I was looking at the upcoming schedule, and it's pretty blah for a while, and to make matters worse, the somewhat interesting cards have competition on the other cable networks! jackasses. discuss
That's the way it is in boxing sometimes. Sometimes you'll have a bunch of great fights in a short time frame and others you'll go a while without.
Looks good to me May 30 (Friday), 2008 At The Expo Mart, Monroeville, PA(Telefutura) Monty Meza Clay (27-1) vs. Fernando Lizarraga (16-4-1) Latif Mundy (10-0-1) vs. George Rivera (8-1) May 31 (Saturday), 2008 Oberhausen, Germany(Easy to find live stream if you want to watch) Wladimir Sidorenko (21-0-2) vs. Anselmo Moreno (21-1-1) (The Ring Magazine #3 Bantamweight vs. #10) (WBA Bantamweight belt) Taras Bidenko (25-2) vs. Michael Sprott (30-11) Alexander Alekseev (14-0) vs. Louis Azille (19-5-2) June 4 (Wednesday), 2008 At The Tropicana Casino, Atlantic City, NJ (ESPN2) Yusaf Mack (24-2-2) vs. TBA (ESPN2) James Moore (15-0) vs. Ishmail Arvin (14-1-4) June 6 (Friday), 2008 At Uniprix Stadium, Montreal, Canada (ESPN2) Herman Ngoudjo (16-2) vs. Souleymane M'Baye (36-2-1) (The Ring Magazine Unranked Jr. Welterweight vs. #6) At The Sovereign Performing Arts Center, Reading, PA (Telefutura) Urbano Antillon (22-0) vs. TBA (Telefutura) Marco Antonio Rubio (41-4-1) vs. TBA June 7 (Saturday), 2008 At Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, NJ (HBO) Kelly Pavlik (33-0) vs. Gary Lockett (30-1) (For The Ring Magazine World Middleweight Championship) (WBC and WBO Middleweight belts) (HBO) Daniel Ponce De Leon (34-1) vs. Juan Manuel Lopez (21-0) (The Ring Magazine #3 Jr. Featherweight vs. Unranked) At The Mohegan Sun Casino, Uncasville, CT (Showtime) Vernon Forrest (40-2) vs. Sergio Mora (20-0-1) (The Ring Magazine #2 Jr. Middleweight vs. Unranked) (WBC Jr. Middleweight belt) (Showtime) Carlos Quintana (25-1) vs. Paul Williams (33-1) (The Ring Magazine #3 Welterweight vs. #4) (WBO Welterweight belt) June 11 (Wednesday), 2008 At The Hard Rock Times Square, New York City, NY (ESPN2) Sechew Powell (23-1) vs. Deandre Latimore (18-1) June 13 (Friday), 2008 At The Sundance Square, Fort Worth, TX (Telefutura) David Lopez (34-12) vs. Michael Walker (18-0-2) (The Ring Magazine #9 Middleweight vs. Unranked) Vanessa Juarez (8-0) vs. Brooke Dierdorff (4-3-1) n TBA, Scranton, PA (ESPN2) Francisco Palacios (14-0) vs. Ola Afolabi (12-1-3) (ESPN2) James De La Rosa (15-0) vs. TBA June 18 (Wednesday), 2008 At The Arco Arena, Sacramento, CA(ESPN2) Roger Gonzalez (27-1) vs. Cornelius Lock (17-3) Vicente Escobedo (17-1) vs. TBA June 20 (Friday), 2008 At The Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands (Showtime) Andre Ward (15-0) vs. Jerson Ravelo (18-2) (Showtime) Eddie Chambers (30-1) vs. Raphael Butler (31-4) At The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL (Telefutura) Miguel Huerta (26-9-1) vs. Fernando Trejo (30-13-4) (Telefutura) Montell Griffin (48-7) vs. Corey Cummings (15-2) June 21 (Saturday), 2008 At The Seminole Hard Rock Casino, Hollywood, FL (Showtime) Arthur Abraham (26-0) vs. Edison Miranda (30-2) (The Ring Magazine #1 Middleweight vs. Unranked) (Showtime) Giovanni Lorenzo (26-0) vs. Raul Marquez (40-3-1) At The Fedex Forum, Memphis, TN (HBO) Chris Arreola (23-0) vs. Chazz Witherspoon (23-0) (HBO) Andre Berto (21-0) vs. Miguel Rodriguez (29-2) At The National Indoor Stadium, Birmingham, England(Easy to find live stream if you want to watch) Amir Khan (17-0) vs. Michael Gomez (35-8) (The Ring Magazine #7 Lightweight vs. Unranked) Paul Smith (23-0) vs. Steven Bendall (28-4) June 25 (Wednesday), 2008 At The Playboy Mansion, Beverly Hills, CA (ESPN2) Julio Diaz (34-4) vs. Rolando Reyes (29-4-2) (The Ring Magazine #5 Lightweight vs. Unranked) (ESPN2) Shawn Hawk (16-0-1) vs. Eric Fields (11-1) June 26 (Thursday), 2008 At TBA, Las Vegas, NV (Versus) Lamont Peterson (24-0) vs. Henry Bruseles (27-3-1) (Versus) Vanes Martirosyan (19-0) vs. TBA June 27 (Friday), 2008 At The Morongo Casino, Cabazon, CA (Telefutura) Jorge Barrios (47-3-1) vs. Martin Honorio (24-4-1) (The Ring Magazine #5 Jr. Lightweight vs. Unranked) At TBA, Miami, FL (ESPN2) Yuriorkis Gamboa (10-0) vs. Jose Rojas (25-6-1) June 28 (Saturday), 2008 At The Mandalay Bay Casino, Las Vegas, NV(PPV) David Diaz (34-1-1) vs. Manny Pacquiao (46-3-2) (The Ring Magazine #2 Lightweight vs. The Jr. Lightweight Champion) (WBC Lightweight belt) Steven Luevano (35-1) vs. Mario Santiago (19-1) (The Ring Magazine #4 Featherweight vs. Unranked) (WBO Featherweight belt) Tye Fields (40-1) vs. Monte Barrett (33-6) Humberto Soto (43-6-2) vs. TBA (The Ring Magazine #4 Jr. Lightweight vs. Unranked)