Miguel Cotto vs. Zab Judah

So the fight dubbed as "X-PLOSIVE!" is coming up this 9th of June on HBO Pay-per-view. WBA Welterweight Champion Miguel Cotto will defend his title against Zab "Super" Judah. The question is: Should I buy the fight? I have seen Cotto's fights and, to me, he is a very exciting fighter. In fact, he knocked out once undefeated Carlos Quintana in just five rounds in their fight for the WBA championship belt. I might just buy it for him, but I'm not sure about Judah. His last fight against Mayweather was just a big disaster and I hope he won't do it at this fight. During the last press conference for this fight, both fighters promised to win, but there's only one winner and we wouldn't like any draws. My prediction for this fight is a win by Cotto either by knockout or decision, but the knockout has a higher possibility. I'll be keeping my eyes and ears on this fight.

More info from HBO's website here: http://www.hbo.com/boxing/events/2007/0609_cotto_judah/news/announcement.html

UFC: 71 Chuck Liddell tastes the canvas!

Former UFC Light Heavyweight champion Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell tastes the canvas in his second meeting with the now new UFC light heavyweight champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson. I was going for Quinton Jackson, but I never knew he could do it so quickly. You can't just go in the octagon and expect to knock out The Iceman, the guy who has been on a winning streak and the champion, in just one round, but Rampage pulled it off!! Kudos to Jackson for winning this fight which opens up a lot of opportunities for him in UFC.

Watch their fight here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=9dG8bOHuEcE

Watch MMA on your local channel.

So there's this new mixed martial arts show on my local channel every monday. The show is called IFL Battlegrounds and it's two hours long or so. It's a team-based MMA competition where they faced other teams in a bracket-like format leading up to the championships. Each team is headed and coached by a professional MMA fighter like Ken Shamrock and Bas Rutten, for example. They also do coach superfights like the Jeremy Horn versus Matt Lindland fight I saw and it's on local TV. I think this is a very good move for the sport to reach to more audiences and get more fans who don't want to pay or subscribe to cable to watch fights. There's hardly any fight sport now on local television and I think that boxing should be considering this. So far, the only boxing I have seen on local TV is on the spanish channel called Telemundo or maybe it's not local, you be the judge. Tell me if I missed something. Here's their website if you want to check it out and also see what channel they are in your area: http://www.ifl.tv.

The World Awaits.....no more

A lot of people said that the De la Hoya-Mayweather superfight was going to save boxing. Did it? I don't think so. The fight was not that great and I think that it could have been better. How? Floyd Mayweather could have fought De la Hoya head on and not just run around blocking punches and counter-punching. He knows that people think he's a very skilled fighter, but they also think he's boring. I'm sad to say that includes myself. As for De La Hoya, he could have used his jab which was very effective against Mayweather. Nobody knows why he just stopped using it and that includes De La Hoya himself. I mean what the hell is with that? He doesn't know himself?? That's what he said during the interview and I don't believe it. The fight was also plagued with controversial decisions with some people saying De La Hoya should have won. The undercard with Ray "Boom Boom" Bautista winning a unanimous decision against Sergio Manuel Medina was way better than the main event. If this is the fight to save boxing, then boxing will continue to lose its fans.