The scores were 114-114, 117-111, and 117-111 both for Dawson.

Tonight in Liverpool, Britain’s number 2 and 3 light heavyweights square off as Tony ‘Bomber’ Bellew (16-1) defends his British title against Norwich switch hitter Danny McIntosh (13-2).

For Bellew, it’s all about staying in contention. The Liverpool loudmouth is coming off his first career loss in a failed attempt to capture the WBO title from Nathan Cleverly last October. Far from a damaging defeat, it was a performance that enhanced Bellew’s standing at light heavyweight.
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Bit of a weird start to 24/7. Basically, Floyd went to the drive in, wondered about Easter, texted Miguel Cotto, played hoop, ate again, and talked to Miss Jackson about his father. Nothing really about the fight.

Cotto and trainer Pedro Diaz are still getting used to each other. Diaz is a bit loud for Cotto’s taste and Diaz says that no one likes change.

Roger Mayweather says that it doesn’t matter who is in the corner. He can’t fight for him.

This is a very clowny version of Mayweather, talking on the phone while hitting the speed bag.

While Mayweather’s clowning, Cotto is contrasted as a family man who is takes everything seriously.

The story of May’s friendship with 50 Cent is that both are rich, 50 is a homebody and May gets him out of the house. And they go to arcades together. Contrast that against Bryan Perez’s relationship with Cotto which is much more brotherly. In fact, they still sleep in the same bed together like before Cotto was big time. Cotto and his father also helped Perez drop over 200 pounds by inspring him.

Mayweather says Cotto’s camp doesn’t have loyalty because he keeps changing trainers.

The Verdict: The first half was a throwaway, but the second half was about contrasting the fighters’ lifestyles. It wasn’t anything we haven’t seen before, but I’m sure it made Miguel Cotto a whole lot of new fans and made Mayweather as polarizing as ever.

The undercard for the Super Middleweight title fight between Carl Froch and Lucian Bute is beginning to fall into place with Matchroom Sport announcing several additional bouts for the May 26th bill.

Matchroom Sport:

Carl Frampton will provide the chief support on the undercard of Carl Froch’s IBF World super middleweight title challenge to Lucian Bute in Nottingham on May 26.

The Commonwealth super bantamweight champion will fight at the Capital FM Arena in front of a huge global audience with the event aired by EPIX in the United States and live in more than 20 countries across the world, including the UK, Canada, Spain, Germany, Russia, Japan and in Scandinavia.

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UFC 145 is this weekend and it features one of the best built-up main events in a long time. Jon Jones and Rashad Evans have gone back and forth with each other and it’s almost fight time.

Joining me on the show is Jason Hagholm, aka @dadrrtywhyteboi.

Jason and I preview the main card, which if it works out for the UFC, can be a showcase for younger fighters like Michael McDonald and Rory MacDonald.

We also talk about Brock Lesnar’s WWE comeback thus far, the UFC on Fuel show from last weekend and the early build for Floyd Mayweather and Miguel Cotto.

Thanks for listening.

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(Our podcast crashed at the end, but luckily it was right after we were done. I just wasn’t able to give it the proper outro.)

With the new Evans/Jones Primetime, 24/7 might have some competition for best hype show going. Let’s see how Mayweather/Cotto compares.

Mayweather immediately starts by saying that 24/7 isn’t much without Mayweather. 50 Cent is next to him and nearly in the dark and says ratings are lower whenever Mayweather’s not involved. Mayweather says if he were HBO, he’d only give Cotto 10 minutes of air time.

Who didn’t love Cotto beating up Margarito? It was a great moment last year.

50 Cent says 1 day is too many to be in jail. He doesn’t think Floyd is thinking about it because the waiting is the worst part. He thinks that when Floyd gets back from jail it’s going to be interesting because being out of jail and going back to boxing and it’s going to be therapeutic for him. Leonard Ellerbie says that he knows the facts and we don’t, and Mayweather plead guilty to protect his family.

Floyd says Miguel Cotto is in there to mess him up and he has to do damage. He was built for boxing and loves the smell of the gloves.

Cotto trainer Pedro Diaz says that the Cotto team needs to understand that there’s no clock. It’s all work. He says that when Miguel lost to Margarito, he was in a complex situation, because he was thinking about why and all he wanted to do was show the world that he could beat him. When he did, Diaz told him the nightmare was over.

It’s kind of odd seeing 50 Cent, who was once the biggest recording artist in the US become a Mayweather hanger on. I’m sure they’re really good friends, but it’s still weird.
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