In The Corner with the Sad Boy

With boxing in it's current guise, that of a sport which seems to have not yet managed to replace the out going fighters, one of the smartest things that American TV networks seemed to have started doing is showing more and more none American fights. Although they've always shown the top world wide fighters, those like Manny Pacquaio and Marco Antonio Barrera they've often been brought along on other fighters backs. Though this year has seen Juan Manuel Lopez, Yuriorkis Gamboa both furthering their careers, though more tellingly have been the recent world title fights that haven't been on PPV. The fight between Beibut Shumenov and Gabriel Campillo was the first and that was recently followed by Edwin Valero's recent fight against Antonio DeMarco...are we seeing a move by the networks? (full article on the subject is here).

Whats recently been in my head is a series of quizzes about boxing, the first of which is currently on hubpages and based on the very early heavyweight history. Feel free to try it out here, with a new one coming probably tomorrow on the next era of the division if the heavyweight ones are a success  it's likely they'll be followed up by another weight division.