Watch Tavoris Cloud vs Yusaf Mack Live Stream Free

Tavoris Cloud defends his IBF Light Heavyweight Title against Yusuf Mack on Saturday, June 25, 2011. Tavoris Cloud, the reigning International Boxing Federation Light Heavyweight Champion, stepped on the scale Friday evening in sunny, historic downtown St. Charles, Mo., and just as quickly stepped off.
Moments earlier, Cloud’s opponent on Saturday night, number-one contender Yusaf Mack (29-3-2 with 17 KOs), weighed in at a trim and ready 174 pounds. But Cloud (22-0 with 18 KOs) wasn’t so lucky. Despite looking chiseled, the undefeated champion was a quarter of a pound over the 175-pound limit. Cloud and his team quickly left platform as a buzz fell over the excited crowd. Four days before he is set to defend his IBF light heavyweight title on HBO, Tavoris Cloud got another reminder that winning a world championship doesn’t necessarily end your struggles.
“Cloud will fight anybody but these guys know even if they beat my kid they’re going to get the sh*t kicked out of them. For the moment Cloud is young enough that he still has the time but he’s been waiting for the opportunity ever since he first beat former champion Julio Cesar Gonzalez three years ago in an IBF elimination fight that set up a shot at the then vacant title against former champion Clinton Woods.

Watch Humberto Soto vs. Motoki Sasaki Live Stream Free

WBC lightweight champ, Humberto Soto (55-7-2, 32 KOs) will be staying busy with a voluntary defense of his belt this Saturday night against Japan’s Motoki Sasaki (36-8-1, 23 KOs) at the Parque Andrés Quintana Roo in Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico.

In his last bout, he won a unanimous 10-round decision over Fidel Monterrosa Munoz at the 140 lb. limit. Sasaki, despite getting this shot at Soto’s lightweight crown, has never actually fought at the 135 lb. limit.

Soto won the title in March, 2010, and has made three successful title defenses, which include one of the best fights of the year in 2010 – a 12-round decision win against Urbano Antillon on December 4. Soto, 31 years old, is also a former WBC super featherweight world champion and has now won 11 fights in a row.

Sasaki, 35 years old, is the Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) super lightweight champion. He won the title in July, 2010, and has made two successful title defenses. He is also a former OPBF welterweight champion – he won that title in February, 2008, and made three successful title defenses.

Watch Felix Sturm vs. Matthew Macklin Free Live Stream

Matthew Macklin’s focus is solely on beating Felix Sturm, but for boxing in these isles his challenge for the WBA middleweight title is the start of a fantastic double header.

Macklin is a fighter close to my heart. Though from Birmingham, Macklin is managed in Ireland and sees himself very much as part of the Irish fighting tradition.

If only.

Sturm has lost only twice, and the defeat to Oscar De La Hoya did not necessarily reflect the dynamic of the fight. Historically, Macklin has lacked stamina. You acquire big-fight stamina through years of constantly putting ¬yourself through the wringer, taking your body to the limit.

Not knowing who you are fighting, not having a defined career path through consistent ¬management is tough.

You have six months between fights, just ticking over, getting fed up, putting on weight etc.

And then when you take a fight, you might not be up for it. Sturm is not spectacular and Macklin knows this. WBA middleweight titlist Felix Sturm is favored as expected for today's fight against Matthew Macklin in Germany, and Kell Brook is an enormous favorite against veteran Lovemore N'dou in Sheffield, England. Sturm vs Macklin and Brook vs N'dou share the Sky Sports bill starting at 3:30 pm EDT, and Bad Left Hook will have live, round-by-round coverage of both fights.

Sturm vs Macklin

Macklin will be battling uphill in this fight as he's on the road in Cologne. In his career fighting in Germany, Sturm is 32-1-1, with his only loss coming via TKO-10 to Javier Castillejo in 2006.

Macklin has only truly fought abroad a couple of times, as all but two of his fights have been in the United Kingdom or Ireland. He was 2-0 in a pair of fights in the United States in 2005.

Watch Rafael Nadal vs Gilles Muller Live

Sounds just like Rafa, the humble-talking Spaniard who always builds up the guy on the other side of the net. This time, though, he may actually be right. The 10-time Grand Slam champion will next face Gilles Muller of Luxembourg, the only man other than Roger Federer to beat Nadal at the All England Club since 2005. “Was a long time (ago), but he beat me,” said Nadal, the Wimbledon champion in 2008 and ’10. “Gilles is a very dangerous player. He has a very good serve, good volley. He’s especially very dangerous player in this kind of surface. So will be tough match for me. Nadal advanced Wednesday by beating Ryan Sweeting of the United States 6-3, 6-2, 6-4. Muller had a much shorter match, going through when 31st-seeded Milos Raonic retired with a hip injury while leading 3-2 in the first set. At the 2008 US Open Gilles Müller, then ranked 130, had to go through the qualification tournament. He reached the main draw, where he consecutively beat Laurent Recouderc, former No. 2 Tommy Haas, Nicolás Almagro and 5th-seeded Nikolay Davydenko, advancing to the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in his career. In fact, he was not sure that he would even qualify and so he did not even book a hotel room for the tournament. He then lost to defending and eventual champion Roger Federer by a score of 7–6(5), 6–4, 7–6(5). On January 19, 2009, Müller beat Spaniard Feliciano López by a score of 6–3, 7–6(5), 4–6, 4–6, 16–14 in an epic four hours, twenty-four minutes long match in the first round of the 2009 Australian Open. Müller beat local favorite Bernard Tomic 3–6, 6–1, 6–4, 6–2 in the second round, eventually losing in the third to eighth seed Juan Martín del Potro