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Dan Rafael's chat wrap 7/31:

- No interim or regular champion should be allowed to market themselves as "world champion".
- Ward vs. Kovalev thoughts? Kovalev isn't a fighter who has to have other fighters stand right in front of him. Ward won't run. He may move a lot, but he will fight. Ward would be his favorite to win, but Kovalev can beat anyone at 175 and under.
- Adonis Stevenson's resume has been embarrassing lately and Karpency doesn't help.
- Lack of enthusiasm for Kovalev in Las Vegas was expected. Duva mainly promotes on the East Coast and her getting further west is new for her and Kovalev needs to build a larger fan base. Give him 18 months and see what Kovalev as an attraction looks like as he gets promoted more across the country.
- Showtime says they will have some good stuff for the final 1/3 of the year. Thinks it may happen.
- Garcia just fought Peterson, that isn't soft matchmaking.
- Spoke with Huck last week and he wants to defend his title and set the CW record. Possibly a fight with RJJ. Then he would like to move up to HW and fight good opponents, possibly a rematch with Povetkin.
- Talked a lot with ODH lately and he is very focused on being committed to his business.
- Likely we see Bradley vs. Rios by the end of the year.
- Ali is Bradley's mandatory, but he does not have to take that fight next.
- Canelo vs. Cotto has everything, rivalry, personality, two great fighters, and hype.
- Loves GGG vs. Lemiuex. Perfect fight for both fighters and at the right time. Reminds him of how he felt when Trinidad vs. Vargas was announced.
- One reason why GGG vs. Lemiuex is on PPV is because HBO's budget possibly would not allow this fight on regular programming. PPV creates extra revenue.
- The deal made for the GGG vs. Lemiuex on PPV was based on 150k buys.
- Matthysse vs. Postol is another fight he is really excited to see.
- Canelo vs. Cotto is 100% on November 21.
- Schaefer's non compete agreement expires sometime in August...not on August 1.
- Picking Luke Campbell by KO.
- Skeptical Maidana fights this year.
- Thoughts on Mosley vs. Mayorga rematch? Meh.
- Has not heard who Wilder's next opponent will be, but has heard it likely will not be Arreola. Expect a no name.
- Based on what Crawford's team has told him, it is likely Cuenca or Jean will be his next opponent.
- Nothing new on Mikey Garcia. He considers him retired.
- Roman Gonzalez's manager told him they would like to fight Estrada on the GGG PPV. TR has talked about making Estrada vs. Viloria.
- More interesting GGG vs. Lemiuex or Mares vs. LSC? GGG vs. Lemiuex.
- Thought Gonzalez beat Pascal and would like to see him fight again.
- Will check out the Jhonson fight, but his fights are usually not exciting.
- Shane Mosley handles his own Twitter account. He has said some wild things lately that is not the Mosley that he knew.
- Luis Ortiz will be on GGG's undercard. They offered the fight to Bryant Jennings. Jennings has turned it down because it wasn't enough money.
- Thoughts on potential Floyd undercard fights? Groves-Jack, decent fight. Martinez-Salido 2, very entertaining. Smith-Vanes, bathroom break.
- Popo a HOF'er? No.
- Beterbiev has a very good chance to beat Kovalev.
- No issue with GGG's fight being on PPV. It will be reasonably priced, HBO wants to mold him into PPV credibility, and they will find out if people will pay to see GGG fight. Suspects it will be successful enough to make the PPV a success.
- Hopkins wants to fight Abraham. No actual talks have started.
- Hearn says Brook will fight again in October. He heard a rumor it was going to be Bundu, but Hearn told him it absolutely would not be.
- The winner of GGG-Lemiuex is the mandatory for Canelo-Cotto.
- Quillin can still make 160.
- Caballero has not recovered from foot surgery. He will fight Lee Haskins next, they agreed upon a negotiated deal. Possible it could appear on the Canelo-Cotto undercard.
- DiBella said the fight tomorrow at Barclay's is scaled to seat 6,000. He expects 5,000 to 5,500.
