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[Romdawg88]

WOOOOOOO, Curry thats a big win for him. I started hunting down Curry fights on the internet since I had him on the Muckboys but had never seen him fight in real life and after watching a few I must say I've become a fan so hopefully he can take this whole thing. Of course, thats going to be a tough task if Sugar Ray can keep this form throughout the whole thing. That was a nasty performance, I figured he would be Honeyghan but not in one round that can't make the anothers in the tournament feel to good.

[Ian Lord]

Originally Posted by Romdawg88

WOOOOOOO, Curry thats a big win for him. I started hunting down Curry fights on the internet since I had him on the Muckboys but had never seen him fight in real life and after watching a few I must say I've become a fan so hopefully he can take this whole thing. Of course, thats going to be a tough task if Sugar Ray can keep this form throughout the whole thing. That was a nasty performance, I figured he would be Honeyghan but not in one round that can't make the anothers in the tournament feel to good.

Sugar Ray's looked something special so far. The first time I saw Curry fight was when he lost to Lloyd Honeyghan. That was a big upset at the time. Honeys always been one of my favourites.

[mh2365]

Good wins for both Curry and Leonard!

[Ian Lord]

Originally Posted by mh2365

Good wins for both Curry and Leonard!

They were. I was especially surprised by the speed of Leonard's win against Honeyghan.

[Ian Lord]

Results - March, 2007

Heavyweight

Lennox Lewis KO10 Gerrie Coetzee
[retains Commonwealth title]
Tony Tucker W10 James Smith
James Douglas KO8 John Tate
Michael Dokes TKO7 Oliver McCall
Bruce Seldon TKO8 Marvin Camel
George Foreman TKO2 Anthony Willis

Middleweight

Gerald McClellan TKO10 Vito Antuofermo
Bernard Hopkins TKO8 James Toney
[wins North American and vacant United States titles]
Michael Nunn W10 Tadeshi Mihara
Frank Tate W10 Carlos Santos
Davey Moore W8 Chris Walsh
Alan Minter W8 Julian Jackson
Reggie Johnson W8 Leonard Townsend

Welterweight

Sugar Ray Leonard KO1 Lloyd Honeyghan
Don Curry W10 Aaron Pryor
Simon Brown KO5 Oscar Delgado
Wilfred Benitez W8 Pedro Garcia
Marlon Starling TKO3 Calvin Green
Saoul Mamby W8 Sang-Hyun Kim
Pipino Cuevas KO8 Jorge Vaca
Buddy McGirt W4 Eric Alexander

Lightweight

Livingstone Bramble W10 Sammy Serrano
Hilmer Kenty W10 Cornelius Boza-Edwards
Ernesto Espana TKO2 Viktor Baranov
Jorge Monzon W8 Charlie Brown
Art Frias TKO5 Tirso Albia
Jose Luis Ramirez W8 Freddy Cruz

[Ian Lord]

World Rankings
[for end of March, 2007]

Heavyweight

World Champion:
Larry Holmes13-1-1 [9]

1. Riddick Bowe 9-2-1 [5]
2. Lennox Lewis 19-2 [13] Commonwealth champ
3. Evander Holyfield 12-4 [9] North American and United States champ
4. Mike Tyson 14-5 [13]
5. Tony Tucker 12-9
6. James 'Bonecrusher' Smith 11-10 [4]
7. James 'Buster' Douglas 9-7-1 [3]
8. Tony Tubbs 10-9-1 [4]
9. Pinklon Thomas 10-10 [7]
10.Tim Witherspoon 12-10-2 [7]

Middleweight

World Champion:
Marvin Hagler 8-1 [5]

1. Mike McCallum 8-2 [3] Commonwealth champ
2. Gerald McClellan 11-3 [9]
3. Bernard Hopkins 9-4 [5] North American and United States champ
4. James Toney 7-2 [3]
5. Michael Nunn 13-1 [6]
6. Vito Antuofermo 9-7 [3]
7. Sumbu Kalambay 15-1 [7] European champ
8. Ayub Kalule 7-5-1 [4]
9. Maurice Hope 4-4 [1] British champ
10.Frank Tate 9-6-2 [1]

Welterweight

World Champion:
Title Vacant

1. Thomas Hearns 2-0 [2]
2. Antonio Cervantes 2-0 [1]
3. Sugar Ray Leonard 2-0-1 [2]
4. Don Curry 2-0-1
5. Aaron Pryor 1-1-1 [1]
6. Lloyd Honeyghan 1-1-1
7. Simon Brown 2-1 [2]
8. Milt McCrory 1-1
9. Wilfred Benitez 2-1 [1]
10.Marlon Starling 2-1 [2]

