Sunday, September 14, 2008
SecondsOut Radio: Marquez Stops Casamayor, Forrest and Bradley Win, Campbell-Guzman Fiasco, Lou Duva on Peter-Klitschko
On this week's edition of SecondsOut Radio, host Eddie Goldman begins by commenting on this past weekend's major title fights. In them, Juan Manuel Marquez (49-4-1, 36 KOs) handed lightweight champion Joel Casamayor (36-4-1, 22 KOs) his first career loss by stoppage, Vernon Forrest (41-3, 29 KOs) regained the WBC super welterweight belt by impressively decisioning Sergio Mora (21-1-1, 5 KOs) in a rematch from their first bout in June, and WBC super lightweight champion Timothy Bradley (23-0, 11 KOs) made the first defense of his belt by decisioning and dominating Edner Cherry (24-6-2, 12 KOs).
We also discuss the fiasco which led to the fight between WBA, WBO, and IBF lightweight champion Nate Campbell (32-5-1, 25 KOs) and Joan Guzman (28-0, 17 KOs) being cancelled after Guzman failed to make weight. And we argue that the next fight for Juan Manuel Marquez and Nate Campbell should be against one another, the best against the best in the lightweight division.
On October 11, in Berlin, Germany, WBC heavyweight champion Samuel Peter (30-1, 23 KOs) will defend his title against the former WBC champion and current "champion emeritus" Vitali Klitschko (35-2, 34 KOs), who is making his return to the ring after a four-year absence.
In the first of a series of interviews about this fight which will be posted over the next weeks, we spoke with the veteran trainer Lou Duva, who is working with the Peter camp. We discussed what to expect in the Peter-Klitschko fight, where he believes Peter stands in the history of heavyweight boxing, and what went wrong with the U.S. Olympic boxing team at the 2008 Olympics.
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Labels: boxing, Eddie Goldman, Edner Cherry, Joan Guzman, Joel Casamayor, Juan Manuel Marquez, Klitschko, Lou Duva, Nate Campbell, Samuel Peter, SecondsOut Radio, Sergio Mora, Tim Bradley, Vernon Forrest
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
No Holds Barred: Charles Farrell on Boxing This Week, UFC, and More
On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman is joined by our correspondent, the award-winning boxing writer Charles Farrell. Eddie and Charles are also the editors of The Boxing Standard.
In a lengthy, candid, and animated discussion about fights this past weekend and those scheduled for next weekend, we comment on the knockout loss of Chuck Liddell by Rashad Evans at UFC 88 and what it says about mixed martial arts fighters and MMA, the 54-second knockout of British lightweight boxer Amir Khan by little-known Breidis Prescott and what it says about both fighters, the victory of former lightweight champion Juan Diaz over Michael Katsidis, the much-anticipated Joel Casamayor-Juan Manuel Marquez and Nate Campbell-Joan Guzman lightweight title bouts, the prevailing anti-technology culture in boxing, and more.
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Labels: Amir Khan, boxing, Charles Farrell, Chuck Liddell, Eddie Goldman, Joan Guzman, Joel Casamayor, Juan Diaz, Juan Manuel Marquez, Michael Katsidis, Nate Campbell, No Holds Barred, Rashad Evans, UFC
Sunday, September 07, 2008
SecondsOut Radio: Casamayor-Marquez, Campbell-Guzman, Mora-Forrest 2, Bradley-Cherry
On this week's edition of SecondsOut Radio, host Eddie Goldman previews the appealing quartet of major title fights which are coming up this Saturday, September 13, and discusses boxing's talent-rich lightweight division.
On that date, WBA, WBO, and IBF lightweight champion Nate Campbell (32-5-1, 25 KOs) will defend his belts against Joan Guzman (28-0, 17 KOs) in Biloxi, Mississippi. This fight will be shown in the U.S. on Showtime.
Also on that date, the linear lightweight champion, Joel Casamayor (36-3-1, 22 KOs), will defend his title against Juan Manuel Marquez (48-4-1, 35 KOs) in Las Vegas, Nevada. This fight will be shown in the U.S. on HBO pay-per-view.
The co-feature on the HBO pay-per-view is the rematch between WBC super welterweight champion Sergio Mora (21-0-1, 5 KOs) and Vernon Forrest (40-3, 29 KOs).
The co-feature on the Showtime telecast is the first defense of his belt by WBC super lightweight champion Timothy Bradley (22-0, 11 KOs), who fights Edner Cherry (24-5-2, 12 KOs).
This should be an exciting, important, and highly entertaining weekend of fights.
On a series of media conference calls, we had a chance to ask questions of all these eight fighters and let them speak for themselves: Nate Campbell and Joan Guzman, Joel Casamayor and Juan Manuel Marquez, Sergio Mora and Vernon Forrest, and Timothy Bradley and Edner Cherry.
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Labels: boxing, Eddie Goldman, Edner Cherry, HBO, Joan Guzman, Joel Casamayor, Juan Manuel Marquez, Nate Campbell, pay-per-view, SecondsOut Radio, Sergio Mora, Showtime, Timothy Bradley, Vernon Forrest
Monday, March 10, 2008
SecondsOut Radio: Marquez-Pacquiao 2 Preview, Weekend Review
On this week's edition of SecondsOut Radio, host Eddie
Goldman begins by reviewing this past weekend's major fights.
We discuss the WBC heavyweight title fight won by Samuel Peter (30-1, 23 KOs) over Oleg Maskaev (34-6, 26 KOs) by a sixth-round stoppage, and the lightweight title fight won by Nate Campbell (32-5-1, 25 KOs) over Juan Diaz (33-1, 17 KOs) by a split decision in Cancun, Mexico. The comments of the announcers on HBO, which telecast these fights in the U.S., are particularly criticized here. We also review the cruiserweight unification bout won by David Haye (21-1, 20 KOs) over Enzo Maccarinelli (28-2, 21 KOs) by a second-round TKO in London, UK, telecast in the U.S. on Showtime and in the UK on Setanta.
This coming Saturday, March 15, the long-awaited rematch between WBC super featherweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (48-3-1, 35 KOs) and Manny Pacquiao (45-3-2, 34 KOs) finally is set to take place. In their first bout, held at featherweight on May 8, 2004, Pacquiao dropped Marquez thrice in the first round, but Marquez recovered and was able to outbox Pacquiao for much of the remainder of the fight. The result was a controversial split draw. Now they will meet again in a bout in Las Vegas which will be shown in the U.S. on HBO Pay-Per-View.
We spoke with Manny Pacquiao and his trainer and confidant Freddie Roach about what to expect March 15 on a media teleconference call this past week, and have that discussion for you here.
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Labels: boxing, David Haye, Enzo Maccarinelli, Freddie Roach, HBO, Juan Diaz, Juan Manuel Marquez, Manny Pacquiao, Nate Campbell, Oleg Maskaev, Samuel Peter