- Does not cheer during fights while in the press section. Something respectable journalists do not do.
- Unlikely that Porter's next fight is in Cleveland.
- The Andrade lawsuit against Roc Nation tells one side of the story. It is not necessarily fact.
- Trinidad vs. Joppy was one of the best atmospheres ever. The noise from the cowbells sticks in his mind.
- Does not like fighters who run, don't engage, hold, or just stink guys out (like Rigo).
- ODH admits his career would have been better without all his personal problems.
- Doubts we get the Frampton vs. Quigg matchup.
- Since Mandalay Bay seats less than MGM and T&M, the Canelo vs. Cotto ticket likely will be a hard one to get. The Mandalay Bay will be fine for a venue as ODH-Trinidad and ODH-Vargas took place there and those where bigger fights.
- Boxing promoter wrote in and said: local fights are great for fight fans because seats are generally affordable, attendance is smaller so you can be closer, often times bigger named boxers are in the crowd, it is the feeder system to the bigger events, and they don't have the money or promotion - so they truly rely on fan support.
- A Fonfara vs. Stevenson rematch is possible, but Fonfara's next fight will be vs. Cleverly.
- Had ODH beating Whitaker. Was not a boxing writer at that time. Watched it on PPV.
- Worse decision: ODH-Trinidad or ODH-Mosley 2? They both stunk.
- Garcia KO11, Jacobs W12.
- Fights asked from a fan listed in terms of atmosphere: Mayweather-Hatton, Tito-Joppy, Pacquiao-Marales 2.
- No chance of Ward vs. Abraham 2. Ward already schooled him 12-0.
- Thinks Mayweather vs. Berto is a very hard sell. People are upset from paying $100 for the Pacquiao fight and there are two other good PPV's (Canelo-Cotto and GGG-Lemiuex) which could steal viewers. 750k buys would be a success for a Berto fight.
- Froch vs. Bute makes his top 10 list for best atmospheres.
- Doubts there is a Pascal-Gonzalez rematch. Not enough money and Pascal doesn't need the fight.
- Ward likely could be on Canelo-Cotto PPV.
- Flores made comments about not wanting to watch Chocolatito, yet Chocolatito's fight had better ratings.
- If he could prevent one fight from happening (past): Jesus Chavez vs. Leavander Johnson.
- If Tito didn't hit Vargas with low blows could the fight have turned out differently? Very possible.
- Cried during the Gatti-Ward documentary.
- Didn't score Shumenov-Flores, but thought Shumenov was the rightful winner.
- Most his comments are praising the GGG-Lemiuex PPV. Very few negative comments. No one has complained about the matchup itself.
- Possibly could start writing his "random boxing thoughts" again in the future.
- Does not know what Arum is talking about when he says Pacquiao may fight later this year. Does not think Pacquiao fights again this year.
- Filmed a mockumentary 30 for 30 on Rocky vs. Drago. Was done for collegehumor.com, and was told it would release end of July. Obviously did not happen. Could be released next month.
- Judah is not retired, but has nothing scheduled. Not with GB anymore.
- Linares will defend his title in October in Venezuela.
- Likes boxing weight class tournaments, if they make sense to do it.
- JMM has said he would like to fight one more time in Mexico City.
- He does not hate Stephen Espinoza and Stephen Espinoza doesn't hate him. They just don't agree all the time. Text several times this morning.
- Adamek for the HOF? No.
- Loves Beterbiev vs. Kovalev. Skeptical it happens.
- Would he rather see Beterbiev vs. Kovalev or Stevenson vs. Kovalev? Beterbiev vs. Kovalev.
- Centeno Jr. split with ODH's brother and signed with Haymon. Expect him back sooner than later.
- ESPN3 will air one undercard fight tomorrow at 7 pm.
- Maidana has said he has lost motivation since the Mayweather fight. He is going to start working himself back into shape (wants to be back in Garcia's gym on Aug/Sept) and see how his motivation goes. When he comes back he wants to fight a top opponent.
 
