I honestly don’t know much about Fernanda Alegre, or women’s boxing in general but she’s the women’s light welterweight champion and she’s from Argentina Women’s Boxing Archive Network has her ranked seventh in Jr Welterweight division, BoxRec has her tied for the first place ranking so who knows.
I imagine getting a consensus is rather difficult in the world of female boxing. Either way she’s a champion and I’ll post the fight with a thanks to BOXFEM on youtube:
According to Irish-boxing.com Sebastian Contursi from Maidana’s camp lashed out at promoter Eddie Hearn because Maidana wouldn’t go to the UK to fight up and comer Kell Brook.
The problem according to Contursi was that they simply didn’t offer enough money. That’s just business, it’s not like Maidana doesn’t have plenty of people to fight here in the US, especially being the kind of fighter that doesn’t mind fighting in his opponent’s home town.
It would have been a good fight for Kell Brook, but then again Maidana is a good fight for everyone, he’s beatable and he’s an exciting name and almost always an exciting fight.
This is simply the business side of boxing. It happens, eventually Brook will have to come to the states to fight, Amir Khan had to come to that point and has found some success. Kell won’t be able to sit over there in Europe and fight ham and egger constantly, like German fighters seem to do, if he really wants to develop and become a true pound for pound ranked fighter he’ll have to come stateside.
Marcos Maidana has just come off a terrible showing against Devon Alexander and could use a win against someone like Kell Brook, but if the money is not there: it just isn’t. Maidana isn’t even a very smart fighter so I doubt he’s a CPA, so the money decisions go to others, it’s probably a good choice in that sense.
Maidana has a number of options for his next fight. Even though a lot of Jr Welterweights have left the division there are still many that would make an interesting fight against him. Olegsun and Danny Garcia would both be good fights, but they’re slated to fight each other. A rematch against Erik Morales in another option.
There’s also a small chance that we can see an all Argentina battle with Marcos Maidana fighting Lucas Matthysse, which would make this website explode with joy.
Fightnews.com is reporting that Polish Heavyweight contender and former Cruiserweight and Light Heavyweight champion Tomasz Adamek has signed on to fight Eddie Chambers on NBC Sport’s Network’s new boxing show “Fight Night”.
I would go to that link and read the interview, Tomasz Adamek is a good fan friendly fighter, which might be a stupid thing to be, but he is and that’s good for us. This is another well chosen fight for Adamek after his drubbing by Vitali Klitschko last September, meaning it’s against a decent fighter who deserves a high level fight but one that Tomasz shouldn’t have any real problem winning.
I expect him to make easy work of Chambers in what will be an entertaining fight, but after this Adamek should return to fighting top ten guys. I wouldn’t pout like a little girl if we got to see a rematch between him and Chris Arreola. If that doesn’t happen then anyone else who isn’t named Klitschko on this list would suffice throw the name Derrick Chisora on to that list too, if it’s true that he’s going to come to the United States to fight.
Until then get geared up for Adamek vs Chambers in Newark on June 16th.
Ring Magazine is reporting that Sergio Martinez has signed a deal that would give him the winner of the June 16 fight between Andy Lee and pseudo champion Julio Cesar Chavez.
The most interesting thing about all of this is that Sergio Martinez is clamoring for this fight and he’s the undisputed middleweight champion and clearly the best middleweight in all of boxing today.
Another interesting piece of information is that WBC Jose Sulaiman has already signed the contract. According to the article Sergio Martinez said:
“Now, the only thing is that I expect that Chavez Jr. and Andy Lee, Lou DiBella and Bob Arum to sign, because Jose Sulaiman and myself already have signed,” said Martinez, whose comments were translated by Lewkowicz.
“There must be six signatures for Chavez Jr. to fight for the title on June 16, or not to fight for the title. If not, then Jose Sulaiman has said that the WBC title will not be on the line on June 16 because they will take the title away.”
Who knows whether or not that’s true, what is important though is that Bob Arum hasn’t signed and refuses to until after “Holy Week” so basically don’t believe Martinez will be facing JJC Jr until you see them in the ring together.
There is a good chance that JJC Jr won’t even be able to get by Andy Lee, which will just lead us to the situation that Martinez was probably going to end up in anyway: Lou Dibella’s Andy Lee vs Lou Dibella’s Sergio Martinez. In a fight in which neither will make that much money.
