Posted on Friday, April 17th, 2015 at 12:42 pm.
Earlier this week on a very popular Spanish-language radio station based out of Los Angeles, WBC super-bantamweight champion Leo Santa Cruz and former three-divisional champion Abner Mares once again met face to face. No, they weren’t announcing an upcoming fight between the two but merely just sharing with the boxing world, and possibly with their :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, April 17th, 2015 at 11:42 am.
IBF Welterweight champion Kell Brook (34-0, 23 KOs) successfully defended his title last month against mandatory challenger Jo Jo Dan (34-3, 18 KOs) winning inside of 4 rounds. Brook did so in spectacular fashion in front of a packed house in his native Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Fortunately for Brook his fight with Dan was :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, April 16th, 2015 at 9:28 am.
The majority of fight fans last saw Yuriorkis Gamboa (24 -1, 17 KOs) in his title challenge of Terrance Crawford in June of last year. Gamboa entered the bout as an underdog for the first time in his pro career. He would take on Crawford in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska in a bout aired :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, April 16th, 2015 at 7:06 am.
One thing Floyd Mayweather Jr is not known for is for being tactful in his comments to the press. Although the considered pound for pound king is not too keen to talking to a large array of the press, when he does, he relays some pretty bold statements. His latest is not a new one :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, April 15th, 2015 at 10:00 am.
Entering 2015 fans were optimistic that the anticipated showdown between light heavyweight champions Adonis “Superman” Stevenson (26-1 , 21 KOs) and Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev (27-0-1 , 24 KOs) would finally go down this years. Both fighters had scheduled fight in the first quarter of the year but were heavily favored to win. Kovalev was perceived :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, April 15th, 2015 at 7:25 am.
Just this past Saturday the boxing world enjoyed the second installment of the Premier Boxing Champions on the peacock network, NBC. This along with a handful of other cards under the Al Haymon banner on other networks like CBS and Spike TV has established a brave new world in the sport but is it too :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, April 14th, 2015 at 8:56 am.
WBC Super middleweight champion Andre Dirrell (27-0-1, 22 KOs) & WBA middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs (28-1, 25 KOs) will both be defending their world titles in separate bouts April 24th at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois. Dirrell will take on Badou Jack (18-1-1, 12 KOs) while Jacobs will fight Caleb Truax (25-1-1,15 KOs). The :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, April 13th, 2015 at 11:24 am.
This past Saturday WBC super lightweight champion Danny Garcia (30-0, 17 KOs) defeated IBF Junior welterweight champion Lamont Peterson (33-3-1, 17 KOs) by a 12 round majority decision at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New York. Both fighters entered as world champions but neither were defending their titles. Instead they fought at an agreed upon :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, April 11th, 2015 at 5:11 am.
There might not be a bigger gamble in boxing than to be a Julio Cesar Chavez Jr fan. The twenty-nine year old son of a legend jumps into the ring once again on Saturday, April 18th, after thirteen months without any action. Chavez Jr will be facing light heavyweight title challenger Andrzej Fonfara at the :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, April 10th, 2015 at 11:33 am.
Highly world ranked David Lemieux (33-2, 31 KOs) of Montreal, Quebec, Canada will finally get his long awaited world title shot. Lemieux will meet former world champion Hassan N’Dam (31-1, 18 KOs) of France for the vacant IBF middleweight title. The IBF held a purse bid earlier this week which Lemieux’s promoter Golden Boy won. :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…
