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Twitter Sightings
On Tuesday morning, a bug must have bit “Hammerin” Hank Lundy and triggered his Twitter fingers to WBO world champion Terence Crawford. Lundy claims Crawford has been dodging a fight with him for a while now, and Lundy says it’s time to settle it.
The back and forth exchange went on for a little while, Crawford kept it light and laughed at the idea. Team Crawford says it would be taking two steps back to fight Lundy.
According to Boxing Scene, Crawford will face Dierry Jean (29-1, 20 KOs) in Omaha on October 24. According to Crawford’s team, this fight is a step forward.
Lundy is 1-2 in his last 3 fights, losing a split decision to Thomas Dulorme, whom Crawford breezed through, and the controversial technical decision loss to Mauricio Herrera.
“You just gotta win some fights so the fight can make sense you know how the business goes, or you don’t,” was one of Crawford’s replies to Lundy, which is absolutely true.
A few days before, Lundy also tried to call out Ruslan Provodnikov. That bug must have gave Lundy a fever.
@BoxingJunkies Got Boxing Heads Excited
Hearing a Danny Garcia-Robert Guerrero and Keith Thurman-Shawn Porter double header is in the works to happen by the end of the year #boxing
— Boxing Junkies (@BoxingJunkies) August 19, 2015
If this were to be true, Robert Guerrero should be easy work for Danny Garcia since he’s been on a slow decline ever since he faced Keith Thurman earlier this year. But the fight that caught our eye was Keith Thurman vs. Shawn Porter.
Everything about this matchup should be entertaining, from the pre-fight build up to the bombs thrown on fight night.
If any more leads on this fight card happen to surface, Round By Round Boxing will happily be all over it.
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Vasyl Lomachenko Calls out Guillermo Rigondeaux on Twitter and Instagram and Rigo Actually Responds
@RigoElChacal305 Let’s fight not for money but for the right to be a real champion Let’s do it 4 all the boxing fans pic.twitter.com/Bq3gN4vpaG — Vasyl Lomachenko (@vasyllomachenko) August 17, 2015
Vasyl Lomachenko continued on with the following:
[otw_shortcode_quote border=”bordered” border_style=”bordered”]“If you want to be the best, you have to fight the best. So far you haven’t met such boxers. You will have this opportunity.” [/otw_shortcode_quote]
My Spanish is a little rusty and Bing translation can only do so much, but Rigo’s response had more to do with how much each should get paid. Seems like Lomachenko is ready to put the money aside and throw down. if Rigo can get on the same track then we may have a good fight on our hands.
The Battle for PPV Prices
Boxing fans know that a few good fights are coming up, and so will their cable bill.
So far, this is what we know:
Oscar De La Hoya touched on the Miguel Cotto vs. Canelo Alvarez mathcup and while he didn’t give an exact price, he said it’ll definitely less than $100.
‘Mark my words (the PPV price) will be a lot less than $100.’ — @OscarDeLaHoya on #CottoCanelo while also taking a blast at Floyd-Manny.
— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) August 13, 2015
No official price has been set for that card yet.
Gennady Golovkin vs. David Lemiuex will be a very reasonable $49.95. Fans can assume to pay an extra $10 for HD, but the $49.95 was the only price mentioned at yesterday’s press conference at Madison Square Garden.
Shane Mosley wants to stay in the running for pay-per-view buys, offering that his rematch with Ricardo Mayorga is also at a reasonable price of $49.95 (per Bloody Elbow).
And last, but never least, the Floyd Mayweather vs. Andre Berto clash will cost $64.95 standard and $74.95 for HD (per BoxingNews24).
Boxing heads, which PPV do you plan to buy and are these prices worth it? Let us know on Twitter, @RBRBoxing and @LeannPerez_
