Another big boxing weekend on tap, headed by the super featherweight showdown between WBC champion Oscar Valdez and WBO kingpin Shakur Stevenson.
FRIDAY
Sons of legends see action in a $29.99 PPV on FITE. Kenzie Morrison and Hasim Rahman Jr. clash for the vacant WBC USNBC heavyweight title in the main event from Virgin Hotels Las Vegas.
SATURDAY
ESPN presents the long-awaited super featherweight unification clash between WBC champion Oscar Valdez (30-0, 23 KOs) and WBO kingpin Shakur Stevenson (17-0, 9 KOs) from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Stevenson started as a slight favorite and has been bet to nearly 6:1.
DAZN counters with the female superfight between undisputed lightweight champion Katie Taylor (20-0, 6 KOs) and women’s pound-for-pound best Amanda Serrano (42-1-1, 30 KOs) from Madison Square Garden. Serrano is a slight favorite at most sportsbooks.
Morrison and Rahman fight for the “WBC USNBC” title? Plus, it’s not free, it costs $29.99 on PPV on FITE. First of all, how many made-up cracker jack titles can we hand out as monetary incentives? Secondly, this greedy PPV movement is getting to be a joke charging for any boxing event when it’s considered a secondary low-priority event. How I miss the older days where HBO and Showtime had nearly all the boxing and your monthly cable fees were affordable. Those days are long gone…
I sure miss the old days of Tuesday Night Fights on the USA cable network. Loved watching boxing DURING the week!
Nordic, yes, I recall watching those fights! Yes, awesome memories. Thanks for replying.
Certainly…Tuesday Night Fights… certainly missed…fighters at all stages of their career….good to great entertainment from up and coming fighters, fighters rebounding after a loss..fighters coming out of retirement…ranging from unheard of to all time greats…to top it off…great commentators….all on cable..weekly
..good stuff… definitely missed
Ahhhh some real classics on TNF with the best announcer, Mr. Sean 0’Grady. Dominic Carter vs Rocky Gannon was great. And Mo Harris pulled off some big upsets along with Jesse James hughes. I also believe Golota but Sampson po’oa on TNF. Boxing was wayyy more enjoyable those days. I even think Maskaev-Rahman was on there. They would be charging $60 bucks to see that nowadays.
Bit not but. But I think he did butt him too lol.
You gotta love Sean O’ Grady’s commentary. I still hear his voice in my head sometimes when I analyze fights. Whenever I say “speed kills” its done in his voice. He had a bunch of sayings that he had on repeat.
I came up with Mo Harris when he was one of the best heavyweights nobody knew about. He was a killer in the gym and thats likely where all his best moments happened. Great moments coming up with TNF.
– I remember the Derrick Jefferson / Maurice Harris fight on HBO.
– Larry Merchant said” Derrick Jefferson, we love you !!” after that highlight reel KO.
Jesse James Hughes had raw power….fun to watch..Jesse would yell “Roll Tide” after his fights. remember when he died…TNF showed a clip of the funeral…Bert Cooper …Hector Camacho…comebacking old George Foreman
i agree i miss the old hbo fights and weekly fights on usa network keep ppv out of the mainstream the fights on ppv are not that good its a scam
Couldn’t agree more Scoob. Can’t think of a sport that shoots itself in the foot more than boxing does. Getting rid of the sanctioning bodies and all their idiotic titles would be a huge step in the right direction. The PPV thing is an inconvenience. We’ll still see the fights whether we pay or not. Just have to wait a day to find it online. Not the same though when you already know the outcome.
I also loved watching fights during the week. Absolutely sucked when Tuesday Night Fights ended it’s run.
How I long for the days when I could watch boxing on ABC Wide World of Sports or the CBS Sports Spectacular. Those were the days.
My dad is old enough (86) to remember the Gillette Friday Night Fights.
Back in the days …when boxers really had to know how to fight!!!!! Some good stuff….
Don’t have to be quite that old to remember those as well as the Wednesday night fights every week.
Back in the day HBO had a monthly ppv series i think around 9.95 but really good fights Nunn vs Toney Moorer vs Cooper etc good value but didn’t last long
Couldn’t pay me to watch woman’s boxing. What a joke. I can’t imagine many others will be skipping Valdez Vs Woman Beater to watch woman’s boxing.
A fight of the year candidate is FREE!
So whoever wins between Morrison Jr and Rahman Jr Ruiz or Wilder gets a shot at the winner for the WBC USNBC?
What does USNBC even mean???
“USNBC” = United States National Boxing Council
Valdez in 2!
Serrano with win by bloody mess. Taylor is going to hurt.
I think Taylor is past her best and I’m leaning towards Serrano. But Taylor’s still very good and she’s naturally a much bigger person than Serrano, so I think it could go either way.
female boxing should be illegal.
It gets the kid some exposure, higher world ranking and a trophy with money. It’s good for the fighter also ads significance to the climb up.
Let’s be honest, we all know whom the champ is; Whomever RingMag say it is.
Excellent fights. I think Shakur is not so favourite against Valdez. Could be a good moment to bet and get some notes …
shakur vs valdez looks like a good fight a free fight also no ppv this time thanks to espn