Boxing schedule for the month of March

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yo naner, I asked you in another thread don't think you saw it. What's your prediction for Dirrell vs Abraham? I put $200 on dirrell, I think he wins this easy. Thoughts?
You know my prediction .. Dirrell by clean UD. At least 116-112. He's fighting in the states so no need to worry about a robbery (hopefully) and Abraham is a notoriously slow starter. Dirrell should be able to drop rounds in the bank early and play keep away at the end. Abraham has the power to cause damage if he catches up to him I just don't see it happening.
 
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^ I haven't seen a lot of Dirrell's fights just a few, but he seemed to take Froch's shots pretty well. Is his chin pretty sturdy?


I also see Dirrell getting the UD.
 
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^ I haven't seen a lot of Dirrell's fights just a few, but he seemed to take Froch's shots pretty well. Is his chin pretty sturdy?


I also see Dirrell getting the UD.
His chin seems alright from what I've seen. Besides Froch the only other real punchers he fought were Stevens & Oganov and neither of those two got close enough to touch him. Froch himself isn't really a one punch concussive puncher he just puts on "bully" pressure and wears people down.

Who knows if he'd be able to take a flush Abraham left hook .. which would be no doubt the hardest punch he'd have been hit with in the ring. I just don't see Abraham landing the punch.
 
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Joan Guzman's Progress Has Pleased Kerry Kayes

By Lee Collier

Joan Guzman and Lee Beard have enlisted the help of the renowned nutritionist Kerry Kayes in preparation for the upcoming rematch with South African Ali Funeka. Kayes’ expertise is in the nutritional and strength/conditional side of boxing training. Kayes, a former UK bodybuilding champion, was the man responsible for getting Ricky Hatton into shape during his best fighting years alongside advising other top UK fighters such as John Murray and Jamie Moore.

Kayes also owns the famous Betta Bodies gym in Denton, Manchester, which also houses [Joe] Gallagher’s Gym, and the former bodybuilder is also the owner of the CNP Professional sports supplement company. Kayes is respected so much that he is also works with the GB cycling team, UFC fighters such as Michael Bisping, alongside giving seminars nationwide.

Kayes has only come on board with Guzman four weeks before the Funeka fight and admits that the situation is far from ideal. “Lee [Beard] sent me a text from New York saying he had got the job working with Joan and asked would I get involved and I said yes immediately,” revealed Kayes.

“We arranged to meet in the gym the day he got back to Manchester so I met up with him and Joan and Lee’s exact words where, ‘It’s a big fight Kerry, there’s a lot of pressure and I’d like to get you onboard for it as I need all the help I can get’, and I respected him for that.”

“We looked at Joan and realised we were starting from behind the starting line as he had probably let himself go a bit too much after his last fight but that’s par for the course with a lot of boxers,” explained Kayes.

“So we wrote a diet and started monitoring him every week and it’s fair to say when you start working with a boxer for the first time you have to gain their trust. Lee was saying the right things to Guzman telling him to trust me and that I’m good at what I do so I’d like to thank Lee for that. Joan is now a believer and I have gained his confidence and once you have the boxers trust you can do a few more radical moves with them.”

Kayes then continued, “The worst thing you can with someone you have never met before, remembering this is not someone losing a bit of weight to go on holiday but someone trying to lose weight to make a weight for a world title, is tell them everything they have been doing is wrong and that your way is right. You have to do it a little bit at a time to gain the confidence. It would be nice to have 12 weeks and we have had four weeks but the results are coming. He has told Lee he is feeling stronger than ever and a lot fresher so I’m quite pleased.”

Guzman has a reputation for being a lazy trainer and gaining weight between fights. A lack of activity and bad dieting led Guzman to fail the lightweight limit for a showdown with Nate Campbell. As Kayes mentioned previously, a lot of boxers pile on weight between fights and the two-weight world champion is no different.

