De La Hoya challenges Mayweather for a Rematch in September

Action packed fixtures involving Golden Boy vying against the world renowned Floyd Mayweather this September. Now that the boxers have rediscovered them and are looking for an entirely predictable outcome after previously, displaying a scintillating performance of boxing as their biggest fight in history, Mayweather/De La Hoya tickets are predicted to sell beyond expectations.

Previously, Mayweather had erased all the financial records, which was previously held by Mike Tyson match which no one wanted to, have another chance to watch. However, the competition between the tough De La Hoya, of Golden Boy Productions having ended prematurely, a rematch would be an ideal to settle the issues.

In the older match last May, the fierce Mayweather dominated the last few rounds after succumbing to blow-arching split is stronger than ever and expects tougher challenge this time.

This thriller match which broke all PPV records, the Mayweather/De La Hoya tickets generating revenue of over $120 million, was one of the most rewarding boxing games ever, as far as I am concerned. In the high adrenalin fight, Floyd Mayweather Jr. had the advantage over De La Hoya and won by split decision within 12 rounds gaining the WBC title.

With the match on May 5 having ended favourable towards Mayweather, the Golden Boy have gone for a rematch, on September 13 or 20th, 2008. Owing to various concerns, this fight is contracted for the welterweight limits, which is restricted to 147 lbs. It is unlikely that it would churn out will be $18.4 million at the arena, although speculations are such that it would cross the record $134.4 million from overall collections and advertisements.

Even with this restriction, Mayweather will enter the challenge as the title holder and defend his WBC and welterweight titles. With two titles on the line, De la Hoya will be expecting a high temperature match at the arena, and scheduled to fight a tune-up bout with Floyd Mayweather Sr. who is the father of the current champion.

Get ready for the clash between titans, Mayweather-De La Hoya II at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada this September.

Knight Riders rode over Bangalore RCs

The latest buzz in Indian cricket is the 1000 crore project "Indian Premier League" which kicked off at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore on 18th April 2008 for the 59 heart-stopping thriller T20 matches. Clash between the former Indian captains Saurav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid, was not like what was expected out of them.

M Chinnaswamy Stadium had been painted with Red and Yellow, the official color of Royal Challengers matched the jerseys of the team. Opening ceremony was scintillating with expert gymnasts from all across the world entertained the audience. Dazzling fireworks lit up the sky and smoke engulfed the skies. The introduction of the team captains followed by them signing the MCC's Spirit of Cricket was cheered by the enormous crowd. BCCI President, Mr. Sharad Pawar, rightly called it a ‘historic day’ for international and Indian cricket.

Kolkata Knight Riders won the match hands down after an unstoppable knock by Brendon McCullum

The match was however disappointing on the whole. The strong bowling attack forged by Zaheer Khan and Praveen Kumar failed to keep runs from accumulating that posed a great challenge to the Royal Challengers. Thought to be a well balanced team, BRC had very little experienced players, and the youngsters found it hard to hide the pressure on them.

Right from the beginning, the pitch was owned by KKR when McCullum banged the ball to the fence in the second over. From then on, there was no looking back for the team, occasionally when Saurav and Ponting fell. The numbers in the scoreboard spun for every ball and stopped at 222 at the end of the innings.

Mallya's Challengers knew their position well and must have given hopes right then. It showed, when the started their innings. The captain Rahul showed his boys, the way back to pavilion. Soon, wickets started falling frequently and the home team found them struggling to score a single. Praveen Kumar's relentless efforts to save the day went iSn vain and the whole team gave in after 15 overs.

The major problem suffered today and will be suffered by IPL is the restriction of only 4 international players to be played per match. Bangalore fell for a meagre total because of inexperienced lot, which could have been averted if there were lighter restrictions.