The Boxing Thread (Sweet Science) - Mayweather vs. Maidana

[Mogriffjr]

Manny struggles with a true counter, that's Floyd's strength, but enough bout that, JMM was waiting for this...

[Liquidrob]

REMATCH!

[Atom1]

^That's a classic move, straight out of B-Hop shady boxing 101 handbook or an unintentional accident...

[EmpireWF]

Notes taken from BadLeftHook.com

TV schedule for Saturday

CBS - 4:30pm ET - Leo Santa Cruz in action & Pro Debut for Joseph Diaz Jr.

Boxing returns to network TV with Leo Santa Cruz, one of the most exciting young fighters in the sport, headlining against an opponent he'll be favored to dominate. Joseph Diaz Jr is one of the more promising U.S. Olympians from London, and is making his pro debut.

SHO Extreme - 9pm ET - Shawn Porter vs. Julio Diaz & Frankie Gomez vs. Pavel Miranda

You'll get a chance to eat some dinner and all that between the CBS show ending and the SHO Extreme broadcast starting. Porter looks to stay unbeaten in a 10-round welterweight bout against ex-lightweight titlist Diaz, who has won two straight after getting smashed by Kendall Holt in 2011. Miranda is 2-7-1 in his last ten, but isn't a bad test for Gomez, a legit prospect who has had some issues outside of the ring.

HBO - 9:30pm ET - Replay from Last Week's PPV & Nonito Donaire vs. Jorge Arce & Guillermo Rigondeaux vs. Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym

Donaire looks to potentially lock up the 2012 Fighter of the Year award here against Arce, an opponent they've talked about having him fight for a couple of years now. It's finally here, and though Arce is and should be a big underdog, he's been in that role before and made it. He seems tailor-made for Donaire, but at least it almost surely won't be dull. Rigondeaux takes on a tough firecracker in Poonsawat, and it will be up to Poonsawat to bring pressure and make this a fight.

SHO - 10pm ET - Miguel Cotto/Austin Trout All Access Epilogue

SHO - 10:30pm ET - Amir Khan vs. Carlos Molina in the main event & Alfredo Angulo vs. Jorge Silva & Deontay Wilder vs. Kelvin Price

Pretty ballsy to go live with three fights at 10:30, but that's basically a PPV schedule, so it's nothing huge. Also, there's a pretty good chance neither of the first two fights last long. Wilder talks a lot, and so does his management team, and it's easy to see why his record gets flak, but is it really worse than Seth Mitchell's record ever was? Wilder has serious monster power in his right hand, and he's filled out nicely after earlier being sort of a beanpole. Scoff if you wish, but he's got legitimate potential. Price is 6'7", like Wilder, so he won't be undersized, and the former basketball player is hoping to make a late go of it at age 37. He's unbeaten (13-0, 6 KO), but also hasn't done a lot since his controversial upset of Tor Hamer in May 2010. Angulo will likely blow Silva away -- Silva is game and tough, as he showed against Yoshihiro Kamegai, but he's undersized in this matchup. Khan-Molina is a must-win for Khan; and a breakout chance for Molina.

[JimLeavy59]

[EmpireWF]

The Mayweather/Guerrero All Access is a good watch.

Weird seeing the Mayweathers in harmony after all the shit they've said in the past.

Guerrero's dad is a hell of a character.

[EmpireWF]

DVRing Garcia/Judah tonight on Showtime.

[EmpireWF]

A couple of big undercards fights beneath Mayweather/Alvarez in September...

Light-Welterweight Champion Danny Garcia (26-0) vs Lucas Mattyshe (34-2, 1 NC)
Interim Light Middleweight Champion Erislandry Lara (21-2-1) vs. Austin Trout (26-1)

[EmpireWF]

Taking from the underground....

restored picture from a boxing match between Ray Campbell and Dick Hyland from 1913,




May 3, 1913 in British Columbia, Campbell (dude on the left I believe) won on points after 15 rounds.

[Warner2BruceTD]

sticky

[EmpireWF]

[Mogriffjr]

really like Canelo but not his time yet...

[EmpireWF]

episode 2

[JayDizzle]

http://thestacks.deadspin.com/the-lo...tten-772260237

This above link is a republishing from The Stacks via Deadspin.

In it is a 1964 story written for Esquire about Floyd Patterson, a man who at one time was champion until he was put down by the legendary Sonny Liston.

I personally found it interesting (and as you'll find in the comments at the bottom of the posting) that this is basically the most candid interview I've ever read or heard about from a sports figure... EVER.

Once more, that this is a man who acknowledges that he sees himself as a coward even though he's made TONS of money as a champion while his family lived comfortably and he himself was a good fighter to a point.

-It was both tragic and somewhat comical to read that Patterson had a set of disguises/personal mannerisms lined up in the event that he lost a fight.

Not because of it being a "routine" or "a thing to do" but because he was terrified about what the crowd who paid to see him thought about him personally after a loss.

It's definitely worth a read if you want to see a brutally honest take about what it's like to live as the person who's lost and has to carry that baggage day-to-day.

-Do note that this article was before the bouts with Muhammad Ali.

No humiliation for not calling Cassius Clay by his Muslim name just yet.

[EmpireWF]

Thanks for the heads up, looking forward to reading that.

Earlier @ the weigh ins, Canelo came in at 152 & Mayweather @ 150.

Somebody is losing their ZERO tomorrow.