Independence Day

The two titans of boxing are at  it again and this time it's a good thing for boxing fans.  Instead of matching their premiere fighters against shitty opponents from their own promotion they are matching their premiere fighters against each other.

On June 12 Golden Boy promotions announced Victor Ortiz v.s. Saul "Canelo" Alvarez would fight at the MGM Grand on September 15th on Showtime pay per view. 

On Saturday June 16th Top Rank officially announced Julio Cesar Chavez jr. v.s. Sergio Martinez  at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas on HBO pay per view.

The magnitude of both announcements are glorious for me. The moment the Canelo-Ortiz match was set my bags were packed, the timeshare was reserved and the usual suspects were rounded up for the trip 50, Juan, Miguelito, and Moe.

Personally I would love nothing better than to watch two young Mexican fighters in their prime go toe to toe on Mexican independence day weekend fighting for the title but more importantly Oscar DeLa Hoyas Attention.  Yet,  I would love nothing better than to watch Sergio Martinez destroy Chavez jr. on Mexican independence day weekend. I have been clamoring for that since the day Chavez was handed the WBC title after Martinez was unfairly stripped by the commission.

What heck am I suppose to do?  Go watch Ortiz-Canelo or Martinez-Chavez jr. or should I stay home and watch them both on TV simultaneously ? Nope! I'm going to Vegas no matter what.  I thought maybe one of the promotions might switch the date in order to make the decision  easy for me.

This morning in an exclusive interview with Oscar DeLa Hoya, ahem via twitter, I asked Oscar himself.

There it is!  My first interview with De La Hoya was a success and it even had one favorite by some guy named Patrick.

It seemed to me in our  personal conversation that De La Hoya is adamant about keeping his fight card on September 15.

And, According to Boxingscene.com Bob Arums is not budging either. He claims to have reserved the September 15th date in  February.

"Their fight is an okay fight but our fight is much, much bigger. They will find that a lot of the MGM's customers are going to want to come to see our fight,"  

After a spring of shitty ass cards all of a sudden both promotions want to put an awesome fight in the same day, and I get the feeling they are doing it to fuck each other over  rather than to please the fans.

That's okay with me though that's their problem,  I just thank God for DVR and HBO on Demand.

All that matters is that two good fights are happening that weekend,  Chavez and another guy are going to get their ass kicked and i'm watching one of the fights live.

Eventually my decision will be made by 50 because no matter what fight I chose to attend he will chose the opposite.

Everybody wins in this situation the fans, the fighters, the casinos, and especially those assholes from Stubhub who will buy all the tickets and charge triple for them.

Another benefit about that weekend Mayweather and Pacquiao are not involved.