Real quick my picks for all of tonight’s fights.
Edison Miranda versus Allan Green: This is one fight where you really have to be clairvoyant. Green is the bigger guy and better boxer. Miranda is the slugger with what seems to be a never say die attitude. Word is that he did beat Arthur Abraham in German. I’m going with Miranda only by the slimmest of margins.
Miguel Cotto versus Oktay Urkel. HBO needs to fire its webmaster and ad man. They describe Oktay Urkel as a "knockout artest", you read it right, "artest". Easy win for Cotto as he already has Judah lined up.
Vic Darchinyan versus Victor Burgos: Darchinyan by knockout even though I haven’t seen Burgos fight. "They", meaning his promoters obviously want to build Vicious Vic up for a payday versus one of the other belt holders.
Rafael Marquez versus Israel Vasquez: Ahhhh…This is what we’ve been waiting for. A fight of the year candidate to die hard fans. That being said, I’m predicting a surprisingly one sided victory for Rafa. Vasquez was being out-boxed by Jhonny Gonzallez in what I thought was the fight of the year candidate last year. Marquez is more hardy than Gonzalez, more technically sound and definitely punches harder. I predict he finishes the job Gonzalez started and becomes a two division champ.
A short note, on any other night I would splurge and pay to watch UFC 68 with Sylvia taking on Couture. There has to be a cross-over fan base in boxing and mixed martial arts so I don’t know why they would compete head on with two boxing shows. C’est la vie, I won’t be watching the UFC tonight.
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