My thoughts about this news are very simple:
1) Of course Martinez would sign this.
2) Jose Sulaiman’s signature on this is meaningless until Bob Arum’s signature is on this
3) On April 14th Martinez still won’t have his precious signatures, Arum will think of something else to keep JCC Jr from the knockout of The Sergio.
At this point Sergio Martinez has no fight scheduled for the summer, he is coming off an 11th round knock out of Mathew Macklin at Madison Square Garden. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr is slated to fight Andy Lee on June 16th in El Paso, Texas, where the judging is as questionable and Julio’s championship.
A man that is so smug he rivals the acting of the Model Rick Martel is caught cheating? Is he really that stupid? How moronic do you have to be, to be this guy?
By now everyone has heard that Alistair Overeem has tested for high testosterone levels and will likely not get a license to fight at UFC 146 against true UFC Heavyweight Champion Junior Dos Santos.
If you have not lost every ounce of respect possible for this man then you’re not a sport fan, you’re that guy who loves the blood sport that John McCain thinks MMA is. This is unacceptable, really how thickheaded and stupid is Mr. Overeem?
Anyway you can find all the latest news from the plethora of MMA sites out there, I’m just friggin’ annoyed. Fist On Chin will serve as your Overeem shit talking center, I’ll let everyone else report the news.
At least as far as I’m concerned Overeem has already been judged.
UFC 146 is still happening at the MGM in Las Vegas on May 26th, who knows who Junior Dos Santos will be fighting, the consensus seems to think it’ll be Frank Mir.
Ariel Helwani is reporting that UFC Welterweight contender Nick Diaz will be competing in a May super fight match at the World Jiu Jitsu Expo.
I think this is great news. I like it when fighters go back to their roots and compete in one of the components of mixed martial arts. I know it’s dangerous for the UFC, but it’s good for all the other combat sports when the athletes to switch it up a bit and test their mettle in a combat situation with specific rules.
I agree with the sentiment that you “can’t do both”. The best example is Roger Gracie admitting that he needs to focus completely on MMA and leave jiu jitsu behind. I think that’s right for a guy like Roger, but only because the other aspects of his game suck, aside from the ground. When you’re a well rounded mixed martial artist, I think it’s good for you to work a little and compete in specific martial arts, ask Ben Henderson
I will say that the best situation is the one that Diaz is in now, rather than worry about competing at the top level amongst guys who only train in the specific martial art in a tournament, an MMA guy should use his name recognition for a single super fight against someone interesting. This way the fighter and the fans get all the benefits and none of the BS that goes with losing.
Imagine if the best baseball player in the league was then put into a stealing base only tournament, well take Matt Kemp a decent base stealer (and one of the best overall in the league) would suddenly be put up against people like Michael Bourn who stole 61 bases last year. It would be better then if we had Matt Kemp in a stolen base competition against someone who’d make the competition more interesting. And that’s what WJJE has decided to do, which is the best of decisions.
Fist on Chin wishes Nick Diaz luck in grappling match and his future as a mixed martial artist.
Thanks to a youtube user named “AdamekVsAguileraHD” we can give you can watch the young Mateusz Masternak hopefully growing into an elite Cruiserweight boxer. If this fight shows anything though it’s that Masternak has a way to go. Here’s the first and second rounds, the rest are available on youtube at AdamekVsAguileraHD’s youtube page.
Round 2 after the jump.
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In a fight that should excite no one except for carnival lovers, Mmarocks.pl is reporting that Bob Sapp will be headlining against the guy who always headlines KSW cards Mariusz Pudzianowski.
Bob Sapp hasn’t been relevant in a decade and Pudzian hasn’t ever been relevant in mma. Really it’s an embarrassment to the sport, but guess who will be there covering all the action for KSW 19! Me, because apparently I hate myself.
The good news is that Mamed Khalidov will be on the card too. So let’s get excited! Whoooo!
KSW 19 will take place on May 12th in the city of Łódź in Poland (the city is roughly pronounced Wooj for my Polish pronunciation impaired readers).
After the jump we can all laugh as Bob Sapp makes a mockery of the great sport we call MMA.