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agreed Roc Nation sold Andrade a dream and ruined my mans career to piss off Haymon
How so? Andrade isn't with Haymon. Even so, even before Roc Nation wanted to sign him he's been making bad decisions. He pulled out of the Charlo fight because he wanted more money, and ended up getting no money instead. He was going to fight Korobov for the vacant 160 title, then pulled out of that. Pulled out of Anthony Mundine fight because of money. Lol this guy is all over the place, terrible management.
 
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FOX SPORTS TELECASTS PREMIER BOXING CHAMPIONS UNDER MULTI-YEAR MEDIA RIGHTS DEAL
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Los Angeles (August 4, 2015) – FOX Sports today announced that it has reached a multi-year, multi-platform agreement to telecast Premier Boxing Champions (PBC), under which it will be the exclusive boxing program for FOX Sports 1, with content also going to FOX Deportes, bringing the sport’s best and brightest stars to both networks. The announcement was made by David Nathanson, FOX Sports Head of Business Operations.

FOX Sports 1 premieres TOE-TO-TOE TUESDAYS, a new, live primetime boxing series on Tuesday, Sept. 8 (9:00 PM ET), which continues for a total of 21 shows through the end of June, 2016. The fights are simulcast on FOX Deportes, under a series name to be determined soon.

“We’ve been invested in boxing as a cornerstone property since launching FOX Sports 1,” says Nathanson. “Premier Boxing Champions delivers high-profile, high-quality programing that is breaking viewership records in the boxing space. There is no question that this deal makes FOX Sports 1 and FOX Deportes true destinations for boxing fans.”

Hosting TOE-TO-TOE TUESDAYS is Brian Kenny, a veteran boxing announcer currently serving as an MLB Network studio host, a position he continues to hold. Kenny formerly anchored ESPN 2’s Friday Night Fights.

“I’m so excited to be working on FOX Sports 1 on this new PBC series,” says Kenny. “We’re looking forward to making boxing even more accessible to the fans, providing world class match-ups and putting the spotlight on fighters who deserve to be seen by both hardcore and mainstream fans. We will be real with the audience, show them respect and give them the landscape of the boxing world.”

FOX SPORTS TELECASTS PREMIER BOXING CHAMPIONS – Page 2

On FOX Deportes, former featherweight world champion and 2000 Mexican Olympic team member Daniel Ponce de Leon joins Samuel Jacobo to call the action.

TOE-TO-TOE TUESDAYS kicks off on FOX Sports 1 on Sept. 8, with an exciting super welterweight bout between former world champion Austin “No Doubt” Trout (29-2, 16 KOs) and Joey “Twinkle Fingers” Hernandez (24-3, 14 KOs). The co-main event features a junior featherweight bout between undefeated Jorge Lara (27-0-1, 19 KOs) and Puerto Rico’s Jesus Rojas (21-1, 15 KOs).

After the series debut, the punches keep coming on Tuesday, Sept. 15 (9:00 PM ET), when inspirational war veteran and undefeated welterweight Sammy “The Sergeant” Vasquez (19-0, 13 KOs) faces Jose “Piston” Lopez (25-3, 15 KOs) in the headlining event. Light heavyweights Thomas Williams (18-1, 12 KOs) and Umberto Savigne (12-2, 9 KOs) are featured in the co-main event of the evening

On Tuesday, Sept. 22, Philadelphia’s undefeated rising star Julian “J-Rock” Williams (20-0-1, 12 KOs) tests his skills against tough veteran Luciano Cuello (35-3, 17 KOs) in a super welterweight battle. Also featured that night, Moises Flores (23-0, 16 KOs) fights to stay undefeated against Luis Emmanuel Cusolito (21-1, 19 KOs) in a junior featherweight bout.

Super featherweight world champion Javier Fortuna (28-0, 20 KOs) puts his belt on the line Tuesday, Sept. 29 against 2004 Puerto Rican Olympian Carlos Velazquez (19-1, 12 KOs) in the night’s main event. The co-main event features a battle of unbeaten super welterweight fighters when Detroit’s Domonique Dolton (17-0, 9 KOs) faces 2012 Mexican Olympian Oscar Molina (13-0, 10 KOs).

In the coming weeks, FOX Sports 1 and FOX Deportes will announce more on-air personalities, along with upcoming show airdates and times.

