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Anthony Joshua vs Robert Helenius isn’t the sort of match-up that gets the juices flowing, but it sets the table for a deep run of interesting heavyweight fights over the next six weeks.

When Saturday arrives, Oleksandr Usyk’s defense against Daniel Dubois will be only two weeks away. Usyk and Dubois will be locking horns at a soccer stadium in Wroclaw, a city of about 675,000 in the Silesia region of Poland.

As a pro, Usyk has answered the bell for 168 rounds spread across 20 fights. Remarkably considering his relatively brief career, the Ukrainian southpaw has already captured seven of the eight meaningful belts in boxing’s two highest weight classes. His IBF, WBA, and WBO heavyweight belts will be at risk against Dubois. Tyson Fury owns the missing piece.

The odds suggest that Usyk will have little difficulty retaining his diadems. A quick glance at the prevailing prices informs us that he is anywhere from a 9/1 to a 16/1 favorite.

Believe it or not, however, if this match had been made four years ago, Daniel Dubois would have been installed the favorite. In those days, the six-foot-five Brit was spoken of in the same hushed tones that people talk about Jared Anderson today. He was the Next Big Thing. At this juncture, Usyk had just ripened into a heavyweight.

Dubois has lost only once since bombing out countryman Nathan Gorman in a fascinating crossroads match-up between two unbeaten boxers with contrasting styles. But that defeat, at the hands of Joe Joyce in November of 2020, eroded his stature enormously. Dubois was counted out on his knees in the tenth frame after taking yet another stiff jab on his damaged left eye.

Dubois went on to score a fourth-round stoppage of Don King’s heavyweight hopeful Trevor Bryan in Miami, Florida. Although Bryan wasn’t highly regarded, he held a version of a WBA world title (don’t we all?) and came in undefeated. In his most recent bout, he rallied from the brink of defeat to score a third-round stoppage of South Africa’s Kevin Lerena who punched himself out after putting Dubois on the deck three times in the opening round.

In that bout, Dubois, now 19-1 (18 KOs), was befuddled by Lerena’s southpaw-ness. The fact that Usyk is also a lefty factored large in setting the odds for this fight. The venue also favors Usyk. Wroclaw is home to many transplanted Ukrainians, it’s no coincidence that this fight is being staged two days after Ukrainian Independence Day, and it’s worth noting that Usyk won his first title in this country, snatching the WBO cruiserweight belt from Krzyzstof Glowacki in Gdansk.

Nevertheless, Dubois, who will have a two-inch height advantage and in the vicinity of a 20-pound weight advantage, may have more than a puncher’s chance.

Interestingly, a Ukrainian was the “villain” in the lone previous heavyweight title fight held at this venue. WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko and Tomasz Adamek baptized this stadium in the icebreaker event in 2011. Adamek, a native Pole and a national hero, was making his seventh start as a heavyweight after winning world titles at 175 and 200. To the great dismay of the crowd (purportedly 42,000), Klitschko stopped him in the tenth round.

Zhilei Zhang vs. Joe Joyce.

Four weeks after Usyk-Dubois, on Sept. 23, Zhilei Zhang and Joe Joyce will renew acquaintances at London’s Wembley Stadium. In the first meeting of these former Olympic silver medalists, Zhang scored a sixth-round stoppage. When the bout was called off at the behest of the ringside physician, the towering Chinaman was ahead on the cards and Joyce’s right eye was nearly closed. This was a big upset. Although Zhang had lost only once in 26 starts, and was competitive in defeat against a daunting foe in Filip Hrgovic, Joyce was a 6/1 favorite in man-to-man betting.

Since that encounter, Zhang turned 40, but “The Juggernaut,” at age 37, is no spring chicken himself. The rematch has already attracted heavy betting action with most of it on Zhang and if the odds hold up, he will go to post a small favorite. It’s a very intriguing fight.

Up-and-Comers

For fans of heavyweight boxing, the last Saturday of this month will be a real treat. In addition to Usyk-Dubois, some of the division’s top up-and-comers will be in action on a Top Rank show in Tulsa. The events will not overlap. Both cards will air in the U.S. on ESPN platforms.

