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HBO World Championship Boxing Recap Part 2

November 15, 2008

Vanderbilt University Memorial Gymnasium-Nashville, Tennessee

Super Middleweight (168 pounds) 12-Round Match:

Jermain Taylor (27-2-1, 17 KO's, 167.5 pounds) vs. Jeff Lacy (24-1, 1 ND, 17 KO's, 167.5 pounds)

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HBO World Championship Boxing Recap Part 1

November 8, 2008

Madison Square Garden-New York City, New York

HBO aired its third 24/7 mini-series building up this match and it was much worse then the previous 2. Lacking thearrogant heel character of Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and a likable babyface in either Oscar De La Hoya or Ricky Hatton, the episodes were largely boring. Enzo Calzaghe, Joe Calzaghe's father and trainer, was the only person who attempted to cut a promo on either boxer. They showed how Joe likes to make Enzo angry by turning the wrong direction on a run. That is boring. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. threw Floyd Mayweather, Sr. out of a house Senior was making payments on at the time. The 2 then stopped speaking. De La Hoya during his 24/7 series called Junior a bad son. Senior then gave Hatton tips on how to beatJunior duringthat 24/7 series. That was entertaining.

Jones spent time at his final press conference talking about the victory of President-Elect Obama. Joe was talking about retiring. Enzo was the only 1 still looking to cut promos to sell this match. This was a complete waste of a 24/7 series and devalued the brand. The final buyrates showed that with the PPV doing roughly 225,000 buys. The show did do a strong gate, though. The final attendance was 14,152 with most of the fans traveling across the Atlantic to see the match.

The Ring Light Heavyweight (175 pounds) 12-Round Match:

Joe Calzaghe (45-0, 32 KO's, 174.5 pounds) (c) vs. Roy Jones, Jr. (52-4, 38 KO's, 174.5 pounds)

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HBO PPV Recap

"Undefeated"

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Ricky Hatton

December 8, 2007

MGM Grand-Las Vegas, Nevada

Super Middleweight (168 pounds) 10-Round Match:

Jeff Lacy (22-1 (1 NC), 17 KO's, 169 pounds) vs. Peter Manfredo, Jr. (28-4, 13 KO's, 169 pounds)

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HBO World Championship Boxing Recap

May 19, 2007

FedEx Forum-Memphis, Tennessee

The crowd for this event is much smaller than anticipated. Jermain Taylor, a native of nearby Little Rock, Arkansas, was expected to draw a big crowd for the event andthat is not the case.The first deck of the arena is not even half full.

WBC and WBO Middleweight (160 pounds) 12 Round Championship Match:

Jermain Taylor (26-0-1, 17 KO's, 160 pounds) (c) vs. Cory Spinks (36-3, 11 KO's. 160 pounds)

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Here is a link to listen to the archived broadcast of the internet radio show I did on Monday:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/potcast/2008/11/11/Potcast-Live-Right-after-WWE-RAW.mp3

The appearance went over 2 hours, but is not recommended listening for anyone who can be reasonably offended.