Posted on Monday, June 30th, 2014 at 10:02 pm.
If you based your view on boxing on what you see on the eleven o’clock news, you would think that the sport only existed in May and September. If you follow the sweet science a little more closely than that, you would know that boxing is alive and well not only in the world but :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, June 26th, 2014 at 9:09 am.
A very telling fight card has just been announced for Saturday, August 9th, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Golden Boy Promotions, now led by its founder Oscar De La Hoya, is presenting a tripleheader that will be broadcast live by Showtime. Originally believed that newly crowned IBF welterweight champion Shawn Porter would :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, June 24th, 2014 at 5:16 am.
Fights are like women, they come and go. Some are good, some are bad. Some are forgettable and some you remember for the rest of our life. For those types of fights, boxing sets up a committee, a ballot is written up and a fight is tagged forever as the fight of the year. Mixtures :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, June 20th, 2014 at 9:27 pm.
The biggest mystery in boxing right now is which of the Al Haymon-signed fighters will continue with Golden Boy Promotions after Richard Schaefer, the former CEO of the company for over ten years, ceremoniously left his post a few weeks ago. With nearly a hundred member client list which keeps growing by the day, the :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, June 20th, 2014 at 3:48 am.
This Saturday night from the Stub Hub Center in Carson, CA, near Los Angeles and live on Showtime a special fight. In one of the three scheduled for broadcast bouts undefeated featherweight Gary Russell Jr will face off against former amateur star Vasyl Lomachenko for the vacant WBO 126-pound title. Lomachenko from Russia is in :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 at 3:41 am.
With a steady jab and one eye undefeated nutritionist Chris Algieri upset the apple cart by taking a split decision win and the WBO light welterweight title from the most recent darling of the boxing world, the “Siberian Rocky” Ruslan Provodnikov. The thirty-year old Algieri was seen as a mere formality by not only Team :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, June 14th, 2014 at 10:52 am.
It sure feels as if the “Siberian Rocky” Ruslan Provodnikov is on the cusp. Considered a B-level fighter and only good enough for “Friday Night Fights” on ESPN prior to his fight against Timothy Bradley just last year, now Provodnikov finds himself in his third HBO broadcast fight in a row in his last fight :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, June 12th, 2014 at 6:31 pm.
Here we are again. Another four years and another world cup, the most popular sporting event in the world. It might not be in the United States but around the rest of the globe nothing captures the world sport fan’s imagination like the World Cup. Boxing is still chugging along with programming on all its :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, June 9th, 2014 at 10:13 pm.
Just as things change, more they stay the same. Boxing is a sport like no other. In team sports, you might have a club that wins titles with years in between but it is rare for the squad to remain the same between one championship year and the other. In boxing, although the supporting cast, :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, June 6th, 2014 at 5:42 pm.
This weekend, no matter who wins, will be special. On one hand we have the stoic Miguel Cotto, the next in line of legendary Puerto Rican fighters looking to accomplish something neither Wilfredo Gomez, Tito Trinidad nor Hector Camacho ever did. Cotto is looking to capture a fourth title in as many divisions when he :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…
