The Cruelest Sport http://thecruelestsport.com A Professional Boxing blog Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:13:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 AFTERMATH: Stevenson-Gonzales, Williams-Ishida, Dulorme-Ambriz, Gonzalez-Lyell http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/21/aftermath-stevenson-gonzales-williams-ishida-dulorme-ambriz-gonzalez-lyell/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/21/aftermath-stevenson-gonzales-williams-ishida-dulorme-ambriz-gonzalez-lyell/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:40:34 +0000 Carlos Acevedo http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=4706 **** Powerpunching Adonis Stevenson brutally knocked out Jesus Gonzales in a single heat at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Saturday night. What happened to Gonzales was bloodcurdling and it surely brings an end to his tattered dreams after years away from the ring. When Gonzales hit the deck after taking a crushing left, it looked like he had stepped on the third rail somewhere. Referee Marlon Wright stopped his count when he saw Gonzales twitching and called for the ringside physicians. Despite his pre-fight “pimp” talk, Gonzales, now 27-2 (14), is a genuine good guy, one trampled [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/21/aftermath-stevenson-gonzales-williams-ishida-dulorme-ambriz-gonzalez-lyell/feed/ 0 Mañana en la batalla: Arreola y los pesos pesados de México, Campillo engañado de nuevo por los jueces http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/20/manana-en-la-batalla-arreola-y-los-pesos-pesados-de-mexico-campillo-enganado-por-los-jueces-de-nuevo/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/20/manana-en-la-batalla-arreola-y-los-pesos-pesados-de-mexico-campillo-enganado-por-los-jueces-de-nuevo/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:33:47 +0000 Mauricio Salvador http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=4704 **** La introducción de una nueva columna sobre el deporte mas cruel–y mas surreal–en el mundo hispano. Si México quisiera llamar a uno de los suyos “campeón de los pesos pesados” no hay mejor momento que este para proponer a un retador por el cinturón del Consejo Mundial de la Salud. Y si tenemos en cuenta que el 70% del país sufre algún tipo de sobrepeso, es bastante curioso que las peleas de pesos grandes que se llevaron a cabo este fin de semana hayan tenido tan pobre atención en este lado de la frontera. Como bien se sabe, en [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/20/manana-en-la-batalla-arreola-y-los-pesos-pesados-de-mexico-campillo-enganado-por-los-jueces-de-nuevo/feed/ 0 NO CLASS: Vitali Klitschko W12 Dereck Chisora http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/18/no-class-vitali-klitschko-w12-dereck-chisora/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/18/no-class-vitali-klitschko-w12-dereck-chisora/#comments Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:38:53 +0000 Carlos Acevedo http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=4701 **** Vitali Klitschko successfully defended his McFit heavyweight championship of the world against limited but plucky Dereck Chisora with a unanimous 12-round decision at the Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany. Final scores were 118-110, 119-111, 118-110. It was a relatively easy win for Klitschko despite what Twitter hounds all over the world feign in order, as always, to prove their sham omniscience. As far as heavyweight bouts go, however, this was a fairly entertaining scrap, although the outcome was never really in doubt. … [visit site to read more]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/18/no-class-vitali-klitschko-w12-dereck-chisora/feed/ 0 On the Grind: Tavoris Cloud-Gabriel Campillo Preview http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/18/on-the-grind-tavoris-cloud-gabriel-campillo-preview/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/18/on-the-grind-tavoris-cloud-gabriel-campillo-preview/#comments Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:01:28 +0000 Michael Nelson http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=4698 **** Tavoris Cloud defends his IBF light heavyweight title against Gabriel Campillo tonight at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas. As par for the course for Cloud, it’s been a while. Cloud, 23-0 with 19 KOs, is a fan-friendly puncher who has thus far had a career plagued by setbacks and stints of inactivity. He had two fights in 2008, one fight in 2009, another two in 2010, and again, only one bout last year. That doesn’t quite describe a bullet train towards big money bouts, but questionable decisions, promotional conflicts, plus bad luck, such as Zsolt Erdei [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/18/on-the-grind-tavoris-cloud-gabriel-campillo-preview/feed/ 0 Geezers Need Excitement: Vitali Klitschko-Dereck Chisora Preview http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/17/geezers-need-excitement-vitali-klitschko-dereck-chisora-preview/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/17/geezers-need-excitement-vitali-klitschko-dereck-chisora-preview/#comments Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:53:15 +0000 Carlos Acevedo http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=4696 **** Vitali Klitschko returns to the ring tomorrow night when he prepares to spank the latest l’enfant terrible—or is just “terrible” enough?