Posted on Thursday, May 15th, 2014 at 4:07 am.
You almost don’t even bat anymore when it is announced through various boxing news outlets that hermit-like advisor Al Haymon has signed a new fighter to his ever growing stable. Just this week it was announced that not only he has signed east coast amateur standout Milton Santiago but also current IBF super welterweight champ :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, May 13th, 2014 at 6:34 am.
A sweeping right hand shot from the hip of Haiti-born Las Vegas-living Bermane “B.Ware” Stiverne to the temple of Chris “Nightmare” Arreola crushed the dreams of the latter to become the first Mexican-American heavyweight champion in history. Stiverne turned the tables since with the knockout win on Saturday night from the Galen Center in the :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, May 10th, 2014 at 4:10 am.
For nearly half a century Mexico has been a major force in professional boxing. The first Mexican on record to become a world champion was Jose Perez Flores, better known as Battling Saw. Born in Nuevo, Laredo, Mexico, he became the lightweight world champion by defeating Johnny Jadick in 1933. As a rule, Mexican and :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, May 8th, 2014 at 6:23 am.
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez looked more annoyed than threatened the night of March 8th when WBA super welterweight champion Erislandy Lara of Cuba interrupted his post-fight press conference to challenge him to a fight. The twenty-three year old Alvarez, coming off a dominating technical knockout win over Alfredo “Perro” Angulo, asked the assembled media if anybody :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, May 7th, 2014 at 4:39 am.
THE SAME “MONEY” MAYWEATHER BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER FIGHT WITH MAIDANA With his second majority decision in a row, surprisingly the exact same scores, the best paid fighter on the planet Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr added the forty-sixth win to his record against no defeats. Twenty-six of his wins have come before the limit. His :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, May 2nd, 2014 at 10:08 pm.
With all the titles, records and other feats the pound for pound king Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr has achieved in boxing, he has never done what many think is the ultimate attainment for any fighter, unifying the division. During a forty-five fight and nearly twenty year career, Mayweather Jr has only come close to collecting :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, May 1st, 2014 at 1:31 am.
Hind sight is always 20/20. British star Amir “King” Khan thought he had everything laid out for his career after his shaky win over former champ Julio Diaz back in April 2013. Khan felt that he was on the short list to face boxing’s kingpin Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr soon enough. After Mayweather decided on :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, April 29th, 2014 at 3:26 am.
As the cold war between Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank seems to be thawing, the civil war inside the Los Angeles-based promotional company owned by Oscar De La Hoya is heating up as the “Golden Boy” himself and his appointed CEO, Swiss banker Richard Schaefer, are not looking eye-to-eye on one major issue: Whether :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, April 24th, 2014 at 7:55 pm.
The subject has been beaten more to death than a horse ready for the glue factory. With his impressive win over the considered number three pound for pound fighter Timothy Bradley a couple of Saturdays ago, Manny Pacquiao’s name is once again mentioned in the same breath as Floyd Mayweather Jr’s in regard to a :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 at 9:30 pm.
In what started as a much more competitive second part to what was considered a once-sided routing, Manny Pacquiao exacted his revenge last Saturday night from a packed MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, over the previously undefeated Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley. In their first match-up back in 2012 Bradley took a very controversial :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…
