March 5th
Judah vs Mabuza (Vacant IBF Light Welterweight title)
March 12th
Sergio Martinez vs Sergee Dzinziruk (World Middleweight title)
Andy Lee vs Craig McEwan (12x3 Middlweight)March 19th
Lucian Bute vs Brian Magee (IBF Super Middleweight title)
Vanes Martoroysion vs Bladimir Hernandez (10x3 Light Middleweight)
March 26th
Dmiitry Pirog vs Javier Francisco Maciel (WBO Middleweight title)
Andy Lee v Craig McEwan now live on Premier Sports TV
Re: Andy Lee v Craig McEwan now live on Premier Sports TV
If you like southpaws you will love the southpaw feast coming up in March, although personally, I feel all southpaws should be drowned at birth or at least turned around as they used to be. Pick of the sour bunch, for the sour Irish anyway, are Andy Lee vs Craig McEwan in the States on March 12 and Lucian Bute vs Brian Magee a week later in Canada.
I watched Lee beat McEwan in 2005 in Liverpool in the amateurs, when Lee was good, and he did everything McEwan did only he did it better. The same still probably applies today, even if Lee has regressed due to poor matchmaking and was stopped in seven rounds by a Texan trier a couple of years ago called Brian Vera, who tried too hard, while McEwan may have improved in Freddie Roach's overstretched Hollywood gym and holds a 10-round decision over that man Vera. Nevertheless, Lee's recent activity, even at Mickey Mouse level, gives him the edge in Mashantucket, where they meet (you couldn't make it up), but a win either way fails to shake up anyone, anywhere.
Bute-Magee, for the IBF super-middleweight title, pits two solid, slick-boxing exponents who are good if not great, the usual weaker clones you always see in the aftermath of the exploits of a bigger and better fighter, in this case one Naseem Hamed. Bute is unbeaten in 27 outings (22 early) and makes the seventh defence of his IBF belt, but Magee, who has shed his "Boring Brian" skin lately, might have enough to hang in there for the full 12 rounds, although Bute's handspeed wins the day.
I watched Lee beat McEwan in 2005 in Liverpool in the amateurs, when Lee was good, and he did everything McEwan did only he did it better. The same still probably applies today, even if Lee has regressed due to poor matchmaking and was stopped in seven rounds by a Texan trier a couple of years ago called Brian Vera, who tried too hard, while McEwan may have improved in Freddie Roach's overstretched Hollywood gym and holds a 10-round decision over that man Vera. Nevertheless, Lee's recent activity, even at Mickey Mouse level, gives him the edge in Mashantucket, where they meet (you couldn't make it up), but a win either way fails to shake up anyone, anywhere.
Bute-Magee, for the IBF super-middleweight title, pits two solid, slick-boxing exponents who are good if not great, the usual weaker clones you always see in the aftermath of the exploits of a bigger and better fighter, in this case one Naseem Hamed. Bute is unbeaten in 27 outings (22 early) and makes the seventh defence of his IBF belt, but Magee, who has shed his "Boring Brian" skin lately, might have enough to hang in there for the full 12 rounds, although Bute's handspeed wins the day.