SAN DIEGO, September 29, 2012 - Our boxer briefs this week cover the return of HBO’s Boxing Following Dim series for your Drop 2012 season, and news (or sounds) in the bigger names in the sports activities sounding off.

Fights from Foxwood on HBO’s Negative: The autumn season of HBO’s “Boxing Right after Dark” collection which attributes up and coming fighters gets underway from the MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut on Saturday night, September 29, at 9:30 p.m. Eastern/Pacific. The Lou DiBella Amusement present is called “Road to Glory,” with all fighters within the lineup hoping to produce a great impression and progress their professions.

3 fights from the whole card will be aired reside, led by a 10-round super middleweight fight among Edwin “La Bomba” Rodriguez (21-0, 14 KOs) towards Jason “Monstruo” Escalera (13-0-1, 12 KOs). Each are northeastern fighters; Rodriguez from Massachusetts and Escalera from New Jersey, so plenty of supporters ought to be inside the property. The fighters not all that well matched. Rodriguez has an considerable newbie career. Although Escalera has 12 knockouts in his thirteen fights, his opponents weren’t much of the challenge. He’s only fought 39 expert rounds of boxing at age 27. Nonetheless, he is actually a huge brawling puncher and anybody could get fortunate (see Julio Caesar Chavez Jr., round twelve on September fifteen).

The co-feature about the display is Luis Del Valle (16-0, eleven KOs) compared to the veteran Vic Darchinyan (37-5-1-, 27 KOs) inside a 10-round super bantamweight battle. Hard to believe that the 36-year-old veteran champion Darchinyan has by no means fought on HBO prior to. Also on the card is welterweight Antonin Decarie (26-1, seven KOs) from Quebec from Alex Perez (16-0, 9 KOs) from New Jersey.







All the fighters produced fat, all stated the proper factors at their reports meeting about instruction difficult, becoming fired up about their fights, and putting on a superb show. They’re lucky Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is not on or I could be watching by way of DVR delay. Still, anytime Max Kellerman and Roy Jones Jr. are about entertaining me with their discussion, I’m prepared to examine it out.

Bienvenido a Miami, Bradley: Timothy Bradley Jr. will not get his rematch with Manny Pacquiao, but Top Rank promoter Bob Arum announced that Bradley will headline a card on Saturday, December fifteen at Marlins Park in Miami, the first boxing card at any time held there. Arum claims the stadium will keep the ring in the baseball infield and be configured for among 20,000 and twenty five,000 supporters.

The opponent has not been referred to as. Arum promised “a top welterweight” and reportedly informed Yahoo! Sports activities it could be previous champion Andre Berto. But Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated reviews that Berto (28-1-0, 22 KOS) is near to finalizing a deal to fight Cornelius Bundrage on HBO November 24 within a junior middleweight title bout. It’s been rough for Berto lately. He lost to Victor Ortiz in Apri 2011, and was set for a rematch till he examined good for steroids and was dropped in the bout. That did not perform out too well for Ortiz, both; swap Josesito Lopez broke Ortiz’ jaw and won himself the opportunity to battle Canelo Alvarez two weeks ago.

Arum said he will also feature Cuban fighters for example WBA super bantamweight champion Guiermo Rigondeaux.

Pacquiao declined the solution to get a rematch with Bradley in favor of the fourth fight with Juan Manuel Marquez Jr. Tickets went on sale Friday and a documented 10,000 tickets have already been bought.

Miguel Cotto and Austin Trout draw a crowd at their general public information meeting in Puerto Rico this week. Photograph: Tom Casino/Showtime.



Cotto, Trout make the scene: Miguel Cotto and Austin Trout appeared in The big apple on Monday and Puerto Rico on Wednesday to advertise their upcoming globe title battle at Madison Square Backyard garden on Saturday, December 1. Reports conferences with popular Puerto Rican fighters like Cotto are quite a sensation. This 1 was held outdoors at the Anfiteatro Paseo De Las Artes Calle Padial in Caguas. The public was invited plus they enthusiastically recognized, packing the spot to help Cotto. The presser was broadcast live on Showtime, which will air the fight. Trout declared his intention to gain; Cotto assured a victory: "Thank you all for coming these days. We're quite pleased to find out you all and (I thanks for) your great support. I can only say that I will prepare as challenging as I can like I always do, and on December 1, I will become world champion once again. I'll assure you all that I will return to Puerto Rico as being a champion."

Pacman shoots hoops: The site BoxingScene.com published photographs Friday of Manny Pacquiao capturing hoops after his training session at Calumpang Sports activities Complex in general Santos Metropolis, Philippines, using a couple of friends. Pacquiao will battle Juan Manual Marquez for the fourth time December eight in Las vegas. Pacquiao won a narrow choice more than Marquez in their last fight, and coach Freddie Roach blamed Pacquiao’s excessive basketball playing periods for leg cramps that hampered Pacquiao for the duration of that fight. He experienced reportedly given up playing basketball throughout coaching. But Roach also said throughout a information convention before Pacquiao’s fight with Timothy Bradley that boxing wasn’t Pacquiao’s preferred activity, it is basketball.

Ricky Hatton Returns: Well-liked English boxer Ricky Hatton retired after a brutal defeat by Manny Pacquiao three along with a 50 % years in the past. However the Hitman is ending his retirement on November 24 to get a bout with previous WBA welterweight champion Vyacheslav Senchenko in Manchester. Senchenko lost his 1st skilled battle to Paulie Malignaggi. Regardless of his layoff, Hatton is still ranked the number 5 welterweight contender from the WBA, with 21 knockouts to his credit score.

Women Initial: The very best boxing Saturday evening on tv might not be on HBO. Televisa and FOX Deportes will air the Golden Boy/Canelo Promotions WBC women’s silver bantamweight title bout in between Zulina “La Loba” Munoz of Mexico and Gabriela Bouvier of Uruguay at 11 p.m. Eastern/8 p.m. Pacific from Morelia, Mexico. Munoz, 34-1-2, 23 KOs, is actually a 25-year-old powerhouse, boxing professionally considering that she was sixteen. Bouvier is just 8-2-1, with 2 KOs, but is coming off a initial round knockout win. She is just 20 years old, enthusiastic and eager. Although Munoz is anticipated to win, it is likely to become an motion packed, exciting fight. Allow the women explain to you what they are able to do.