Posted on Tuesday, October 14th, 2014 at 7:36 am.
It is going to be a rambunctious affair this Saturday night in Carson, California, when rising star Gennady “GGG” Golovkin defends his WBA and IBO middleweight title while Mexican Marco Antonio “Veneno” Rubio puts up his interim WBC strap in the ring of the StubHub Center. Broadcast live by HBO, it will mark the third :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, October 11th, 2014 at 5:45 am.
Like many in the boxing media, Boxing360 has tried to keep an arm’s length in any talks for a possible fight between the pound for pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr and the fighter of the last decade Manny Pacquiao. This tussle has been talked about since 2007 and seven years later I don’t think these :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, October 9th, 2014 at 4:51 am.
After all the recent hoopla to announce Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s move back to HBO, including a day long field trip at the New York offices of the influential network by the Mexican star and his chaperone Oscar De La Hoya, the air was let out of the balloon this past Monday when it was announced :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, October 7th, 2014 at 5:56 am.
This past Saturday night the boxing world saw the end of an illustrious career filled which at the end was full of controversy. Former multi-divisional world champion Jorge “Travieso” Arce of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, said good bye to the squared circle after a nearly eighteen year career. Arce saw the end in a WBC :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, October 4th, 2014 at 5:53 am.
Legendary Don King has never been a man of few words. Ever since starting his career as a promoter after some stints in prison back in the ‘60s, King made himself stand out not only with his unique hairdo back then but also for his gift of gab. Now in his early eighties and :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, October 2nd, 2014 at 3:36 pm.
During a day long visit earlier this week in the New York offices of HBO, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya as well as the golden goose himself, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, announced what everybody in the boxing world already knew, who his next opponent is. Despite names like James “Mandingo Warrior” and Demetrius :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, October 1st, 2014 at 6:51 am.
This week the boxing world was met with some tragic news. It lost one of its own. Dan Goosen, president of promotional company Goosen Tutor, lost a secret battle with liver cancer which not many knew about until this past weekend when the news that he was not well was plastered on twitter. By Monday :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, September 30th, 2014 at 7:54 am.
Last week an important and somewhat surprising announcement was made by Golden Boy Promotions’ founder and now CEO Oscar De La Hoya. In his statement to the press from the Los Angeles offices of his company De La Hoya announced that Golden Boy’s star fighter, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, will be returning the airwaves of the :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, September 22nd, 2014 at 8:48 pm.
This past Saturday night two of the best fights this year went down and they weren’t in the United States or on either HBO or Showtime. The two U.S.-based cable network companies collectively have the biggest boxing budget in the business but sometimes you just need two, or in this case, four willing warriors and :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, September 20th, 2014 at 6:00 am.
In the last edition of the Boxing 360 blog we talked about the upcoming fights from now until the end of the year leaving off with the much anticipated showdown between the “Alien” forty-nine year old Bernard Hopkins and the “Krusher” Sergey Kovalev set for November 8th on HBO from the Boardwalk Hall in :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…
