Boxnation's unbeatable action packed line-up

[WelshDevilRob]

Boxnation's unbeatable action packed line-up

 

BoxNation (Sky Ch. 437/Virgin Ch. 546) kicks off its second season with a sensational line-up featuring the best domestic and international action all live and exclusive on the Undisputed Home of TV Boxing.

 

 

 

To the end of October, the action-packed schedule sees a staggering 12 world title fights - which is unrivaled on any other TV channel - with even more fights to be added.

 

 

 

It starts tomorrow (Saturday 25th August) LIVE from the O2 World Arena in Berlin for the highly anticipated showdown between WBO World Super-Middleweight Champion Robert Stieglitz and challenger Arthur Abraham. It’s make or break for Abraham, the heavy handed former IBF World Middleweight Champion, who’s had a succession of tough fights since stepping up a weight division and is making a second world title attempt at 168lbs. He faces a tough test against the classy Russian born Stieglitz who’s made seven successful defences of the title so far. The fight has extra significance with British and Commonwealth Champion George Groves looking to get in with the winner.

 

The following week (Saturday 1st September) it’s back to Germany LIVE from the Koenig Pilsener Arena in Oberhausen for a huge unification showdown in the middleweight division with long-time WBA World Champion Felix Sturm putting his crown on the line against tough Australian Daniel Geale who holds the IBF World title.

 

Queensberry Promotions’ exciting series BoxAcademy returns for a new season on Friday 7th September LIVE from the home of London boxing the York Hall, Bethnal Green, with Tony Conquest and Ian Tims challenging for the Vacant WBO International Cruiserweight Championship, also featuring star prospects Joe Selkirk, Joey Taylor and Tom Baker.

 

The next night (Saturday 8th September) it’s LIVE from the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas for a potentially explosive face-off between IBF World Welterweight Champion Randall Bailey and former WBC/IBF World Champion Devon Alexander. With 16 years in the sport, Bailey still has the KO punch. In his last fight he scored a sensational one-punch knockout of Mike Jones to win the title, but in his way is a man used to facing and beating big-punchers. Alexander mastered heavy-handed Argentinians Marcos Maidana and Lucas Matthysse and is now gunning to become a two-weight champion. Matthysse also features as chief-support on the card and takes on the former Commonwealth champion Ajose Olusegun with the WBC Interim Light-Welterweight championship on the line.

 

Exciting talent Billy Joe Saunders kicks off a triple-header weekend. The Commonwealth Middleweight Champion returns to action on Friday 14th September LIVE at the York Hall in a battle of the unbeaten punchers when he tackles dangerous Australian challenger Jarrod Fletcher. Also on the card is the hot super-middleweight prospect Frank Buglioni plus some of Britain’s brightest talents.

 

The following night (Saturday 15th September) it’s a LIVE double-header from two continents starting at the Stechert Arena in Bayern, Germany, with Yoan Pablo Hernandez’s IBF World Cruiserweight title against Troy Ross. Big-hitting Hernandez scored two memorable wins over Steve Cunningham - a controversial technical decision followed by a tough points win, both seen on BoxNation - and dropping him in both fights. Ross won the US reality TV hit series The Contender in 2009 and will give Hernandez a tough test.

 

Then it’s LIVE to the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, for a fistic Mexican Independence Day holiday weekend for a massive show. One of world boxing's hottest young stars Saul Alvarez takes on Josesitio Lopez in a potential thriller. At only 21, Mexican ace Alvarez is unbeaten in 41 fights with 29 going early and has excited fans with his all-action, hard-hitting, performances. He faces a stern test against Lopez who scored a huge upset when he smashed Victor Ortiz in June to make his name on the world stage. Also on the card, dynamite-punching Mexican hero Jhonny Gonzalez, one-time ruler of the bantamweight division, defends his WBC World Featherweight Championship against another iron-fisted warrior in Daniel Ponce De Leon. Between them they have an incredible 106 fights with 80 big knockouts. A further world title fight sees IBF World Bantamweight Champion Leo Santa Cruz defend his title against Erik Morel and Maidana on the world title comeback trail. It’s going to be an explosive night.

 

The Auld rivalry reignites on Saturday 22nd September at Glasgow’s SECC between WBO World Lightweight Champion Ricky Burns and Kevin Mitchell in a gigantic Battle of Britain LIVE. Scottish star Burns, a two-time and two-weight world champion, meets English rival Mitchell in one of the most highly anticipated fights in recent years. All-action Burns has been involved in thrillers against Roman Martinez and Michael Katsidis, but Mitchell will be his biggest challenge yet. The tough heavy-handed Londoner has been gunning for a fight with Burns for the last few years and he's looking to pull off a major upset in the champion’s home city. The undercard also features Celtic Super-Featherweight Champion John Simpson plus former two-time WBO World Featherweight Champion Scott Harrison.

