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Trump Signs Posthumous Pardon For Former HW Champ- Jack Johnson.



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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/sports/jack-johnson-pardon-trump.html
 
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Naoya Inoue blasted Jamie McDonnell today in the first round to win the WBA "Regular" Bantamweight championship. Inoue picks up a world title in a third weight class, and moves his record to 16-0-0 with 14 KOs at just 25 years old.

Inoue also confirmed that he would enter the World Boxing Super Series Bantamweight tournament today. It's going to be an 8 man tournament and it will include (so far):
WBA "Regular" Champion Naoya Inoue
WBA "Super" Champion Ryan Burnett
WBO Champion Zolani Tete
IBF Champion Emmanuel Rodriguez

The WBC, Ring, and lineal belts are vacant so we should come out of this with an undisputed champion as long as nobody gets hurt and there are no draws/PED suspensions. Not sure if the IBO champion will be in the tournament or not but it doesn't really matter if someone unifies all the other titles.
 
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Anthony Joshua checks under his bed for Deontay Wilder before Eddie Hearn tucks him in at night
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Got some big fights next weekend

June 8
ESPN 2
Diego De La Hoya vs. Jose Salgado, 10 rounds, junior featherweights

CBS Sports Network
Mike Lee vs Jose Hernandez, 10 rounds, light heavyweights

June 9
ESPN+
Jeff Horn vs. Terence Crawford, 12 rounds, for Horn's WBO welterweight title
Jose Pedraza vs. Antonio Moran, 10 rounds, lightweights
Jose Benavidez vs. Frank Rojas, 10 rounds, welterweights
Maxim Dadashev vs. Darleys Perez, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
Shakur Stevenson vs. Aelio Mesquia, 8 rounds, featherweights

Showtime
Leo Santa Cruz vs. Abner Mares, rematch, 12 rounds, for Santa Cruz's WBA "super" featherweight title
Jermell Charlo vs. Austin Trout, 12 rounds, for Charlo's WBC junior middleweight title

UK TV:
Tyson Fury vs. Sefer Seferi, 10 rounds, heavyweights
Terry Flanagan vs. Maurice Hooker, 12 rounds, for vacant WBO junior welterweight title

Tyson Fury returns to fight a bum, Terence Crawford gonna destroy Jeff Horn and take that belt he stole from Pacquiao, Charlo defends his belt, Santa Cruz vs Mares rematch.
 
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I'm still pissed at Mares for those 60+ or whatever low blows against that guy. Ever since that, I wanted the worst to happen to Mares.
 
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I hope one of these bums Tyson Fury is lining up for himself knocks him out. It would be so hilarious.

He's coming off a 2.5 year layoff and a PED suspension to fight a 40 year old cruiserweight that has only fought 3 fighters with more wins than losses in his career. And Fury still has the gall to claim he's the lineal champion.
 
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Billy Joe Saunders has pulled out of his upcoming WBO middleweight title defense with an "injury"

Speculation is that he's setting up a fight with Golovkin or Canelo instead, and Saunders considers the Murray fight too big of a risk.

Sounds like Golovkin vs Canelo II talks are breaking down and one of the two is looking for the next biggest fight available.

So either

Golovkin and Saunders unify the WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, WBO, IBO, and vacant lineal titles while Canelo defends the Ring title against a bitch like Spike O'Sullivan

or

Canelo and Saunders unify the WBO and Ring belts while Golovkin takes care of a mandatory defense (would be either Charlo or Derevyanchenko)

Either situation probably sets up Canelo vs GGG II for all the marbles next May.
 
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Luis Ortiz vs Dillian Whyte is happening in the UK on July 28. Two of the top ranked heavyweights in the world.

Both are ranked in the top 5 or 6 by most.

Personally, I think Ortiz has a massive skill advantage in this fight. I see him knocking Whyte out in the middle rounds. Whyte has KO power, but it took Wilder 10 rounds to get Ortiz out of there. I don't think he can do it.

Whyte's stats:
23-1-0-0, 17 KOs
Best wins: Lucas Browne KO6
Loss: KO7 vs Anthony Joshua

Ortiz's stats:
28-1-0-2, 24 KOs, the 2 no-contests were originally KO wins but were changed. One when Ortiz tested positive, one when the opponent fell out of the ring.
Best wins: Bryant Jennings TKO7, Malik Scott UD12
Loss: TKO10 vs Wilder

They have 1 common opponent: David Allen. Ortiz won by TKO in 7, Whyte won by UD in 10
 
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The IBF has stripped Golovkin of its middleweight title for failing to make a fight with mandatory challenger Sergiy Derevyanchenko. They wanted him to make that fight instead of the Martriyosan fight. I understand what the IBF is saying, but technically it wasn't their turn to even enforce a mandatory defense; it was the WBC's turn.

So it looks like it will be Derevyanchenko vs Jacobs or Charlo for the IBF title.

Meanwhile, GGG better land the Canelo or Saunders fight or he comes out of this minus one belt.

One more step away from being undisputed. Disappointing.
 
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Too much speculation in this sport damn. Too much intromission from authorities too.
 
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Dillian Whyte changed his mind. He will fight Joseph Parker instead of Luis Ortiz.

He will still lose, but Parker is much less likely to brutally knock him out.
 
