Due to some other activities going on this month, I did not personally see a whole lot of boxing this month. But, the sport kept going, so let's see what happened. Hector Camacho lapsed into inactivity and fell out of the Active Middle ranks, allowing Ike Quartey to enter the ratings. Cory Spinks returned to the active list and moved up to win a Light Middleweight belt and jumped to number three in the current Light Middleweight ratings b
y beating Roman Karmazin. This dropped Michele Piccirillo out of the ratings. Freddie Norwood came back after an almost six year layoff to beat Darien Ford and move into the Light Welter ratings. He was last seen at Super Featherweight. This bumped Junior Witter, who h
ad made his ratings debut last month, back to obscurity. Juan Diaz pummelled unknown but decent Randy Suico to pass Diego Corrales in the Lightweight rankings. Oscar Larios traveled to
Manny Pacquiao's hometown and his weight division and lost. This allowed Pacquiao to pass Erik Morales in the Super Featherweight rankings and Larios moved in at number 5. This bumped Rocky Jaurez down and out. Larios also moved into the All-Time ratings and bumped out Kevin Kelley (who was moving out anyway due to his recent loss). Steven Luevano and Jorge Solis moved down and in to the Featherweight rankings with wins over the marginal Cristobal Cruz and the completely ordinary Lizardo Moreno respectively. This bumped longtime go
od-not-great Johnny Tapia and what in the world were you doing there to begin with Scott Harrison from the rankings. At Super Bantamweight, Daniel Ponce De Leon demolished the decent Sod Looknongyangtoy to move past Fahsan 3K Battery and Ricardo Castillo moved into the rankings to fill the spot vacated by Oscar Larios. Ponce De Leon also moved into the alltime ratings, filling Larios's vacated spot there. At Super Fly, Rayonta Whitfield moved up to Bantamweight, so former champ Jair Jimenez moved into the ratings. Roberto Carlos Leyva decided it was ok to eat and moved out of the Minimumweight ratings, allowing the Puerto Rican Omar Soto to move in and up with h
is defeat of Juan Alfonso Keb Baas. Continued work in the old heavyweights allowed Ezzard Charles to move up the all time pound for pound ratings and also allowed Joe Louis to enter the ratings, unseating Ike Williams. Joe Louis also moved up in the heavyweight ratings. The old work bled over into the Light Heavies as well, allowing Harold Johnson and Billy Conn to each move up a spot. While other record entering did not allow Mikkel Kessler to catch Joe Calzaghe in the current ratings, it did allow him to pass Mario Veit in the alltime Super Middle ratings. It also allowed Otis Grant to pass Markus Beyer. Shane Mosley's dismantling on Fernando Vargas, while not enough to catch Oscar in the current ratings, he did pass Ralph Dupas in the All-Time ratings. Floyd Mayweather moved by Emile Griffith at Welter. Juan Alfonso Keb Baas moved down to Minimum and lsot to Omar Soto, but he did enter the All Time ratings.What to Watch for:
August 5 Ike Quartey vs. Vernon Forrest (Middle #5 vs. Light Middle #4) 
HBOAugust 19 Jose Carita Lopez vs. Kermin Guardia (Fly #5 vs. Lt. Fly #5)
August 5 Rafael Marquez vs. Silence Mabuza (Bantam #1 vs. Unranked) Showtime
August 5 Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Terdsak Jandaeng (Feather #1 vs. Unranked) Showtime August 10 Brian Viloria vs. Omar Nino Romero (Lt. Fly #2 vs. Unranked)
August 19 Sharmba Mitchell vs. Paul Williams (Welter #3 vs. Unranked (but good)) HBOAugust 12 Humberto Soto vs. Ivan Valle (Feather #3 vs. Unranked) HBO PPV
August 18 Veeraphol Sahaprom vs. Anthony Mathias (Bantam #3 vs. Unranked)
August 4 Freddie Norwood vs. Anthony Martinez (Light Welter #4 vs. Unranked) ESPN
August 19 Omar Soto (PR) vs. Luis Ramos (Minimum #4 vs. Unranked)
5 comments:
I am confused by the ratings on champions. Arn't there two or three organizations that decide, through fights, who is the champion? Sounds like an ear biting off mess to me. I once had a man (soldier) that had once had his left ear bitten off in a fight. You guessed it, we nick named him "one ear." I also had a man who had been partially shot in the face with a shotgun and again guess what we nick named him.
Is it true that Tyson had all his money stolen by his trainers etc.?
Where is he now, living with Richy Williams? ha
To answer one of DAs old questions about weight splits in heavyweights.
No DA. At heavyweight level it's not the size of the dog, it's the size of the fight in the dog. Being huge and sometimes overweight can be a disadvantage, por ejemplo, Butter bean. There have been manager who advertised for huge men to train to become pro boxers and all the experiments failed. Marciano knocked Joe Lewis through the ropes and almost knocked the head off Jersey joe Walcot(I think it was Jersey Joe). (some lucky photographer got the famous foto.)Marciano was relatively small by heavyweight standards. During the world golden gloves boxing championship heavyweight fight Rocky knocked out his opponent 8 seconds before the end of the fight but lost. It took the dr's and trainers 30 minutes to revive his opponent. In my opinion, if you are over 190 and can fight and know how to throw a punch, that is enough weight to produce the momentum to knock nearly anyone out. Maybe not the Cut and Shoot boxer, but enough to rattle the brain or close an eye or open a big cut.
As for the championship belts, there are four mainly respected sanctioning bodies who dole out belts, the WBA, the WBC, the IBF, and the WBO. When someone calls themself a champion, they usually hold one of the belts. Ring Magazine also has a championship and it is widely regarded (by ESPN at least) as indicative of who the real "champion" is. As for me, I don't list people as champions, I just indicate which fighters have accumulated the most rating points by beating other fighters who have also accumulated a lot of points. I guess you could say my ratings are representative of accomplishment in the sport, rather than paying the right signing bonus to the right sanctioning body.
Leon Spinks is now working as a janitor somewhere. That dude lost a lot of money somewhere, some time. I actually remember seeing his bout with Ali when I was in 4th or 5th grade. What a huge disappointment that was.
Good lord there are some great names in the sport of boxing. I think that needs to be a category in the left hand column. Some nominations culled from this entry:
1) Lizardo Moreno ("Lizardo" sounds like somebody faking a knowledge of Spanish. I'd love to make up a backstory to that naming experience.)
2) Sod Looknongyangtoy.
3) Fahsan 3K Battery, of course, but we've seen him before.
4) Ponce de Leon is not bad.
5) Silence Mabuza. Sounds like a command.
6) Terdsak Jandaeng. "Terdsak" may be the best of all.
In next month's installment, I'd like to see hometowns listed in the update section. And the green in the left-hand column has just got to go. It's too dark to show up well against the dark blue background. Can you not find a light green or some other alternative?
Steve, I remember Leon Spinks. When I watched him fight it was always an exercise in stress. It just seamed he was always on the edge.
Those names, did you make them up. Surely no one has names like that.
"Potty?" Come on ole clever one.
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