 

The heavyweights are back in action on BoxNation. WBA World Heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin and former WBC World Champion Hasim Rahman collide at the Sporthalle in Hamburg LIVE on Saturday 29th September. Russian star Povetkin is aiming for a showdown with the all-conquering Klitschko brothers and a dominant showing against Rahman will line him up for one of them.

 

Next up is BoxNation’s newest British star. The hammer-fisted unbeaten heavyweight talent David Price puts his British and Commonwealth titles on the line against Audley Harrision LIVE from the Liverpool Echo Arena on Saturday 13th October. It’s also a battle of the Olympians with Price winning Bronze in Beijing and Harrison claiming Gold in Sydney. Liverpool giant Price has stopped 11 out of 13 early with his last last seven fights all ending by knockout, but Harrison is making a final stand in his career and is looking to upset the young star. A quality packed card features a further three British title fights in a big night of action.

 

The man who destroyed Amir Khan is coming to BoxNation. Danny Garcia took Khan’s WBC/WBA Super World Light-Welterweight titles with a devastating performance last month and now defends the titles against Mexican legend Erik Morales LIVE from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on Saturday 20th October. A further world title on the card sees new WBA World Welterweight Champion Paul Malignaggi - who BoxNation viewers’ saw cause an unbelievable upset when he stopped Vyacheslav Senchenko in nine rounds to take his world title in the Ukrainian’s backyard in May - makes the first title defence against hard-hitting Pablo Cesar Cano.

 

The action switches LIVE the following week to the CSKA Stadium in Moscow, Russia, on Saturday 27th October where hero Denis Lebedev takes on Guillermo Jones for his WBA World Cruiserweight title. Jones has won his last two title defences by KO, but equally iron-fisted Russian challenger Lebedev will have something to say about it in this potential thriller.

 

 

A date will shortly be announced for one of Britain’s most exciting fighter’s Nathan Cleverly who returns to his home city of Cardiff in October to defend his WBO World Light-Heavyweight title.

 

 

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[iamasadlittleboy]

To the end of October, the action-packed schedule sees a staggering 12 world title fights - which is unrivaled on any other TV channel - with even more fights to be added.

 

That's great and all that but...there is a huge number of world title fights in September alone. Between now and the end of October we have:

 

(25/8) Robert Stieglitz v Arthur Abraham (WBO S.M)

 

(1/9) Felix Sturm v Daniel Geale (WBA "super" IBF Mid, unification)

Nkosinathi Joyi v Mario Rodriguez (IBF Mini)

Moruti Mthalane v Ricardo Nunez (IBF Fly)

Gennady Golovkin v Grzegorz Proksa (WBA Mid)

Tepparith Kokietgym v Nobuo Nashiro (WBA Super Fly)

 

(8/9) Randall Bailey v Devon Alexander (IBF Welt)

Lucas Martin Matthysse v Ajose Olusegun (WBC "interim" Light Welter)

Andre Ward v Chad Dawson (WBA "super" and WBC Super Mid)

Brian Viloria v Hernan Marquez (WBA "super" and WBO Fly, unification)

Antonio DeMarco v John Molina (WBC Light)

Vitali Klitschko v Manuel Charr (WBC Heavy)

 

(15/9) Yoan Pablo Hernandez v Troy Ross (IBF Cruiser)

Saul Alvarez v Josesito Lopez (WBC Light Mid)

Jhonny Gonzalez v Daniel Ponce de Leon (WBC Feather)

Leo Santa Cruz v Eric Morel (IBF Bantam)

Julio Cesar Chavez v Sergio Gabriel Martinez (WBC Mid)

Roman Martinez v Miguel Beltran Jr (WBO Super Feather)

 

(22/9) Diego Gabriel Chaves v Jose Miranda (WBA "interim" Welter)

Liborio Solis v David Sanchez (WBA "interim" Super Fly)

Krzysztof Wlodarczyk v Francisco Palacios 2 (WBC Cruiser)

Ricky Burns v Kevin Mitchell (WBO Light)

 

(29/9) Roman Gonzalez v TBA (WBA Light Fly)

Alexander Povetkin v Hasim Rahman (WBA Heavy)

 

(6/10) Kompayak Porpramook v Adrian Hernandez II (WBC Light Fly)

Moises Fuentes v Ivan Calderon (WBO Fly)

 

(13/10) Nonito Donaire v Toshiaki Nishioka (IBF and WBA "super" Super Bantam unification)

Abner Mares v Anselmo Moreno (WBC Super Bantam)-Rumour is that this will be put back

Zaurbek Baysangurov v Lukas Konecny (WBO Light Middle)

 

(17/10) Omar Andres Narvaez v TBA (WBO Super Fly)

