The Good Amir Khan: Well that didn’t turn out as expected. Along with alot of other boxing fans I was  anticipating Saturdays fight between Amir Khan and Zab Judah in what figured to be a competitive match-up. Unfortunately that didn’t happen as Amir Khan was in control of the fight from begining to end while Judah brought next to nothing to the dance. Khan used his reach advantage and peppered Judah from distance with jabs and straight rights over and over. As for Zab, he did little aside from throwing a counter left that rarely found it’s mark. The fight would end under unusual circumstances in round 5 as Khan hit Judah just below the beltline dropping Zab. Referee Vic Drakulich would proceed to reach the 10 count with no effort by Zab to get up. Judah protested the stoppage immediately believing he had been fouled but it was for naught as Khan would be declared the winner. Numerous replays showed the punch in question appeared to hit Judah in the abdomen as opposed to his balls, for lack of a better term.   Either way it’s hard to envision the fight ending in any other fashion than Khan emerging victorious as he was doing more damage to Judah as the fight wore on, evidenced by Zabs face which was bloodied. Credit goes to Khan for having a good gameplan and sticking to it which lead to his most impressive win to date. Bigger and better things lay ahead for the IBF and WBA junior welterweight champion including a potential bout with Timothy Bradley to determine who is the top dog in the 140 pound division. As for Zab Judah, we’ll get back to him shortly.

  Steve Kim from maxboxing talks about the upcoming Floyd Mayweather fight vs Victor Ortiz, and who he thinks will be the next big star in boxing.   Now for the fights that are coming up, did I hear you correctly that the word on the street is Mayweather’s purse against Victor Ortiz is 40 million dollars? Yeah there are a lot of rumors about that, and I heard that figure from lot of sources.   Yeah, the word on the street is that Mayweather’s purse for the fight with Ortiz is around 40 million, and if that’s true, the fight will need to do about 1.7 to 1.8 million to do any kind of business.  It’s interesting that they are giving Floyd a guarantee money on a PPV fight.  Let’s see how it plays out.   Do you happen to know what Victor might be getting? I am hearing 2.5 million.   Wow. That’s pretty good for Victor. How you see that fight playing out? I think early on Victor might be dangerous, historically Mayweather has had some problems with southpaws, and I think Victor is a legit welterweight who is a lefty.   I mean you saw how much bigger and stronger Victor was against Andre Berto, but unless Mayweather has all of a sudden gotten old….   Listen there is a reason why Mayweather is 8 to 1 favorite.  Is there a punchers chance for Victor?  Yes.  But the thing with Ortiz is that he gets hits with straight rights frequently because he keeps circling toward his left, and it’s a tactical flaw they have yet to correct with him.  And I always said this Mayweather is not the greatest fighter in the world but he is the greatest manager in the world, and he has a keen eye [...]

  The Good Delvin Rodriguez vs Pawel Wolak: I know it sounds like deja vu at this point but once again ESPN2 Friday Night Fights had the most entertaining fight I saw over the weekend as the main event between Delvin Rodriguez and Pawel Wolak exceeded the lofty expectations many fans had for it. Wolak was coming off the biggest win of his career, stopping Yuri Foreman while Rodriguez was moving up to the Jr. middleweight division. Wolak, as is his trademark came out fast and furious putting all kinds of pressure along with punches in bunches, smothering Rodriguez. For his part Delvin was looking to create distance with the jab and counter Pawel with big right hand shots. Wolak seemed to be controlling the pace of the fight in the early rounds until midfight when he began to suffer serious swelling along his right eye that hindered his sight. This assisted Rodriguez in landing a higher rate of his punches that Wolak could not see coming however that never stopped him from coming forward swinging. The majority of the bout was nip and tuck but Rodriguez appeared to close the stronger of the two. After 10 exciting rounds the contest was scored as a majority draw and though I thought Delvin had done enough to be rendered the verdict I have no qualms with a draw as neither fighter was a loser in this battle. Hopefully we can get a rematch between these 2 later in the year and both can be paid accordingly so.

  Steve Kim from maxboxing talks about the state of boxing, how UFC is actually good for the sport, and his recent run in with the boxing promoter Dan Goossen.   Did you watch a lot of boxing as a kid?  And do you think the sport of boxing is missing out by always being on prime cable or PPV. Back when I grew up, you just watched boxing because it was on network TV, it wasn’t too much different than watching baseball or football.   It was just the norm.  The problem that plagues the sport now is that in America, boxing at its highest level is always on the smallest platform.   I think the promoters starting back in the 80’s made a deal with the devil and took the sports off of the network TV in exchange for higher licensing fees from cable.  Now that boxing has faded away to a point of being nonexistent on terrestrial television, the sport is having a difficult time creating a star that is transcend.   And I always said this, boxing is not dead but it’s much more alive in Europe (where big fights get played on national tv) and other parts of the world where fighters are house hold names.   Do you think boxing will ever return to its glory days? That’s a good question and I don’t know.  There is no magic bullet that will save the sport, but instead it needs bunch of small positive steps to get back into the limelight.  Boxing needs real promoters who are willing to spend their own money to develop the fighters.   Boxing needs real fighters that are willing to fight in their local regions in order to build a fan base instead of always dreaming about fighting in Vegas.   Boxing needs to [...]