Big fights on UK tv

[leforge]

Will we get any of these fights:

Diaz v katsdis on 6th Sept
Casymor v Marquez on 13 Sept
Mosley v Mayorga on 27 Sept
Tarver v Dawson on 11 Oct

[bennie]

In a clash of unsung veterans Mexican craftsman Juan Manuel Marquez takes on Cuban southpaw bogeyman Joel Casamayor in Las Vegas on September 13.
It is a lightweight 12-rounder.
Marquez makes his debut at the weight after dropping his WBC super-featherweight title to Filipino great Manny Pacquiao in March, also in Las Vegas, in a marvellous fight that could really have gone either way (a split decision). A third-round knockdown scored by Pacquiao made the difference - just as three knockdowns scored by Pacquiao in the opening round of their first thrilling showdown in 2004 allowed "Pac Man" to ultimately salvage a draw. To me Marquez was the 'moral' victor in both.
Clearly, Marquez is an unlucky fighter and something of a slow starter. Once he gets into his groove, the 35-year-old "Dinamita" picks off his opponents with classy, precise, punishing bursts of counters and maintains it. He possesses great stamina, although you wonder about his natural strength at the weight. He made his name as an oustanding featherweight, of course, ducked conspicuously by one Naseem Hamed down there. (You have to say, in light of Marco Antonio Barrera's success on the jab against Naz and Marquez's slick-boxing displays against Pacquiao, the California-based Marquez would have probably got the better of the flashy Sheffield man.)
To Casamayor, who is seriously knocking on for a small man himself at 37 but moved up to lightweight in the summer of 2004, after a long spell as WBA super-featherweight champion, and despite a couple of hiccups is much more acclimatised to the weight and indeed goes in as Ring magazine lightweight champion. The hiccups? Kyrgyzstani kid Almazbek Raiymkulov held Casamayor to a surprise draw in Madison Square Garden in 2005 and Mexican-American Jose Armando Santa Cruz put him down and looked unlucky to drop a split decision last year, also at The Garden. The fact remains, Casamayor hasn't lost at 9st 9lbs (hasn't lost, full stop) since Jose Luis Castillo took a split decision over him in Las Vegas in December 2004. Nearly four years.
Casamayor continues to defy father time, then, and outscored the late Diego Corrales in 2006 to avenge a previous defeat. Last time out in March he stopped previously unbeaten Aussie Michael Katsidis in the 10th round of a thriller. Given how formidable Katsidis looked over here against Luton's Graham Earl, it proves what a strong, solid, hurtful, canny fighter the former Olympic champion still is, shades of Bernard Hopkins, and Casamayor knows all about breaking up the rhythm of his opponents, which is crucial against the smooth Marquez, about having his head in the right place at the right time (Katsidis looked a mess at the finish), which is also crucial against Marquez, who has a history of busting up, and above all, he knows how to make his strength and southpaw stance work for him, especially the big southpaw left.
He is something of a nightmare.
All things considered, however, this one looks desperately tight and Marquez showed he could basically handle southpaw strongmen six months ago in the Pacquiao rematch and has pasted the likes of Derrick Gainer and Victor Polo, among other 'big' southpaws, in the past. If he carries the extra weight OK, and slips into that implacable rhythm of his, Marquez looks the tip.


Local lightweight thumper and former three-belt world champion champion Juan "Baby Bull" Diaz takes on Aussie warrior Michael "Rocky" Katsidis in Houston on September 6 in a fine-looking 12 rounder.
Diaz lost his unbeaten record (after 33 fights) in his last outing in March: the 24-year-old Texan was hammered in the later, championship rounds by 36-year-old Floridian Nate Campbell and conceded the points and all the belts (WBA, WBO & IBF).
Diaz finished cut and bruised.
Katsidis also lost his unbeaten record in his last fight in March (after 23 fights), to 37-year-old Cuban bogeyman Joel Casamayor. It took 10 brutal rounds before the stocky 28-year-old Katsidis finally buckled and, like Diaz, he finished cut and bruised although just ahead on two of the cards.
Clearly both men were licked by men they were fancied to better but one suspects that Katsidis suffered more - he was down three times, while Diaz was never down - and will suffer again in this one, in Diaz's home city (to remind you). Expect it to be wildly exciting and at times cringe-inducing as both men swap big, big punches, but expect the stronger-looking Diaz to come through.


