Things I Learned About Boxing This Past Weekend:
1. Free money, free money?I knew that would get your attention. I know how you can make some easy cash. Go to any fight show in SoCal and, when you see the cat with the furry, red Kangol cap and the ?Rick?s Repo? shirt working some inept opponent?s corner, load up with bets on the guy in the other corner. Those clowns this guy had in against Dan Goossen?s prospects on the Peter-Chambers card were just awful?of course, that?s exactly what Loose Goose mismatchmaker Tom ?Frozen Four? Brown was directed to find?
2. I understand the concept but how exactly does Ricardo Lois think Eddie Chambers slims down to cruiserweight? Would he have to get his right leg amputated? No way at his age and this stage of his career that Fast Enough Eddie moves down a division?Btw, I figured out what blast from the heavyweight past Chambers resembles. He?s David ?Dancing Bear? Bey but without the snap in his punches?
3. I?m hearing rumblings of discord and dissatisfaction within the Ricky Hatton camp. Some say it could become a tension convention for Team Hatton. Mancunian whisperers tell www.boxingconfidential.com and examiber.com that Hatton?s second trainer, Lee Beard, is chafing at his second class treatment from His Arrogance, head trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. While his training skills are superb, Pretty Daddy has never been a smooth operator in his relationships with other members of a fighter?s camp. Mayweather does not believe in checking his ego at anybody?s door. (Prime example, constant tensions in the Joan Guzman crew back when Papa M. was handling the Dominican Dandy. It was more of the same when Pretty Daddy fell out with reliable moneymaker Bad Chad Dawson only to be replaced by former champ Eddie Mustafa Muhammad)… (For more on Hatton-Manny Pacquiao, go to www.hbo.com, www.toprank.com, www.rickyhatton.com, www.mannypacquiao.ph., www.philboxing.com, and to www.pac-fanscorner.com. For more on Hatton and British boxing, try www.britishboxing.net. For May 2, Hatton-Pacquiao hotel or ticket info, go to www.mgmgrand.com. For total Las Vegas info, try www.vegas.com. 4. 5. 6. I, for one, felt no need to watch JC Chavez in a can?t lose fight in Tijuana against the guy from Argentina. Top Rank?s astute and cynical matchmaker, Bruce Trampler, spoke the truth when he said Son of the Legend?s safe opponents will remain safe opponents. As ?Southland? pointed out, the customers are buying Jc Jr. even though the foes are all named XYZ, TBA and TBD. You know Bob Arum?s favorite Motown song, ?First I Look At The Purse,? which if memory serves, was ably done by The Contours? 7. Matt Stolow, Hebrew Housecat from Dallas, gives www.boxingconfidential.com big prefight advance on local yokel Charles Hatley?s fight and then delivers no results. Now you know how those SMU cheerleaders used to feel. Stolow used to take his dates to Luby?s for the all you can eat buffet and, then when she finished one small plate, he would say, ?That?s all you can eat, honey. Time to go to the submarine races.?? 8. It may have just happened by circumstance rather than by design. But I salute Golden Guy Richie Rich Schaefer for having Top Rank chattel Edwin Valero on top of the GBP ?Lightweight Lightning? PPV show from Austin, Tx., this Saturday night. Without Valero and due to the injury pullouts of Jorge Barrios and Joel Casamayor, this show could?ve turned into a fiasco. Now, Mr. Schaefer, you need to advance your Golden concept and stage a tournament or a semblance of one in other weight classes. And, as with Valero, you need to embrace other promoter?s champions to do it. Myopic promoters can?t see beyond their own self interest but I?m starting to think you do?
