Posted on Monday, December 1st, 2014 at 3:34 pm.
CRAWFORD WINS HIS TICKET TO LIGHT WELTERWEIGHT There can’t be a more stacked division in current boxing than the light welterweight division. Small enough to have quick hands but big enough to end fights in spectacular knock outs, it might be the most exciting weight class in the sport. Champions like Danny Garcia, Jessie Vargas :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, November 28th, 2014 at 6:45 pm.
Will a left hook to the top of the head be the last punch Mexican warrior Jose Luis “Temible” Castillo? That was the blow landed by Ruslan Provodnikov on Friday night in Moscow that finally sent Castillo down on one knee while the third man on the canvas waived off the fight. Castillo had been :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, November 26th, 2014 at 12:53 pm.
Boxing works in mysterious ways. A win here, a win there, and you are fighting on the HBO, the biggest platform in the sport. This weekend we will see two lightweight warriors clash for the WBO 135-pound belt when champion Terrence “Bud” Crawford defends his title against Mexico’s Ray Beltran in a scheduled twelve round :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, November 25th, 2014 at 7:18 am.
To truly be considered the best, a fighter must fight the best in his division. No obstacle should stand in his way, no television networks, promoter affiliations or purse percentages. A fighter who really wants to go down in the annals of history as the best that has ever laced up the gloves, no matter :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, November 21st, 2014 at 5:54 am.
The 70s was the heavyweight divisions with Ali vs Frazier and Ali vs Foreman and everybody in between. The 80s saw the four horsemen, Leonard, Duran, Hearns and Hagler, go after each other. The 90s didn’t as much include a division but a man, Oscar De La Hoya, as he carried the sport on his :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, November 20th, 2014 at 7:40 am.
At thirty-five year old and with all his extra-curricular activities, from politics, to music, acting and basketball, Manny Pacquiao might not have much left inside a boxing ring. Despite signing an extension with promoter Top Rank until the end of 2016, it doesn’t necessarily mean that he will fight until that date. His next fight :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, November 19th, 2014 at 7:06 am.
All the lights and eyes might be on Manny Pacquiao and Chris Algieri this Saturday night when they face each other Manny’s WBO welterweight title from the Venetian Hotel and Casino in Macau, China, the actual fight of the night might be the semi-main event. In it former WBC lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco of Tijuana :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, November 15th, 2014 at 2:56 am.
Sergio Gabriel “Maravilla” Martinez was not supposed to be a world class fighter. It is common knowledge within the sport that to develop the skills and reflexes to truly be successful in professional boxing, one must start learning the craft at a very young age. The Argentina-born Spain-based Martinez didn’t come to boxing until just :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, November 13th, 2014 at 6:47 am.
Former two-divisional world champion Mikey Garcia has not seen action inside the ring since January 25th of this year. That night he easily dominated Juan Carlos Burgos over twelve rounds to defend his then WBO super featherweight belt at the mecca of boxing, New York’s Madison Square Garden. At that time a productive 2014 was :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, November 12th, 2014 at 6:20 am.
The crowd of nearly ten thousand were expecting history on Saturday night at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City and over 1.3M live on HBO but instead they got the most logical result for a fight that came down to a thirty-one year old fighter against a forty-nine year one. Sergey Kovalev went ahead and :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…
