Former world champion turned trainer Buddy McGirt is predicting his fighter, Matthew Macklin, will upset Sergio Martinez when the two meet for the linear middleweight championship next Saturday night at the Garden Theater.
“Matthew’s just going to go in there and let his fists do the talking,” McGirt said. “I must say, though, that I am very confident that he is going to shock an awful lot of people in this fight.”
An autograph session Tuesday starts a weeklong list of events leading up to the fight. The two boxers will be at Legends Bar on 33rd St. from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. An open workout featuring both fighters is set for noon at Modell’s Sporting Goods in Times Square on Wednesday. The weigh-in is scheduled for 3 p.m. Friday at the Theater. The St. Patrick’s Day fight is to be televised on HBO. Tickets remain on sale.
Newark-based heavyweight contender Tomasz Adamek has been added to the March 24 boxing card that will be televised by the NBC Sports Network from the Aviator Sports and Events Center in Brooklyn. It will be Adamek’s first bout since losing to WBC heavyweight title holder Vitali Klitschko in September in Poland. Adamek (44-2, 28 KOs) will face Dominican native Nagy Aguilera (17-6, 12 KOs) in a scheduled 10-rounder.
“I’m 35 years old, but I’m still a hungry fighter,” Adamek said. “I want to come back and show everyone that I can win this fight and couple next fights and get future title fights again.”
The main event features Brooklyn’s Zab Judah against Vernon Paris. Also scheduled is heavyweight Sergei Liakovich vs. Bryant Jennings.
The inaugural New York State Boxing Hall of Fame induction dinner will be held April 1 at Russo’s On The Bay in Howard Beach. Sugar Ray Robinson heads a list of 12 boxers and eight non-participants to be inducted. Joining Robinson in the inaugural class are Mike Tyson, Jake LaMotta, Carmen Basilio, Riddick Bowe, Carlos Ortiz, Vito Antuofermo, Emile Griffith, Mike McCallum, Gene Tunney, Benny Leonard and Tony Canzoneri.
The non-participant inductees are judge/HBO analyst Harold Lederman, coach Steve Acunto, trainer/cutman Jimmy Glenn, trainers Gil Clancy and Ray Arcel, Ring magazine founder Nat Fleischer, reporter Bill Gallo and referee Arthur Mercante Sr.
Juan Manuel Lopez (31-1, 28 KOs) looks to regain the featherweight title on Showtime tonight when he takes on Orlando Salido Lopez in much-anticipated rematch in Puerto Rico. Less than a year ago, Orlando Salido Lopez (37-11-2, 25 KOs) took the title with an eighth-round TKO over the previously unbeaten Lopez.
Would you ignore someone who is trying to give you $45 million of legitimate money? The New York assembly has made a habit of it in recent years by failing to sanction mixed-martial arts in the state.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship is continuing what is now a four-year campaign to get a bill passed in Albany that would allow it to host as many as four events per year and generate more than $45 million of economic revenue. The bill has died in the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee the last two years.
New York is just one of three states that have regulatory commissions that do not sanction MMA, though it is OK to compete in each of the martial arts individually. A Muay Thai card, for instance, is scheduled for the Garden Theater on Friday.
Frankie Edgar gets a chance to regain the UFC lightweight title he lost to Ben Henderson last month. Edgar (14-2-1) of Toms River, N.J., lost a close decision to Henderson (16-2) at UFC 144 in Tokyo. A date and site for the rematch will be determined later.
Hopefully, it will be Madison Square Garden.
george.willis@nypost.com
Tomasz Adamek, Buddy McGirt, Matthew Macklin, Orlando Salido Lopez, Sergio Martinez, Modell’s Sporting Goods, KOs, Mike Tyson, Carmen Basilio, Sugar Ray Robinson, Vitali Klitschko, Brooklyn, Mike McCallum, HBO, Riddick Bowe, Jake LaMotta
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