December: Huge Month of Boxing to Closeout a Great 2018:

December 1st: Tyson Fury vs Deontay Wilder:
Undefeated Heavyweights collide – Wilder Vs. Fury @ Staples Center, Los Angeles.
Which Tyson Fury will show up? If the Fury that fought Klitschko shows up, he can win on points, otherwise Wilder’s Bomb Squad will Celebrate. Winner earns the right to 40-50% purse split with Anthony Joshua (Hearn has to pay up or no fight)(basically the winner will earn at least $40 million when they fight AJ).

Wilder-Fury Undercard:
Light middleweight king Jarrett Hurd (22-0) takes on Jason Welborn (24-6). Undefeated minimum-weights Mark Anthony Barriga (9-0) and Carlos Licona (13-0) battle for the IBF Title. Always entertaining and must-see Heavyweight Luis “King Kong” Ortiz (29-1) takes on Travis Kauffman (32-2). Also Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (50-3-1, 32 KOs) will take on fellow Mexican Warrior, The Dog; Alfredo Angulo (24-7, 20Ko’s)- Chavez Vs. Angulo will be very entertaining. And heavyweight Chris Arreola returns to action against Maurenzo Smith.

Also on December 1st from Quebec, Canada, 41 year old Light Heavyweight Champion, Adonis Stevenson (29-1-1) will take on 31 year old Oleksandr Gvozdyk (15-0).

Biggest Night of The Year:
On December 7th/8th Boxing will have the leather pumping around the entire world. There will be boxing events in over 20 countries including England, Mexico, Canada, Russia, Australia, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Ireland, South Africa and Chile. The United States alone will be featuring Fight Cards in Dallas, Philadelphia, New York, Tampa, Arizona, Texas & California.

December 8th: Three greats are in action
Kell Brook – The Special One- Sheffield, England
Roman Chocolatito Gonzalez – Stubhub Center, Los Angeles
Vasyl Lomachenko – Hi-Tech – MSG, New York City
Brook, Gonzalez and Loma are all taking stay-busy fights. After Brook has his dream match with Khan next year, he needs to be The Special One again and take on top competition -like he used to. If Lomachenko is willing to fights guys 10 pounds smaller, he should also start fighting guys 5 pounds bigger. Chocolate is still in recovery mode from his KO loss and his team still don’t have confidence in him.

Roman Chocolatito Gonzalez Card:
That two best female boxers on the planet will also be an action. Unanimous Welterweight Champion Cecelia Braekhus will take on Polish boxer Aleksandra Magdziak-Lopes. And Two Time Olympic Gold Medalists & Middleweight & Super Middleweight Champion Clarissa Shields will make a quick return to the ring (3-week turn around) and fight Belgium Femke Hermans. This is not 20 years ago were A random female would get thrown in with a female champion in order to spunk up the champions record, these are elite women boxers training just as hard as men and putting on terrific -exciting matches.

Lomachenko Card:
P4P ranked boxer Isaac Dogboe (20-0) will Fight Emanuel Navarrete (25-1) in a Super Showdown in the super bantamweight division (light featherweight 122)

December 14th:
Super middleweight champion Gilberto Ramirez (38-0) takes on Jesse Hart (25-1) for the second time @ Corpus Christi, Texas.

December 15th:
Canelo Alvarez Vs. Rocky Fielding – MSG NYC
Joseph Park Vs. Alexander Flores – Horncastle Arena, New Zealand

Canelo Undercard:
David Lemieux (40-4) vs Tureano Johnson (20-2) should be fun to watch.