Headlining the Top Rank card will be the aforementioned Jared Anderson (15-0, 14 KOs), who is matched against 39-year-old Ukrainian veteran Andrei Rudenko (35-6, 21 KOs). Rudenko has gone the distance with the likes of Alexander Povetkin and Zhilei Zhang, but is 4-4 in his last eight with those four wins coming against opponents who were collectively 21-34-4 at the time that he fought them.

In his last outing, Anderson was forced to go the distance for the first time in his career by late sub “Prince” Charles Martin. Rudenko brings less to the table than Martin and we would be surprised if he is still standing at the final bell.

Two other heavyweight fights are far more intriguing. In the co-feature, a 10-rounder, Efe Ajagba (17-1, 13 KOs) touches gloves with Zhan Kossobutskiy (19-0, 18 KOs). The six-foot-six, 29-year-old Ajagba has won two straight since getting out-boxed by Cuba’s Frank Sanchez on the undercard of Fury-Wilder III. Kazakhstan’s Kossobutskiy, 34, is making his North American debut. One doesn’t know what to expect from him, but he comes highly recommended.

The card also includes Olympic gold medalist Bakhodir Jalolov, a recent Top Rank signee.

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Bahhodir Jalolov

Jalolov, a 29-year-old Uzbek southpaw with a 12-0 (12 KOs) record in the paid ranks, is arguably the best of the up-and-coming heavyweights not named Jared Anderson. He’s matched against Nigeria’s Onoriode Ehwarieme (20-2, 19 KOs), a Kossobutskiy victim. The bout between these six-foot-seven Goliaths, slated for eight, figures to be over in a hurry, so don’t blink.

Jalolov’s most talked-about triumph came in his amateur days, a frightening one-punch knockout of Richard Torrez Jr in Ekaterinburg, Russia. They met again in the gold medal round of the Tokyo Olympiad. Jalolov won a unanimous decision.

And speaking of Torrez Jr, the pride of Tulare, California, he returns to the ring this weekend (Saturday, Aug. 12) in Glendale, Arizona on a Top Rank show topped by Emanuel Navarrete’s defense of his WBO world featherweight title against former two-division title-holder Oscar Valdez. Torrez Jr opposes 40-year-old Indianapolis southpaw Willie Jake Jr. They were slated to meet on March 25 in Fresno, but Torrez Jr suffered an undisclosed injury in training and was forced to withdraw.

Torrez Jr has looked sensational in his brief pro career. None of his five opponents lasted beyond the third round. He will be part of the main card which airs at 7 pm PT on ESPN with the undercard streaming exclusively on ESPN+ beginning at 3:45 PT.

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“Breadman” Edwards: An Unlikely Boxing Coach with a Panoramic View of the Sport

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Stephen “Breadman” Edwards’ first fighter won a world title. That may be some sort of record.

It’s true. Edwards had never trained a fighter, amateur or pro, before taking on professional novice Julian “J Rock” Williams. On May 11, 2019, Williams wrested the IBF 154-pound world title from Jarrett Hurd. The bout, a lusty skirmish, was in Fairfax, Virginia, near Hurd’s hometown in Maryland, and the previously undefeated Hurd had the crowd in his corner.

In boxing, Stephen Edwards wears two hats. He has a growing reputation as a boxing coach, a hat he will wear on Saturday, May 31, at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas when the two fighters that he currently trains, super middleweight Caleb Plant and middleweight Kyrone Davis, display their wares on a show that will air on Amazon Prime Video. Plant, who needs no introduction, figures to have little trouble with his foe in a match conceived as an appetizer to a showdown with Jermall Charlo. Davis, coming off his career-best win, an upset of previously undefeated Elijah Garcia, is in tough against fast-rising Cuban prospect Yoenli Hernandez, a former world amateur champion.

Edwards’ other hat is that of a journalist. His byline appears at “Boxing Scene” in a column where he answers questions from readers.

