Posted on Wednesday, November 25th, 2015 at 5:33 am.
The controversy abounds still days after the WBC middleweight title fight, at least for one of them, between newly crowned champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Miguel Cotto this past Saturday night from the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada. Unless you were under a rock or not that big of a boxing fan, you would :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, November 25th, 2015 at 5:30 am.
Our selection from last week came from the rematch between WBA lightweight world champion Darleys Perez (32-2-1, 20 KOs) of Colombia and local United Kingdom favorite contender Anthony Crolla (30-4-3, 12 KOs). The fight like their first one once again took place at the Manchester Arena (formerly M.E.N Arena), Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom hometown of :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, November 24th, 2015 at 9:07 am.
WBA super welterweight champion of the world Erislandy Lara (21-2-2, 12KOs ) returns to action Wednesday. Lara will defend his world title against former world champion Jan Zaveck (35-3, 19KOs ) of Slovenia. The main event bout will take place at the Hialeah Park Race Track, in Hialeah, Florida. The event will be another edition :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, November 23rd, 2015 at 3:00 pm.
This past Saturday night from the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada, the boxing world witnessed the second semi-final this year of the unofficial middleweight tournament. After twelve competitive rounds, Mexican super star Saul “Canelo” Alvarez put another notch on his belt and captured the WBC middleweight strap with a lopsided unanimous decision over Puerto :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, November 23rd, 2015 at 10:20 am.
Unified Heavyweight champion of the world Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs ) will defend his titles versus mandatory number 1 ranked challenger Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs ) this Saturday. The bout will take place at the ESPRIT arena, in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany. The venue seats well over 50,000. The scheduled for 12 round main :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, November 20th, 2015 at 2:39 pm.
IBF bantamweight world champion Randy Caballero (22-0, 13 KOs) will make his first title defense this Saturday. Caballero will defend against current IBF interim bantamweight world champion Lee Haskins (32-3, 14 KOs) of the United Kingdom. The bout will take place on the undercard of the main event featuring Saul Alvarez vs. Miguel Cotto. The :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 8:42 am.
Our debate topic last week was who you thought was the best welterweight in boxing today. We did not include Floyd Mayweather Jr. as he formally retired following his last fight. The names we offered and not in any order were Manny Pacquiao, Timothy Bradley Jr., Keith Thurman, and Kell Brook. We allowed for those :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, November 18th, 2015 at 1:48 pm.
Here we are folks, in the middle of fight week for Miguel Cotto vs Saul “Canelo” Alvarez who face each other this Saturday night from the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada, live on HBO Pay-Per-View. To celebrate that, our 26th edition of Around the Ring is dedicated to just this event. WBC Strips Cotto :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, November 18th, 2015 at 7:32 am.
Last week we decided to go with the fight between former world champion Anthony Mundine (47-7, 27 KOs) of Australia and world ranked contender Charles Hatley ( 26-1-, 18 KOs) of Texas. The main event bout will took place at the Convention & Exhibition Centre in Melbourne, Victoria Australia. It was scheduled for 12 rounds :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, November 17th, 2015 at 5:38 am.
Former Olympian and WBC #1 ranked super featherweight challenger Francisco Vargas (22-0-1 ,16 KOs) will challenge WBC super featherweight champion Takashi Miura (29-2-2 ,22 KO) this Saturday. The scheduled for 12 round world title bout will take place on the undercard of the main event featuring Saul Alvarez vs. Miguel Cotto. The event will take :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…
