Showtime's Super Six World Boxing Classic In Detroit

This Saturday Detroit is hosting Showtime's Super Six Boxing Classic at Joe Louis Arena. Showtime took the six best super middleweights and created a tournament (to obviously compete with HBO boxing). The tournament is in its second phase and this is the first bout. The main event includes Andre "The Matrix" Dirrell (18-1, 13 KOs) vs "King" Arthur Abraham (31-0, 25 KOs). The Flint, Michigan native Dirrell won a bronze medal in the 2004 Olympics and has super speed. Abraham is the current leader in the tournament with a knockout win over Jermain Taylor. We will see if the speed of Dirrell can out match the power of Abraham. This is the biggest boxing event to come to Detroit in many years. The event will be shown live on Showtime and if you are in the Detroit are the ticket prices range from $25-$175.

The Main Event

Tomorrow night the Pacquiao-Clotty bout will be shown live from Dallas Stadium on PPV 9PM ET. Listed below are a few places to watch the fight for Free! Post your predictions!

Cagney's Chicago

2142 N Clybourn Ave

Four Shadows Chicago

2758 N Ashland Ave

Motor City Casino Detroit

2901 Grand River Ave

Manny In March

On Saturday March 13th Joshua Clottey will take on Manny Pacquiao. The WBO welterweight title fight will be held at the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium, and will host about 45,000 fans. Lets face it this is not the fight boxing fans wanted to see (cancelled Mayweather/Pacquiao), BUT! Joshua "The Hitter" Clotty (35-3) 20 KOs is hard hitting, defensive, and has a chin as hard as a rock. He was beat by Cotto, who Pacquiao destroyed, but it was close and could have gone either way. Clotty has also never had a loss by way of knockout. Manny's abilities are pretty well known by now, but one thing that he has to realize is that Clotty will come to fight. This is his first seven figure pay day and he has nothing to loose. Clotty hit the jackpot when he landed this fight and I'm sure he realizes that. If "The Hitter" can go the distance with "Pacman", it should be an entertaining fight.

The fight will be on HBO PPV. A few days before the fight I will post what bars will be showing the fight for free in Chicago, IL.

Oscar De La Hoya's Fight Night Club Returns, Tonight!

Featuring Southern California's top young boxing talent at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, California. The main event stars (left) "Vicious" Victor Ortiz (25-2-1) 20 KO's vs (right) Hector Allatorre (16-8) 5 KO's. This event will be televised on Fox Sports Net.

The Ring Diaries Top 12 Pound for Pound Current Rankings

#1 Manny Paquiao 50-3-2 (38 KO's)

#2 Floyd Mayweather 40-0 (25 KO's)

#3 Shane Mosley 46-5 (39 KO's)

#4 Bernard Hopkins 50-5-1 (32 KO's)

#5 Juan Manual Marquez 50-5-1 (37 KO's)

#6 Juan Manual Lopez 28-0 (25 KO's)

#7 Paul Williams 38-1 (28 KO's)

#8 Edwin Valero 26-0 (26 KO's)

#9 Sergio Martinez 44-2-2 (24 KO's)

#10 Miguel Cotto 34-2 (27 KO's)

#11 Lucian Bute 23-0 (18 KO's)

#12 Chad Dawson 29-0 (17 KO's)

20 Years Ago Today

Valero, Time To Take Notice, Again.

On Saturday night Edwin Valero defeated Antonio DeMarco in the ninth round in Monterrey, Mexico for the WBC lightweight belt. Valero improved his record to 27-0, with all fights won by the way of knockout, and all but two, in the first round. He is an unknown as far as American boxing is concerned besides being a YouTube sensation. The troubles that he has faced, a blood clot in his head caused by a motor cycle accident where he was not wearing a helmet, and a DUI in Texas ruined his chances of retaining a visa, and kept him from fighting in the United States. Or maybe Valero's tattoo of the Venezuelan flag and President Hugo Chavez on his chest had something to do with it. The bottom line is that if you can't pass a fight examination or get a visa, you can't fight in the United States. Or so they say. Luckily for him he is in the sport of boxing. This means when you are this good, money fights against big time contenders will find you and rules can be broken. As of March 2008 he is now allowed to fight in Texas again. A message to the top contenders out there, you better watch out for this guy.