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How to watch the fights tomorrow for 'mericans

Tyson Fury vs. Sefer Seferi, 10 rounds, heavyweights
Terry Flanagan vs. Maurice Hooker, 12 rounds, for vacant WBO junior welterweight title

These two are free on Youtube starting at 4:30 PM Eastern:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHwDjIhsBfE

Horn/Crawford undercard is on ESPN+ starting at 6:30 PM Eastern
Jose Benavidez vs. Frank Rojas, 10 rounds, welterweights
Maxim Dadashev vs. Darleys Perez, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
Shakur Stevenson vs. Aelio Mesquia, 8 rounds, featherweights
Steve Nelson vs. Dashon Webster, 6 rounds, light heavyweights
Gabriel Flores Jr. vs. Dustin Southichack, 6 rounds, featherweights
David Kaminsky vs. Trevor Lavin, 6 rounds, junior middleweights

Main card on ESPN+, starting at 9:30 PM Eastern:
Jeff Horn vs. Terence Crawford, 12 rounds, for Horn's WBO welterweight title
Jose Pedraza vs. Antonio Moran, 10 rounds, lightweights

Showtime card starting at 10:00 PM Eastern:
Leo Santa Cruz vs. Abner Mares, rematch, 12 rounds, for Santa Cruz's WBA "super" featherweight title
Jermell Charlo vs. Austin Trout, 12 rounds, for Charlo's WBC junior middleweight title

And there are the two smaller cards on CBS Sports Network and ESPN tonight as well.
 
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Fury vs Seferi was a fucking joke. Looked like a dad giving boxing lessons to his twelve year old.

Hooker vs Flanagan was a bloody war, though. I thought Hooker won comfortably but he ended up getting a SD win; they really tried hard to gift Flanagan the hometown victory.
 
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Fury is a walking circus. Complete farce.

Saw the Crawford Horn fight. Horn looks like nothing more than just a come forward, face-first journeyman with a good chin and durability. He was taught a lesson by the "smaller" man.

Also caught a bit of the Jermell Charlo Austin Trout bout. This was an interesting one. Take away the two knockdowns (the 2nd knockdown was a shot to the back of the head) and Trout just might have done enough for a draw or even a razor thin decision.
 
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Santa Cruz vs Mares II was good. Need Santa Cruz vs Gary Russell Jr please.

Horn looked okayish for a few rounds but he was simply massively out-skilled. He's a tough son of a bitch but Crawford is just on a different level.

Charlo didn't quite look as impressive as his last few bouts but it was a solid win.
 
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Fury "fight" was an absolute joke, i really can't wear the guy, the fella he was in with was embarrassingly bad.
I'd have rathered the camera's been on the fight in the crowd, would have been more entertaining, there was a nice little brawl going on at ringside during the second round.


Classy fan's this guy has, fucking idiots.
 
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Not a boxing aficionado by any means but Fury can fuck right off. Possibly the shittest fight I have ever seen, imagine buying tickets to watch that shower of shit. I thought I had massive tits until I saw Fury's milky swingers in the ring. It was all a big joke to him, never seen such unprofessionalism. The sooner that human garbage get's clattered the sooner he can go back to cutting hedges and tarmacing roads where he belongs.
 
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Wilder just said he has agreed to fight Joshua in the UK, and also says the option to fight in the US with Joshua being guaranteed the 50 million dollars is still on the table.

Ball's in Joshua's court.

The optics of this are going to be really bad if Joshua's camp doesn't take the fight. Hearn tried to swindle the public into thinking Wilder didn't want the fight, offering terms he didn't think Wilder would take so he could later accuse him of ducking. But Wilder just keeps saying yes, and Hearn just keeps moving the goal posts. The only thing Wilder turned down was the initial lowball of 12.5 million dollars and no revenue split.

Joshua and Hearn: Give us 50 million dollars and we'll make the fight
Wilder: Okay
Joshua and Hearn: Actually, we don't care about the money. You have to come to the UK.
Wilder: Okay
Joshua and Hearn: ... fuck

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Wilder's team has agreed to all of the terms of Joshua's team's most recent offer.

Literally all that is holding it up now is Joshua/Hearn saying "yes"

Wilder backed them into a corner. Take the fucking fight.

Wilder has agreed to let Joshua set the location, the date, and has agreed to give Joshua a rematch if he wins
 
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Looks like the fight is on. Eddie Hearn said he would send the contract. Wilder smoked him out.

Joshua's WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO Heavyweight Titles
Wilder's WBC Heavyweight Title
The vacant lineal and Ring Titles

All in one shot.

Just need to see the contracts are signed and give us the fight date.
 
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The Ring flip-flopped again and stripped Canelo of his middleweight title for his PED suspension.

Current state of the middleweight title
Golovkin: WBA (Super), WBC, IBO
Saunders: WBO
Vacant: IBF, lineal, Ring
 
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Famicommander said:
The Ring flip-flopped again and stripped Canelo of his middleweight title for his PED suspension.

Current state of the middleweight title
Golovkin: WBA (Super), WBC, IBO
Saunders: WBO
Vacant: IBF, lineal, Ring
Click to expand...

They flip-flopped AGAIN and have now awarded the Ring middleweight title to Golovkin. This is because with Canelo out of the rankings, they have GGG-Jacobs at 1-2 and GGG beat Jacobs.

So now Canelo has no titles and Golovkin is back up to 4.
 
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