Lightweight

World Champion:
Roberto Duran 6-0 [5]

1. Edwin Rosario 4-1 [4] North American and Carribean champ
2. Livingstone Bramble 4-2
3. Claude Noel 4-3 [2]
4. Harry Arroyo 7-3 [4] United States champ
5. Sean O'Grady 6-3 [2]
6. Hilmer Kenty 7-3 [3]
7. Sammy Serrano 5-4-2 [1]
8. Jim Watt 6-1 [4] European and Commonwealth champ
9. Cornelius Boza-Edwards 2-3-3 [1]
10.Bazooka Limon 3-5 [2]

[CONN CHRIS]

Donald Bleeping Curry.

It's been twenty years and that name still doesn't sound any better to my ears.

[kenyan_cheena]

That's a really talented bunch of Welterweights you've got there, Ian. Gonna be interesting to see which one can become the inaugural champion.

[Ian Lord]

Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

Donald Bleeping Curry.

It's been twenty years and that name still doesn't sound any better to my ears.

Still a sore point I take it

[Ian Lord]

Originally Posted by kenyan_cheena

That's a really talented bunch of Welterweights you've got there, Ian. Gonna be interesting to see which one can become the inaugural champion.

I'm with you there KC, there is a deep pool of talent in the welterweight division. I'm looking forward to crowning the first champion.

[GForce]

Wow...Alan Minter over Julian Jackson. Minter was a tough, tough guy, but I still expected Jackson to take him out.

GH

[Ian Lord]

Originally Posted by GForce

Wow...Alan Minter over Julian Jackson. Minter was a tough, tough guy, but I still expected Jackson to take him out.

GH

I did as well. Minter's one of my favourite's, but I was surprised as hell when he got the win over Jackson.

[Ian Lord]

Dates - April, 2007

6th - Detroit, MI
Joe Louis Arena

WW: Aaron Pryor v Milt McCrory [10 x 3]
HW: Greg Page v Ossie Ocassio [10 x 3]
WW: Mark Breland v Sang-Hyun KIm [8 x 3]
WW: Maurice Blocker v Pedro Garcia [8 x 3]
LW: Charlie Brown v Lee Cargle [8 x 3]
MW: Buster Drayton v Leonard Townsend [4 x 3]

7th - Rome, Italy
Sports Palace

EUROPEAN MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT - 12 Rounds
Sumbu Kalambay [champ] v Maurice Hope

MW: Ayub Kalule v Davey Moore [10 x 3]
MW: Shinji Takehara v Juan Carlos Barretto [8 x 3]
LW: Yatsune Uehara v Viktor Baranov [8 x 3]

14th - New York, NY
Madison Square Garden

NORTH AMERICAN and UNITED STATES TITLE FIGHT - 12 Rounds
Evander Holyfield [champ] v Mike Tyson

HW: James 'Bonecrusher' Smith v Bruce Seldon [10 x 3]
MW: Iran Barkley v Mark Medal [10 x 3]
WW: Simon Brown v Marlon Starling [10 x 3]
WW: Saoul Mamby v Roland Commings [8 x 3]
HW: Michael Dokes v Derek Amos [8 x 3]

21st - Glasgow, Scotland
Braehead Arena

COMMONWEALTH LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT - 12 Rounds
Jim Watt [champ] v Claude Noel

LW: Cornelius Boza-Edwards v Rolando Navarette [10 x 3]
MW: Alan Minter v Larry Banks [8 x 3]
WW: Pipino Cuevas v Eric Alexander [8 x 3]
LW: Jose Luis Ramirez v Jorge Monzon [8 x 3]
WW: Buddy McGirt v Peter Buckley [6 x 3]

28th - Las Vegas, NV
Caesar's Palace

WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP - 15 Rounds

Larry Holmes [champ] v Riddick Bowe

HW: Pinklon Thomas v George Foreman [10 x 3]
LW: Sean O'Grady v Ernesto Espana [10 x 3]
MW: Julian Jackson v Tadeshi Mihara [10 x 3]
MW: Carlos Santos v John David Jackson [10 x 3]
MW: Reggie Johnson v Chris Walsh [8 x 3]

[Romdawg88]

Looks like great month coming up especially in the HW division with a couple of big time HW bouts and Foreman stepping up in class again. I'm taking Tyson, Holmes, and Foreman in those fights.

[CONN CHRIS]

Originally Posted by Ian Lord

Still a sore point I take it

Grrrrrrrr

He crushed a young kid I happen to know. I was so sure Moochie would take the second time after the first one being split. Crushed, absolutely crushed. I was a sophomore in high school when Starling lost the first time. Waited until I was a senior to get revenge and then he did it again.

