The BTBC…Boxing With a Bite! (A Review of our First Two Weeks)

When we launched our new Boxing news blog a couple of weeks ago ( http://btbc-boxing.blogspot.com/ ) ,we fully expected a major battle to earn a small piece of the already packed market.

We can’t fully compete with the big boys like Boxingscene or Maxboxing just yet- they simply have too much money and power to be touched. But, like a privately-owned burger joint that sits across the street from a mighty McDonalds, we are confident that we have the quality and personal touch that the industry giants can’t duplicate.

At our BTBC Boxing News Blog, you will get an approach and a look at the sport that is 100% unique. Despite having 1/1,000,000 the budget of a Maxboxing, we can guarantee that no major Boxing story will be overlooked and that we will cater to all the essential needs of both hardcore and casual fans alike.

Give us a look, subscribe and use us right now as a compliment to your primary Boxing news source, but be aware that we’re gunning for the big boys’ heads and we ain’t stopping until we’re at the very top!

Here’s a sampling of some of our stories from the last 2 weeks:

A Pop Diva, A White Buffalo, A Dancing Hide, Petrified Woods and Some Guy Named Byron…

Proving once again that Boxing is either the most forgiving or the most severely retarded sport in the world, here’s a news roundup concerning some familiar names:

…Pop Diva, Roy Jones…Click Here for the Rest of the Story: http://btbc-boxing.blogspot.com/2009/05/pop-diva-white-buffalo-dancing-hide.html

 

The First Rule of Fight Club…Don’t Invite Mike Tyson!

According to dirt-rag gossip site, Ianundercover.com, mega step-dad and star of The Fight Club, Brad Pitt, was nearly offed by enraged Heavyweight champ, Mike Tyson because of Pitt’s relationship with Tyson’s ex, Robin Givens. According to a pal of Tyson’s, the goofed-up ex-champ went as far as…Click Here for the Rest of the Story: http://btbc-boxing.blogspot.com/2009/05/first-rule-of-fight-clubdont-invite.html

 

Yet Another Title Shot for Zab Judah?

Boxingscene.com is reporting on a rumor that would have Boxing’s answer to the Washington Generals, Zab Judah, on the verge of getting yet another shot at a World Title. Click Here for the Rest of the Story: http://btbc-boxing.blogspot.com/2009/05/yet-another-title-shot-for-zab-judah.html

 

Kelly Pavlik vs. Sergio Mora Off!

The un-awaited Middleweight title bout between Kelly Pavlik and Sergio Mora was called off today due to a staph infection on one of Pavlik’s hands [see above pic of painfully swollen hands]. The bout will likely be rescheduled for some time in September…or, hopefully, not. Click Here for the Rest of the Story: http://btbc-boxing.blogspot.com/2009/05/kelly-pavlik-sergiomora-off.html

Freddie Fingers Mayweather

Trainer Freddie Roach on the upcoming Floyd Mayweather-Juan Manuel Marquez bout:

“The fight stinks…Click Here for the Rest of the Story: http://btbc-boxing.blogspot.com/2009/05/freddie-fingers-mayweather.html

 
Paq-man Fever Post of the Week

The BTBC is proud to announce a new feature to this blog: The Paq-man Fever Post of the Week. Special thanks to the Pac-land message board for providing the rest of the world with so much material!

“Floyd will be lucky…Click Here for the Rest of the Story: http://btbc-boxing.blogspot.com/2009/05/paq-man-fever-post-of-week.html

 

Crisis Averted! Camacho-Campas is Back On!

Phew! After the Jersey Commission refused to sanction the bout, we almost didn’t get to see the Macho great grandfather and the 37-year old Boy mix it up on Pay Per View…Click Here for the Rest of the Story: http://btbc-boxing.blogspot.com/2009/05/crisis-averted-camacho-campas-is-back.html

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That’s just a taste of what to expect at our Boxing News Blog. Regular features include: The BTBC “What if” Series, Up to-Date and Up-to-the-Minute Results from around the Globe, Ring Card Girl of the Day and much, much more…

Come visit The BTBC: Boxing With a Bite! and support the independent news media. Never trust a news site that reports on business affecting their own sponsors…

http://btbc-boxing.blogspot.com/ Come on in for a few laughs and give us a chance to win you over!

Madcow’s Standing 8 Count (5/10/09)

by Madcow

Welcome to another week’s worth of Boxing slaps and tickles with your favorite overweight booze hound-wh*re monger. In case you don’t know who I am, my name is Madcow- I’m an independently wealthy Boxing expert and, quite often, the smartest guy in the room.

Chad Dawson beat Antonio Tarver, again, in an almost identical fight as their first one. Nothing was working last Saturday. The whole HBO telecast seemed off. Dawson looked flat, Tarver looked ancient and even the ring card girls looked skankier than usual. It was a bad night for all parties…especially us fans who had to sit through a snore-fest while thinking about just how many great fights we could’ve seen aired with the money they wasted on Dawson/Tarver 2.

The next step for Dawson is to find a decent fight among all the bums at 175. The only option for a money fight is to fly out to Wales, find out where Calzaghe’s gone drinking, bring TV cameras and force Joe to fight him, ala Rocky V…Either that or invent a time machine so he can go back 8 years to fight a Roy Jones who could actually defend himself.

As for Antonio Tarver…Tarver goes back to doing what all marginally successful men with smoking hot wives do- Look over his shoulder and have a private detective follow Denise Tarver around all day.

Speaking of Denise Tarver…Denise, drop me a line, ok? You can send all e-mails to boxing_times@yahoo.com. Put “Madcow” in the title and it’ll be forwarded to me…Later, pumpkin.