It’s an eclectic bag of questions that Breadman addresses, ranging from his thoughts on an upcoming fight to his thoughts on one of the legendary prizefighters of olden days. Boxing fans, more so than fans of any other sport, enjoy hashing over fantasy fights between great fighters of different eras. Breadman is very good at this, which isn’t to suggest that his opinions are gospel, merely that he always has something provocative to add to the discourse. Like all good historians, he recognizes that the best history is revisionist history.

“Fighters are constantly mislabled,” he says. “Everyone talks about Joe Louis’s right hand. But if you study him you see that his left hook is every bit as good as his right hand and it’s more sneaky in terms of shock value when it lands.”

Stephen “Breadman” Edwards was born and raised in Philadelphia. His father died when he was three. His maternal grandfather, a Korean War veteran, filled the void. The man was a big boxing fan and the two would watch the fights together on the family television.

Edwards’ nickname dates to his early teen years when he was one of the best basketball players in his neighborhood. The derivation is the 1975 movie “Cornbread, Earl and Me,” starring Laurence Fishburne in his big screen debut. Future NBA All-Star Jamaal Wilkes, fresh out of UCLA, plays Cornbread, a standout high school basketball player who is mistakenly murdered by the police.

Coming out of high school, Breadman had to choose between an academic scholarship at Temple or an athletic scholarship at nearby Lincoln University. He chose the former, intending to major in criminal justice, but didn’t stay in college long. What followed were a succession of jobs including a stint as a city bus driver. To stay fit, he took to working out at the James Shuler Memorial Gym where he sparred with some of the regulars, but he never boxed competitively.

Over the years, Philadelphia has harbored some great boxing coaches. Among those of recent vintage, the names George Benton, Bouie Fisher, Nazeem Richardson, and Bozy Ennis come quickly to mind. Breadman names Richardson and West Coast trainer Virgil Hunter as the men that have influenced him the most.

We are all a product of our times, so it’s no surprise that the best decade of boxing, in Breadman’s estimation, was the 1980s. This was the era of the “Four Kings” with Sugar Ray Leonard arguably standing tallest.

Breadman was a big fan of Leonard and of Leonard’s three-time rival Roberto Duran. “I once purchased a DVD that had all of Roberto Duran’s title defenses on it,” says Edwards. “This was a back before the days of YouTube.”

But Edwards’ interest in the sport goes back much deeper than the 1980s. He recently weighed in on the “Pittsburgh Windmill” Harry Greb whose legend has grown in recent years to the point that some have come to place him above Sugar Ray Robinson on the list of the greatest of all time.

“Greb was a great fighter with a terrific resume, of that there is no doubt,” says Breadman, “but there is no video of him and no one alive ever saw him fight, so where does this train of thought come from?”

Edwards notes that in Harry Greb’s heyday, he wasn’t talked about in the papers as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the sport. The boxing writers were partial to Benny Leonard who drew comparisons to the venerated Joe Gans.

Among active fighters, Breadman reserves his highest praise for Terence Crawford. “Body punching is a lost art,” he once wrote. “[Crawford] is a great body puncher who starts his knockouts with body punches, but those punches are so subtle they are not fully appreciated.”

If the opening line holds up, Crawford will enter the ring as the underdog when he opposes Canelo Alvarez in September. Crawford, who will enter the ring a few weeks shy of his 38th birthday, is actually the older fighter, older than Canelo by almost three full years (it doesn’t seem that way since the Mexican redhead has been in the public eye so much longer), and will theoretically be rusty as 13 months will have elapsed since his most recent fight.

Breadman discounts those variables. “Terence is older,” he says, “but has less wear and tear and never looks rusty after a long layoff.” That Crawford will win he has no doubt, an opinion he tweaked after Canelo’s performance against William Scull: “Canelo’s legs are not the same. Bud may even stop him now.”

Edwards has been with Caleb Plant for Plant’s last three fights. Their first collaboration produced a Knockout of the Year candidate. With one ferocious left hook, Plant sent Anthony Dirrell to dreamland. What followed were a 12-round setback to David Benavidez and a ninth-round stoppage of Trevor McCumby.