 

(20/10) Danny Garcia v Erik Morales 2 (WBC and WBA "super" Light Welter)

Paul Malignaggi v Pablo Cesar Cano (WBA Welter)

AJ Banal v Pungluang Sor Singyu (WBO Bantam)

 

(27/10) Guillermo Jones v Denis Lebedev (WBA Cruiser)

Xiong Zhao Zhong v Javier Martinez Resendiz (WBC "interim" Mini)

Takahiro Ao v Gamaliel Diaz (WBC Super Feather)

 

(Bold indicates they are listed or inferred on the Boxnation website)

 

So in total thats 36 wold title bouts...well done on showing only a handful of the world title fights in that period. Even if we take out the ones that are likely to change (the Gonzalez, Narvaez and Mares/Moreno bouts) we still have over 30 titles bouts.

 

Don't get me wrong they have got some good ones (Geale v Sturm, Gonzalez v de Leon, Hernandez v Ross, Burns v Mitchell) but they are missing some absolute crackers (Viloria v Marquez has FOTY written all over it, Porpramook v Hernandez I was a FOTY contender last year, Ward v Dawson-major fight even if excitement isn't likely...)

 

Well done on securing some of the world title fights, but don't try bragging about it when you're missing a number of major ones, especially after having an August to forget (despite again their being plenty of bouts for the hardcore fans).

[WelshDevilRob]

August was absolutely appalling - they didn't show anything though are showing the Abraham fight.

[gavpowell]

Am I the only one who really couldn't care less about Abraham v Stieglitz?

[iamasadlittleboy]

August was absolutely appalling - they didn't show anything though are showing the Abraham fight.

 

Which is a shame as the Salgado v Barros bout last weekend was very fun to watch, Rossel v Diaz was shown for free (thank you ATV) and a few weeks earlier John Riel Casimero v Pedro Guervara was very competitive.

[WelshDevilRob]

This bit interested me "A date will shortly be announced for one of Britain’s most exciting fighter’s Nathan Cleverly who returns to his home city of Cardiff in October to defend his WBO World Light-Heavyweight title. "

 

So, he won't be travelling to Las Vegas to fight Shumenov. Its going to be interesting to see just who is coming to Cardiff.

[gavpowell]

It will be nobody special, I'll tell you that.

 

I would guess someone like Grachev or Gayrat Amedov - both guys who can be market as "tough, hard fighters, unbeaten, highly ranked" etc and who pose little threat to Cleverly.

 

I was going to go for Uzelkov because they could spin it as him closing in on Shumenov by fighting common opponents, but I see Uzelkov has lost again recently.

[iamasadlittleboy]

It will be nobody special, I'll tell you that.

 

I would guess someone like Grachev or Gayrat Amedov - both guys who can be market as "tough, hard fighters, unbeaten, highly ranked" etc and who pose little threat to Cleverly.

 

I was going to go for Uzelkov because they could spin it as him closing in on Shumenov by fighting common opponents, but I see Uzelkov has lost again recently.

 

Think Grachev is facing Bute next. There is a rumour that it'll be Soulan Pownceby if he's allowed in the country (he's been convicted of manslaughter so may not be allowed in the UK) with him having recently been made the WBO's #1.

[gavpowell]

Well, he's supposed to be fighting Bute, but surely if offered a world title shot, he'll turn his head?

[iamasadlittleboy]

Possibly but he is unranked by the WBO at 175 and a win over Bute could well see him getting a world title fight anyway.

 

The 175 WBO rankings are: (quotes are the likely selling point from Dunce and Co.)

1-Soulan Pownceby (20-0-1, 9)-"Unbeaten tough Australian"

2-Braimah Kamoko (23-0, 13)-"Unbeaten and tough African"

3-Denis Simcic (28-1, 14)-"Highly Ranked European with a win over Tomas Adamek"

4-Juergen Breahmer (38-2, 30)-"Tough and hard hitting German former Champion"

5-Robin Krasniqi (37-2, 13)-"Tough German based fighter unbeaten in 6 years" (has a fight lined up)

6-Eduard Gutknecht (24-1, 9)-"Tough European champion with world level experience and has never been stopped!"

7-Dustin Dirks (24-0, 18)-"Tough unbeaten hard hitting German who has a win over a 2-time world title challenger" (has a fight this weekend)

8-Bernard Hopkins (52-6-2-2)-"Veteran former champion who dominated the Middleweight division" (unlikely to come over here unless a lot of cash is up for grabs)

9-Vyacheslav Uzelkov (27-2, 16)-"Tough former world title challenger who was unlucky against Shumenov and Gutknecht"

10-Andrzej Fonfara (22-2-0-1, 12)-"The man who retired the legendary Glen Johnson!"

