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Tyson Fury Claims Deontay Wilder Will Settle For Third Place

Tyson Fury claims that Deontay Wilder is willing to settle for third place in the heavyweight rotation with Anthony Joshua.

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Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder are set for a massive boxing contest this weekend.

This Saturday night (December 1, 2018) Fury will challenge Wilder for the WBC heavyweight championship from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The fight will air on Showtime pay-per-view (PPV). The pair has been at each other’s throats in recent weeks trying to promote their fight.

Recently, Fury took aim at Wilder’s “Bronze Bomber” nickname, suggesting it means Wilder is willing to settle for third place. That would put Wilder third in the heavyweight rankings behind fellow top stars Fury and Anthony Joshua. Speaking to Boxing Scene recently, Fury said he’s not willing to settle for anything less than first place:

“I’m here to be the best. If I can’t be the best, then I don’t wanna be the rest. Second place ain’t for me, and third place definitely ain’t for me. But Deontay Wilder is happy to come in the top three.

“That’s why he calls himself ‘The Bronze Bomber,’ because of his bronze medal in the Olympics. I’d throw that bronze medal in the bin because I didn’t win the gold. So for me, it’s about being the best, number one.

“For other fighters, it’s just about being on the podium, being in the top three. So if he can mix it with the big boys and be mentioned with the best, then no problem.”

The story behind Wilder vs. Fury is a captivating one. Wilder has been gunning for a fight with heavyweight kingpin Anthony Joshua, and a victory over Fury might get him exactly that.

As for Fury, he has been struggling with depression since defeating Wladimir Klitschko several years ago. Fury’s condition was so bad that he nearly took his own life.

Now, however, Fury has seemingly overcome his mental health issues, and is ready to prove a point against Wilder this weekend in California.

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Manny Pacquiao Returns To The Ring In January

Boxing legend and current WBA welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao will return to the squared circle in January to defend his title.

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“The Pacman” is ready to make his return to the squared circle.

WBA welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao will make his return to the boxing ring on January 19th from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pacquiao will be facing former four-division champion Adrien Broner.

The event will air on Showtime pay-per-view (PPV), and tickets go on sale November 24th and start at as low as $100. Pacquiao had this to say about his return next year (via Bloody Elbow):

”I have missed fighting in Las Vegas, it has been a second home to me,” Pacquiao said. “Returning to the MGM Grand Garden Arena to defend my world title against Adrien Broner is an exciting way to stage my homecoming.

“Adrien is a tough opponent with an accomplished record. But if I have learned one thing while serving in the Philippine Congress and Senate, it is problem solving.”

Pacquiao hasn’t competed since stopping Lucas Matthysse in the seventh round to win the WBA welterweight title. With the victory, Pacquiao has won three of his last four fights. He’ll face Broner, whose last outing resulted in a Majority Draw against Jessie Vargas.

Before that, Broner had a three-fight win streak ended when he was defeated by Mikey Garcia via unanimous decision in July of last year.

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Meanwhile, In Boxing: Floyd Mayweather Chooses Saul “Canelo” Alvarez for September 14th Title Fight


(You know, I’ll always prefer these photos with the sound effects written in. Photo via Latimes.com)

Fresh off a 12-round drubbing of Robert Guerrero earlier in the month, undefeated and outspoken WBC and The Ring welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather has just booked his second fight in a year for the first time in six. Years that is. “Money” will meet WBC and The Ring *light middleweight* champion Saul “El Conelo” Alvarez, a 42-0 Mexican-born boxer who holds 30 knockouts and notable victories over Shane Mosley, Austin Trout, and Jose Cotto to his credit.

Mayweather made the announcement via his Twitter yesterday evening:


(You know, I’ll always prefer these photos with the sound effects written in. Photo via Latimes.com)

Fresh off a 12-round drubbing of Robert Guerrero earlier in the month, undefeated and outspoken WBC and The Ring welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather has just booked his second fight in a year for the first time in six. Years that is. “Money” will meet WBC and The Ring *light middleweight* champion Saul “El Conelo” Alvarez, a 42-0 Mexican-born boxer who holds 30 knockouts and notable victories over Shane Mosley, Austin Trout, and Jose Cotto to his credit.