Breadman keeps a hectic schedule. From Monday through Friday, he’s at the DLX Gym in Las Vegas coaching Caleb Plant and Kyrone Davis. On weekends, he’s back in Philadelphia, checking in on his investment properties and, of greater importance, watching his kids play sports. His 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son are standout all-around athletes.

On those long flights, he has plenty of time to turn on his laptop and stream old fights or perhaps work on his next article. That’s assuming he can stay awake.

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Arne’s Almanac: The Good, the Bad, and the (Mostly) Ugly; a Weekend Boxing Recap and More

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It’s old news now, but on back-to-back nights on the first weekend of May, there were three fights that finished in the top six snoozefests ever as measured by punch activity. That’s according to CompuBox which has been around for 40 years.

In Times Square, the boxing match between Devin Haney and Jose Carlos Ramirez had the fifth-fewest number of punches thrown, but the main event, Ryan Garcia vs. Rolly Romero, was even more of a snoozefest, landing in third place on this ignoble list.

Those standings would be revised the next night – knocked down a peg when Canelo Alvarez and William Scull combined to throw a historically low 445 punches in their match in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 152 by the victorious Canelo who at least pressed the action, unlike Scull (pictured) whose effort reminded this reporter of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” – no, not the movie starring Paul Newman, just the title.

CompuBox numbers, it says here, are best understood as approximations, but no amount of rejiggering can alter the fact that these three fights were stinkers. Making matters worse, these were pay-per-views. If one had bundled the two events, rather than buying each separately, one would have been out $90 bucks.

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Thankfully, the Sunday card on ESPN from Las Vegas was redemptive. It was just what the sport needed at this moment – entertaining fights to expunge some of the bad odor. In the main go, Naoya Inoue showed why he trails only Shohei Ohtani as the most revered athlete in Japan.

Throughout history, the baby-faced assassin has been a boxing promoter’s dream. It’s no coincidence that down through the ages the most common nickname for a fighter – and by an overwhelming margin — is “Kid.”

And that partly explains Naoya Inoue’s charisma. The guy is 32 years old, but here in America he could pass for 17.

Joey Archer

Joey Archer, who passed away last week at age 87 in Rensselaer, New York, was one of the last links to an era of boxing identified with the nationally televised Friday Night Fights at Madison Square Garden.

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Joey Archer

Archer made his debut as an MSG headliner on Feb. 4, 1961, and had 12 more fights at the iconic mid-Manhattan sock palace over the next six years. The final two were world title fights with defending middleweight champion Emile Griffith.

Archer etched his name in the history books in November of 1965 in Pittsburgh where he won a comfortable 10-round decision over Sugar Ray Robinson, sending the greatest fighter of all time into retirement. (At age 45, Robinson was then far past his peak.)

Born and raised in the Bronx, Joey Archer was a cutie; a clever counter-puncher recognized for his defense and ultimately for his granite chin. His style was embedded in his DNA and reinforced by his mentors.

Early in his career, Archer was domiciled in Houston where he was handled by veteran trainer Bill Gore who was then working with world lightweight champion Joe Brown. Gore would ride into the Hall of Fame on the coattails of his most famous fighter, “Will-o’-the Wisp” Willie Pep. If Joey Archer had any thoughts of becoming a banger, Bill Gore would have disabused him of that notion.

In all honesty, Archer’s style would have been box office poison if he had been black. It helped immensely that he was a native New Yorker of Irish stock, albeit the Irish angle didn’t have as much pull as it had several decades earlier. But that observation may not be fair to Archer who was bypassed twice for world title fights after upsetting Hurricane Carter and Dick Tiger.

When he finally caught up with Emile Griffith, the former hat maker wasn’t quite the fighter he had been a few years earlier but Griffith,  a two-time Fighter of the Year by The Ring magazine and the BWAA and a future first ballot Hall of Famer, was still a hard nut to crack.

Archer went 30 rounds with Griffith, losing two relatively tight decisions and then, although not quite 30 years old, called it quits. He finished 45-4 with 8 KOs and was reportedly never knocked down, yet alone stopped, while answering the bell for 365 rounds. In retirement, he ran two popular taverns with his older brother Jimmy Archer, a former boxer who was Joey’s trainer and manager late in Joey’s career.