December 22nd:
Charlo Twins in action – Barclays Center, Brooklyn NY
Carl Frampton Vs. Josh Warrington – Manchester, England
Dillian Whyte Vs. Dereck Chrisora – 02 Arena, London, England

December 30th: Tokyo, Japan will close-out a sensational year in boxing by putting on three terrific contests. Super Featherweights Masayuki Ito (24-1-1) & Evgeny Chuprakov (20-0) will get it on. The Amazing Boy; Ken Shiro (14-0)(Shiro is an amazing Boxer and top p4p great) will face light flyweight Saul Juarez (24-8-2). Also Japan’s 22 year old bantamweight Takuma Inoue (12-0) will face Thailand’s Sensational 24 year old Tassana Sanpattan (48-0).

Jimmy Ayash Boxing & TSS – Thank you!!!
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Errol Spence verse Mikey Garcia:
The fight is official and set for March 16, 2019 at AT&T Stadium in Dallas Texas. This is a huge stadium that can accommodate up to 120,000 spectators for a boxing match. This is a great opportunity for boxing to display the Sweet Science; I do hope they have a star studded series of boxing matches. I believe having a great undercard is very important. I’m not sure what Garcia is doing taking on a much bigger lion. Even though Garcia has big punching power, I don’t think he can even hurt Spence. In talking to Garcia’s brother and Trainer Robert, The wheels are in full motion and they are 100% focused on shocking the world and getting the W. A win for Garcia will make him Undisputed #1 P4P King.

HBO’s Final Boxing Broadcast:
On December 8th, Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez will close out HBO’s 45 years of boxing broadcasting. Gonzalez will face the always rugged Pedro Guevara. Unfortunately, Guevara is much smaller then Chocolate and not much of a threat to hurt him (this is a mismatch). I see a KO in round 4-6 as Guevara will start to fade. (Remember Gonzalez used to be the universally accepted number 1 pound for pound fighter in the world fighting a smaller contender with little power). Also on the card will be the Great Cecilia Braekhus. Braekhus (34-0) is the undisputed women’s welterweight champion of the world. Braekhus’s accomplishments are numerous including “Longest Reigning Female Boxing Champion, the Longest Reign as a Four-Belt Undisputed Boxing Champion, and the Most Bouts Undefeated by a Female World Champion Boxer” (The Guinness Book of World Records). Also just announced-in a three week turnaround, middleweight champion of the world Clarissa Shields will also be an action. HBO will Televise all three fights.

Mayweather going Green December 31st:
Mayweather will be back in action on December 31 in Japan, when he takes on a very young untested combat fighter in a boxing match. This will be the first time in Mayweather’s illustrious career fighting outside of the United States. All Mayweather fight news updates on link below.

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Abner Mares vs Tank Davis:
Mares will take on the very quick, powerful talented Davis on February 9th, 2019. After Abner Mares (31-3-1) shocking first round KO to Jhonny Gonzalez, it took Mares three wins & two years to get his confidence back. In August 2015, he surprised us by taking on Undefeated Featherweight Champion Leo Santa Cruz and lost by majority decision in a very good fight. Mares only fights once a year and took Cruz on again on June 9, 2018; this time losing by unanimous decision in another terrific fight. Mares at this point in his career is looking to make the biggest fights possible and next year will face undefeated WBA Super Featherweight Champion Gervonta Tank Davis (20-0, 19 KO’s) who just turned 24 years old. Davis has lots of power and talent, Time will tell if Davis will become a legend or a forgotten star like Jeff Lacy and Yuriorkis Gamboa.

PBC on Fox, 2019 Matches & Dates:

January 13, IBF Super Middleweight Champion Jose Uzcategui (28-2, 23 KOs) vs undefeated Caleb Plant (17-0, 10 KOs). Microsoft Theater, Los Angeles. I have to give Uzcategui his due, he is an excellent boxer and fun to watch.