Rival champs and southpaws Chad Dawson and Antonio Tarver square up on 11 October in Las Vegas.
Tarver's IBF light-heavyweight title is at stake.
"Magic Man" Tarver won the belt in his last outing with a one-sided decision over disappointing Sheffield man Clinton Woods in Florida in April. He dominated the surprisingly ineffective Yorkshireman but is seriously knocking on at 39 and unbeaten Dawson - 13 years younger - represents a stiff test, even though "Bad" Chad looked just that on the same Tampa bill as Tarver-Woods when he struggled to outscore Jamaican warhorse Glen Johnson. Dawson, incidentally, holds the WBC light-heavyweight title but will relinquish any day now because he chose to fight Tarver and not Romanian threat and WBC No. 1 Adrian Diaconu.
This is the 'money' fight.
Both men have good handspeed and power, so it could be tight. Tarver is certainly cagey enough to make it close, but one has a feeling Dawson's greater energy in the later rounds will take him to to the points and the title.


Veterans Ricardo "El Matador" Mayorga and "Sugar" Shane Mosley square up in a light-middleweight 12-rounder in California on September 27.
The brash, fast-living, 34-year-old Mayorga was considered finished when Oscar De La Hoya outclassed him in six rounds in Las Vegas in 2006 but the Nicaraguan wildman came back against an equally brat-like Fernando Vargas late last year and looked pretty good in taking a 12-round decision over the "Ferocious" one, dropping Vargas twice to earn this payday.
Mosley, 36, holds two stoppage wins over Vargas and two decisions over De La Hoya, so obviously goes in as favourite, although he comes off a (credible) points loss to Puerto Rican star Miguel Cotto in a bruising 12-rounder last November for the WBA welterweight title in Madison Square Garden. Weight may have a role to play: Mayorga was up at super-middleweight against Vargas last year whereas Mosley was down at welter for Cotto (of course) and will be comfortable at light-middle. Mosley is also on home turf in California.
Slick and stiff-hitting, the American is chasing a showdown with Mexican iron man Antonio Margarito and ultimately looks too sharp for the strong, reckless if undeniably dangerous Mayorga.
Mosley takes a decision.

[scrap iron]

Is someone paying you to write these previews?

[leforge]

I hope some of these fights get shown, surely sky could throw Casymor v Marquez if with the khan bill

[J]

Diaz v katsdis on 6th Sept
Casymor v Marquez on 13 Sept

on HBO so doubt it.

[adamheight]

In a clash of unsung veterans Mexican craftsman Juan Manuel Marquez takes on Cuban southpaw bogeyman Joel Casamayor in Las Vegas on September 13.
It is a lightweight 12-rounder.
Marquez makes his debut at the weight after dropping his WBC super-featherweight title to Filipino great Manny Pacquiao in March, also in Las Vegas, in a marvellous fight that could really have gone either way (a split decision). A third-round knockdown scored by Pacquiao made the difference - just as three knockdowns scored by Pacquiao in the opening round of their first thrilling showdown in 2004 allowed "Pac Man" to ultimately salvage a draw. To me Marquez was the 'moral' victor in both.
Clearly, Marquez is an unlucky fighter and something of a slow starter. Once he gets into his groove, the 35-year-old "Dinamita" picks off his opponents with classy, precise, punishing bursts of counters and maintains it. He possesses great stamina, although you wonder about his natural strength at the weight. He made his name as an oustanding featherweight, of course, ducked conspicuously by one Naseem Hamed down there. (You have to say, in light of Marco Antonio Barrera's success on the jab against Naz and Marquez's slick-boxing displays against Pacquiao, the California-based Marquez would have probably got the better of the flashy Sheffield man.)
To Casamayor, who is seriously knocking on for a small man himself at 37 but moved up to lightweight in the summer of 2004, after a long spell as WBA super-featherweight champion, and despite a couple of hiccups is much more acclimatised to the weight and indeed goes in as Ring magazine lightweight champion. The hiccups? Kyrgyzstani kid Almazbek Raiymkulov held Casamayor to a surprise draw in Madison Square Garden in 2005 and Mexican-American Jose Armando Santa Cruz put him down and looked unlucky to drop a split decision last year, also at The Garden. The fact remains, Casamayor hasn't lost at 9st 9lbs (hasn't lost, full stop) since Jose Luis Castillo took a split decision over him in Las Vegas in December 2004. Nearly four years.
Casamayor continues to defy father time, then, and outscored the late Diego Corrales in 2006 to avenge a previous defeat. Last time out in March he stopped previously unbeaten Aussie Michael Katsidis in the 10th round of a thriller. Given how formidable Katsidis looked over here against Luton's Graham Earl, it proves what a strong, solid, hurtful, canny fighter the former Olympic champion still is, shades of Bernard Hopkins, and Casamayor knows all about breaking up the rhythm of his opponents, which is crucial against the smooth Marquez, about having his head in the right place at the right time (Katsidis looked a mess at the finish), which is also crucial against Marquez, who has a history of busting up, and above all, he knows how to make his strength and southpaw stance work for him, especially the big southpaw left.
He is something of a nightmare.
All things considered, however, this one looks desperately tight and Marquez showed he could basically handle southpaw strongmen six months ago in the Pacquiao rematch and has pasted the likes of Derrick Gainer and Victor Polo, among other 'big' southpaws, in the past. If he carries the extra weight OK, and slips into that implacable rhythm of his, Marquez looks the tip.