In addition, all TOE-TO-TOE TUESDAYS are streamed live on FOX Sports GO, the critically acclaimed app that provides live streaming video of FOX Sports content at home or on the go, and now is available in 70 million households. The Spanish-language telecast is also available on FOX Sports GO. Customers of participating video providers may access the live stream of the events through the FOX Sports GO app for iOS, Android, Fire Tablets and Fire Phones, Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, select Windows devices, and on desktops throughFOXSportsGO.com. Fans can download the mobile app for free from the iTunes App Store,Google Play,Amazon App Store andWindows Store.

The Premier Boxing Champions series is created for television by Haymon Sports.

Please visit Premier Boxing Champions - Watch Live PBC Boxing Fights and follow Premier Boxing Champions on Facebook and Twitter. Follow #FreeBoxing4All to monitor fan conversation.

Full schedule is available below. For more information on FOX Sports, visit FOX Sports Press Pass.

FOX SPORTS 1 TOE-TO-TOE TUESDAYS SCHEDULE

(subject to change, simulcast on FOX Deportes)

Date Time (ET)

September 8, 2015 9:00 PM

September 15, 2015 9:00 PM

September 22, 2015 9:00 PM

September 29, 2015 9:00 PM

October 6, 2015 9:00 PM

October 13, 2015 9:00 PM

November 10, 2015 9:00 PM

December 8, 2015 9:00 PM

December 29, 2015 9:00 PM

January 12, 2016 11:00 PM

January 26, 2016 11:00 PM

February 9, 2016 11:00 PM

February 16, 2016 11:00 PM

March 15, 2016 9:00 PM

March 22, 2016 9:00 PM

April 5, 2016 9:00 PM

April 19, 2016 9:00 PM

May 17, 2016 9:00 PM

May 31, 2016 9:00 PM

June 14, 2016 9:00 PM

June 28, 2016 9:00 PM
 
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Start time of Floyd's PPV will be 8 pm ET (not typical 9 pm). Before the PPV begins Showtime will televise Ishe Smith-Vanes Martirosyan.
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De La Hoya: One Minor Hurdle Remains For Cotto-Canelo, Rematch clause.


By Steve Kim

We seem to be inching towards an official announcement in regards to the highly anticipated bout between Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto, which looks like will take place at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on November 21st.

Oscar De La Hoya, the head of Golden Boy Promotions advised BoxingScene.com on Tuesday morning - "All we need is to negotiate one little point. Look Golden Boy's on board, Roc Nation (Sports) is on board, Canelo's on board, Cotto's on board, Vegas is on board, The only person we're waiting for is Gaby Penagaricano."

Penagaricano is the adviser to Miguel Cotto. When asked what the remaining issue was, De La Hoya stated - "The issue is in the details of a rematch clause."

According to De La Hoya, it's something that both sides want,"because if it's a great fight the way we think it's going to be, we both want to be able to go into a rematch automatically."

Cotto-Canelo is perhaps the most heavily anticipated fight for the remaining of the 2015 boxing calendar. Fans have been chomping at the bit for this even to be finalized.

"I know Cotto wants the fight, I know he's already training, same for 'Canelo, he's already training, he's ready to do," said De La Hoya ."We're waiting for an answer from Gaby."
 
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The Greatest Boxer Alive Is Too Good For His Sport


Guillermo Rigondeaux—El Chacal, or The Jackal—is by far the greatest fighter in the world today. He may be the greatest fighter of the last 20 years. Unfortunately, he will soon lose for the first time, surely by knockout, and with his defeat will come sighs of relief and a lot of people saying, “I told you so.”

Rigondeaux won’t lose to a better fighter, because there are none around. He’ll lose soon because he’ll be forced, through a lack of options both economic and fistic, to overcome obstacles too great for a man of his size and age to handle. Whoever beats Rigondeaux will be much bigger and much younger than he.

Age is the less important issue; Rigondeaux fights in a style that treasures economy, allowing him in, I’d estimate, his early 40s—yes, I know what the record book says—to have lost little efficacy from his physical prime. His genius for the sport has even allowed him to pick up some new tricks during his short paid career.

Size is another thing. Rigondeaux would ideally be fighting at bantamweight: He is a very small man. Move up and move up and eventually there’ll be someone who’ll simply crush you. The smaller you are, the more each pound means.

