Saturday July 11, 2008 Boxing Results
Here are last night’s boxing results which involved Top Ten Ring Magazine fighters in the respective weight classes
Tomasz Adamek vs. Gary Gomez
Ring Magazine #3 cruiserweight Tomasz Adamek (35-1) def. Gary Gomez (18-10-1) when Gomez refuses to enter the ring in at the start of the seventh. Below is the third round of this one-sided beating. Not too much excitement here just a clinical dismantling by the Pole on a far inferior opponent.

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Alex Bunema vs. Walter Dario Matthysse
Ring Magazine #6 light middleweight Alex Bunema (30-5-2) def. Walter Dario Matthysse (26-4) by KO in the …read more

Image details: The Contender Challenge – UK v USA served by picapp.com
The boxing reality show The Contender has found a new home, a new weight class, and its most impressive roster of fighters yet. After one season on NBC, and two on ESPN, the showcase for up-and-coming fighters will now be shown on the Versus Network. Let’s hope it does better than their famously low-rated NHL coverage. The new season will begin in December.
In the past few months Versus has intermittently put its toes in the boxing waters; its most notable event being May’s Ricky Hatton vs. Juan Lazcano bout. …read more

Image details: Tomasz Adamek v Paul Briggs served by picapp.com
Polish hero Tomasz Adamek got Saturday’s boxing night off to a cracking start with a surprisingly one-sided victory over Jamaican O’Neil Bell, Ring Magazine’s #3 ranked cruiserweight. After seven rounds of steady punishment Bell’s corner stopped the fight just before the eighth round’s start.
Bell’s body and face did not appear particularly damaged but his downhearted expression told a decidedly different story. He looked like a defeated man, head down, spirit removed, and his trainer responded by giving Adamek a premature TKO.
Adamek looked quick for a cruiserweight, knocking Bell down early, stymieing …read more

Ring Magazine’s #3 ranked cruiserweight O’Neil Bell (26-2) faces a daunting task this Saturday as he travels to the industrial heart of Poland to face national hero Tomasz Adamek. The winner gets a shot at Philadelphian Steve Cunningham, the IBF title holder.
During Adamek’s last fight in the Katowice’s Spodek (Saucer) Arena during June of 2007 he tore apart Panamanian Luis Andres Pineda with a seventh round TKO. As you can tell in the embedded youtube video the Polish crowd was feverish and rowdy.
Bell isn’t that intimidated. He’s the higher ranked boxer, he’s already knocked out the #2 ranked Jean …read more