Another Victory for Boxing

On Friday night, on pay-per-view, two boxers who genuinely dislike each other met in what boxing experts agree

was another solid action packed fight that did live up to the hype.  Though there was one belt on the line, the Super Middleweight bout between Fernando Vargas and Ricardo Mayorga certainly meant a great deal to each boxer for pride in itself.  Leading up to the fight, both fighters did a lot of trash talking and even broke out into a fist fight on July 11 at the first pre-fight news conference.  Thankfully for boxing fans, the punches were not reserved only for the news conference, and both fighters were active in what was eventually a 12 round decision for Ricardo Mayorga.  For Mayorga, this means he will likely still have drawing power as an action packed fighter, and for Fernando Vargas it means he will have lost his final fight, assuming he keeps his word on retiring.  In what has been shaping up to be a very solid conclusion to 2007 for the world of boxing, chalk this fight up as yet another victory for boxing.  To read more about the Vargas/Mayorga fight read on here...

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