By Cliff Rold - If the possibility of a chess match with potentially low punch output and long bouts of staring doesn’t appeal, fight fans can recall what happened the last time Bernard Hopkins was matched with a fellow boxer-first type on pay-per-view.
What happened was that the paying customers got their money’s worth before the main event. Often forgotten when trying to forget the long twelve rounds that was 2007’s Hopkins-Winky Wright was the outstanding undercard that supported it.
U.S. fans got their first real look at action star Michael Katsidis in a Fight of the Year contending knockout of Czar Amonsot. For twelve rounds, the two would take the measure of one another in a classic affair.
Nothing on the Hopkins-Dawson undercard looks as promising as Katsidis-Amonsot. That doesn’t mean the support bouts are lacking. In fact, one of the selling points of the show is that it is well constructed, a hedge against a main event that could be uneventful.
A key name on this weekend’s card certainly hearkens back to the Hopkins-Wright show, if simply because he was on it. And boy was he. Katsidis wasn’t the only star boxing followers (thought they) saw born that night.
Also featured, for a vacant WBC belt at Featherweight, was a clash between veteran Oscar Larios and an unknown, undefeated Venezuelan named Jorge Linares. He wasn’t unknown by night’s end. Showing off an exceptional jab, solid infighting, and the pop to finish late, Linares finished Larios in ten. [Click Here To Read More]
What happened was that the paying customers got their money’s worth before the main event. Often forgotten when trying to forget the long twelve rounds that was 2007’s Hopkins-Winky Wright was the outstanding undercard that supported it.
U.S. fans got their first real look at action star Michael Katsidis in a Fight of the Year contending knockout of Czar Amonsot. For twelve rounds, the two would take the measure of one another in a classic affair.
Nothing on the Hopkins-Dawson undercard looks as promising as Katsidis-Amonsot. That doesn’t mean the support bouts are lacking. In fact, one of the selling points of the show is that it is well constructed, a hedge against a main event that could be uneventful.
A key name on this weekend’s card certainly hearkens back to the Hopkins-Wright show, if simply because he was on it. And boy was he. Katsidis wasn’t the only star boxing followers (thought they) saw born that night.
Also featured, for a vacant WBC belt at Featherweight, was a clash between veteran Oscar Larios and an unknown, undefeated Venezuelan named Jorge Linares. He wasn’t unknown by night’s end. Showing off an exceptional jab, solid infighting, and the pop to finish late, Linares finished Larios in ten. [Click Here To Read More]
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