Billy’s Boxing Blog

As much as I would like to join in with my peers and tell you about my every movement I just find it hard to believe anyone really cares where I stop for lunch on my drive home from Vegas. But since I have a moment to kill some time I figured now is as good as time as any to chime in.I’m sitting at a Coffee House waiting for my daughters band to go on…yes her..Christina Trillo….now go click her link on the homepage and buy her music rock fans!

As to boxing, this week was filled with quite a few things, checking in with Alfonso was fun and you had better go watch that video….it’s FREE…c’mon. The highlight of my week was the reply email from Richard Schaefer that told me that the Hatton vs. Mayweather 2 talk was hooey…..and as good as it was…that wasn’t the highlight. That came from some U.K. honk named Robbie who was ready to cry cuz the reports in England stated it was almost a go. Try as I might to explain to Robbie it was a series of “what if’s” and not a committment by Golden Boy in any way, poor old Robbie just couldn’t get it through his thick skull. When I told him Hatton won’t get by Paulie Malinaggi anyways, the poor boy from Scotland had a breakdown. Sorry Robbie, a Mayweather sighting in The U.K. is about as likely as Nessie popping her head up in your Loch Ness swamp…it ain’t gonna happen.I see another overweight boxing website schlub has given himself the Gorilla nickname. This one calls himself the White Gorilla…we already know the 800,000 pound Gorilla. It was bad enough when you tried to steal the 800,000 pound ones thunder when you went with FightNightnews…now you want his nickname too? Please.Which leads me to Mikkel Kessler…am I the only one who thinks that fight was never a done deal and Edison Miranda along with his team were blowing smoke up everyone’s rears?I’d direct you to that White Gorilla previously mentioned but apparently he doesn’t know what’s going on there either….and he should….don’t ask.

Popped into a training session of Antonio Margarito’s today. Gotta tell ya, “Tony” looks to be in fine shape and as always, that old school regimen his trainer puts him through is nuthin’ to scoff at, Margarito is one of the hardest working fighters in the gym that I have ever seen. The day was a non sparring day but rest assured Bret and I will be checking out some of that too.

While watching Margarito diligently going through his workout I couldn’t help but reflect on the fight with Cintron when Antonio blasted out Cintron with the greatest of ease in 5 quick rounds. Seems to me with all the new variables thrown in now, that being Cintron hooking up with Emmanuel Steward and the fact that it is Kermit who holds the belt now that things are going to go a lot different this time.

This time I look for Kermit to get blasted out in 4 or less.

Okay, call me stubborn but unlike the stooges on HBO who are ready to coronate Sam Peter as head muckity muck, I am not impressed.

Breathing heavy by round three, stumbling and bumbling, wide punches, WIDE OPEN & altogether unimpressive, I give Peter ZERO chance against either Klitschko.

I admit my prediction was wrong, but my forecast of a bizarre night was dead on.

Never hold a fight in Cancun again. What a joke, from ring announcers who can’t read score cards to trainers in the corner on a wheelchair, this thing was an accident waiting to happen, and it did.

The one thing that went staus quo was John Ruiz who again , with the help of Jameel “Big Time Bore” McCline put the crowd to sleep in the only fight of the night that went exactly as expected.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Yeah Yeah…..I was wrong about Maskaek.

There I said it.

I’m going to Coldstone for a Cheesecake and Brownie Ice Cream

Adios!

In the latest string of events that keep going down.literally, in Cancun, Trainer Ronnie Shields has taken a fall and broke his foot.

What next?

Dennis Rappaport will come down with a severe case of laryngitis?

If ever there was a night to tune into the broadcast tonight is it.

Can it get any worse? Can it get any better?And of all the fights to be unaffected by the Cancun curse, why has Ruiz vs. Mc Cline went through it unscathed? Oh yeah, that’s a curse onto itself.

I’m still sticking with Oleg over Sam in the big one. I think Peter will go from the heir apparent in the heavyweight division to nothing more than another underachiever.

P.S. I was given the heads up that Oscar De La Hoya may be in attendance this coming week, or whenever it is, when Floyd puts on his leotard and makes his wrestling debut. If that wicked rumor is true you wonder how long it will be before the Golden Boy puts on the spandex himself..I know I know…keep that thought to yourselves!! 

Well I can’t figure Cancun for the life of me. Everything about that card seemed fantastic until this week when all Hell broke loose. First Don King says he dumped Juan Diaz. Then The Baby Bull’s side chimed in with the fact they were leaving him anyway’s. One thing is for sure and that’s the fact that King is trying to pull a fast one by getting into Diaz’s head in the hopes Nate Campbell will defeat Diaz in the Bull ring tonight.