May he rest in peace.

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Bombs Away in Las Vegas where Inoue and Espinoza Scored Smashing Triumphs

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Japan’s Naoya “Monster” Inoue banged it out with Mexico’s Ramon Cardenas, survived an early knockdown and pounded out a stoppage win to retain the undisputed super bantamweight world championship on Sunday.

Japan and Mexico delivered for boxing fans again after American stars failed in back-to-back days.

“By watching tonight’s fight, everyone is well aware that I like to brawl,” Inoue said.

Inoue (30-0, 27 KOs), and Cardenas (26-2, 14 KOs) and his wicked left hook, showed the world and 8,474 fans at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas that prizefighting is about punching, not running.

After massive exposure for three days of fights that began in New York City, then moved to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and then to Nevada, it was the casino capital of the world that delivered what most boxing fans appreciate- pure unadulterated action fights.

Monster Inoue immediately went to work as soon as the opening bell rang with a consistent attack on Cardenas, who very few people knew anything about.

One thing promised by Cardenas’ trainer Joel Diaz was that his fighter “can crack.”

Cardenas proved his trainer’s words truthful when he caught Inoue after a short violent exchange with a short left hook and down went the Japanese champion on his back. The crowd was shocked to its toes.

“I was very surprised,” said Inoue about getting dropped. ““In the first round, I felt I had good distance. It got loose in the second round. From then on, I made sure to not take that punch again.”

Inoue had no trouble getting up, but he did have trouble avoiding some of Cardenas massive blows delivered with evil intentions. Though Inoue did not go down again, a look of total astonishment blanketed his face.

A real fight was happening.

Cardenas, who resembles actor Andy Garcia, was never overly aggressive but kept that left hook of his cocked and ready to launch whenever he saw the moment. There were many moments against the hyper-aggressive Inoue.

Both fighters pack power and both looked to find the right moment. But after Inoue was knocked down by the left hook counter, he discovered a way to eliminate that weapon from Cardenas. Still, the Texas-based fighter had a strong right too.

In the sixth round Inoue opened up with one of his lightning combinations responsible for 10 consecutive knockout wins. Cardenas backed against the ropes and Inoue blasted away with blow after blow. Then suddenly, Cardenas turned Inoue around and had him on the ropes as the Mexican fighter unloaded nasty combinations to the body and head. Fans roared their approval.

“I dreamed about fighting in front of thousands of people in Las Vegas,” said Cardenas. “So, I came to give everything.”

Inoue looked a little surprised and had a slight Mona Lisa grin across his face. In the seventh round, the Japanese four-division world champion seemed ready to attack again full force and launched into the round guns blazing. Cardenas tried to catch Inoue again with counter left hooks but Inoue’s combos rained like deadly hail. Four consecutive rights by Inoue blasted Cardenas almost through the ropes. The referee Tom Taylor ruled it a knockdown. Cardenas beat the count and survived the round.

In the eighth round Inoue looked eager to attack and at the bell launched across the ring and unloaded more blows on Cardenas. A barrage of 14 unanswered blows forced the referee to stop the fight at 45 seconds of round eight for a technical knockout win.

“I knew he was tough,” said Inoue. “Boxing is not that easy.”

Espinoza Wins

WBO featherweight titlist Rafael Espinosa (27-0, 23 KOs) uppercut his way to a knockout win over Edward Vazquez (17-3, 4 KOs) in the seventh round.

“I wanted to fight a game fighter to show what I am capable,” said Espinoza.

Espinosa used the leverage of his six-foot, one-inch height to slice uppercuts under the guard of Vazquez. And when the tall Mexican from Guadalajara targeted the body, it was then that the Texas fighter began to wilt. But he never surrendered.

Though he connected against Espinoza in every round, he was not able to slow down the taller fighter and that allowed the Mexican fighter to unleash a 10-punch barrage including four consecutive uppercuts. The referee stopped the fight at 1:47 of the seventh round.

It was Espinoza’s third title defense.

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