Rigondeaux’s most recent fight, against Hisashi Amagasa of Japan, was illustrative, both a masterpiece and a disaster. The challenger, competent-plus but unexceptional in most ways, was an unsettlingly big super bantamweight, somehow managing to whittle himself down to 121 3/4 despite having a 5’10 1/2” frame meant to carry at least 20 more pounds. It also turned out that Amagasa and his cornermen were brave—almost messianically so.

Over the course of the 11 rounds he was allowed to stay in the ring, Amagasa undoubtedly underwent a transformative experience—enough of one to cause me to involuntarily conjure memories of two similarly messianic fighters: Duk-koo Kim (Kim Duk-koo) and Johnny Owen.

I’m not an alarmist when watching boxing; I’ve seen countless brutal fights during the 60 years I’ve followed the sport, frequently watching from a fighter’s corner. Although of the “better to stop it one punch too soon” persuasion, I regard myself as a relatively unflappable observer of whatever takes place inside the ropes.

But, while watching Rigondeaux artfully beat Hisashi Amagasa swollen and nearly shapeless, I couldn’t escape the conclusion that I might once again be witnessing a man being slowly beaten to death.

But.
The Amateurs Are Not The Pros

Being a great amateur boxer these days doesn’t guarantee that you’ll be anything special as a pro. There are different scoring systems, with the amateurs rewarding a technique of pecking disengagement, where quick jabs to the head, followed by retreat, will get you wins. Try that in the pros and two things will happen: the crowd will begin booing before the end of the first round, and someone will grab you, rough you up, and hand you your first loss.

It goes without saying that, to protect their promoters’ investments, most Olympic medalists are babied along during the start of their pro careers.

This wasn’t the case with the two most highly acclaimed amateurs of recent years: both Rigondeaux (374-12) and Ukrainian gold medalist Vasyl Lomachenko (396-1) were matched tough nearly from the get-go.

Here’s the difference between them:

In this third pro fight, Rigondeaux won the WBA-NABA super bantamweight title by knocking out Giovanni Andrade, a veteran of 70 professional fights. Andrade lasted three rounds, having been dropped in the second and third.

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Guillermo Rigondeaux boxes Worapoj Petchkoom at the Athens Olympics, 2004

Lomachenko was even more ambitious than Rigondeaux, going for the vacant WBO featherweight title against the battle-hardened Orlando Salido (40-12-2), who came in cynically overweight, happily accepted his fine, and then used his size advantage—and a lot of illegal tactics—to knock Lomachenko all around the ring. The amateur star with the 396-1 record was now 1-1 as a pro.

This says nothing bad about Lomachenko, who got a lifetime of on-the-job training from his loss. He fought his ass off under tough conditions. Someone was continuing to look out for him, too: the scorecards somehow made him only a split decision loser in a bout where he had clearly been defeated. It was child’s play for his promoter, Bob Arum, to come up with a ready-made narrative that turned the negative of the defeat in his second fight into a rousing positive. Lomachenko was given, and won, another title shot in his next fight, turning him into a world champion with a record of 2-1.

To date, no one similarly powerful seems to be looking out for Rigondeaux.

No small part of Rigondeaux’s problem is that influential boxing writers like Dan Rafael and Kevin Iole can look at the single most impressive boxing performance of the last decade—Rigondeaux’s virtuosic shutdown of Nonito Donaire—and come up with headlines like “Rigondeaux Bores, but Bests Donaire” or “The loss column: Beating Nonito Donaire won’t do much for Guillermo Rigondeaux’s popularity.” I can see how someone raised on video games, toughman contests, demolition derbies, or bull baiting might find Rigondeaux’s performance boring. But boxing writers are supposed to know at least a little bit about boxing.

Even Rigondeaux’s own promoter, made grumpy by the defeat and corresponding pound-for-pound rankings demotion of one of his near-superstar clients, voiced his two cents. From the Rafael article:

“It was not a very engaging fight,” Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said. “If Rigondeaux would stand and fight, (he) has a lot of power and a lot of skills, but running the way he does really makes it not a watchable fight.”

