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…
Posted on Friday, August 1st, 2014 at 6:19 am.
It seems to be slim pickings for the newly crowned four-time divisional champion Miguel “Julito” Cotto of Puerto Rico. Even though many including Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, Gennady Golovkin and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr have mentioned his name, Cotto has not come out and said who he is willing to face next. The thirty-three year old :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, July 31st, 2014 at 6:03 am.
It must have been whole lot of wishful thinking on Julio Cesar Chavez Jr when he said he was willing to boil himself down to 160lbs to face the first four-time divisional champion Miguel Cotto sometime in the fall. As wise as he is craggily, Bob Arum of Top Rank said that would never happen :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, July 31st, 2014 at 5:39 am.
It seemed as if the Golden Boy Promotions internal split between Richard Schaeffer and Oscar De La Hoya finally nudged Floyd Mayweather Jr to get his outfit, Mayweather Promotions, off the ground and do something. Unlike his hip-hop record label Philty Rich Records that has been dormant since its inception, Mayweather Promotions with its Leonard :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, July 28th, 2014 at 8:57 pm.
This Saturday night in the “big room” of the mecca of boxing, the Madison Square Garden in New York, undefeated middleweight WBA and IBO champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (30-0, 27KO) made his return to the ring with a splash as he stopped Australia’s Daniel Geale in three brutal in the main event broadcast by HBO. :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, July 25th, 2014 at 6:00 pm.
A big step is being taken this Saturday night when undefeated hard hitting WBA and IBO middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (29-0, 26KO) faces Australia’s Daniel Geale (30-2, 16KO) in the big room of the mecca of boxing, Madison Square Garden, in New York City and broadcast by HBO. In the semi-main event, two unbeaten :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 at 5:36 am.
The road has not been an easy one for Cuban Guillermo Rigondeaux. After winning gold medals in the Olympic games of 2000 and 2004, he defected in ’07 at the Pan-American Games in Brazil. Along with him was the WBA super middleweight champion Erislandy Lara. They were arrested some days later and stated that they :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, July 14th, 2014 at 9:03 pm.
Despite a crime was committed in front of over fourteen thousand fight fans at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, this past Saturday night, no culprits were arrested. Nobody knew who was the guilty one, whether it was New Mexico judge Levi Martinez or something more sinister that leads all the way up :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, July 9th, 2014 at 9:27 pm.
With all the excitement of the most watched World Cup in history, it is easy to forget that this Saturday the biggest Mexican star of the moment will climb into the ring for the second time this year. Former WBA and WBC super welterweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez will face Erislandy “American Dream” Lara 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…
