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As good as Mayer is, it's a shame that it's taken this long for her to get showcased. Time will tell where she goes from here; but the business has a long way to go still with women's boxing. Many of the women are already mid-30's by the time they get featured on a big stage, and there aren't really very many standouts other than Mayer and Marshall; but we're still nowhere near even legacy fights...

This was shades of Pacquiao vs. Clottey. Garcia won every round, arguably. What was frustrating is, just like Clottey against Manny, when Tagoe chose to throw, he was landing. But Tagoe simply refused to throw when he could have and was basically trying not to get knocked out.

Look, we think Fundora's a good kid. He clearly has the heart for the business. But as we said in the preview, his defense is just leaky. He looked great the vast majority of the fight, but he gets hit way too often for someone that tall. He doesn't have the speed necessary to avoid punishment, and someone with power that can get to him will hurt him badly. He's now mandatory for the Charlo/Castan...

Kudos to G for the decisive win and unifying the titles. However, he showed his age in this fight. He also showed that body work seems to now be a weakness, if someone is strong and aggressive enough to exploit it. Murata seemed to abandon the body work for some reason, possibly due to G's adjustment, but then Murata never re-adjusted to match. The stoppage looked weird from our eyes. Based on tha...

This is a VERY exciting weekend for #boxing, if you're a fan. We think that Lubin/Fundora is going to be the standout. Fundora is ether a star in the making or a flash in the pan - and Lubin will help show us what that answer is. "Big Drama Show" has to earn his third shot at Canelo, and we don't think it'll be as easy as others think. We believe Murata has a shot to upset G. Ryan Garcia SHOULD ha...

Very few fighters have delivered FOTY and FOTY candidates like Eggington did. The demise of HBO has caused a loss of ability to see some of these guys unless they were in with a top tier opponent. Eggington never got to the pinnacle of world championship gold, but almost every fight he was in, delivered to the fullest extent. We're understood that he retired in the end of 2021. If that's not true...

Savannah did what we think she needed to do - which was make a statement. Hermans had not been stopped up until now, as a former champion, and Shields was taken the full distance by her. Marshall's power in both hands is legit, and Shields has basically zero power. Her only chance from our perspective is to stay away from that power; but Marshall seems to be able to just walk opponents down at wil...

We saw one source that claimed this fight was on the 10th, but every other source says tomorrow, so we're not sure. May or may not happen. Either way, it's one of the big fights of 2022, bar none. Sandor Martin (known for beating Mikey Garcia) returns against a soft touch. The other fights are regional.

Keef 'At One Time' Thurman perfected the art of the "Get Back" fights. Fights against guys you're supposed to beat. Keef did it. Danny Swift did it. Crawford did it (a lot). But with Lomachenko, for example, he consistently fought threats. Teofimo fought one or two threats, then leaped to Loma and beat him. Teofimo then fought nobody before losing to Kambosos. The A-Side can CHOOSE whether to figh...

Kambosos is the perfect A-Side, stringing Haney along nicely especially given Haney's dad playing games about going to Australia. But according to major outlets, the contracts were completed in Melbourne, and we're ready to go (assuming Devin or his dad doesn't back out). Early prediction: we suspect a controversial draw if Devin doesn't step up and actively work to knock out or stop Kambosos.

Fight happened on a strange day, but yeah, that happened. With Menayothin, certain places online were hyping him on after he had surpassed Floyd's record of 50-0. Menayothin would retire at 54-0, but then someone convinced him to come back (probably Golden Boy), and he would take a loss to Freshmart, thus restoring Floyd's record as the fighter to retire with the best undefeated record. This remat...

We can't say Tim got "exposed" specifically, but we did predict that this would not be an easy out. The question now, is whether Gausha was that good or that he had just been matched so well against guys he was able to blow out before. Time will tell with Tim. He got the decision and looked otherwise good, but it was widely expected that this would not be a struggle for him.