11-Cornelius White (20-1, 16)-"Hard hitting American on a solid run of victories over Despaigne and Sukhotsky" (I would actually quite like this bout)

12-Serdar Sahin (20-0, 13)-"Unbeaten and tough German" (fights Krasniqi tomorrow)

13-Karo Murat (25-1-1, 15)-"Gave Cleverly a tough fight and wants revenge"

14-Isaac Chilemba (19-1-1, 9)-"Excellent African who would pose any Light Heavyweight trouble (I like this fight, but he's lined up to face Erdei in September)

15-Eleider Alvarez (9-0, 5)-"Unbeaten Colombian who was a former top amateur" (whilst he's fast rising he probably needs 2 or 3 fights first)

[WelshDevilRob]

Just watched (and posted) a Soulan Pownceby fight. Hard to gauge really how good he is cos it was a 4 round rematch against a trialhorse. But, he didn't look like a fighter deserving of a No.1 ranking. He may have improved since the fight.

 

The WBO rankings are pretty woeful.

[iamasadlittleboy]

Just watched (and posted) a Soulan Pownceby fight. Hard to gauge really how good he is cos it was a 4 round rematch against a trialhorse. But, he didn't look like a fighter deserving of a No.1 ranking. He may have improved since the fight.

 

The WBO rankings are pretty woeful.

 

Not sure how he got the #1 ranking but he doesn't deserve it. He was probably fortunate that Cornelius White took out Sukhotsky a few weeks back ad Sukhotsky was the #1 prior to the White fight (White certainly didn't get much of a "reward" for that victory from the WBO).

 

A lot of questions need to be about the WBO rankings-

1-Where is Campillo? He drew with their #13, should have got the win over Cloud and should be 2-0 against Shumenov

2-Where is Pascal? The former world champion is nowhere to be seen despite having much, much better victories than a number of ranked contenders.

3-Where is Bellew? The man who pushed the champion hard seems to have dropped completely out of the rankings since the last time I saw them

[gavpowell]

Bellew is no longer with FWP, therefore no WBO ranking. I seem to recall you have to pay to be considered by the ranking bodies, so maybe that's why. And Grachev is never going to beat Bute, and if I were hime I'd be looking for a title shot at the first opportunity.

[davemurphy]

Bellew is no longer with FWP, therefore no WBO ranking. I seem to recall you have to pay to be considered by the ranking bodies, so maybe that's why. And Grachev is never going to beat Bute, and if I were hime I'd be looking for a title shot at the first opportunity.

 

I'm thinking that Bute might take one more tune-up/confidence builder after Grabchev before he attempts Froch II. On the otherhand, IMO he loses that fight no matter what he does, so why put off the inevitable instead of just going ahead and cashing in?

[WelshDevilRob]

Bellew is no longer with FWP, therefore no WBO ranking. I seem to recall you have to pay to be considered by the ranking bodies, so maybe that's why. And Grachev is never going to beat Bute, and if I were hime I'd be looking for a title shot at the first opportunity.

 

I'm thinking that Bute might take one more tune-up/confidence builder after Grabchev before he attempts Froch II. On the otherhand, IMO he loses that fight no matter what he does, so why put off the inevitable instead of just going ahead and cashing in?

 

I agree, Dave. He was taking confidence builders all the way through the Super 6. He stepped up - got knocked out, so will go back to the level that was comfortable. grin//

[WelshDevilRob]

It will be nobody special, I'll tell you that.

 

I would guess someone like Grachev or Gayrat Amedov - both guys who can be market as "tough, hard fighters, unbeaten, highly ranked" etc and who pose little threat to Cleverly.

 

I was going to go for Uzelkov because they could spin it as him closing in on Shumenov by fighting common opponents, but I see Uzelkov has lost again recently.

 

Think Grachev is facing Bute next. There is a rumour that it'll be Soulan Pownceby if he's allowed in the country (he's been convicted of manslaughter so may not be allowed in the UK) with him having recently been made the WBO's #1.

 

Was the manslaughter of his daughter?

[iamasadlittleboy]

Yeah his daughter.

[WelshDevilRob]

From Wikipedia on his convictions: On 19 October 1994, Pownceby killed his five month old daughter Jeanette Rikihana. Despite claiming to Police that he had dropped her in the shower, the post-mortem revealed "horrendous injuries - severe b

ruising to the head, including a cracked skull, and internal bruising."[9]

 

Pownceby was charged with murder, however the jury at his murder trial ruled that he was not guilty of murder but was guilty of manslaughter. Powceby was sentenced to four years in jail.[10]

 

Following his release in 1998, Pownceby converted to Catholicism.[9] During the period 1998 to 2000, Pownceby was convicted of four violent assaults.[11] One of these assaults was committed against an unnamed woman.