Posted on Wednesday, January 14th, 2015 at 5:02 am.
In the last Boxing 360 blog, we went over three out of the five fights we want to see in 2015. Now we come back with the other two. Will we see any of these fights? Some of these? None of these? Only time will tell. 4. Miguel Cotto (39-4, 32KO) vs Gennady Golovkin (31-0, :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 at 6:41 am.
Christmas has come and gone and the New Year has begun. Good thing the boxing gods hear our prayers all year long or at least we want to believe that. With that said, this week we will go over the five fights we definitely want to see in the next twelve calendar months. In no :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, January 9th, 2015 at 12:58 pm.
Twenty-four year old Saul “Canelo” Alvarez got bold last week when he sent WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto an open letter through the press asking him not to duck him and to sign the contact to face each other on the much fought over May 2nd date. In the letter Alvarez went as far to :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, January 7th, 2015 at 5:46 pm.
THE LATEST AND GREATEST BETWEEN MAYWEATHER & PACQUIAO In hopes of bringing boxing fans the latest news in the on goings of the sport, Boxing 360 has your most recent progress report of the ongoing negotiations between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao for their proposed mega fight. Top Rank’s Bob Arum told a prominent :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, January 6th, 2015 at 7:43 am.
In the past two blogs, we delved into the different reason why either former interim WBA light welterweight champion Mauricio “Maestro” Herrera or current WBO lightweight champion Terence “Bud” Crawford should be named 2014’s Fighter of the Year. Now in this third and last installment on the topic we will go over why hardcore boxing :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, January 2nd, 2015 at 1:03 pm.
In the last blog we went over why many in the boxing world have nominated veteran junior welterweight Mauricio “Maestro” Herrera as the Fighter of the Year on the strength of two robbed decisions, the first against Danny Garcia last March and the second against Jose Benavidez Jr just a couple of weeks ago, both :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, January 2nd, 2015 at 8:51 am.
It seems the whole boxing world is split on who deserves the honor of Fighter of the Year for 2014. The more generous ones deem that Mauricio “Maestro” Herrera deserves it for his work inside the ring although he might not have gotten the decisions at the end of his fights. The more logical ones :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, December 30th, 2014 at 7:55 am.
Just last week Oscar De La Hoya, boss of Golden Boy Promotions, was named promoter of the year by the most respected magazine in sports, Sports Illustrated. It is quite an honor for a man that only truly took the reins of his company earlier this year even though the outfit has been in business :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, December 26th, 2014 at 3:39 am.
In the last two installments of the Boxing 360 blogs we went over the best 2-5 fights of the year. From the little guys in “Chihuas” Rodriguez against Takayama to the welterweight wars between “The Machine” Matthysse and John Molina Jr and Robert “Ghost” Guerrero against man of the rising sun Yoshihiro Kamegai. In the :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014 at 3:24 pm.
In the last Boxing 360 blog we began our list of the best fights of 2014. Listed at #5 was the come from behind win of Chris Algieri over Ruslan Provodnikov while #4 was the awesome brawl between Robert Guerrero and Japanese kamikaze Yoshihiro Kamegai. In this edition we are going to name the next :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…
