A Nice Win and Another Serving of Horsesh#t by Boxing

"I have hepatitis and maybe other strange blood diseases.....shut up!  I'm the champion!"

                                                                                                                    -Ruslan Chagaev

In terms of the Chagaev-Valuev 2 Heavyweight Title fight cancellation, I can say it no better than this guy on another website...

To Summarize

Awful heavyweight fight, featuring top-ranked heavyweights who epitomize how terrible the division is right now, were to meet for a long-delayed bout that would determine which of the two heavyweights was the undisputed holder of one of the four crappy sanctioning organization belts, since both somehow held a version of one of the four crappy sanctioning organization belts. Fight gets cancelled for mysterious reasons that point to somebody or multiple somebodies behaving in a way that is less than honest and quite possibly dangerous, and a replacement opponent can't be arranged for the heavyweight who is deemed healthy despite the apparent eagerness of one of the potential replacement opponents, resulting in the cancellation of the entire show. Moving forward, likely and fairest outcome is that boxing ends up with arguably the worst heavyweight title trilogy in the history of the galaxy, and one way or the other, protracted legal action is a distinct possibility.

It sure is a good thing the rest of boxing is doing so damn well in 2009. Because the heavyweight division is a f'ing wasteland.

So they didn't fight.  And people hate the heavyweights even more.  Valuev is still unproven and Chagaev is still just a strange, undefined, possibly infectious, but undefeated part of the heavyweight mix.

In a fight that actually did happen, Andre Berto solidly defeated Juan Urango by unanimous decision.  Berto was fast but unspectacular.  Urango threw no more than two punches at a time.  Jay picks up some points, including 2 in Option B and 15 in Option C and the Punching Bags move to 6-2 with 2 KO's.

The Whit Brothers move to 16-0!

With Chad Dawson's widely expected points win over has-been Antonio Tarver, Jeff's Impetuous Impregnable Children Eaters move to 6-0.  Dawson was a bit more effective than Tarver as he edged the former champion by scores of 116-112, 117-111 and 117-111 in a slightly disappointing performance.  Dawson gets 1 point in Option A, 1 point in Option B and 15 pts in Option C.  

Current Standings:

1st...Simply Juanderful (10-0, 8 KO's) OPTION B: 2.35  OPTION C: 17.8

2nd...Children Eaters  (6-0, 3 KO's)  OPTION B: 1.58  OPTION C: 17.3

3rd...Knuckle Sandwich (4-0-1, 4 KO's) OPTION B: 1.9 OPTION C: 15.2

4th...Vodka Breath (5-2, 4 KO's)  OPTION B: 1.29  OPTION C: 13.1

5th...Punching Bags (5-2, 2 KO's)  OPTION B: 0.7  OPTION C: 11.7

3 Months to go in the league.  August 13th is the end.  The following league fighters have something on the schedule:

(Jeff)DAVID HAYE--June 20th--vs Wladimir Klitschko (IBF,WBO Heavy Titles)

(Mark)MIGUEL COTTO--June 13th--vs Joshua Clottey  (WBO, IBF Welter Titles)

(Mark)CHRIS JOHN--June 27th--vs Rocky Juarez   (WBA Featherweight Title)

(Jay)ANDRE BERTO--May 30th--vs Juan Urango   (WBC Welterweight Title)

(Jay)NIKOLAI VALUEV--May 30th--vs Ruslan Chagaev  (WBA Heavyweight Title)

(Brian)JUAN M. MARQUEZ--July 18th--vs Floyd Mayweather 

(Brian)TOMASZ ADAMEK--July 10th--vs Matt Godfrey  (IBF Cruiserweight Title)

(Joel)WLAD KLITSCHKO--June 20th--vs David Haye  (IBF,WBO Heavy Titles)

(Joel)FLOYD MAYWEATHER--July 18th--vs Juan M. Marquez

(Joel)VIC DARCHINYAN--July 11th-- vs Joseph Agbeko (IBF Bantamweight Title)

Owned: Manny Pacquiao KO2 Ricky Hatton

As it turned out, Manny Pacquiao is in a class above Ricky Hatton.  Although Hatton has proven himself against such quality competition as Kostya Tszyu, Luis Collazo, Jose Luis Castillo and Paulie Malignaggi, he had no answer for the A-game of Pacquiao.  Minutes into the fight, Hatton was on the deck as Pacquiao landed picture perfect hooks.  Hatton made it out of the first round and seemed to be gaining a bit of composure in the 2nd round until Pacquiao again found the mark with a huge left haymaker directly on the chin.  Hatton was rendered unconscious immediately and crumbled to the canvas in one of the most shocking KOs of recent memory.  Following the fight, 2 questions remain:  1. Are we going to see Pacquiao vs Mayweather at some point this year? and 2. Will Ricky Hatton ever fight again? 

From a league standpoint, Mark racks up big points while Jay's Hitmen suffer a crushing setback.