I had the chance to catch a little Olympic boxing tonight and noticed that Luis Yanez was fighting in the second round of the light flyweight tournament. If you remember, Yanez was kicked off the team before the Olympics and was put back on. He had missed some training time and didn’t necessarily go about it the right way.
Olympic boxing scoring has been atrocious thus far, and it’s really hard to watch knowing how awful the scoring is.
The fights are four two minute rounds.
1st Round
Both guys are southpaws and Yanez specifically holds his right hand very low. Teddy Atlas says that Yanez’s feet are wide and he thinks Yanez is thinking power shots. Both guys land clean shots and Purevdorj has an early 2-1 lead. Yanez scored with another blow to tie the score, but Purevdorj scored with a slick lead hook. He’s leading 3-2.
2nd Round
Yanez is trying to double up the jabs but he’s falling way short. Purevdorj scored with another punch and the quicker Yanez is missing shots short. 4-2 Purevdorj.
3rd Round
These guys are too fast for the judges. Yanez scored early and quickly but at least one or two points were missed. Purevdorj scored as well and it’s now 6-5 Yanez. Purevdorj tired it up at 6 with a nice left hand.
4th Round
They both went down as they clashed in what looked more like wrestling takedown and Purevdorj got a point. Yanez looked to score twice, but he didn’t get any points. Purevdorj scored again to take an 8-6 lead. With less than 20 seconds left, Yanez scored again, but then Purevdorj got on his horse and got away from him until the time expired.
Winner: Serdamba Purevdorj by way of 8-7 score.
Team USA boxing only has two guys in the quarterfinals, which is their worst showing ever.
Tomorrow night, WWE celebrates 21 years of SummerSlam, the “biggest party of the summer” as they’ve been calling recently. There have been 20 SummerSlam Events since 1988. But were all of them really worthy of being called the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th best PPV of the year? Absolutely not. So today I’ve decided to take a look and list what I consider the Top 10 Greatest SummerSlam Pay-Per-Views of All Time! So sit back, relax, and enjoy.
10. SummerSlam 1988
So we begin with the very first SummerSlam in 1988, live on PPV from Madison Square Garden in New York. The whole purpose of the creation of this PPV was for the WWE to compete with NWA’s Great American Bash, hoping to convert wrestling fans to save their hard-earned cash and purchase their show at the end of the summer as opposed to the Bash. This soon became the last of the “Big Four” PPVs, alongside Survivor Series, Royal Rumble, and of course, Wrestlemania. The main event was a highly-anticipated tag team match between Hulk Hogan and WWF Champion Randy Savage, collectively known as “The Mega Powers” against Ted Dibiase and Andre the Giant, collectively known as “The Mega Bucks”. Savage won a 16-Man Tournament at Wrestlemania IV, last defeating Dibiase to become champion. Hogan had teased prior to the show that Miss Elizabeth would showcase her “eenie, weenie bikini”, which is creepy in retrospect considering she is no longer with us.
Besides that huge match, the most memorable part of this Pay-Per-View was the Ultimate Warrior defeating the longest reigning WWF Intercontinental Champion in history – The Honky Tonk Man. Honky was scheduled to face Brutus Beefcake, but prior to the match, Beefcake was hospitalized by “The Outlaw” Ron Bass. Honky came out on the show and challenged anybody in the building to take the title and the undefeated Warrior came out and pinned him in thirty seconds to take the title, beginning the monster four year run that he would have in the WWF. Tag Team wrestling was definitely one of WWF’s high-points during this era, as Hart Foundation vs. Demolition was easily the best match on the show, followed slightly by the Rougeaus vs. The Bulldogs.
Our good friend Dr. Keith and Big Vision Video has released a new DVD looking deeply into the mind of Sandman, Raven, as well as guest spots from New Jack, Mustafa, and Terry Funk.
The TRAILER puts me in tears, so the DVD must be the best shit ever.
Big D has you covered with the latest in Florida Championship Wrestling. He wrote the August 14th FCW taping report for the recently merged F4WOnline/Wrestling Observer site. Santino and Kelly Kelly showed up to join in on the fun.
He had a great plan. He was going to fight three times this year and end his career with a bang. He was going to fight a tune up bout in the spring to get him ready for his rematch with Floyd Mayweather Jr., who beat him in 2007. It was the biggest money fight of all time, and though the second fight more than likely wouldn’t have done the same business, it would’ve been the biggest fight of this year. And then, in December, he was set to end his career with one more fight, possibly in his home town.
Part one of the plan went to fruition. De La Hoya beat Steve Forbes in May to set up his fight with Mayweather. But Mayweather Jr. decided to retire instead of take the fight.
(According to Dave Meltzer’s Wrestling Observer there were early talks for both De La Hoya and Mayweather Jr. to be involved in this year’s Wrestlemania to help sell their fight for later this year. Obviously, De La Hoya wasn’t involved in Wrestlemaina, but Mayweather Jr. was.)
If it weren’t for the fact that SummerSlam, by name, means the biggest summer wrestling PPV of the year, I’m not sure I would consider this weekend’s show all that big of a deal. JBL and the Great Khali are in title matches, neither Chris Jericho or Shawn Michaels are wrestling, and John Cena vs. Batista, a match that should be huge, isn’t all that interesting.
There is one big match and thankfully, Edge has been carrying his feud with the Undertaker. It’s not like the Undertaker has been around recently to help. And while it’s the match that will likely sell the most PPVs, I still feel as if I’ve seen them wrestle enough matches already to last a life time. I understand that this is the big one, a Hell In A Cell match, but I can’t wait for them to move on to other opponents.
If it weren’t for the fact that SummerSlam, by name, means the biggest summer wrestling PPV of the year, I’m not sure I would consider this weekend’s show all that big of a deal. JBL and the Great Khali are in title matches, neither Chris Jericho or Shawn Michaels are wrestling, and John Cena vs. Batista, a match that should be huge, isn’t all that interesting.
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