It’s time for “Round and Round,” where I take a look at developments in upcoming fights. Bigger names and/or more important combatants get top billing, so stop reading at any time your head gets too full of info.

First order of business, check out Tim‚Äôs comprehensive look at Saturday‚Äôs lightweight match up between Juan Manuel Marquez and Joel Casamayor.¬† To put it bluntly, it‚Äôs the bee‚Äôs knees. Up to this point, lightweight Nate Campbell‚Äôs career could be illustrated by the late Rodney Dangerfield‚Äôs famous line, ‚ÄúI get no respect.‚Äù¬† Despite ascending up through […]

OK, obviously I’m into the Joel Casamayor-Juan Manuel Marquez lightweight (135 lbs.) fight this weekend, if you read the preceding post, but… well, I don’t want to get downright sappy… is it possible that Sportscenter actually deserves my unabashed praise for calling attention to it? A couple hours ago, I watched ESPN’s Brian Kenny do […]

Never before have I had the pleasure or frustration of watching my favorite fighter do combat with my least favorite fighter. The time is nigh this Saturday night, when my beloved Juan Manuel Marquez battles the villainous Joel Casamayor. That’s my stake in it, and so interested am I in seeing Marquez thrash Casamayor that […]

Between arranging and hosting bachelor parties, visiting friends in Indiana, covering political conventions for my day job and an upcoming wedding, I’ll have been out of town five straight weekends and out of town about three total weeks over that stretch. Which is my way of saying — as bloggers often do in a way […]

Going into the highly anticipated lightweight showdown between Juan Diaz and Michael Katsidis, many considered the fight to be pretty evenly matched.¬† After all you have two all action, pressure fighters looking to rebound from their first loss.¬† I mean what more do you need in motivation?¬† The fight was a no-brainer for Golden Boy […]

Heading into Saturday night’s lightweight battle between Juan Diaz and Michael Katsidis many people felt that the co-featured bout of the night between Rocky Juarez and Jorge Barrios had the potential to steal the show.¬† Funny how some things come to fruition isn’t it? Prior to the bout, an impromptu poll by some of us […]

I have to say that I become more impressed with Houston based welterweight Jermell Charlo (3-0, 2 KOs) everytime I see him.¬† Charlo has¬†great speed, solid defense and decent pop and being trained under Ronnie Shields makes him the goods in my opinion.¬† Seriously, I think this kid has a bright future within the sport.¬† […]

Sitting here freezing ringside at the Juan Diaz-Michael Katsidis fight.¬† Just got done watching Houston based junior middleweight prospect Roque Moreno battle four hard rounds in winning his pro debut.¬† I like Moreno’s sold technique but his defense is a bit too porous for me to stamp him a must-watch prospect.¬†

There are many unwritten rules in covering a fight.¬† One of them is to never ask for quotes from a fighter after they have just stepped off the scale making weight.¬† I know this, I really do, but yet I committed such sin this afternoon at the Diaz-Katsidis weigh-in.¬† The weigh-in had wrapped up and […]

Seizing the opportunity of a lifetime, I along with ace photographer Ed Garza traveled the four hour drive south from Dallas to Houston to cover the Diaz-Katisidis fight.¬† We pull into Houston around 11:00 AM ans check into our palatial room at the Days Inn off of I-10.¬† The official public weigh-in was at 1:00 […]

So I am currently in Houston to cover the highly anticipated Juan Diaz – Michael Katsidis fight.¬† I’ll keep try to keep everyone posted on the 411 as I see it.¬† Stay tuned! ¬†Also, can you believe the Toyota Center (home of the fight Saturday night) does not have WiFi?¬† What year is this?¬† Golden […]

As far as losers’ bracket games go, Juan Diaz-Michael Katsidis this Saturday night on HBO is as good as it gets. Sure, the recent Phoenix Suns teams and their offensive juggernaut predecessors the Sacramento Kings circa 2002 never made it to the NBA Finals, but who wouldn’t want to see them play each other? And […]

ESPN’s boxing guru Dan Rafael is reporting that sources have informed him that Mexican superstar Marco Antonio Barrera has signed a five year promotional agreement with Don King’s promotional company.¬† Barrera had become a free agent recently after splitting with Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions after the LA based promotional company had been […]

In case you missed it, there was a pretty decent scrap Friday night when Rhode Island based cruiserweight prospect Matt Godfrey survived some early round scares to rally back and stop tough Nigerian Emmanuel Nwodo in the fourth round.¬† Many fans and media are high on Godfrey and while he does¬†show decent technique and solid […]