“He [Guzman] was nearly 40lbs over the limit when he came here and I’d like to say 38lb of that was water retained on the flight over here but in reality it isn’t,” joked a jovial Kayes. “So it’s been a drastic weight loss and my job is to make him get to the weight as healthy as possible. I will get him to the weight and he will be healthy but it isn’t an ideal way of doing things but we don’t have the luxury of time.”

Guzman is that impressed with the work he has done with Kayes and Beard in Manchester that he intends to train in Manchester for a full 10 weeks prior to his next fight. According to Kayes and trainer Beard, Guzman has stated he is feeling stronger and fresher than he ever has in his career.

“He [Guzman] already believes in what we’ve done in two weeks and Guzman has told Lee he wants to come over for 10 weeks next time which means he is happy with the work we are doing. He is probably thinking if I can do this in two weeks what could I do with 10 weeks, which is giving him a buzz,” revealed Kayes.

Guzman is due to finish his training in Las Vegas, arriving this week. Unfortunately, due to the busy schedule of Kayes, the strength/conditioning coach will not arrive until the week of the fight.
“I have other commitments, such as I have a seminar here in Betta Bodies this week then on Sunday I have a bodybuilding show which I run every year as I’m the promoter so I’m going over for the last week,” stated Kayes. “I’ll draw up my nutritional plan and I’ll give Lee all the products he needs for the week I’m away, and I’ll be there for the weigh in.”

One final point that Kayes was keen to stress was that his job was to make the fighter stronger and to get them in a better shape physically for the fight. There is no intention to try and make the boxers look like bodybuilders.

“I’d like the readers to know that we are not trying to make the fighters into bodybuilders, which a lot of people think. I don’t make them better boxers; I just make them better athletes. If the physique looks good then that’s a by-product of the physique being good. A body builder just wants to look good whereas a boxer wants to perform at his best and if he has low body fat and toned muscle he is going to be a better boxer, and he’ll feel better,” stressed Kayes.
 
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man, the 27th is stacked. Too bad they aren't all on the same card

(HBO): Marcos Maidana vs. Victor Cayo
Ali Funeka vs. Joan Guzman, rematch

(Showtime): Arthur Abraham vs. Andre Dirrell, 12 rounds

(Fox Sports en Espanol/Fox Sports Net): "Top Rank Live"
(Integrated Sports PPV): Erik Morales vs. Jose Alfaro
Cristian Mijares vs. TBA
Roman Gonzalez vs. Juan Hernandez,
David Rodriguez vs. TBA
Germany: Yuriorkis Gamboa vs. Jonathan Victor Barros
Venezuela: Jorge Linares vs. Francisco Lorenzo
New Zealand: David Tua vs. Friday Ahunanya,

Ontario: Steve Molitor vs. Takalani Ndlovu
 
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Hell yeah. I wanna see a David Tua vs Chris Big Nipple fight.
That would be dope. I think Tua would crush him. Speaking of the big nipple, how do you predict his fight with Adamek will turn out? Interesting match up, I can't really call it.

As for the 27th, I think there could be two upsets - dirrell over abraham and guzman over funeka. The latter is a stretch but I'm thinking Guzman comes in motivated and in shape this time around (not putting money on it though!). Guzman's been working with Lee Beard in England and he said a couple things that got me excited:

"Normally he's really sharp defensively but in that particular fight he was flat. He's broken his hand before and when I first started training him he was not really hitting the bag, the pads.

"I noticed in the fight he was throwing a lot of punches but they were kind of slapping punches and I've been trying to get him to punch with the knuckle part of the glove, and use his body more to generate power.

"He is very fast and I feel he sacrifices power for speed by slapping type punches, he is punching extremely hard at the minute, a lot harder than the first 2-3 weeks and is still punching with speed."​
 
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Yeah, that is a dope fight. I really can't even call it. I think that obviously Adamek is going to have a pretty significant speed advantage, and judging from Big Nipple's fight with the Big Klit I'm not sure whether it was the movement or the size that gave him problems.


I like the fight though.


