HBO Boxing has a pretty good card going tonight. The main event is Sugar Shane Mosely against Ricardo Mayorga. Andre Berto and Steve Forbes are fighting first. Forbes recently lost to Oscar De La Hoya as a tune-up to the De La Hoya and Mayweather II fight that never happened.

Andre Berto vs. Steve Forbes – WBC Welterweight Title fight

Berto’s brother is Edison Berto a MMA fighter for EXC. After being trained by Jeff Mayweather against De La Hoya, it looks like Floyd Sr. is in Forbes’ corner for this fight.

Round One

The first round was a bit of a feeling out process until Forbes landed a clean combination, but Berto caught him with an uppercut. Berto looks stronger and quicker, though Forbes outweighs him. Forbes isn’t really letting anything land though.

Round Two

Forbes is quicker to the punch and has a pretty good round. Berto is cocking that right hand and is looking for spots to unleash it. Forbes is fighting a very smart fight thus far and is surprising Berto.

Continue Reading »

Week two means more fights. Let’s get it on.

Wesley Murch, who is a lightweight out of the UK and also has a star shaved into his haircut, is taking on John Polakowski. Polakowski is a hugger.

Wesley Murch vs. John Polakowski

John P. looks quicker, but Murch seems stronger in the clinch. Murch went for a heel hook while Frank Mir was screaming at him not to, and then when he tried it, he said, “Well you better get it.” That’s Coach Mir for you. He didn’t get it by the way. Big Nog probably won’t really be impressive until he starts beating ass in training as he’s not one for sound bites. Murch hurt his shin and at the end of the first round was grimacing in pain.

He goes out for the second round, even though it seemed that he wouldn’t be able to. He went for a flying knee, came down on his feet and seemed to be in immense pain. He turtled and it was stopped.

Winner: John Polakowski by way of 2nd round TKO.

Big Nog said he liked to hug too. Mir didn’t seem so comfortable.

Light heavyweight Shane Primm says he’s going to be here for a long time. He’s fighting Sean O’Connell who says that Forrest Griffin is his favorite.

Shane Primm vs. Sean O’Connell

Continue Reading »

I know this only happened Monday, but it’s the funniest non-Santino segment I’ve seen in a very long time. It was absolutely perfect.

This was one of my favourite WWE TV shows in years! Every single segment entertained me in one way or another. There was good wrestling, GREAT comedy and a hot ass crowd.

The opening was better than every other “guy interupts guy” interview segments in the last while. Everyone’s mic work was real good or whacky (KNOCK IT OFF GUYZ! – Adamle). Cody vs. Punk was a hell of a match. Cody bumped like a mother and leaned right into all Punk’s stuff like a champ. Punk was crisper than ever too. It was great.

You can’t go wrong with three Santino segments.

Sydal got the best match out of Kane in YEARS. And for all his trouble he got dropped by the big goof on his moonsault and landed on his face. How Kane fails to catch someone 1/3 his size is beyond me. But still, a cool match.

Cryme Time vs. Miz/Morrison was a damn miracle match. They had the building rocking towards the end. JTG and Shad have improved a ton to the point where JTG is a very good tag wrestler with awesome selling and Shad is able to pull off his big man moves and be a great HOUSE OF FIYAAH. Oh and the video hyping this was greatness.

Dave’s plowing young Kelly. Good times.

Charlie Haas as Mr. Perfect was GLORIOUS.

The main event was great. I guess the “all 6 man Raw main events are excellent” rule applies to 3 on 2 matches also. The heat towards the end was nuts.

DREAM returns from a 2 month absence following the lightweight grandprix finals back in July. On tonight’s show, we will see the crowning of the first ever DREAM middleweight champion as Zelg Galesi, Ronaldo Souza, Melvin Manhoef and Gegard Mousasi, will battle it out in the grandprix finals. The tournament reserve bout will featuring Yoon Dong-sik taking on Andrews Nakahara.

Also on the card, former Pride and UFC star Mirko Cro Cop will continue on the comeback trail as he takes on the dangerous Alistair Overeem. Cro Cop is coming off a win in his DREAM debut, which followed a disappointing run in the UFC. Overeem has looked impressive in recent performances, and rides a 3 fight win streak into tonight’s bout.

Cro Cop got a massive reaction when they introduced all the fighters to the live audience.

I believe they are doing the reserve bout first.
Kenny and Bas are our commentary team as always.

Continue Reading »