Reflections on Khan, Maidana, Ortiz and Peterson – Glendale Sports | Examiner.com

A final major boxing event of this year will take place this Saturday at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. On tap are two potentially explosive junior welterweight showdowns that will be televised live by HBO World Championship Boxing. In the opening bout rising star from Oxnard, California Victor Ortiz will take on East Coast’s Lamont Peterson in a twelve round battle of skill and will. The winner will earn a potential title shot. In the main event UK superstar and WBA champion Amir Khan will face one of the hardest punchers in boxing today, Argentinean, Marcos Rene Maidana. Here are my reflections on the four musketeers.

Reflections on Khan, Maidana, Ortiz and Peterson – Glendale Sports | Examiner.com.

 

HBO’s version of Super Tourney – Glendale Sports | Examiner.com

Not calling it a super tournament, HBO will broadcast two highly competitive fights in a light welterweight division this Saturday from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. In the main event, one of the most talented champions from Great Britain, Amir Khan will defend his WBA world title against hard punching Marcos Rene Maidana from Argentine. In the opening bout two of the most skilled light welterweight prospects, Southern California’s Victor Ortiz and an East Coast’s Lamont Peterson will face off in a squared circle. The winners of each bout will most likely, engage each other some time next year. What about two other undefeated champions in this division? Two young title holders Timothy Bradley and Devon Alexander will face off in Silverdome, Pontiac, Michigan on January 29th, 2011. This guarantees tremendous action for the fans and a shake up in a talent rich light welterweight division.

HBO’s version of Super Tourney – Glendale Sports | Examiner.com.

 

“If the mountain won’t come to Muhammad then Muhammad must go to the mountain.” – Glendale Sports | Examiner.com

Photo by Tom Casino

Ever since that dreadful summer night in Bridgeport, Connecticut in July of 2007 when Nonito Donaire stopped Darchinyan in the fifth round with a lightning fast one punch left hook knock out, Vic has been trying to get a rematch to even up the score.” I want to be the first to beat him after my loss,” said Darchinyan (35-2-1,27KO’S):” I don’t think it’s going to happen. The guy is ducking me already three years. Everywhere he is saying he wants to fight me. I cancel my fight. I wait for him, but he never signs the contract. I don’t want to talk about that guy. He is nobody to me.”

“If the mountain won’t come to Muhammad then Muhammad must go to the mountain.” – Glendale Sports | Examiner.com.

 

Amir Khan speaks.

This Saturday Amir Khan (23-1,17KO) will defend his WBA light welterweight title against hard charging Marcos Rene Maidana (29-1,27KO’S) at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. It is a classic match up of boxer versus puncher that is sure to produce an excitement with fans inside the arena as well as the ones watching it on HBO.

“I have tasted defeat,” said Khan, a huge star in United Kingdom who is trying to cross over to United States:” I am not going to let it happen again.”
Here are a few other things he had to say while interviewed at the Wildcard Boxing Club in Hollywood, California.

 

Darchinyan and Mares Speak

 

Wolak introduces himself to Cali fans stopping Pinzon

Photo by Chris Farina

In the opening bout of the Top Rank Pay Per View telecast Pawel “The Raging Bull” Wolak (27-1,17KO’S) overcame a hard second round knock down to stop a tough Mexican, Jose Pinzon(18-2-1,12KO’S) in seventh round of an absolute war that took place at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California on Saturday night.
“My idea in every round,” said Wolak: “was to get in as many punches as possible. I hope a lot of Mexican fans saw me and they like the way I fight.”

A war of attrition began from the onset with no introductions. Fans were on their feet and they never sat down. Taller Pinzon was putting together sharp combinations, but that did not deter Wolak who kept applying pressure no matter what he had to take. Pinzon dropped Wolak with a crisp left hook early in the second, but could not finish the job despite the fact that Polish fighter was in serious trouble for most of the round. “I got to get up and get him back, that’s what went through my mind,” said Wolak after the fight. And that is exactly what he did. By the end of the second Wolak got his legs back and started firing good shots in return

Wolak got back into the fight in the third getting closer to the target and landing hard shots backing up his opponent throughout. Non stop action continued into the fourth and fifth rounds, but Wolak started to assert himself with constant pressure; he had Pinzon in serious trouble by the end of the fifth landing hard shots one after another almost at will. Polish warrior, brick layer by trade, continued to march forward and land bombs in the sixth. Pinzon was throwing back but his punches had very little steam on them. A massacre continued into the seventh; Pinzon absorbed a lot of punishment, but he was bravely firing back. Referee Jack Reiss looked at Pinzon with caution. At 2:27 of the seventh Wolak landed and overhand right that made Pinzon hold on to his opponent for dear life and gave the referee a reason to stop the fight. The crowd didn’t like it, but referee did the right thing to protect defenseless Mexican warrior from absorbing any further punishment. Great performance by Pawel Wolak.
for coverage of other fights go http://www.examiner.com/sports-in-glendale-ca/donaire-steamrolls-sidorenko-and-ready-for-montiel

 

Antillon falls short to Soto in an all out war – Glendale Sports | Examiner.com

Antillon falls short to Soto in an all out war – Glendale Sports | Examiner.com.

 

The best laid schemes of mice and men – Glendale Sports | Examiner.com

Nonito Donaire burst onto American boxing scene in 2007 when he scored a spectacular one punch knock out, that was later named a knock out of the year, over a notorious Armenian banger, Vic Darchinyan. Like a bullet a counter hook put Darchinyan down into never-never land. Lightning fast punch was so devastating that the former champion still didn’t know what happened to him minutes after it was all over.

The best laid schemes of mice and men – Glendale Sports | Examiner.com.

 

Wlad Sidorenko

 

Kayode headlines a Shobox night at Chumash this Friday – Glendale Sports | Examiner.com

Kayode headlines a Shobox night at Chumash this Friday – Glendale Sports | Examiner.com.