[Ian Lord]

Originally Posted by Romdawg88

Looks like great month coming up especially in the HW division with a couple of big time HW bouts and Foreman stepping up in class again. I'm taking Tyson, Holmes, and Foreman in those fights.

Yeah, some good match-ups this month. I'm also going with Holmes and Foreman, but as regards Holyfield - Tyson I'm not too sure. I reckon Holyfield might take him. Should be a great fight though.

[Ian Lord]

Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

Grrrrrrrr

He crushed a young kid I happen to know. I was so sure Moochie would take the second time after the first one being split. Crushed, absolutely crushed. I was a sophomore in high school when Starling lost the first time. Waited until I was a senior to get revenge and then he did it again.

I always rated Starling highly. Still do. I remember when he beat Breland, who was supposed to be the next big thing at the time. I also remember when he beat one of my favourites, Lloyd Honeyghan, stopping him in the ninth [if my memory serves me correctly]. Curry obviously had his number. A very good fighter though.

[Ian Lord]

6th - Detroit, MI

Main event at the Joe Lois Arena, which is turning into a popular fight venue over recent months, saw a welterweight contest slated for ten between Aaron 'The Hawk' Pryor and Milt 'The Iceman' McCrory.
McCrory, the hometown fighter, entered the ring to a standing ovation. Pryor, who hails from Ohio but also fights out of Emmanuel Stewards Kronk Gym, was also greeted warmly.
For the first two rounds, Pryor dominated McCrory, letting him know who's boss, until in the third 'The Iceman' settled down and got into the fight. Pryor took the fourth and fifth however with his busier workrate before suffering a disastrous sixth, which saw him on the seat of his pants twice. The first was for a count of seven following a strong combination of punches from McCrory which felled Pryor. Almost immediately he was down again, this time for a count of five following a haymaker. He regained his feet looking groggy, and his left eye was also beginning to swell. He was releived to hear the bell.
However, he recovered quickly to take the seventh, then completely took over in the eighth, with McCrory being outgunned and hitting the deck following a murderous punch to the liver. He was up at eight, but he was hurt. His right eye had also ballooned up.
Many felt the referee should have stopped the fight in the ninth, with McCrory shipping some heavy shots and not firing back. It was allowed to continue, with McCrory looking out on his feet. However, thirty seconds into the tenth and last McCrory was put away following a hard hook to the head. Pryor was ahead on the scorecards at the time of the finish and improves to 2-1-1 [2]. Mccrory drops to 1-2.

Fringe heavyweight contender Greg Page from Kentucky improved to 19-6 [12] with a routine, unanimous points win over Puerto Rico's Ossie 'Jaws' Ocassio. Scores were 98-91, 97-92, and a too close 97-94. Page cruised to victory against the durable trial horse and was never in danger, with Ocassio only putting in an appearance in roundstwo, four and ten, which was the best round of the fight. Ocassio is now an unimpressive 1-8.

Welterweight Mark Breland was too much for Korean Sang-Hyun Kim, stopping him at 2.57 of the third with Kim no longer fighting back. Kim, now 0-3, was down following the opening bell and was never in the fight. Breland improved to 1-1 [1].

Another American welterweight, Maurice 'Thin Man' Blocker won evry round in a scheduled eight over Mexico's Pedro Garcia. Scores were 80-72 [x2], and 78-74. Blocker displayed some neat boxing skills, but didn't have much resistance. Blocker improved to 1-1, Garcia dropped to 0-2.

Lightweight Charlie 'Choo Choo' Brown improved to 5-7 [2], when he put away Lee Cargle at the end of the fifth of a scheduled eight. Cargle, 0-6-1, had only just regained his feet from a previous knockdown. Brwon was in charge throughout, although he suffered a torn lip in the third.

The opener saw middleweight new boy Buster 'The Demon' Drayton win the first three rounds of his four rounder against perrenial loser Leonard Townsend, 0-12, before putting him away at the 2.03 mark with a cracking uppercut in the fourth.

[Romdawg88]

Originally Posted by Ian Lord

Yeah, some good match-ups this month. I'm also going with Holmes and Foreman, but as regards Holyfield - Tyson I'm not too sure. I reckon Holyfield might take him. Should be a great fight though.

Your probably right that Holyfield will win but I'm still going to go with Tyson on this one.

[Ian Lord]

Originally Posted by Romdawg88

Your probably right that Holyfield will win but I'm still going to go with Tyson on this one.

It's a real tough one to pick. I'd like to see Tyson win. He has always been one of my favourite's.