Think hard about how many boxers in 2010 have taken a legitimate chance in a highly risky fight. There's the Super Six tournament, Floyd Mayweather-Shane Mosley, Sergio Martinez-Kelly Pavlik, and some a tier or two below that like Chad Dawson-Jean Pascal or Pongsaklek Wonjongkam-Koki Kameda.
So, while I welcome Showtime's bantamweight tournament (one participant, Abner Mares, pictured at right via Golden Boy) and Amir Khan-Marcos Maidana on HBO, I kind of wish they weren't both on Dec. 11. I've got a DVR these days, but not everybody does. And I guess I'd rather get a few risky bouts on the same night than not at all. You just wish with a whole year to put on bouts like this and so few occasions where it happened, they didn't end up competing.
I'll discuss all those bouts at length more below, but because I've missed two weeks of fights in the works, we won't be going in order of importance. We'll just go division by division.
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