—of British heavyweights, Dereck Chisora, over a scheduled 12 at the Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany. There must be something in the water in the United Kingdom that makes fighters so obnoxious. Certainly Chisora, only 17 fights into his career, has given more than enough evidence of being the only passenger on his own personal Crazy Train. Over the last couple of years, he has bitten a fighter in the ring, kissed one at a weigh-in, and has been found [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/10/dempsey-speaks-2/feed/ 0 AFTERMATH: Donaire-Vazquez Jr., Chavez, Jr.-Rubio, Hernandez-Cunningham, Gutknecht-Uzelkov http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/07/aftermath-donaire-vazquez-jr-chavez-jr-rubio-hernandez-cunningham-gutknecht-uzelkov/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/07/aftermath-donaire-vazquez-jr-chavez-jr-rubio-hernandez-cunningham-gutknecht-uzelkov/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:19:22 +0000 Carlos Acevedo http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=4690 image: chris farina/top rank **** Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. pounded out a unanimous decision over game but outgunned Marco Antonio Rubio at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. Chavez Jr., now 45-0-1-1(31) has so obsessed fringe media members and their doppelgangers—forum beasts—that there is almost no point in bothering to read anything about him any longer. Over the last few days, it has been insinuated that Chavez took PEDs or diuretics, that Rubio tanked it, that Chavez “ducked” a post-fight drug test, and that there is a vast conspiracy involving the WBC and the Texas athletic commission to make sure [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/07/aftermath-donaire-vazquez-jr-chavez-jr-rubio-hernandez-cunningham-gutknecht-uzelkov/feed/ 0 Un incierto albacea: Julio César Chávez Jr. W12 Marco Antonio Rubio http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/06/un-incierto-albacea-julio-cesar-chavez-jr-w12-marco-antonio-rubio/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/06/un-incierto-albacea-julio-cesar-chavez-jr-w12-marco-antonio-rubio/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:26:17 +0000 Mauricio Salvador http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=4685 **** Este sábado 4 de febrero, en el Alamodome de San Antonio, Texas, Julio César Chávez Jr. superó lo que muchos calificaron como su máxima prueba al derrotar a Marco Antonio Rubio vía decisión unánime. Que Chávez Jr. se haya visto contra su “máxima prueba” quizá no sea culpa suya sino de las hipérboles que han marcado su carrera y cada uno de sus hitos. En su pelea anterior derrotó convincentemente a Peter Manfredo provocando que los comentaristas anunciaran la llegada de un nuevo Chávez Jr., un mutante que habría añadido a su boxeo más trucos y movimientos que 007. [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/06/un-incierto-albacea-julio-cesar-chavez-jr-w12-marco-antonio-rubio/feed/ 0 BAD COMPANY: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.-Marco Antonio Rubio Preview http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/04/bad-company-julio-cesar-chavez-jr-marco-antonio-rubio-preview/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/04/bad-company-julio-cesar-chavez-jr-marco-antonio-rubio-preview/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:17:18 +0000 Carlos Acevedo http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=4683 **** Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., AKA “The Thing That Should Not Be,” returns to San Antonio tonight, perhaps in a stretch limo, to face veteran powerpuncher Marco Antonio Rubio in a scheduled 12 at the Alamodome for the UNICEF middleweight championship of the world. Since his disastrous no-contest against Troy Rowland in 2009—as boring as an Andre Ward bout, perhaps—Chavez has delivered nothing but the goods in his last four starts, including shootouts against John Duddy and Sebastian Zbik. Despite his honest efforts in the ring, however, Chavez continues to suffer the barbs of fantasists all over the world who [...]

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]]> http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/04/bad-company-julio-cesar-chavez-jr-marco-antonio-rubio-preview/feed/ 12 Hard Sell: Nonito Donaire-Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. Preview http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/03/hard-sell-nonito-donaire-wilfredo-vazquez-jr-preview/ http://thecruelestsport.com/2012/02/03/hard-sell-nonito-donaire-wilfredo-vazquez-jr-preview/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:21:20 +0000 Michael Nelson http://thecruelestsport.com/?p=4681 Tomorrow night at the Almamodome in San Antonio, Texas, Nonito Donaire, 27-1, dips his toe into the junior featherweight division when he faces Puerto Rican banger Wilfredo Vazquez. Jr. Donaire looks to bounce back from an uninspiring unanimous decision over Omar Andres Narvaez three and a half months ago, while Vazquez Jr., 27-1 with 18 KOs, hopes to come back from a knockout loss he suffered at the hands of Jorge Arce last May. … [visit site to read more]

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