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Cotto vs. Margarito 2: Post-Fight Analysis and Reflections
"I wonder if that referee is an advertisement for the abolition of the very sport that he is a part of." Those were the famous words of Howard Cosell during the Larry Holmes vs. Tex Cobb affair. And in most circumstances, a fair description of referee Steve Smoger: a man known to allow for...
Cotto vs. Margarito: Live Results and Round-by-Round Coverage
Antonio Margarito vs. Miguel Cotto II is a match that for all of the criticisms and politics, is set to resolve itself tonight at Madison Square Garden on HBO. The PPV Broadcast will begin at 9 p.m. ET, which you can watch through Top Rank. The two boxers are not set to resolve some petty rivalry....
Pacquiao vs Marquez 3: 24/7 videos from HBO
The UFC is putting its best foot forward tonight (Sat., Nov. 12, 2011) with its landmark UFC on FOX 1: "Velasquez vs. Dos Santos" event airing live and free on network television. The big boys will be out to play, as Cain Velasquez defends his heavyweight title against Junior dos Santos. But...
Ken Hershman Leaves Showtime for HBO, MMA's Future on Premium Cable In Doubt
Ken Hershman has been at Showtime since 1992, serving as the general manager of sports and event programming for several years. He has now expected to jump to HBO where he will replace Ross Greenburg. The most obvious sport this impacts is boxing as Hershman was one of the primary players in...
Dana White: Larry Merchant Is Senile, Out of His Mind
After Floyd Mayweather Jr. landed a clean (both in its effectiveness and legality) left hook-straight right combination that put down the headbutting Victor Ortiz, Larry Merchant entered the ring for his usual post-fight shenanigans. He pressed Mayweather on the "unsportsmanlike" blows, which...
Strikeforce Results With Josh Gross, Manny Pacquiao to Showtime PPV With Steve Kim on MMA Nation
While waiting for one of the best overall UFC cards in quite some time (hint: UFC 126), we decided to talk about some of the other news in combat sports. Our two guests this week were Josh Gross from ESPN.com and Steve Kim from MaxBoxing.com. Gross helped us recap the results from Strikeforce:...
Manny Pacquiao's Departure Leaves Hole in HBO's Programming MMA Could Fill
When Manny Pacquiao signed a deal to leave HBO for Showtime for his upcoming fight against Shane Mosley it marked yet another in a series of blows to HBO's former status as the premier home for boxing. The network had long been established as the home of the best fighters and fights, but in recent...
UFC 125 Preliminaries Get 829,000 Viewers, Lowest Ever
When the UFC announced only days before UFC 125 that it would be airing three preliminary fights on ION TV it was a suprising announcement. The UFC and Spike TV have been joined at the hip since 2005 when The Ultimate Fighter made the UFC a commercially viable entity in the U.S. Three fights were...
Is Shane Mosley vs. Sergio Mora Just Another Sign of Boxing's Fall?
Here's how Bad Left Hook opens their always excellent live coverage of tonight's boxing PPV: For the many who won't be plunking down their hard-earned coin on tonight's marginal and rightly-criticized HBO pay-per-view card headlined by Shane Mosley taking on Sergio Mora, fear not! You can still...
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