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This weekend Polish fight fans were treated to one of their journeymen fighters and one of their young up and comers.
The journeyman fought a valiant battle that saw him get a point taken away in the middle rounds for no good reason and then judges score cards that looked like Abraham was behind some kind of dominating one sided fight. The young up and comer on the under card (even though the fight took place after the main event) looked mediocre at best against competition that came to fight but was no match for the young Polish fighter’s power.
Piotr Wilczewski coming off of a loss from another high level fighter James DeGale was supposed to be an Arthur Abraham stay busy fight, or at least something near to that. Wilczewski was a fighter who was supposed to be stopped by Abraham but showed the German crowd and decent sized Polish crowd that he wasn’t there to lose.
Fist on Chin had the bout in favor of Arthur Abraham 114-113 including the point taken away by the referee in Round 7. So without that questionable deduction this website would have had it as a draw. Most others in the media had Abraham winning by three or four rounds which is fine, I just didn’t give Abraham much credit for his late round flurries on Wilczewski’s arms.
German judges on the other hand were watching a different fight with their 118-109, 118-109, 119-108 in favor of Abraham. I’m not that angry about this, it was close enough that no one would be surprised the judges would score in favor of Abraham, so it’s not a robbery, but this is a little bit of an injustice that will be swept underneath the rug because the “right” guy still won. But Wilczewski, in reality looked good against Abraham and near his equal, which is a great compliment for veteran Piotr Wilczewski but an insult to Arthur Abraham.
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Not sure if they’re going to show the Masternak Romero fight. Looks like up next is a big test for Polish fighter Piotr Wilczewski against likely Super Middleweight challenger Arthur Abraham.
We’ll give the round by round as it happens, despite being disappointed that we may not be able to cover the Masternak fight.
Round 1 Pre-fight comments
Abraham comes in with a muted entrance, which is unlike him. But I guess not as a world champion he’s coming out with a little bit more humility.
Even though of course we root for the Poles and the Argentines here (most of the time) I like Abraham a lot. He’s one of the few German boxers who really did go fight the best in his division.
Yup I’m looking at you Sturm.
Fight is starting.
“Wilczewski is decent at everything and great at nothing.” Seems like a fair statement by DeGale. Most are looking for Abraham to stop Wilczewski, The Pole looking to surprise the boxing world.
The start like a lot of first rounds do, feeling each other out. Wilczewski seems to be doing the most feeling.
Abraham starts putting on the power, left himself open Wilczewski couldn’t capitalize.
Oh this fight won’t get beyond five round. Abraham getting some power shots in. Strong shot to the body. Wilczewski’s punches look like pillow shots compared to Abraham.
Abraham 10-9
Round 2
Abraham has the eyes of a winner. Wilczewski only has hope. As Abraham starts pounding the body with 5 punch combos you know this won’t go too too long.
Wilczewski trying to get through with a right hook, but Abraham defending well waiting for his chance to strike.
Abraham barely misses a shot that would have truly test Wilczewski’s chin. Abraham is looking like Gray Maynard does in the majority of his fights, just bullying.
Announcers thought Wilczewski would be a little more elusive. The Pole doesn’t agree with that strategy. I’ll give this one to Wilczewski for being for active despite Abraham getting more power in. Brits disagree.
Wilczewski 10-9
19-19 tie
Round 3
Despite me giving the last one to Wilczewski, Abraham looks and feels like he has control of this fight.
Abe’s strategy is to defend, box and get in his power shot. From the first two rounds he looking for openings to really flurry too.
Abraham missing the few punches he’s really gone after this round. There’s an Arthur flurry, maybe they’re not hurting Wilczewski as much as I thought.
Abraham telegraphing his big shots. The shots to the body seem to be landing better than the ones at the fight. I’m giving this to Wilczewski too.
Wilczewski 10-9
29-28 Wilczewski… it won’t last though
Round 4
Abraham covering up and Wilczewski not punching very hard. One of Abe’s power punches will eventually get through.
Abraham planning and piling the the body shots on. Wilczewski with a lot more throws but none seem all that important.
Abraham still telegraphing that right hand. Wilczewski seems to be okay with getting in his little punches, if Abraham doesn’t do something I’ll have to give Wilczewski this round too.
Wilczewski 10-9
39-37
