Seth Mitchell is rough around the edges and yes Wlad beats him easily, but the guy got a late start in boxing and given that he's done rather well for himself I must say. It is amazing how quickly the American heavyweight boxing scene deteriorated after Tyson, Holyfield, & Bowe....a quick & precipitous drop off in talent & skill, but one that was exacerbated by the end of the Cold War and that begs the question "If the Cold War was still going, who would be heavyweight champion and how good would they be?"


As for ESPN, they are going all MTV on us, they report more on speculation and gossip than actual stories. The main thing that irks me is how quickly announcers will jump all over boxing for bad fights, bad match ups, bad scoring/judging....they are very quick to say what is wrong in boxing while offering few if any solutions and they rarely if ever say that anything good is happening in the sport.