January 26, 2019, Undefeated WBA Welterweight Champion Keith Thurman (28-0, 22 KOs) finally gets back in the ring against a decent contender, Josesito Lopez (36-7, 19 KOs). Also Heavyweight Adam Kownacki (18-0, 14 KOs) takes on Gerald Washington (19-2-1, 12 KOs). Barclays Center, Brooklyn. (Josesito Lopez is similar to Robert The Ghost Guerrero, great warrior but too much tread on the tires). I thought PBC ruined Guerrero, for a company that is known to protect it’s fighters, they really messed up with the Ghost. When PBC first started they were under pressure to put on great matchup‘s on free television and instead of giving Guerrero good rest time in between the wars he had, they just kept on throwing him to the Lions until his body just couldn’t give anymore. Guerrero put PBC on his back until the weight was to heavy for anyone person.

February 16, WBA Featherweight Champion-P4P Great Leo Santa Cruz (35-1-1, 19 KOs) gets in the ring with Miguel Flores (23-2, 11 KOs). Also the always exciting war machine Omar Figueroa Jr. (27-0-1, 19 KOs) takes on the tough-as-nails, power puncher John Molina Jr. (30-7, 24 KOs). If Molina was a bit quicker, he might had been an all-time great, Having Brandon Rios or Lucas Matthysse speed doesn’t cut it when your fighting P4P elite Boxers.

February 23, Anthony Dirrell (32-1-1, 24 KOs) takes on Turkish Boxer Avni Yildirim (21-1) for the vacant WBC Super Middleweight Title in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

March 9, WBC Welterweight Champion Shawn Porter (29-2-1, 17 KOs) returns to the ring after a terrific fight against Danny Garcia. Porter looks to continue to climb the P4P rankings as he battles Yordenis Ugas (23-3, 11 KOs) in the sun city – Las Vegas. Sean Porter showed the world in his last fight that nobody works harder or trains harder and it will be hard to bet against him when he is fully rested.

March 16, IBF Welterweight Champion & P4P #1 Errol Spence (24-0, 21 KOs) takes on Undefeated Four Division World Champion Mikey Garcia (39-0, 30 KOs), who is moving up two weight classes to make the super-show-down with Spence at AT&T Stadium, Texas. Not the most exciting fight I can think of but the show down will be very intriguing.

March 24, Lamont Peterson (35-4-1, 17 KOs) takes on Sergey Lipinets (14-1, 10 KOs). These to former champions will put on a show in our Nationals Capital, Washington, D.C.

April 13, Peter Quillin continues his climb back to stardom after being knocked out in the first round by Danny Jacobs. Quillin takes on former super middleweight champion Caleb Truax (30-4-2, 19 KOs) at The Armory in Minneapolis Minnesota.

April 20, former Jr. Welterweight and Welterweight Champion Danny Garcia (34-2, 20 KOs) takes on Adrian Granados (20-6-2, 14 KOs). KOs) in an anticipated action packed fight at the Barclays Center, Brooklyn.

November Boxing Results:

November 3rd Action:

Josh Taylor (13-0, 11 KO’s) vs Ryan Martin (22-0, 12 KO’s) squared off in Glasgow Scotland in The Junior Welterweight (140) World Boxing Super Series Tournament (WBSS) Quarterfinals. Martin showed why he was the number eight seed in the tournament. Martin came into the fight extremely well conditioned, but seemed to have zero experience, Taylor pretty much outboxed him and was the much busier fighter. Taylor’s power and speed kept Martin at bay. Martin started warming up by the forth round and finally let his hands go in the sixth. The first half of the fight was a clean sweep for Josh Taylor. A weird stoppage in the seventh, but it didn’t seem that Ryan Martin was prepared to give everything tonight. Taylor will face Russian Ivan Baranchyk in the Jr. Welterweight WBSS semifinals. Baranchyk stopped Sweden’s Anthony Yigit in New Orleans last week and won the Vacant IBF Title. The doctor stopped the fight when Yigit’s right eye closed up and ballooned to the size of a baseball.

