BOXING - Edwin Valero pad workout
On Saturday July 16, 2011 WALTER JOHNSON PROMOTIONS brings World Championship Boxing back to the Greensboro Coliseum Special Event Center. The event features a 10 Round Bout for the Vacant UNBC Super Middleweight World Championship. Scott Sigmoin 16-2 (9KO’s) of Jefferson, VA., will take on undefeated Chris Fitzpatrick 13-0 (7KO’s) of Columbia, SC. This bout has war written all over it as neither man has much like for the other. Both men have promised knockouts and both are training extremely hard for this bout.
A Dream, A Buck, An Era
By Robert W. Jepperson
Here is book that features an era when much of America faced its toughest economic times, when a largely immigrant population faced harsh challenges yet found ways to win. At a time when boxing permeated the culture of every corner of the country, many men tried the sport as a way to make a buck, and for a few, prizefighting fueled dreams of glory and wealth.
Fightbeat Video - Antonio Margarito sparring - enjoy!
We’re all set to go with the semifinals of Showtime’s Super Six super middleweight tournament live from Atlantic City, New Jersey. Glen “The Road Warrior” Johnson just entered the ring repping Miami with the Heat warmups and “305” hardhat. Carl “The Cobra” Froch enters to “Welcome to the Jungle.” He looks focused and he’ll need to be because Johnson never fails to show up for a fight.
Classy Jimmy Lennon Jr. is getting ready to do the official introductions. Judges are from England, the U.S. and Japan. Ref is Earl Brown. Round-by-round updates after the jump:
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Pic of the Day - Sugar Shane Mosley, smooth lookin’ fella as always (pics by Sean Reed)
Pic of the Day - Pacman and a mean looking Margarito before their fight - we know how that turned out! (pics by Sean Reed)
OK we know the negotiations aren’t going well, but this is an enticing matchup and another in the series we put to the FightBeat boxing experts in order to see not only who wins, but who they want to win. 
First up, Khan wasn’t very popular amongst our experts. This next comment pretty much sums up much of the the feeling about Amir Khan;
“Khan’s essentially Roach’s programmed boxbot, the budget model. Jab, jab, jab, hands up move, jab, jab, jab, throw a flurry, hands up move. The chances of a guy like that being drawn onto one of those (Judah’s) left uppercuts or short right hooks seems better than most.”
Many in the community were not convinced of Khan’s legitimacy, and in particular his chin. It was felt that Judah, with his southpaw style, experience and knockout power, had a great chance to end Khan’s career;
“Watching Khan get stretched out by Judah would be a sweet, sweet moment.”
“Pretty easy call here, Judah will STOP him”
“Amir Conman is just sooooo sloppy, that I could see Zab timing him with a left and rocking his world.”
However, while many of our experts saw Judah as a legitimate threat to Khan, there were some who held a different view;
“I’m not impressed with Khan at all and think that those who are are just blinded by his speed or just pure fanboys and fail to look at his lack of skills (for a world class fighter). But I don’t think Khan will lose to Judah. Judah is a live underdog, but is too inactive and past his prime IMO. Khan should outwork him and Judah will go into a shell and drop a decision”
So all in all, our Fightbeat experts not only want Judah to win, but think he has a great chance to do just that. All we need is the fight to be signed.
Agree? Disagree?
Alfredo Angulo training and sparring - enjoy
In a stunning end to the trilogy between these 2 thaiboxers, “John” Wayne Parr defeated Mike Zambidis by TKO in the first round (3 knockdown rule).
Parr landed a great right hand to spark the first knockdown, and never let Zambidis recover, the referee waving off the fight after the third knockdown.
In their first meeting, Zambidis won a close and controversial decision, while in the second Parr won the decision. This final meeting was the closing chapter between the 2 combatants, which saw Parr victorious.
