Thanksgiving Weekend Preview

**captainanddew** Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:17 pm

Busy week: Food, family, football, shopping, and great boxing.

Tons of fights on Saturday; 2 big matchups on Showtime and 3 worth seeing on HBO. Undoubtedly there will be some stream hunting for those that don't have either channel (or just happen to be with family in a location where there is no HBO or Showtime). Also, the Burgos/Hasegawa fight on Friday would be worth watching, but I have no idea if there is going to be any streams for it.

Everyone have a great Thanksgiving. Going to be a great week and a good weekend. Full schedule below:

Friday, November 26, 2010
Nagoya, Japan Juan Carlos Burgos (23-0-0, 16 KOs) vs. Hozumi Hasegawa (28-3-0, 12 KOs)
12 Rounds - Featherweight Division

Saturday, November 27, 2010
Oakland, Calif. (Showtime)Andre Ward (22-0-0, 13 KOs) vs. Sakio Bika (28-4-2, 19 KOs)
12 Rounds - Super Middleweight Division

Las Vegas Juan Manuel Marquez (51-5-1, 37 KOs) vs. Michael Katsidis (27-2-0, 22 KOs)
12 Rounds - Lightweight Division

Andre Berto (26-0-0, 20 KOs) vs. Freddy Hernandez (26-1-0, 18 KOs)
12 Rounds - Welterweight Division

Celestino Caballero (34-2-0, 23 KOs) vs. Jason Litzau (27-2-0, 21 KOs)
10 Rounds - Jr. Lightweight Division

Tijuana, Mexico (Fox Deportes)Giovani Segura (25-1-1, 21 KOs) vs. Manuel Vargas (26-5-1, 11 KOs)
12 Rounds - Flyweight Division

Miguel Vazquez (26-3-0, 12 KOs) vs. Ricardo Dominguez (31-6-2, 19 KOs)
12 Rounds - Lightweight Division

Helsinki, Finland (Showtime)Carl Froch (26-1-0, 20 KOs) vs. Arthur Abraham (31-1-0, 25

Guest Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:08 pm

Wow Capt, I knew Marquez-Katsitis was on HBO Saturday night, but I didn't realize that Berto-Freddy Hernandez was also on HBO, as well as Froch-Abe and Ward-Bika on Showtime, 4 title fights in one night! woooohoooo!

November 27
At Las Vegas (HBO): Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Michael Katsidis, 12 rounds, for Marquez's Ring/WBO/WBA lightweight title; Andre Berto vs. Freddy Hernandez, 12 rounds, for Berto's WBC welterweight title.

At Helsinki, Finland (Showtime, same-day tape): Super Six World Boxing Classic, Group Stage 3, Carl Froch vs. Arthur Abraham, 12 rounds, for vacant WBC super middleweight title

At Oakland, Calif. (Showtime): Andre Ward vs. Sakio Bika, 12 rounds, for Ward's WBA super middleweight title.

Saturday is going to be a busy day for us boxing fans!

Rum Capital Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:10 pm

Ring wrote:Wow Capt, I knew Marquez-Katsitis was on HBO Saturday night, but I didn't realize that Berto-Freddy Hernandez was on HBO, as well as Froch-Abe and Ward-Bika on Showtime, 4 title fights in one night! woooohoooo!

November 27
At Las Vegas (HBO): Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Michael Katsidis, 12 rounds, for Marquez's Ring/WBO/WBA lightweight title; Andre Berto vs. Freddy Hernandez, 12 rounds, for Berto's WBC welterweight title.

At Helsinki, Finland (Showtime, same-day tape): Super Six World Boxing Classic, Group Stage 3, Carl Froch vs. Arthur Abraham, 12 rounds, for vacant WBC super middleweight title

At Oakland, Calif. (Showtime): Andre Ward vs. Sakio Bika, 12 rounds, for Ward's WBA super middleweight title.
its actually a triple header ring. caballero fights against litzau in the first bout

Saturday is going to be a busy day for us boxing fans!

Guest Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:40 pm

I love that Abraham Gif Rum, but I hope that guy was alright. Abe needs to do that to Froch Saturday afternoon.

Guest Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:58 pm

It's a boxing Borgaschmord!

**captainanddew** Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:04 pm

marbleheadmaui wrote:It's a boxing Borgaschmord!

going to be a sick week. First the food and football buffet. then Black Friday. Then leftover turkey and gravy (mmmmm.... gravy......) and a night of decent to great matchups.

Gumby Tue Nov 23, 2010 12:01 am

Ring wrote:Wow Capt, I knew Marquez-Katsitis was on HBO Saturday night, but I didn't realize that Berto-Freddy Hernandez was also on HBO, as well as Froch-Abe and Ward-Bika on Showtime, 4 title fights in one night! woooohoooo!

November 27
At Las Vegas (HBO): Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Michael Katsidis, 12 rounds, for Marquez's Ring/WBO/WBA lightweight title; Andre Berto vs. Freddy Hernandez, 12 rounds, for Berto's WBC welterweight title.

At Helsinki, Finland (Showtime, same-day tape): Super Six World Boxing Classic, Group Stage 3, Carl Froch vs. Arthur Abraham, 12 rounds, for vacant WBC super middleweight title

At Oakland, Calif. (Showtime): Andre Ward vs. Sakio Bika, 12 rounds, for Ward's WBA super middleweight title.

Tijuana, Mexico (Fox Deportes)Giovani Segura (25-1-1, 21 KOs) vs. Manuel Vargas (26-5-1, 11 KOs)
12 Rounds - Flyweight Division

Miguel Vazquez (26-3-0, 12 KOs) vs. Ricardo Dominguez (31-6-2, 19 KOs)
12 Rounds - Lightweight Division

6 Title fights!

I won't be able to see the Hasegawa v. Burgos on Friday but I would love to be able to read some comments because I'm curious to know how Hasegawa handles 126 or if Burgos is legit.

On a side note, I remember someone was upset a while back because they thought someone had changed their post. I don't remember the circumstances, but if it was a quote that was changed it could have been someone writing inside the [/quote] accidentally. I almost just did that. Maybe he meant to put their comment outside of the quote, but wrote it inside instead.

For example:

Ring wrote:Ring did not write this. Gumby did.

Guest Tue Nov 23, 2010 12:36 am

Ring wrote:Ring did not write this. Gumby did.

Hahaha, it's all good Gumby, I knew what you were doing.

If there's a good live stream for these two title fights Friday, i'll post a thread for it:

At Nagoya, Japan: Juan Carlos Burgos vs. Hozumi Hasegawa, 12 rounds, for vacant WBC featherweight title; Vitali Tajbert vs. Takahiro Ao, 12 rounds, for Tajbert's WBC junior lightweight title.

With so many other fights going on Saturday night, I won't be watching the other title scrap on Fox, maybe somebody will watch it and give us an update:

At Tijuana (Fox Deportes): Giovani Segura vs. Manuel Vargas, 10 rounds, flyweights; Miguel Vazquez vs. Ricardo Dominguez, 12 rounds, for Vazquez's IBF lightweight title. cheers

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