Arum is also quoted elsewhere as telling Rafael, in reference to the question of whether HBO would continue to televise Rigondeaux, “Every time I mention him, they throw up.” Arum, as some may recall, is the boxing genius who opined that another of Top Rank’s stars, Kelly Pavlik—remember him?—was a greater fighter than Marvin Hagler.
The Runner Who Doesn’t Run

The thing is, Guillermo Rigondeaux does stand and fight. He stays right in the pocket, always within easy range of landing his punches. And within range of being hit. He backpedals to draw fire, but by no coherent definition is he a runner. Still, in the contemporary parlance of boxing, almost every fighter who is hard to hit and is unwilling to trade punch for punch risks that defamatory label “runner.” He’s a runner. He won’t make a fight. Guys who lose embarrassing decisions, flailing after thin air all night, can say, “All he did was run. He wouldn’t stand and fight with me.” The most recent example of this narrative line came from Manny Pacquiao, who invoked it after his one-sided loss to Floyd Mayweather—manifestly, whatever his many flaws, not a runner.

In the popularly held conception of boxing, a runner is a coward, thus not a real man. Label a fighter a runner, and you can dismiss him as a box office draw. You then don’t have to fight him, citing economic concerns. Everyone can understand risk/reward issues.




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Andre Berto: I’m coming to kick Mayweather’s backside on September 12th
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floyd6666By Chris Williams: Former IBF/WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto (30-3, 23 KOs) doesn’t see himself as another notch on Floyd Mayweather Jr’s belt in their just announced pay-per-view fight on Showtime on September 12th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Berto has rejuvenated with the help of his genius trainer Virgil Hunter, and he’s coming to beat Mayweather’s behind in front of the whole world when he gets himself in the ring. I don’t know if Berto can do that, but he’s going to try his best not to become victim number 49. That’s the number that Mayweather, with all his greatness, will be looking to achieve when he gets Berto inside the ring.

“I’m coming to kick Floyd’s ass on September 12,” said Berto. “Best believe that I plan to bring it to Floyd and I’m not concerned about what 48 other fighters have been unable to do. Somebody is getting knocked out and it won’t be me. You don’t want to miss this.”

For Berto not to become No. 49, he’s going to need to fight a lot better than he has in ages, because the Berto that we’ve seen in the last four years won’t be good enough to compete against Mayweather. Berto needs to take his game back in a time machine to maybe five years ago, and then he’ll need to make some major improvements under the hood of his game for him to be able to have a chance of beating Mayweather.

Mayweather isn’t going to be slacking off just because Berto hasn’t looked so good in long time. Mayweather will be giving it his best effort, and if Berto can’t handle it then he’s going to get clowned by Mayweather. If Berto’s trainer Virgil Hunter can’t light a fire under his backside to get him to raise his game a few notches on September 12th, then Hunter is going to need to think seriously about throwing in the towel to save Berto for another day.

There’s no sense in leaving Berto out there to soak up unnecessary punishment from the best fighter in boxing. When you have a fighter like Berto, who hasn’t looked good in five years, you don’t really know what you’re going to get from him. You can either get a revitalized Berto, or you can get an over-the-hill fighter who doesn’t belong in the same ring as Mayweather and needs to be saved from himself.

From reading some of the comments on boxing news 24, I’ve noticed that some fans aren’t too pleased with the Mayweather-Berto fight being on Showtime pay-per-view rather than on free TV like NBC, CBS or ESPN. But I think the Mayweather vs. Berto fight card is a good product and will give the fans their money’s worth. The main event between Mayweather and Berto promises to be a more exciting fight than the recent Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao fight last May. Berto isn’t someone who will come into the fight with a torn rotator cuff injury. If he’s hurt, he’ll do the right thing and postpone the fight.

Berto will also fight a lot harder than Pacquiao. You won’t see Berto just flat out give up in the first two rounds if he gets hit hard by some of Mayweather’s fast right hands while he’s attacking him. Berto will still keep attacking Mayweather no matter how many right hands he get hit with. Additionally, the Mayweather-Berto undercard is a lot better than the Mayweather-Pacquiao undercard. We’ve got two good fights in WBO super featherweight champion Roman Martinez vs. Orlando Salido and Badou Jack vs. George Groves.

