Introducing Mr. Jones…
By Robert Przybylo
BPrzybylo@opubco.com
Haven’t had a chance to review the fight yet, but from all reports and conversations it appears Oklahoma City’s Carson Jones thoroughly dominated Michi Munoz last Thursday in Tulsa to win the WBC Continental Americas championship in the junior middleweight division.
The official tally is Jones TKO 10 Munoz. With the win, Jones automatically gets thrown into the mix in the WBC and is guaranteed a top-10 ranking.
I’m not trying to toot Jones’ horn too much, but I admire the way he has handled some early setbacks. He could have easily chosen a different path for his career, but he hasn’t.
He accepted the tough losses and is fighting the best competition he possibly can at this point. He won’t be fighting Paul Williams anytime soon, but he is doing things the right way.
I’ma try to catch up with Jones later this week. Interested to see what he wants to do the rest of the year. He’s been so active, so I wonder if he wants to take it easy or if he is going to put his foot on the gas even more in the upcoming months.
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Want to know why I didn’t write an extended preview for the Chad Dawson-Antonio Tarver fight Saturday on HBO? If you watched the fight, you know why.
In a rematch nobody wanted to see, we may have seen an even more dull fight in their second contest than what we saw in their first several months ago.
For the record, it was Dawson in an easy unanimous decision, which would have been my pick.
Still a believer in Dawson, but I don’t think he knows how to finish people. He hasn’t had the ability to against his toughest opponents, and in fact, has repeatedly tired down the stretch. He did so vs. Tarver, losing the final two rounds on most everybody’s scorecard.
What’s next for Dawson? Logically, it’s a rematch vs. Glen Johnson. So in boxing, you know, that means we prob won’t see it. I don’t see Bernard Hopkins or Joe Calzaghe in his future, so…
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This week, ShoBox returns with a pretty cool event Saturday. 2004 Olympian Andre Ward takes on Edison Miranda. The first big step up for Ward and a crossroads bout for Miranda.
Have more on this later in the week.
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