Lopez-Alvarez fight is that Golden Boy has decided to match another smaller fighter against Alvarez instead of finding someone from the same division as Alvarez for him to fight. It’s not as if this is the first time Golden Boy has done this.

In the past year, they’ve matched Alvarez up twice with welterweights in Alfonso Gomez and Matthew Hatton. Now they’re going one step further by matching Alvarez against a light welterweight, which is two divisions below him. That’s kind of off putting because it gives the impression to some boxing fans that Alvarez is being protected by matching him against smaller guys half the time. If Alvarez doesn’t have what it takes to fight guys from his own division then he needs to vacate the belt and let another fighter take over. Alvarez can then fight 140 pounders and 147 pounders as often as he likes without anyone making a big deal out of it.
 
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a cowardly lion who had his jaw broke in the 5th round of a fight and still continued to carry on 4 more rounds while getting countered every last one of those rounds to boot? i can see the "cowardly" point of view if he ran and didn't throw any more punches the rest of the way...but he didn't go that route and still went toe to toe with Lopez.

i don't know about you but that is not cowardly at all.
Yes, Cowardly lion with no heart. He quit against Maidana, He quit against Mayweather with his flying head butt, and he quit again with Lopez. All Ortiz had to do was cover his jaw and finish the fight and he would've won.. Boxing is a tuff sport and 3 different times this guy has quit when things got tuff, he needs to find something else to do other then boxing. You are a true Ortiz fan so props for that, but Ortiz is done, and I still want Berto to KO him.
 
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Yes, Cowardly lion with no heart. He quit against Maidana, He quit against Mayweather with his flying head butt, and he quit again with Lopez. All Ortiz had to do was cover his jaw and finish the fight and he would've won.. Boxing is a tuff sport and 3 different times this guy has quit when things got tuff, he needs to find something else to do other then boxing. You are a true Ortiz fan so props for that, but Ortiz is done, and I still want Berto to KO him.
You can't be a boxer for aslong as he has been one and be considered a "coward" in my book. If you choose to step into that ring and put your health on the line and exchange punches for a living you aren't a "coward"....FAR FROM IT.

You knuckleheads just can't let go of the Maidana fight. Other then that he hasn't "quit" since. How anyone can say he quit by trying to headbutt Mayweather is beyond me. For some dumbass reason he chose to do that as soon as he started to get to him, it was completely unnecessary at the time because he was beginning to make it a fight truthfully. The Lopez fight, he broke his fuckin' jaw! What is so hard to understand about that? His defense has always been shaky, and he continued to get hit because he was still exchanging with him and NOT "covering up" like you say.

If he was such a "coward" like you say he is then he would have just packed it in and not threw anymore punches at all that night.

I can't wait for him to get a trainer that knows his shit and gets him to buy into defense as much as he buys into his offense.
 

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Rios and Garcia would actually be a good fight I think. Both have pretty good chins, so I can see it being full of bombs with both getting bloody at the end!
Oh yea its just a figure of speech. I think it will be a good fight until Garcia is ko'd eventually. Got Em!!

Ortiz yes by KO over Khan, but that bum ass Rios will not beat the brakes off anyone with his bum ass. Garcia will hurt that no defense clown Rios with that looping left hand all night.
Hmmm guess well see if it happens. I beg to differ though. Got Em!!
 
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You can't be a boxer for aslong as he has been one and be considered a "coward" in my book. If you choose to step into that ring and put your health on the line and exchange punches for a living you aren't a "coward"....FAR FROM IT.

You knuckleheads just can't let go of the Maidana fight. Other then that he hasn't "quit" since. How anyone can say he quit by trying to headbutt Mayweather is beyond me. For some dumbass reason he chose to do that as soon as he started to get to him, it was completely unnecessary at the time because he was beginning to make it a fight truthfully. The Lopez fight, he broke his fuckin' jaw! What is so hard to understand about that? His defense has always been shaky, and he continued to get hit because he was still exchanging with him and NOT "covering up" like you say.

If he was such a "coward" like you say he is then he would have just packed it in and not threw anymore punches at all that night.

I can't wait for him to get a trainer that knows his shit and gets him to buy into defense as much as he buys into his offense.
Ortiz did in fact pack it in and stop throwing punches when he quit in the corner. I will always say it Ortiz has the boxing skills to be a superstar but dude has mental problems and I question his (cowardly lion) heart when things don't go his way in the ring. The guy Donarie just fought broke his jaw in two places and guess what dude manned up and finished the fight, he didn't bitch up in the corner like Ortiz. Boxing, Football, and MMA are all in the hurt business man up or go home.. Ortiz needs to go home.