Posted on Thursday, August 21st, 2014 at 9:22 pm.
Despite the general consensus for years for boxing is that it is on its way out since MMA has become more of a major force in combat sports, everything is else points towards the contrary. This week it was announced that a new player has thrown it hat into the ring looking to become somewhat :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, August 20th, 2014 at 5:06 am.
In our last blog we mentioned in a tweet last week, the pound for pound king and now promoter Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr announced the Pay-Per-View undercard for “Mayhem: Mayweather vs Maidana II” set for September 13th at the MGM Grand Arena in the city of sin, Las Vegas and broadcast live by Showtime. It :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, August 16th, 2014 at 3:40 am.
WILL THE UNDER CARD BE HALF AS GOOD AS THE MAIN EVENT? In a post on his social network accounts without much fanfare except for a eye-catching image of the mentioned fighters, the current pound for pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr reveled the scheduled PPV undercard for his next fight scheduled for Saturday, September 13th :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, August 15th, 2014 at 5:44 am.
Fights are made all the time. Some are made too soon, some right on time and some of them are made years after both fighters have left their prime. One fight that is being talked about that falls in the last scenario is the WBC featherweight title defense between champion Jhonny Gonzalez vs four-divisional champion :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, August 12th, 2014 at 5:47 am.
This past weekend was packed with boxing as the summer is winding down and the sweet science gears up for the fall and winter. The boxing weekend began on Thursday with the major fight cards going down on Saturday night as it is customary for the sport. Expecting for the one broadcast on the major :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, August 9th, 2014 at 5:14 am.
Despite his two light welterweight titles, nobody wants to be Danny “Swift” Garcia right now. Ever since his next fight scheduled for tomorrow night in Brooklyn, New York, against career lightweight Rod Salka, the social media world has dropped on his head and the head of Showtime’s Stephen Espinoza regarding his choice of opponent. The :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, August 7th, 2014 at 6:12 am.
It was only some months ago that everybody was clamoring for WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis “Superman” Stevenson. So much so that Main Events’ Kathy Duva even filed a lawsuit against Al Haymon, Golden Boy, Yvon Michel among others in hopes of having the United Sates justice system secure a fight for her fighter, Sergey :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 at 4:43 pm.
A win via ninth round disqualification was not the way that former lightweight champion Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios wanted to come back into the boxing limelight but that is exactly what happened when Argentinean Diego “La Joya” Chaves was deemed too dirty to continue by third man in the ring Vic Drakulich on Saturday night :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, August 1st, 2014 at 6:36 am.
If Al Haymon followed the school of promoting developed by one Robert Arum of Top Rank, the fight card scheduled for September 6th from Cincinnati, Ohio, and to be broadcast live by Showtime would be the appetizer for a main course to be delivered early next year. In it hometown favorite and boxing bad boy :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, August 1st, 2014 at 6:27 am.
In another example of why boxing is the theatre of the unexpected, welterweight Diego Chaves of Argentina finally landed in Las Vegas to face former world champion Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios live on HBO this Saturday night from the Cosmopolitan Hotel. The Rios-Chaves ten-round bout will share the bill with the WBA junior welterweight Jessie :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…
