Posted on Friday, October 2nd, 2015 at 10:45 am.
IBF cruiserweight world champion Víctor Ramírez (22-2, 17 KOs) will make the first defense of his title tonight in his native Argentina. His opponent will be upset specialist IBF #14 ranked Ovill McKenzie (25-12, 13 KOs) of the United Kingdom. Ramirez was originally slated to face the absolute IBF world champion Yoan Hernandez. Ramirez was :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, October 2nd, 2015 at 6:26 am.
We are officially in the fall season now and with that, the last quarter of the year and the end of the 2015 boxing season. With that said, here is your latest Around the Ring: Cotto Loves L.A. – Earlier this week WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto of Caguas, Puerto Rico landed in the west :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, October 1st, 2015 at 7:40 am.
Our debate last week was who would have won a fight between Ricky Hatton and Amir Khan. The circumstances were it was the unbeaten Hatton vs today’s present day Khan. The weight would have been 147. Those who went with Hatton felt the pressure of that version of Hatton would have been too much for :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, October 1st, 2015 at 5:20 am.
This Saturday night it will be the first time in quite some time that we will have competing telecasts by the two biggest boxing platforms in the United States. HBO will feature the super lightweight title fight between Lucas “The Machine” Matthysse of Argentina against Viktor Postol for the vacant WBC 140 pound championship. The :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 at 9:38 am.
We went with the world title fight between unified world flyweight champion Juan Francisco Estrada (32-2, 23 KOs) versus former world champion Hernan Marquez (39-5-1, 28 KOs) this past Saturday night. The bout took place at the Centro Convenciones, in Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico. Both fighters are from the Mexican state of Sonora and had :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 at 7:51 am.
WBC #1 ranked super lightweight Viktor Postol (27-0, 11 KOs) of the Ukraine is just days away from the biggest fight of his professional career. Postol will take on WBC #2 ranked super lightweight Lucas Martin Matthysse (37-3, 34 KOs) of Argentina this Saturday. The main event bout will take place at the StuHub Center :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, September 28th, 2015 at 9:34 am.
Unified world flyweight champion Juan Francisco Estrada (33-2, 24 KOs) defended his titles successfully versus former world champion Hernan Marquez (39-6-1, 28 KOs) this past Saturday night. This was a fight that had been talked about locally for quite some time. Both fighters are from the state of Sonora in Mexico making the matchup extra :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, September 26th, 2015 at 4:52 am.
By the looks of things, former super lightweight and welterweight champion Marcos “Chino” Maidana likes to fish. And hunt. Most of all, he likes to eat. Maidana has not stepped into a ring as a professional prizefighter since September 2014 when he dropped a unanimous decision against Floyd Mayweather Jr. That fight was a rematch :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, September 25th, 2015 at 10:04 am.
Our debate last week was who is most likely to replace Floyd Mayweather Jr. as boxing’s next pay per view star. There are many talented fighters coming up but again this was strictly ppv drawing potential. The name that was mentioned most was that of Saul Alvarez. He is still in his early 20’s and :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, September 24th, 2015 at 8:20 am.
Former-two division world champion Tomasz Adamek (49-4, 29 KOs) will take on countryman Przemyslaw Saleta (44-7, 22 KOs) this Friday. The bout is a scheduled for 10 round heavyweight main event. The site of the show will be the Atlas Arena in Lodz, Poland. This will be the first fight for Adamek since November of :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…
