winning early setting up a pool championship game on Sunday night

winning early, setting up a pool championship game on Sunday night Most predicted that the young guns from the U.S. would hang with the Canadians for a period at the most, then their lack of experience would be exposed and the hosts would pull away for a victory. But what happened shocked the world The U.S. team was an interesting side story, with young players getting their first international experience, but a side story at best, falling behind the wonderkins Ovechkin and Crosby Pool play started as expected, with Canada and the U.S. Gone were the days where names like Sakic, Jagr, and Hasek were as recognizable as Bryant, Favre, and Jeter. Until 2010.The Olympic Hockey Tournament was previewed as a two week gold medal lap for the Canadian team, taking easily what was rightfully theirs on home ice in front of their biggest fans The U.S. For the last five years, the major sports scene has been the big three, not the big four as in the past. Hockey fell to the wayside after its league-wide strike in 2004, and fans just watched basketball, baseball, or football instead.

Normally the home to the Canucks, the arena has become host to the resurrection of hockey for the past two weeks. As fans all across the world watched the electric atmosphere today as the host nation won the gold medal, hockey re-entered the mind of the average sports fan. While the NFL is in Indianapolis scouting its newest superstars, pitchers and catchers are reporting to Spring Training, the NBA's 82 game campaign rolls on, and we sit in the lull between the Super Bowl and March Madness, the collective eye of the sports world has fixed its gaze on British Columbia, particularly on the Canada Hockey Place. In case you've been under a rock for the last two weeks, a major transformation has been occurring in Vancouver. He did what he was supposed to and that was beat a smaller man for a world title. He took it to the younger smaller man and imposed his will/power.He did beat a good fighter who was a former titlist At any rate, congratulations Wlifredo Vazquez Jr on winning your first world title. . He joined his father and joined the long list of Puerto Rican champions.

was just to strong and ended matters at 2:01 of the fourth with a wicked left hook to the liver  Fighter of the weekend: Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. Due to WBC rules there will be an immediate rematch.In a bit of an upset in my book Vazquez Jr joined his father as a world titlist Vazquez Jr. took over the fight in the second round and never let the 19-year-old Sonsona back into the fight.Sonsona was a former 115-pound champion who was moving up two weights for the chance to win another title Vazquez Jr. Mayol laid there motionless and was taken off on a stretcher. Featherweight TitleRodel Mayol (26-3-2 20 KO) Tech Draw 3 Omar Nino (27-3-2 11 KO) WBC Light Flyweight Title The most controversial champion Mayol retains his title with a technical draw against Omar Nino. This was the fourth straight fight for Mayol that ended in a technical decision.Nino clearly landed a low blow on Mayol and then knocked him out cold with a left hook. (18-0-1 15 KO) KO 4 Marvin Sonsona (14-1-1 12 KO) Vacant WBO Jr.

Bruseles had not lost since since 2005 when he lost to Floyd Mayweather Jr. Nothing to exciting happened in this fight as Jones controlled the fight for most of the 10 rounds and cruised to an easy win  Double Assault PPVWilfredo Vazquez Jr. It appears Holt is more PG-13 than “Rated R”.Jones got a win over his best opponent yet in Bruseles. He did have a high work rate, was aggressive, and was in good shape though.I was very surprised to see Holt get TKO’ed. Mabuza didn’t seem to have a lot of power, but he pounded Holt for six rounds.It appears that Holt has to go back to the drawing board He may be done at the top level but only time will tell. He had a good defense and a decent jab but no power punches that overwhelmed me.He was coming off of a good win against undefeated Sergey Fedchenko, but I saw nothing that led me to believe he would beat Holt. This is the second loss in a row for Holt and it was against a very average opponent.I watched some tape on Mabuza to get a feel for him and he looked like an average fighter with average or below average power.

 Mike Jones (20-0 16 KO) UD 10 Henry Bruseles (28-4-1 15 KO)Kaizer Mabuza (23-6-3 14 KO) TKO 6 Kendall Holt (25-4 13 KO) Mabuza may have ended the upper class career of Holt. They smashed his eggs while he was going home from the market Well Escalante got the last laugh in this feud. He put up one hell of a fight and made Escalante fans hold their breath more than once.Escalante floored Roman in the eighth and almost knocked Roman out in the 10thround. With the win, Escalante should be looking for a title shot some time in the near future.To make matters more interesting Roman and his brother had bullied Escalante when they were little.