That was unexpected. Completely unexpected. We're not really sure what happened there. Nakathila looked elite. He shouldn't have. Decent fighter, but never has shown anything above a basic pedigree. The Oscar Valdez fight took something from Berchelt. We think his team needs to rethink the matching.

We've got quite a few fights - mostly international. To us, the one that's worth the price of admission is Tim Tszyu vs. Terrell Gausha. This fight has the potential to be similar to Naseem Hamed vs. Kevin Kelly. Same origin countries, same rise on both sides and same test for the UK fighter making his US pro debut.

For someone who started way late, Jeff Horn had a hell of a career. A win over a legend. One of a select few to beat that legend, of which all but one are certified future or current Hall of Famers. A former world champion. Key to the City of Brisbane. Featured in worldwide news. No matter what you think, he is and was a warrior in the ring, and worked hard to give the fans what they wanted - even...

Hopefully it's clear now why we've called him Bumlanga. It's not because he's a bum. It's because he's a bum beater. Steve Rolls was not supposed to make this guy look basic - but he did. That's a symptom of Bumlanga being excessively protected and only fighting C-levels. Highlight of the night was Tim Bradley calling him the "Phony One".

Because Rocha has NEVER performed like that before. Ever. Not that good. It also seemed like Cobbs' strategy was flawed from the get-go. Either way, kudos to Rocha for pulling it out the way he did and getting the exposure he deserves for it. And this was a fight WELL WORTH watching (which is good because rest weren't that good). We expect Cobbs to rebuild and readjust - hopefully with a new train...

Blair 'The Flair' Cobbs is getting his chance to prove he's the star that he presents himself to be, after an unfortunate finding with Vergil Ortiz forced Ortiz to withdraw from his scheduled match against McKinsson. Alexis Rocha will not be an easy opponent for him...but we suspect Cobbs knocks out or stops him. Either way, these two guys are not going to bore the fans once that bell rings. They...

As expected, these two guys didn't disappoint. If you didn't catch the fight we highly recommend it. Very similar to Cheeseman/Eggington. Conlan has nothing to be ashamed of. He put up a good showing and sounds like he's okay after the knockout. Both guys should go on to great things in the future. #ConlanWood #WoodConlan #Boxing #DAZN

Choco looked stylistically good. But he was in there against a guy with weight issues, hand issues and apparent stamina problems - and STILL couldn't get him out of there. So Martinez will not join the Flyweight kings. We'll just say this: Keep Choco the HELL away from Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, especially if Srisaket goes back to eating grilled rat and training in jungles. Estrada? That rubber match...

The return of Chocolatito is going to be the more exciting fight - but we expect Pedraza and Ramirez to have a good showing. We're not really excited for Ramirez/Pedraza because we already have answers for those guys. We don't have answers for Choco. We also talk about Eubank Jr., Benn, Brook, Spence, Ugas and Crawford, among others to come in the 2nd quarter of 2022.

Some felt it was a premature stoppage. However you cut it, slice it or weigh it, Russell got it done. Russell is a solid fighter that is still developing. Time will tell where he goes from here. For Postol, well wishes to his family.

Well...we told you this was a likely outcome. Happens every time these fighters talk about other fights and lose focus on the hungry opponent in front of them. This one was arguably worse than Teo taking an L to 'CM Punk' Kambosos though. Many felt that Taylor came off like a B-level fighter rather than the P4P he's been called multiple times. At least Teo was mostly in the fight - it can be argue...

The Ukraine situation is problematic all around. Just learned that Usyk is also back out there. Tomorrow's lineup should be exciting, but never forget that some of these guys are real warriors and not just feuding on Twitter.

Took him less time than we predicted, but we figured that'd be the outcome just based on styles. Khan seemed completely unprepared for Brook's timing, despite (as expected) looking halfway decent early on. Clearly, his punch resistance is completely gone, and it's even worse that Crawford couldn't spark Khan off the chin and had to toss a low blow to get him out of there. Regardless, Brook is basi...