I will start with the main event, and I am not talking about the middleweight championship fight between Jermain "Bad Intentions" Taylor and Cory "The Next Generation" Spinks which was billed as such. Last night in Memphis, TN, the undercard matchup between Kelly Pavlik and Edison "Pantera" Miranda saved this particular HBO championship boxing card. […]

As I predicted in a previous post, "Pretty Boy" Floyd Mayweather, Jr. was simply too good for the "Golden Boy." Youth, speed and overall ring generalship carried the day for Mayweather who captured his sixth belt in his fifth different weight class. Although De La Hoya showed why he is still a world-class fighter, the […]

In the best performance of his young career, Juan "Baby Bull" Diaz battered Acelino "Popo" Freitas into submission, forcing his corner to stop the onslaught at the end of the 8th round.  As I predicted, Diaz’s volume punching and fighting spirit was ultimately too much for a fighter like Freitas.  Although the fight was fairly […]

As many fight pundits predicted, “Pretty Boy” Floyd Mayweather 37-0 (24) had little difficulty disposing of the rugged welterweight champion from Argentina.  The feel-good, rags-to-riches story of Carlos “Tata” Baldomir 43-10-6 (13) was good while it lasted, but this past Saturday South America’s answer to the Cinderella Man not only lost his glass slipper, he […]