As for Guzman. He better come ready to give it 150% man, in my opinion he did nothing to deserve that rematch.
 
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I got Arreola stopping Adamek. Adamek isn't going to be able to fight him like Vitali and Arreola ain't Jason Estrada in the punching department. If Estrada had any kind of pop he would of ruined Adamek's trip to heavyweight early as he was able to land consistently flush on Adamek's face.

Adamek is fairly flat footed walks people down in a straight line, isn't exceptionally fast and at HW I don't think he has the kind of power to trouble Arreola.
 
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As for Guzman. He better come ready to give it 150% man, in my opinion he did nothing to deserve that rematch.
He definitely should have lost that fight on the scorecards but imo at least guzman is man enough to rematch funeka and the winner gets the vacant belt so hopefully the right man wins this time around.

Gotta feel bad for Funeka though in the sense that he's had a couple debatable decisions not go in his favor, on the other hand he's fighting in a weight class about 2 divisions too small for him, dude is as tall as kelly pavlik!
 
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Bailey will always find a way to keep his career alive. Definitely one of the hardest P4P punchers lacing them up today. He just guaranteed himself another decent fight and he can actually keep it rolling as long as he stays in the "IBF" realm of the welterweight division with guys like Delvin Rodriguez (who the IBF steadily puts in eliminators and vacant title fights), Isaac Hlatshwayo, Jan Zaveck & the super underrated Rafal Jackiewicz who's finally getting some play in the rankings.
 
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Please tell me someone watched the Odlanier Solis card last night? In one of the undercards some dudes cup fell completely out of his shorts and was hanging by his ankles .. they had to pause the fight and tape his cup back on because it wouldn't stay in the middle of the ring.
 
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^^haha yeah I saw that, never seen anything like that before in my life. After his cup fell of it seemed dude literally turned gay, all of a sudden he had some weird homosexual stance hahaha.

The solis fight was disappointing cuz Drummond was on the verge of getting KO'd and he robbed us of a highlight.

I don't know what to make of solis. He seems like a solid fighter. I just wish he'd tone down a bit, lose about 15 pounds.
 
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Fights for the saturday (updated):

Arthur Abraham vs Andre Dirrell (showtime)

Marcos Maidana vs Victor Cayo (HBO)
Ali Funeka vs Joan Guzman II (HBO
(Daniel Jacobs is scheduled to fight on the Maidana card as well)

Anselmo Moreno vs Nehomar Cermeno
Jorge Linares vs Francisco Lorenzo

Koki Kameda vs Pongsaklek Wonjongkam
Oleydong Sithsamerchai vs Yasutaka Kuroki

Steve Molitor vs Takalani Ndlovu
Kielsa-Pajkic

Erik Morales vs Jose Alfaro
Chris Henry vs Hugo Garay
Roman Gonzalez vs Juanito Hernandez

Yuriorkis Gamboa vs Jonathan Victor Barros (germany)
Bakhtov-Kretschman II
JC Gomez-Mazikin
 
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Fights for the saturday (updated):

Arthur Abraham vs Andre Dirrell (showtime)

Marcos Maidana vs Victor Cayo (HBO)
Ali Funeka vs Joan Guzman II (HBO
(Daniel Jacobs is scheduled to fight on the Maidana card as well)

Anselmo Moreno vs Nehomar Cermeno
Jorge Linares vs Francisco Lorenzo

Koki Kameda vs Pongsaklek Wonjongkam
Oleydong Sithsamerchai vs Yasutaka Kuroki

Steve Molitor vs Takalani Ndlovu
Kielsa-Pajkic

Erik Morales vs Jose Alfaro
Chris Henry vs Hugo Garay
Roman Gonzalez vs Juanito Hernandez

Yuriorkis Gamboa vs Jonathan Victor Barros (germany)
Bakhtov-Kretschman II
JC Gomez-Mazikin
Those are 3 underrated fights right there. Kameda/Wonjongkam I'm sure is getting hyped in Japan but the other two are flying under the radar and they're sure to dope.