...that's pounds, baby, pounds. Friday night on ShoBox, 2 junior featherweight titlists look to unify, when WBA champ Celestino Caballero takes on IBF champ Steve Molitor. The winner of this fight is said to be the potential next opponent for WBC champ Israel Vazquez upon his return in 2009. A 4th installment of the great Vazquez-Rafael Marquez series is said to be off for the time being, according to promoter Gary Shaw, so they will be looking for opponents. The other 122 lb champion is Simply Juanderful's own Juan Manuel "JuanMa" Lopez. This is definitely one of the hottest weight classes in boxing in terms of making exciting fights.
My pick: Caballero pulls out in the win in Molitor's homeland of Canada (he's from somewhere near Toronto I think). Most boxers this light don't have names like Steve Molitor. Sounds like he should be batting 2nd for the Blue Jays instead of boxing. Plus, Caballero is 5'11". For a 122-lber that is ridiculous!!!! That is like 1/3rd of me. I have chunks of guys like that in my stool. And he's 5'11". So extremely lanky and tough to fight. It could be an ugly fight but could be exciting. Caballero TKO10
On Saturday night, HBO brings us yet another installment of tasteful sports programming with Ricky Hatton vs. Paulie Malignaggi. This bout is not for an official 140 lb (jr welter) belt, if you will, but instead for what is considered the linear championship, the Ring Magazine belt. Whatever. Hatton has had a stranglehold on this division for a while now. If you recall, he stepped up to welterweight last Decemeber for a mega-PPV event and was KTFO'd by Floyd Mayweather. So back he goes to jr welter to take on another guy who's been near the top for a while, Paulie Malignaggi. So it's the Brit Drunkard vs the Brooklyn Greaseball. This fight has been brewing for sometime, and it's a rare white guy vs. white guy fight.
My pick: I think it will be an underwhelming UD win for Hatton in a fight where he probably has to chase Malignaggi down a little bit. Both guys have shown greatness at times, but have also been lackluster as of late.
The best fight of the weekend may be the HBO lidlifter on Saturday, between junior middleweights James Kirkland and Brian Vera. Look out.
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It was good to see a post, Nougat. Well put. And good call on the Caballero fight (although it was earlier, 4th round). Anyway, I want to throw out for the record that I'm taking Paulie Malignaggi to take a close decision over Ricky Hatton. Malignaggi's fast hands are going to be a problem.
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