Heavyweight Schedule for 2018

[The Hammer]

The famous British heavyweight Lennox Lewis expresses support to his compatriot David Price, who yesterday was knocked out in the second round by American veteran Tony Thompson.

"The way you react to a defeat, is more significant than the way you react to the win. You should draw conclusions and then move onwards and upwards!" said Lewis, who himself lost twice in one-punch KOs from hopeless crackhead Oliver McCall and from Hasim Rahman, but always came back after a defeat even better than before.

[The Hammer]

Vyacheslav Glazkov: "It was a very useful match and a good lesson"

[Mikhnienko]

Peter Fury's Comments on the Thompson-Price result:

This was pretty funny

"I can't say i thought much of the fight as Price fell like a deck chair as soon as anything landed"

While this is outright scary

"Thompson is an old nobody and we would take him as a warm-up for Pulev later in the year"

So Pulev who should already be in camp for his final eliminator is now going to have to wait for Fury vs Cunningham then possibly Fury vs Thompson just waiting around unitl November or something? Surely the IBF can't be incompetent enough to let that happen and will resolve this soon.

[The Hammer]

Good article on Glazkov-Scott:

r.com/headlines/nbcsn-fight-night-results-glazkov-and-scott-fight-to-draw-algieri-decisions-peralta/

by Johnny Walker

In a heavyweight fight advertised with the line “somebody’s ‘0’ has got to go,” nobody’s ‘o’ went anywhere tonight as undefeated heavyweights Vyacheslav “Czar” Glazkov of Ukraine and Malik Scott of the USA fought to an uneventful draw on NBC Sports Network’s Fight Night, broadcast from The Paramount in Huntington, NY.

With a very biased sounding commentary coming from the NBC announcers – especially color analyst BJ Flores, who seemed to decide early in the fight that Scott was going to win and win big–this bout had all the makings of becoming another one of those “controversial” decisions. And so it was, if you subscribe to the notion that what the skillfully negative Scott was doing in the ring equalled winning a fight going away.

Scott calmly strolled around the edges of the ring all night, moving side to side and backwards while landing some nice body shots and stinging jabs to be sure. But his relentlessly negative style may have not only frustrated Glazkov – who complained after the bout of Scott’s constant “running” from him all night – but also a couple of the judges, who refused to reward him excessively for it.

In truth, neither fighter exactly lit it up in there, and judge Julie Lederman’s 95-95 score seems like a reasonable way to view the fight.

Neither man was ever hurt in the bout, though Glazkov’s better punches were often ignored by the broadcast crew as they raved about the talents of Malik Scott.

As for Glazkov (14-0-1, 10 KOs), he didn’t show the imagination needed to really break the fight open: he was exposed as being somewhat one-dimensional at this point in his career. And Scott (35-0-1, 12 KOs) had zero intention of really trying to win the fight, rather than simply not lose it: his style makes the supposedly “safety first” heavyweight champion Klitschko brothers look like madman daredevils in the ring in comparison.

Aside from Lederman’s 95-95 score, one judge saw it Flores’ way with a 98-92 tally for Scott, while another saw it the way this writer did, with a 96-94 score for the more offensive-minded Glazkov.

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Vitali Klitschko says he's not going to be fighting David Haye:

David Haye was able to fight me on 10 September 2012 in Moscow. He was sent to all contracts, the Briton could only sign for them. David refused. The David Haye train has left" said Vitali.

Golota-Saleta highlights:

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Steve Cunningham interview:

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Tony Thompson wants to fight Alexander Povetkin:




Robert Helenius vs. Michael Sprott on Mar 23?




Mike Mollo receives contract to fight Krzysztof Zimnoch on June 29:

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Arreola vs. Stiverne is postponed again because Arreola has bronchitis.

[BostonGuy]

Arreola vs. Stiverne is postponed again because Arreola has bronchitis.

Hah hah hah, I knew it - I knew it would be cancelled or postponed again. The problem with scheduling a fight so far in advance is that there's much more time for something to happen e.g. injury, cancellation, etc. That's what happened with the Mitchell-Banks fight last year. It almost didn't happen because it was booked so far in advance.