Turn that frown upside down, kiddo. Showtime's super middleweight tournament is back on solid footing, with Andre Ward-Andre Dirrell and Arthur Abraham-Carl Froch booked for Nov. 27 and, for some inside-baseball reasons, Allan Green staying in the tourney against someone or the other, giving the winner of that bout a knockout's chance of advancing to the semifinals. What will we panic about now????
Actually, once November and December come, things are looking up for the ol' tempermental beast that is boxing, as a whole. You got your Ward-Dirrell and Abraham-Froch, which, dang, Showtime, why you gotta put that on the same date as Juan Manuel Marquez's lightweight championship defense against Michael Katsidis on HBO? But, OK, better to have three killer fights on one night than none, the way we've had lately. Anyway, also coming up before year's end we have the Paul Williams-Sergio Martinez rematch on HBO on Nov. 20 for the middleweight championship of the world, rightly deemed the second-best fight that can be made in boxing behind only Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather. We got another network duel on Dec. 11, with Showtime airing its bantamweight tournament kickoff with Yonnhy Perez-Joseph Agbeko II and Abner Mares-Vic Darchinyan, plus HBO airing the premium junior welterweight clash between Amir Khan and Marcos Maidana.
Thass a nice stretch of boxing, homes. Too bad it's September.
Let's Quick Jab this out.
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