Ryan Burnett (19-0) vs Nonito Donaire (38-5) in the bantamweight (118) WBSS quarterfinals. These two guys came ready to put on a great show. It was a very exciting Bantamweight fight and the younger/stronger Undefeated Champion Burnett was in cruise control until he pulled something when throwing a punch in the fourth round. It’s was really to bad because Burnett was ready to show his skills on the world stage. Hopefully, we will see Ryan Burnett soon. The legendary Filipino Flash continues his great career by advanced to the semifinals against South Africa’s WBO Bantamweight Champion Zolani Tete.

Darryll Williams (17-0) vs Zach Parker (16-0).
Williams dominated the action from the beginning as Parker claimed an injured left shoulder, which I’m not buying. Parker looked the part but had zero energy, he would keep looking up at the monitor clock every minute of every round – which is very strange. He had no inside fighting skills and would constantly hold Williams for which he was warned many times but never had a point deducted. Williams clearly won the fight; in an embarrassment to boxing, two Judge’s awarded the favorite – Zack Parker the decision over Darryll Williams and the vacant super middleweight British Title. Those are the types of decisions that put a real black eye on Boxing. What was the point of the fight if the judges had previously made their minds up on who the champ would be?

Miguel Berchelt (34-1, 30 KO’s) vs Miguel: Roman (60-12, 47 KO’s) for the WBC Super Featherweight Title in El Paso, Texas. Roman put up a good fight, but was dominated and stopped in the ninth round by Berchelt.

Sullivan Barrera (22-2) decisions Seanie Monaghan (29-2) in Brooklyn NYC.

November 8, on ESPN

Neeco Macias (17-0) vs Jesus Soto Karass (28-13-4). Fan friendly Fight, Karass landing well thru the first 5 rounds, if Karass blocks Macias’s left, Macias really brings nothing. Marias is wasting his talents and his boxing career, really learning nothing, going into the seventh round he’s actually being out worked by someone 10 years older. The ESPN broadcasters have to grow-up and stop laughing and acting like children. They are simply ruining the broadcast and fight, not to much respect from them, I muted the TV after the sixth round, enough with these amateur broadcasters. Instead of acting like paid professionals, there acting like buddies sitting in their living room with beers blurting out whatever comes into there head. Are these guys broadcasters or are they comedians doing a late night show, ESPN is ruining Boxing. Actually, a very entertaining fight, I liked Karass’s performance but I think a Draw is in order. Wow Karass Wins! Congratula tions on a great Career and happy retirement. The Rooster needs to understand that he’s better then the style he’s fighting and if he doesn’t make adjustments, he will have a short career.

Manny Robles III (16-0) vs Jose Gonzalez (23-6)-featherweights: Instead of Robles showing of his skills on ESPN, Golden Boy showed off a very weak Farm System.

Saturday November 10th Action:

Cruiserweight Division Night:
Oleksandr Usyk Ko’s an exhausted Tony Bellew in round 8. Bellew tried his best but forgot to fill-up his gas tank to full before arriving.
Mairis Briedis barely got by Noel Gevor (Mikaelian) in a very sloppy fight.
Krzysztof Glowacki showed off his skills and Maxim Vlasov showed his tougness and heart in a terrific fight.
Glowacki and Briedis advance to the WBSS Semi-finals.

Also Cruiserweights Artur “Thunder Man” Mann and Alexey Zubov stole the show and cruiserweight spotlight tonight by putting on an incredible show – a 10 round action packed fight.
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November 16th from Oklahoma City:

Maurice Hooker 24-0 vs Alex Saucedo 28-0:
Somebodies O, has got to go. As a fight went live a little bit past midnight (New York time), the atmosphere was electric with top boxers Errol Spence and Terrence Crawford watching on. The Hooker vs Saucedo Fight was fantastic. The first round was action packed as it was Saucedo’s speed and aggressiveness against Hooker’s astonishing 80 inch reach. In the second round Hooker went down and fought his way out of the round. The third round was also action packed and it made me think that this could steal the fight of the year away from GGG-Canelo. In reality it was a great fight but outside of the second round, Hooker dominated the entire fight. In the last few seconds of the third round, Saucedo started getting fatigued. Hooker Rope-A-Doped him a little and finished him in the seventh with some big shots (it was an excellent strategy by Hooker, his corner didn’t like it, but very smart). Saucedo said he had issues with cuts/eyes, what he really needs to figure out is why he was so tired less then midway through the match. Hooker landed big shots on Saucedo the entire fight and made a lot of new fans during his post fight interview. I can tell you right now!!! Maurice Hooker against Jose Ramírez in 2019 would be a Must See MEGA FIGHT!!!

