Posted on Tuesday, October 20th, 2015 at 2:34 pm.
On Saturday night from the big room of the Madison Square Garden, the boxing world might have seen its new star in Gennady “GGG” Golovkin as the Kazakhstan native stopped the overmatched David Lemieux in eight rounds to capture the IBF title. That strap goes along with his IBO,WBA and the interim WBC middleweight titles. :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, October 20th, 2015 at 10:15 am.
WBO Super middleweight world champion Arthur Abraham (43-4 , 29KOs) of Germany will make his next world title defense November 21st. His opponent will be former multi-world title challenger Martin Murray (32-2-1 , 15KOs) of the United Kingdom. The bout will take place at the Tui Arena in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany. Abraham will be making :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, October 19th, 2015 at 11:03 am.
Unbeaten WBO junior welterweight champion of the world Terrance Crawford (26-0 , 18 KOs) returns to the ring this Saturday night. Crawford will make the first defense of his world title against former world title challenger Dierry Jean (29-1 , 20 KOs) of Canada by way of Haiti. The bout will take place in Crawford’s :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, October 16th, 2015 at 1:24 pm.
For all intents and purposes this Saturday night belongs to one Gennady Golovkin. With twenty knockouts in a row, the support of the biggest platform of the spot in HBO and a growing fan base, there really isn’t anything wrong that the man from Kazakhstan. The only way anyone in the boxing world besides his :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, October 16th, 2015 at 11:21 am.
David Tua of New Zealand seemed destined to be a heavyweight world champion. He had all the tools it seemed and the number one asset. Power!!! He was drawing comparisons to that of Mike Tyson the way he was mowing down the competition. Then in 2000 he got his big chance at the crown. He :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, October 15th, 2015 at 10:41 am.
Our debate topic last week was whether the number of cathweight fights of late are a good thing or not. In years past a fighter would move up or down to the weight class of the world champion. The idea was to take that champions title so logically it seemed to fight at the champions :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, October 14th, 2015 at 3:36 pm.
Former champion Amir Khan of England must think he is much more important than he really is. According to him, the two biggest fighters in the last ten years have refused to fight him. It all began with him chasing a fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr in late 2013. Khan kept asking for the fight :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, October 14th, 2015 at 1:49 pm.
The first of two huge fights weeks is upon us but we still have other news that has nothing to do with Golovkin or Lemieux, here is your weekly rundown, the latest edition of Around the Ring: One and Done – According to a recent article by Lance Pugmire of the Los Angeles Times, Top :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, October 14th, 2015 at 12:19 pm.
We saw our win streak continue with our pick of WBO lightweight champion Terry Flanagan (29-0, 12KOs) of the United Kingdom over Diego Magdeleno (28-2, 12KOs) of Las Vegas, Nevada. The fight took place this past Saturday in Flanagan’s native Manchester, England. Flanagan wasted no time in jumping on Masdeleno from the very beginning. Once :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, October 13th, 2015 at 8:11 am.
Former junior welterweight world champion Lamont Peterson (33-3-1, 17 KO’s) will return to the ring this Saturday. Peterson will take on unbeaten former olympic gold medalist Felix Diaz (17-0, 8 KO’s). The bout will take place at the EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia. The fight is essentially a home fight for Peterson being that the :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…
