#1 Ruslan Provodnikov – Timothy Bradley

For me this has been my fight of the year candidate. I have no problem with Bradley getting the decision, although there is a rational case the fight could have been a draw or given to Provodnikov who beat the hell out Bradley.

#2 Guillermo Rigondeaux(The Jackal) – Nonito Donaire

Fight was a master piece, and an un-veiling of cosmic justice, the kind of thing that allows one to see all those people you think are fake and hype really are fake and hype.
Always thought Donaire was over rated , a protected fighter who was usually fighting smaller men coming up in weight to fight him,  or had a name and were past their prime . First Donaire denigrated Rigondeaux saying Rigondeaux wasn’t ready for him and then Donaire got schooled by Rigondeaux awesome fight.

#3 Ruslan Provodnikov vs Mike Alvarado
Not quiet fight of the year  but close. Mike Alvarado tremendous athlete, puncher, tough guy, Changed styles from slugger to boxer, to south paw boxer in this fight, and Ruslan Provodnikov had to adapt, and in an intense war of wills, of world class athletes Provodnikov got Alvarado to wisely quit on his stool around in the 10th round.

#4Danny Garcia – Lucas Matthysee
Although not a barn burner, this fight decided for a moment supremacy at 140. In my opinion Matthysee was in control of the fight in the first 6 rounds, when an eye injury to the orbital socket caused Lucas eye to shut, for about 3 rounds after that it was all Garcia who showed a good chin, smart clinching when Lucas would get close and good movement not allowing Matthysee to plant his feet and fire with power as frequently.

#5 Jhonny Gonzalez – Abner Mares
In this fight Jhonny Gonzalez sent Abner Mares to the canvas hard with a beautiful left hook that Mares never really recovered from with the fight being stopped later in the 1st round. Great fight. The seemingly invincible Mares against an aging warrior with a trick ending . Excellent.

#6 Sergey Kovalev – Nathan Cleverly
This fight kept the intrigue of a possible new superstar on the horizon: Kovalev who has won the bulk of his bouts by ko. Kovalev comes from a hard scrabble background in Russia where as boy he was raised by his mom and he would help her by getting money recycling bottles.

#7 Vera – Chavez
This fight was a great fight on so many levels where the underdog Vera who was tremendously outsized by Chavez put on a boxing clinic and even though Vera was not given the decision, I felt he won.

#8 Matthysee – Lamont Petersen
Another devastating Matthysee ko.

#9 Wladamir Klitschko – Alexander Povetkin
Boring fight with too much holding by Klitschko but it helped to define where we are in the Heavy Weight division

#10 Matthysee – Dallas Jr.
Lucas Matthysee just has a cool style and this was a frightening ko of Dallas Jr.

I love San Francisco to death. But as it becomes more congested and more expensive the city loses some of it’s hold on me. I am sure the rich don’t enjoy the congestion either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovorTymu-1A

Dark end of the street great song anytime of day but best when driving a cab after 11pm on weeknight.

This area is called Lands End. I believe what is in the picture are the foundations of a place called Sutro Baths from like 80 years ago. Very cool area. I dropped a guy off at a restaurant near where photo was taken on a beautiful Friday afternoon in September and I took a walk with my camera phone.

I would like to see immediate moratorium on new parking meters in San Francisco.
Along with a law that 10 Meters that currently exist are removed for the next 15 years.
I would replace the loss of income by having someone go over contracts paid to outside vendors who provide services to the city and have the city get better bargains in these transactions.

Really not that shocking. Send all your productive capacity overseas , and just print money and hope lame phone apps  and a stock market bubble can carry your economy on through the to other side.
They don’t call him “Helicopter Ben Bernanke for nothing”.
All this money printing only works as long as the Dollar is the reserve currency of the world.

That I listened to as as I drove. The music made the evening bearable, as I worked my around the city in this post-modern world.

The record made me think of the  gangster rock of The Clash, Bob Marley, New York City. The Atlantic Ocean and its facing of Europe, West Africa and it’s (N.Y.C) relationship to the  Caribbean and Brazil .

According to Abel Sanchez in below link, Kovalev was either afraid or to respectful of Golovokin when they would spar in Abel’s Gym.  I say lets have them fight at 175 pounds to clear the air on this situation.

I say why not. Go for it burger flippers.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/29/fast-food-workers-strike-for-higher-pay-in-nearly-60-cities/2726815/

Mumford  proposed a constellation of five activities has operated from the appearance of the first cities down to the present to give humanity its growing dominion over nature, and a few control of the many.  This “Megamachine,” as Mumford called it, is largely invisible and designed to be so by those who build and run it, since its working parts are human bodies driven by carefully inculcated belief systems. Such a machine is easiest to visualize as a pyramid, whose base  consists of mechanization, metallurgy, militarism and moneymaking (or finanance) and whose apex is mining.

Taken from page 19 of book by Gray Brechin “Imperial San Francisco”