Also undefeated welterweight Egidijus Kavaliauskas (20-0, 16 KOs) Ko’s Roberto Arriaza (17-0, 13 KOs) in the 3rd round.

Also in Philadelphia, 21-year-old welterweight knock out artist Jaron Ennis had his coming out party by knocking out Ray Serrano in the 2nd round, improving his record to 22-0.

November 17th in Kansas:

Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller vs. Bogdan Dinu:
Miller comes out being the aggressor as Dinu moves and boxes landing the better shots. Miller KO’s Dinu in the 4th round with a terrific right- left combination. Miller doesn’t really look like he’s ready for the big time, he is very Hitable and needs someone very stationery in order to land his punches. His chin is still untested but it seems that he might have a glass jaw. He took more damage then it appears in the fight.

Claressa Shields vs. Hannah Rankin:
Hannah Rankin came to the bout well prepared and ready for the biggest fight in her professional career. Only problem was her opponent was stronger, faster, more accurate and just as determined to win as her. Claressa Shields is simply on a different level and probably the best P4P Female Boxer on the planet. Her ring IQ (no wasted movement in the ring), combined with her ability to either be the aggressor or the counter puncher makes her a tall order for anyone to face. Shields is so relaxed in the ring, her hard work and dedication to the sweet science really shows. Rankin started getting her feet under her a bit in the third round but continued eating a lot of leather throughout the fight. It was a very good entertaining fight. Congratula tions Claressa Shields on collecting another title.

Brandon Rios vs. Ramon Alvarez @ 151 lbs:
First of all let me say that you can’t ask for a better fight as two true warriors where in the ring. Alvarez is from a family of Mexican fighters that never back down from anyone and Rios is the best of all warriors, he is in the class of Evander Holyfield and Juan Manual Márquez interms of being a warrior.
Rios was dishing out more then he was taking the entire fight but the bigger Alvarez took his shots well as Rios is much smaller. Rios had a big 5th round and dominated the 7th and the ref stopped it in the 8th as Alvarez was done. Great show for the fans by both men and great win for Rios. Robert Garcia and Rios have a great relationship. Congratula tions Bam Bam.

Luis Arias vs. Gabriel Rosado:
Gabe looked real fresh in the prefight warm- ups. These guys finally let the leather fly in the 4th round and Gabe showed his superior skills as the rounds went on. Gabe dominated the 9th and there was a lot of holding and grabbing in the second half of the fight from Arias. The fight was ruled a draw. I thought Gabe really showed up and showed the young Arias something. Hopefully these guys will get 6 months to rest and do it again to see who’s better. Rosado had a good game plan and showed up in shape, Arias seemed aired, lookup for one shot, running and grabbing. Arias did a lot of trash talking before the fight and didn’t really back-up anything he said.

Nico Hernandez vs. Josue Morales:
Hernandez wins an 8 round unanimous decision.

November 24th in Atlantic City, NJ:
Dmitry Bivol (14-0) vs Jean pascal(33-5-1)
Bivol dominated Pascal using his length and great footwork in combination with his volume punching. Boring night of boxing as HBO can’t wait to get out of the boxing scene. Very few fans in Atlantic City because most know HBO’s cards are now of poor quality. Many fans booing during the show, I’ll be surprised if more then 200k watched the show, a rerun of I Love Lucy would have gotten higher ratings.