There’s another fight that will be added to the card. I wouldn’t be surprised if Errol Spence is added to the card. There’s talk of Spence fighting on September 11th, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he were moved to the Mayweather card.
 
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PBC Debut on Bounce Draws 459K Viewers, Peak of 667K

Posted by: Random Hits on 8/5/2015 .

ATLANTA - The series premiere of Premier Boxing Champions - The Next Round on Bounce TV on Aug. 2 was a knockout success.

The live telecast delivered 459,000 total viewers and averaged 333,000 Households between 9:00 p.m.-12:15 a.m., with a peak audience of 667,000 total viewers and 444,000 Households. This live telecast also delivered 255,000 Adults 25-54 and 195,000 A18-49.


Bounce TV aired an immediate encore of PBC - The Next Round after the live event and the two telecasts combined reached nearly two million unique viewers.

The network also streamed the PBC - The Next Round live on BounceTV.com which saw a usage increase of more than 300% on Sunday night. (Click here to watch the telecast.)

Bounce TV's debut of PBC - The Next Round was also met with glowing media reviews, including: "Smashing debut" (Bleacher Report) and "The debut of PBC: The Next Round on Bounce TV was a success" (USA Today).

The inaugural PBC - The Next Round consisted of three exciting fights. The main event saw Juan Carlos "Baby Pacquiao" Payano (17-0, 8 KOs) defeat Rau'shee Warren (13-1, 4 KOs) in a close, 12-round split decision to retain his Bantamweight Title.

In the first bout of a four-man super welterweight tournament, John Jackson (20-2, 15 KOs) won a 10-round unanimous decision over Dennis Laurente (49-6, 30 KOs). The second tournament bout featured a hard-hitting fight in which Jorge Cota (25-1, 22 KOs) defeated Yudel Jhonson. The winners of this tournament, Cota and Jackson, will fight on PBC - The Next Round on Bounce TV in November.


Fred Hickman (CNN Sports, ESPN) hosted PBC - The Next Round, Fran Charles (NFL Network, MLB Network) called the blow-by-blow action and former Super Welterweight World Champion Austin "No Doubt" Trout provided insight and analysis.

PBC - The Next Round returns Fri. Sept. 18 at 9:00 p.m. (ET) with the schedule of fights to be announced shortly.



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I'm told Twitter rumors of A @amir KingKhan parting ways with Al Haymon are 100% false.
 
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AMIR MANSOUR BLASTS DEONTAY WILDER; SAYS HE'S AVOIDING REAL CONTENDERS: "WE ALL KNOW HE GOT A GLASS CHIN"
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PC: Recently, Deontay Wilder said you have to climb the ranks and that you are only looking for a payday and that's the only reason you are saying his name. I'm sure you have a reply to that.

AM: Of course. First and foremost, just like Amir Mansour expects a payday when he steps into the ring, so does Deontay Wilder and every other fighter on the planet. There hasn't been a fighter in the history of boxing that fights and is not looking for a damn payday, so that is really an idiot way of going about ducking a fighter. That's the most stupid way you can go about trying to duck somebody by saying that they simply trying to look for a payday. If I was simply looking for a damn payday, it's a lot of other things I could go do to collect a fukking check other than getting in the ring and rumbling with a grown ass man. So to me, that's just his way of avoiding a fight with a real serious contender. On one hand, he talk about he don't believe in the rankings, and then he talk about I need to climb the rankings. I done climbed the rankings already; been up and down without losing a damn fight. And the one loss I do have shouldn't mess with any rankings. The only real rankings that I respect is www.boxrec.com; that's it. As far as the organizations, we all know how that play out. We know how that goes. And if you gotta climb the rankings in order to fight for a world title, then I would just ask him, "Well, who did you fight prior to your fight against Stiverne when you fought for the world title?" And the answer is Jason Gavern, a guy that Amir Mansour TKOed a year ealier in 1 round and it took you 4 rounds to get rid of him. That was your way of climbing the rankings. So we already know that's nonsense with him talking that.