Hector Camacho and Yory Boy Campas went ahead with their ridiculous PPV on Saturday. Florida played host to these geezers since Jersey wouldn’t license Camacho. I was pulling for the show to be named “When Swollen Prostates Collide,” but they went with “Nations Collide” or something silly like that. There’s no word on the buy rate yet, but it has to be at least “1” because of the guy who was airing the illegal stream that I watched on the internet.

As for the show itself, if you enjoy the feel and production value of Sunday morning UHF Pro-Wrestling shows, you would’ve loved this one. Dim lighting, grainy color, cheap effects…you had to know that any PPV featuring a 47-year old felon in the main event had to be all class.

By the way, the fight was declared a draw…and there’s no truth to the rumor that the pre-fight physical used carbon dating technology.

Next week, Andre Ward and Edison Miranda mix it up. I have to admit that Miranda is the type of blow-hard bully that I hate with a passion. But, Ward is the type of good-looking arrogant jock I also hate with a passion. So, I’m torn. Maybe I’ll root for a double knockout or a collapsing roof.

Roy Jones wanted to fight in the UFC Octagon against Anderson Silva and the fight would’ve been made if Dana White hadn’t vetoed it. White says that a Jones fight is meaningless and that he doesn’t want to be responsible for a legend like Roy Jones getting hurt. Yeah, right…and the only reason I’m not nailing Scarlett Johansson is because I don’t like busty blondes.

The Kelly Pavlik–Sergio Mora fight, scheduled for June 27th, has been cancelled. On the surface this is good news, but all this means is that we’re still going to have to co-exist in the same universe as Mora until Pavlik’s staph infection of the hand is better.

Ok, I have to run, I gotta get a massage and if I show up late for my appointment, the “happy ending” becomes an “inconclusive session-ender.”

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If you’re already reading this at our boxing news blog, be sure to check out our original blog for longer feature stories and analysis: https://thebluecorner.wordpress.com

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I’ll see ya next Sunday, ladies.

In With The Old, Out With Samuel Peter

by Damon Ealy

I  know Showtime didn’t broadcast Vitali’s high-tech ring entrance last week in Berlin, but just as a bit of a contrarian voice to everyone who saw it and thought it was all that and a sack of spätzle:

Yes, it was technologically impressive. And yes, it was kind of fun. It might mean I’m dim-witted, but seeing George Foreman smile makes me smile. (Hell, seeing him frown makes me smile.) And having Evander Holyfield pass the mic to Tyson, as it were, with a friendly sort of “Hey, Mike? What do you think about this one?” was either a stroke of genius or strikingly tone-deaf.

But really, if that’s your idea of the “best ring entrance ever” (Google it; someone does), you probably prefer New York New York in Vegas to the actual New York. You probably think Apollo Creed as Uncle Sam was tactful and understated. You probably wear a Speedo to the beach. (Ahem. Germans.)

I’m just saying. Isn’t a less-is-more approach more true to this sport? Think vintage Tyson. (Or even
late-’90s Tyson. Just don’t think the pudgy holo-Tyson of October 2008.) Vintage Tyson, accompanied only by a Public Enemy track, bass-heavy and distorted over the P.A. at the Atlantic City Convention Hall, didn’t want your well-wishes. He knew what he was going to do, and he didn’t need a bunch of has-beens encouraging him. Or messing up his corner. (And that bad look on your face–you think Vitali’s going to knock it off?)

Back to the subject. The Vitali Klitschko pregame show was neat. I’ll concede that. It was cutting-edge. But it was as much a pre-fight face-slap as anything Naseem Hamed or Hector Camacho ever pulled off. So if you’re loving this one but thought Hamed was a twat for riding the magic carpet, stop. Imagine that you’re Samuel Peter. You managed to dump Vitali’s brother, almost his doppelganger, three times on a night three years ago and still lose a decision. Since then, you’ve won five in a row, picking up the WBC title along the way, while Vitali Klitschko, voluntarily out of the game, still reigns as WBC “champion emeritus.” (A phrase that will always go in scare quotes because it’s so stupid.) Now you’ve come to his backyard to fight him. You’ve endured being made the underdog by the books and being treated as the pesky challenger at the press conference. And as he enters the ring, you’ve got five of the greatest heavyweights ever, who’ve been talked into making little recordings for the event, wishing him luck. Him–the favorite!

In a perfect world, Samuel Peter gets fired up and ruins everything for the home team, dumping Vitali and moving on to a rematch with Wladimir next spring. In an imperfect world, Samuel Peter, looking listless and unmotivated, gets hit with straight punches on repeat, barely touches Vitali, and surrenders when open scoring brings the fact that he can only win by knockout to stark clarity.

In a cruel world (the real one–the one that we know and live in), Sam Peter finds out that Vitali Klitschko jabbed his way to victory with hands that had been soaked in baby piss (“Power of Pee Keeps Klitschko’s Fists Pounding,” Deutsche Welle):

“Baby wee is good because it’s pure, doesn’t contain toxins and doesn’t smell,” the 37-year-old boxer told the paper after winning the title bout on Saturday.
“I wrap diapers filled with my three-year-old son Max’s wee around my fists,” he said, adding that the idea originated with his grandmother. “The nappies hold the liquid and the swelling stays down.”

All of those guys represented in hologram were underdogs at some point, and they all took losses somewhere in their careers, all probably more dispiriting than what Samuel Peter experienced that night. It’d have been a nice touch for them to drop by Peter’s dressing room after the fight with some encouraging words.