MEXICAN MONEY MACHINE ON HBO SATURDAY
San Francisco, CA– Word is “World Class” professional boxing returns to HBO Saturday night with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. facing Brian Vera in a rematch of a 2013 scrap in which Chavez got a much undeserved unanimous decision win.
CHAVEZ JR. NEED DISPLAY CHAVEZ SR. “EARLY” DISCIPLINE
Most pundits say that Jr. lost to Vera because of a lack of proper conditioning. They changed the weight, the date, HBO did everything they could to make the first fight happen when it should have been scrapped because Jr. failed to even make the “adjusted” weight. Having watched the kid fight, it’s not like he doesn’t have skills, it’s that he bangs girlfriends before fights, got caught with the benign drug Marijuana in his system, in addition to being suspended after a Diuretic that could have been used a “masking agent” for steroids was detected.
SAID TO BE IN BETTER SHAPE….BUT?
“Superstar” Vasyl Lomachenko
People feel that JC Jr. will come into this fight with a good camp behind him, and that will get him a deserved win over the pesky and smaller Vera. You cannot instill greatness, he or she has to do it for themselves. The bottom line here is that Chavez lacks the motivation and desire to be an upper echelon fighter.
AMATEUR ICON FACES WBO CHAMP IN FIGHT #2!
The semi-main event is the fight to watch! Only 1-0 as a professional, Vasyl Lomachenko, the two-time Olympic champ who went 396-1 fighting for trophies, takes on WBO 126 lb. tough guy Orlando Salido. Having stopped Juan Manuel Lopez twice, he was thrashed by Mikey Garcia, this before lumping up the openly Gay Orlando Cruz last time out.
NEAR PUGILISTIC PERFECTION ON TV SATURDAY
While some say Vasyl is lanky, an attribute in the amateurs, he doesn’t have a stickman like frame and I feel his body is well suited for the professional game. Why am I saying Vasyl rolls over the Mexican veteran with relative ease? Because guys that win go 396-1, three World titles, two Olympic Gold medals, folks guys this good don’t come along very often, thus I think we might be looking at an already great fighter.
ALI GLOVES SOLD FOR $836,000 US DOLLARS
With the first Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali)-Sonny Liston fight on historian’s minds some 50 years ago, an auction house sold Ali’s gloves this past week for $836,000 & change! Although some people thought they might fetch more, that figure is enough to set a record regarding used boxing gloves.
HISTORY OF ALI-LISTON VERY CONTROVERSIAL
The first Ali-Liston bout in Miami Beach, FL was controversial in that the “toughest man” on the planet, Sonny Liston, gut claiming a shoulder injury. My sources, some who were there, say both Ali-Liston fights were fixed, also say that Liston’s family had been threatened before both encounters.
ANCHOR PUNCH OR DIVE?
The rematch held in Lewiston, Maine, was refereed by ex-heavyweight champion Jersey Joe Walcott, who screwed up the count and lost control of the bout after Liston was flattened by a punch most people didn’t even see land.
Pedro Fernandez