And as far as the payday, I don't know any fighter that fought Deontay Wilder and became rich. I don't know any fighter that bragged about a payday because they fought Deontay Wilder. So now he's acting like he's the cash cow or the cash king, which is ridiculous because he can't financially walk away from boxing today just like any other fighter that's out here grinding and trying to get to the top can't or shouldn't or won't. So that's ridiculous for him to say I'm looking for a payday. I got 23 professional fights under my belt. If all I was trying to do was look for a payday, I would have been walked away from this sport because even going in the ring and whooping his ass, I'm still going to have to fight again and again to make more money because Deontay Wilder is not the cash king of the heavyweight division. Eric Molina didn't have to climb no fukking rankings in order to fight him. And either his last opponent fought him for free or he became a multi-millionaire, which we both know is not true. So this guy, he's obviously made a couple of dollars, he's not rich and he wants to portray himself as a rich man now or portray himself as if you fight me, you're going to make a bunch of money. And that's how he's trying to sell himself and that's fine. However you're trying to sell yourself is fine. I'm cool with it. You won the title, you're the champ. I respect what you did when you came out there and won the title, but don't knock anybody else for having the same desire to win the title that you had before you won it. You know damn well and I know damn well that just because you fight Deontay Wilder don't mean you're going to get a big paycheck.

PC: What caliber of opponent do you expect to see him fight next?

AM: A bum! It just got announced he might be fighting a guy by the name of Hughie Fury. Deontay has twice the amount of knockouts as this guy has fights. The WBC heavyweight champion of the world, who is 34 fights into his career, is fighting a guy with 16 fights and 8 knockouts. Look who this p*ssy is fighting. And he talk about I need to climb the rankings. When have you ever seen a fukking heavyweight champion this deep into his career and he still has to be matched against guys that couldn't punch? It's never happened. Guys like Holyfield came from cruiserweight and fought punchers. Steve Cunningham came from cruiserweight and fought punchers. Hell, David Haye came from cruiserweight to fight punchers. This dude is a p*ssy, man! I knew he was going to fight somebody that won't even be worth watching. I told you before they announced this fight that as soon as we heard the name, it was going to be somebody who we knew didn't stand a chance of beating him. I expected it and I got it. He hasn't developed as a fighter. He hasn't even grown into his complete power if you ask me. His boxing skills are definitely not the skills of a world champion. He had a real good opponent for his style and his size when he won that title. Let's not act like he won that title by really beating a true world champion. He beat somebody that was just there to defend a world title. Molina gave him a harder fight than Stiverne, if you ask me. Molina damn near stopped him. We all know he got a glass chin. That's why he say the things he say when it comes to fighting Amir Mansour because he know I'm one of the hardest punchers on the planet.

PC: I always appreciate your time. Best of luck to you and I'm sure you have some closing thoughts for me.

AM: Here's the deal, and lets just be realistic, Wilder has already stated that rankings and all that don't have nothing to do with anything. Okay, fine, but the way you're thinking now as if he is somebody that is in complete control of their career; if you really talking sincere and you really talking like the heavyweight champion we want you to be, make the call, make the fight with Amir Mansour, and if not me, then somebody that has a chance of beating your ass. Stop fighting these bums. Stop dumbing down the heavyweight division. Don't take the blueprint from Klitschko and think that you're going to milk the belt the way that he did. He did that overseas. The boxing fans in America not going to allow you to do that. You're not going to get away with that. So he needs to prepare himself to fight real challengers. I'm ready and available to whoop his ass at any time. He's just a tall dude. He's not a bad guy. He's not a ferocious fighter. He's just a tall guy that fought a lot of bums on his way up. The reality is that he needs to fight a real contender. You're not going to get away with that bullshyt that Klitschko did here in America. I'm sitting back watching a movie and creating my own action film. I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing. I can't beg nobody to fight me. I've already tried to get in the ring with all of these so-called top 10 guys. They have all been offered decent paydays to fight me and they continue to come up with excuses. Add Deontay Wilder to the list of guys.


AMIR MANSOUR BLASTS DEONTAY WILDER; SAYS HE'S AVOIDING REAL CONTENDERS: "WE ALL KNOW HE GOT A GLASS CHIN" || FIGHTHYPE.COM
 
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