Mayweather made the announcement via his Twitter yesterday evening:

The bout will be contested at 152 pounds — just 2 pounds under the usual light middleweight limit — and will be for Mayweather’s junior middleweight and welterweight titles, Alvarez’s WBC & The Ring light middleweight titles, and the WBA (super) light middleweight title. Looks like Nate Diaz’s “More divisions, more champions, more superfights” theory can already be considered debunked.

Considering Mayweather’s longtime standing as the “pound-for-pound pay-per-view king,” as well as the pull an undefeated Hispanic challenger like Alvarez will have in the Latino community, expect the pay-per-view sales for this one to break the 1 million mark. Us racist white skinheads will have to continue watching a couple of homosexuals roll around on the ground in the meantime. *kicks can* 

–J. Jones

[UPDATE] Nick “Turbo Tax” Capes Suspended From Boxing Following Epic Flop in Ray Edwards “Fight”

(Only in a freakshow match like this would you hear an audience member ask “What’s he waiting for?” after approximately 4 seconds of fighting.) 

Yesterday, the world was introduced to a man by the name of Nick Capes (which based on his fighting style, we can only assume is a pseudonym for Greg “Ranger” Stott), a hapless marshmallow of a man who somehow found himself in a boxing match against former Atlanta Falcons defensive end Ray Edwards. The results were hilarious, not in the Mark Kerr vs. Ranger Stott kind of way, but in the Dan Severn vs. Shannon Ritch kind of way. Capes flopped is what we’re saying. He flopped hard. Capes flopped so hard, in fact, that he has since been indefinitely suspended from boxing in North Dakota, which should give him plenty of time to continue pushing the fighting style of RIP on methed out tweekers near and far. As TwinCities.com reports:

Combative Sports Commissioner Al Jaeger says a video review of the fight between Nicholas Capes and a much larger Ray Edwards clearly shows Capes was not hit before he dropped to the canvas. Officials are continuing to investigate.

By “continuing to investigate,” we assume they mean “emailing this video to their entire contacts list with a subject line reading Re: Fatty takes a tumble LOLZ.“


(Only in a freakshow match like this would you hear an audience member ask “What’s he waiting for?” after approximately 4 seconds of fighting.) 

Yesterday, the world was introduced to a man by the name of Nick Capes (which based on his fighting style, we can only assume is a pseudonym for Greg “Ranger” Stott), a hapless marshmallow of a man who somehow found himself in a boxing match against former Atlanta Falcons defensive end Ray Edwards. The results were hilarious, not in the Mark Kerr vs. Ranger Stott kind of way, but in the Dan Severn vs. Shannon Ritch kind of way. Capes flopped is what we’re saying. He flopped hard. Capes flopped so hard, in fact, that he has since been indefinitely suspended from boxing in North Dakota, which should give him plenty of time to continue pushing the fighting style of RIP on methed out tweekers near and far. As TwinCities.com reports:

Combative Sports Commissioner Al Jaeger says a video review of the fight between Nicholas Capes and a much larger Ray Edwards clearly shows Capes was not hit before he dropped to the canvas. Officials are continuing to investigate.

By “continuing to investigate,” we assume they mean “emailing this video to their entire contacts list with a subject line reading Re: Fatty takes a tumble LOLZ.”

In the original Pioneer Press piece, event promoter Cory Rapacz was quoted as saying that the backlash aimed at Capes was “unfair.” However, upon reviewing the footage a couple hundred times like the rest of us, even Rapacz was forced to admit that “Turbo Tax” deserves whatever criticism that is likely headed his way in the coming weeks:

I was the promoter of the event in West Fargo, ND on Saturday night. I was misquoted. I said the criticism of Edwards is unfair. Not the criticism of Nick Capes. Thank you.

No, thank you, Cory. Thank you for providing us with a lifetime’s worth of memories in just 13 seconds of fight footage. Not since — and I’m just spitballing here — Ranger Stott vs. Mark Kerr have I been so entertained by a 50-pound mismatch that ended in triumphantly anticlimactic fashion. Other than my high school prom night, of course.

–J. Jones