adminrecent wars will be revisited.
Here’s a look at March’s six “must see” fights:
March 9
Bernard Hopkins (52-6-2, 32 KOs) vs. Tavoris Cloud (24-0, 19 KOs): Former undisputed middleweight champ and two-time lineal light heavyweight titlist, Bernard Hopkins, will be looking to break his own mark as the oldest fighter to win a world title. The 48-year-old future hall of famer will be challenging for 31-year-old Tavoris Cloud’s IBF light heavyweight title.
Hopkins has spent the last several years defying the odds and scoring upsets over younger, fresher opposition. This latest challenge should represent either the end of the line or the continuation of an unlikely boxing fairy tale.
Keith Thurman (19-0, 18 KOs) vs. Jan Zaveck (32-2, 18 KOs): On the Hopkins-Cloud undercard at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, 24-year-old prospect, Keith Thurman, looks to maintain his rising star and undefeated record against former world titlist, Jan Zaveck.
Thurman is crude and inexperienced, but extremely strong and aggressive. Slovenia’s Zaveck is twelve years Thurman’s elder, but has proven to be a solid, durable fighter. Thurman-Zaveck has been designated a WBO welterweight title eliminator, meaning that the winner will be in line to face WBO welterweight champ, Timothy Bradley.
Edgar Sosa (47-7, 28 KOs) vs. Ulises Solis (35-2-3, 22 KOs): This pint-sized Mexican rivalry between former junior flyweight champs has produced nothing but thrills and solid ring action in its two previous chapters. There’s no reason to believe that the third contest won’t be similarly compelling.
Sosa has dropped two close decisions to Solis, one in just his sixth pro fight and the other in a bid for Solis’ Mexican junior flyweight title, but is looking to close out the trilogy with a win. Both warriors are now battle-weary veterans looking to make one more run at a world title as flyweights. Barring some fight-ending clash of heads or some other accident, this one is sure to be a compelling, entertaining battle.
March 16
Timothy Bradley (29-0, 12 KOs) vs. Ruslan Provodnikov (22-1, 15 KOs): WBO welterweight champ, Bradley, likely had no idea that his controversial split decision upset of Manny Pacquiao last year would wind up being a career dead end.
However, with Pacquiao unwilling to pursue a rematch and Bradley’s promoter, Top Rank, seemingly unmotivated to look for something bigger, Bradley has found himself pushed into this odd match-up. — AFP.
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