Local lightweight thumper and former three-belt world champion champion Juan "Baby Bull" Diaz takes on Aussie warrior Michael "Rocky" Katsidis in Houston on September 6 in a fine-looking 12 rounder.
Diaz lost his unbeaten record (after 33 fights) in his last outing in March: the 24-year-old Texan was hammered in the later, championship rounds by 36-year-old Floridian Nate Campbell and conceded the points and all the belts (WBA, WBO & IBF).
Diaz finished cut and bruised.
Katsidis also lost his unbeaten record in his last fight in March (after 23 fights), to 37-year-old Cuban bogeyman Joel Casamayor. It took 10 brutal rounds before the stocky 28-year-old Katsidis finally buckled and, like Diaz, he finished cut and bruised although just ahead on two of the cards.
Clearly both men were licked by men they were fancied to better but one suspects that Katsidis suffered more - he was down three times, while Diaz was never down - and will suffer again in this one, in Diaz's home city (to remind you). Expect it to be wildly exciting and at times cringe-inducing as both men swap big, big punches, but expect the stronger-looking Diaz to come through.


Rival champs and southpaws Chad Dawson and Antonio Tarver square up on 11 October in Las Vegas.
Tarver's IBF light-heavyweight title is at stake.
"Magic Man" Tarver won the belt in his last outing with a one-sided decision over disappointing Sheffield man Clinton Woods in Florida in April. He dominated the surprisingly ineffective Yorkshireman but is seriously knocking on at 39 and unbeaten Dawson - 13 years younger - represents a stiff test, even though "Bad" Chad looked just that on the same Tampa bill as Tarver-Woods when he struggled to outscore Jamaican warhorse Glen Johnson. Dawson, incidentally, holds the WBC light-heavyweight title but will relinquish any day now because he chose to fight Tarver and not Romanian threat and WBC No. 1 Adrian Diaconu.
This is the 'money' fight.
Both men have good handspeed and power, so it could be tight. Tarver is certainly cagey enough to make it close but one has a feeling Dawson's greater energy in the later rounds will take him to to the points and the title.


Veterans Ricardo "El Matador" Mayorga and "Sugar" Shane Mosley square up in a light-middleweight 12-rounder in California on September 27.
The brash, fast-living, 34-year-old Mayorga was considered finished when Oscar De La Hoya outclassed him in six rounds in Las Vegas in 2006 but the Nicaraguan wild man came back against an equally brat-like Fernando Vargas late last year and looked pretty good in taking a 12-round decision over the "Ferocious" one, dropping Vargas twice to earn this payday.
Mosley, 36, holds two stoppage wins over Vargas and two decisions over De La Hoya, so obviously goes in as favourite, although he comes off a (credible) points loss to Puerto Rican star Miguel Cotto in a bruising 12-rounder last November for the WBA welterweight title in Madison Square Garden. Weight may have a role to play: Mayorga was up at super-middleweight against Vargas last year whereas Mosley was down at welter for Cotto (of course) and will be comfortable at light-middle. Mosley is also on home turf in California.
Slick and stiff-hitting, the American is chasing a showdown with Mexican iron man Antonio Margarito and ultimately looks too sharp for the strong, reckless Mayorga.
Mosley takes a decision.

great previews but wtf has that got to do with the OP's question?...