{"id":1824,"date":"2010-03-26T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ringsidereport.com\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2010-03-26T00:00:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T05:00:21","slug":"the-boxing-weekend-arthur-abraham-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=1824","title":{"rendered":"The Boxing Weekend: Arthur Abraham Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By Geno McGahee<\/strong><\/p>\n

SHOWTIME<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Super Six continues with the leader in the tournament, Arthur Abraham, 31-0, 25 KO\u2019s, takes on Andre Dirrell, 18-1, 13 KO\u2019s.\u00a0 Abraham, the long time middleweight champion, demolished Jermain Taylor and sent him out of the tournament in his first appearance, picking up 3 points for the KO win, and now plans to get 3 more when he faces off against Dirrell.<\/p>\n

Dirrell lost a close decision to Carl Froch in his first appearance in the tournament, currently having a zero on the scoreboard.\u00a0 Dirrell may have the best chance to upset Abraham, the current favorite to win.\u00a0 Dirrell has an awkward and quick style that isn\u2019t pretty but is effective and a slow and methodical Abraham could fall victim to a decision loss.\u00a0 This is a wonderful showdown and will pump life back into the tournament, which it needs at this point with the drop out of Taylor and the postponement of the Allen Green-Andre Ward match.\u00a0<\/p>\n

HBO<\/strong><\/p>\n

HBO will be presenting a double header with Marcos Maidana, 27-1, 26 KO\u2019s, taking on Victor Cayo, 24-0, 16 KO\u2019s, for the WBA Light Welterweight Title. Maidana is still riding high off his stoppage victory over rising contender Victor Ortiz in 2009.\u00a0 His only defeat was a split decision defeat to Andriy Kotelnik.\u00a0 Maidana has a big punch and an exciting style and will be trying to add another memorable stoppage on HBO to his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 this Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The fight that may be most anticipated is the IBF Lightweight title bout between Joan Guzman, 29-0-1, 17 KO\u2019s, and Ali Funeka, 30-2-3, 25 KO\u2019s.\u00a0 In their first encounter, Funeka battered Guzman for twelve rounds, clearly winning the fight, but the judges saw it differently, scoring it a majority draw.\u00a0\u00a0 It was called, by most, the worst decision of 2009 and now they try to settle the score, this time with the IBF Title on the line.\u00a0 Both men have a lot to prove and you have to assume that Funeka, a fighter who cannot get a break, losing a controversial decision to Nate Campbell and then suffering from that ridiculous draw.\u00a0 Expect Funeka to put Guzman on his back Saturday.<\/p>\n

PPV<\/strong><\/p>\n

OK, if Roy Jones and Bernard Hopkins merit a PPV price tag, and Evander Holyfield taking on Frans Botha does as well, then why not the returning Erik Morales?\u00a0 Morales, 48-6, 34 KO\u2019s, will be taking on Jose Alfaro, 23-5, 20 KO\u2019s, this Saturday night.\u00a0 Morales is 0-4 in his last four, two of which are by stoppage, but he continues on.\u00a0 He is the last man to hold a victory over Manny Pacquiao, although he paid dearly for it in the rematch and the rubber match.\u00a0\u00a0 With money signs in his eyes, he returns, and has even mentioned a wanting to take on the \u201cPacman\u201d again, which would be the first televised execution should he convince Team Pacquiao to meet him a fourth time.<\/p>\n

Morales has zero left and this PPV is a waste of money, unless you are a fan of Morales and want to continue to follow his career.\u00a0 It may just end Saturday night.\u00a0 Much like Jones with Danny Green, Morales is an old man and he is facing a heavy-handed opponent\u2026anything can happen.<\/p>\n

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By Geno McGahee SHOWTIME The Super Six continues with the leader in the tournament, Arthur Abraham, 31-0, 25 KO\u2019s, takes on Andre Dirrell, 18-1, 13 KO\u2019s.\u00a0 Abraham, the long time middleweight champion, demolished Jermain Taylor and sent him out of the tournament in his first appearance, picking up 3 points for the KO win, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,238,477,659,681,685,719],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-arthur-arbraham","tag-erik-morales","tag-manny-pacquiao","tag-showtime","tag-super-middleweight","tag-supersix","tag-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}