Posted on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015 at 6:08 am.
January 16th will see unbeaten heavyweights Vyacheslav Glazkov (21-0-1, 13 KOs) of the Ukraine and Charles Martin (22-0-1, 20 KOs) of the U.S. square off. The match is scheduled for 12 rounds and the vacant IBF heavyweight title of the world. The bout will be the co-feature to the main event between WBC heavyweight champion :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, December 21st, 2015 at 5:04 am.
Unbeaten WBA World interim heavyweight champion Luis “The Real King Kong” Ortiz (24-0, 21 KOs) of Cuba scored an impressive 7th round TKO of Bryant Jennings (19-2, 10 KOs) of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania this past Saturday night. The main event bout took place at the Turning Stone Casino in Verona, New York. HBO Championship Boxing televised :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, December 19th, 2015 at 6:16 am.
A couple of days ago, in an impressive performance for a forty-four year old, former champion “Sugar” Shane Mosley stopped his Patrick Lopez in ten rounds from the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama. The super welterweight bout was part of the WBA’s annual convention. Maybe the fact Mosley stopped Lopez, who at thirty-seven is not :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, December 18th, 2015 at 12:43 am.
Former super featherweight world champion Rances Barthelemy (22-2-1, 12KOs) of Cuba will take on Denis Shafikov (23-0, 13KOs) of Russia this Friday. The main event bout is scheduled for 12 rounds and the vacant IBF lightweight title. The site of the card will be the Palms Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The show will be :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, December 17th, 2015 at 10:45 am.
We chose the topic last week of the 2015 upset of the year as the debate. We made it quite clear that a more high profile fight didn’t necessarily beat out a fight that wasn’t fought on a major stage. It’s more the quality of the fighter who was upset. We gave a few examples :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, December 16th, 2015 at 4:20 pm.
Despite we, the boxing world, are in the last month of 2015, we still have some news swirling around so without further ado, here is the latest installment of Around the Ring: Canelo, GGG & the WBC – This week the WBC announced they granted a voluntary defense each for their middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, December 16th, 2015 at 7:59 am.
Our selection from last week came from the match up between former world title challenger Kevin Mitchell (39-4, 29KOs) of the United Kingdom and unbeaten Ismael Barroso (19-0-2, 18KOs) of Venezuela. The bout took place at the O2 Arena (Millenium Dome), in Greenwich, London, United Kingdom. It was scheduled for 12 rounds with the WBA :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, December 15th, 2015 at 9:45 am.
WBO middleweight world champion Andy Lee (34-2-1, 24KOs) will face his #1 mandatory unbeaten challenger Billy Joe Saunders (22-0, 12KOs) this Saturday. The main event will take place at the Manchester Arena (formerly M.E.N Arena), Manchester, Lancashire in the United Kingdom. The bout will air on Showtime extreme in the United States. The show will :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, December 14th, 2015 at 12:20 pm.
In the last thirty days big changes have gone down in the heavyweight division. Obviously the biggest one is Brit Tyson Fury handing “Dr. Steelhammer” Wladimir Klitschko his first loss in eleven years and in the process alleviating him of the WBA, WBO and IBF titles. Just last week, the IBF announced they were promptly :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, December 14th, 2015 at 9:40 am.
Former featherweight world champion Nicholas Walters (26-0, 21KOs) of Jamaica returns to the ring this Saturday. Walters will take on world ranked super featherweight Jason Sosa (18-1-3, 14KOs) of New Jersey. The bout is scheduled for 10 rounds and will be televised on HBO. The fight will be the co-feature to the main event between :READ MORE…
Boxing History: November 10, 1983 Marvelous Marvin Hagler W 15 Roberto Duran, Las Vegas. Retains World Middleweight Title. Record won 62 (KO 52) + lost 3 + drawn 2 = 67 Marvelous Marvin Hagler (born Marvin Nathaniel Hagler; May 23, 1954 in Newark, NJ) was Undisputed World Middleweight Champion from 1980 to 1987. Hagler made :READ MORE…
