Posted on Wednesday, May 20th, 2015 at 6:20 am.
Boxing #History: May 18, 1972: Rafael Herrera KO 8 Ruben Olivares, Mexico City. Wins World Bantamweight Title. Herrerais a former boxer from Mexico. He has won world titles in the Bantamweight division. (Born January 7, 1945 in Huáscato, Jalisco) Herrera turned pro in 1963 and in 1972 defeated Rubén Olivares by TKO to capture :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, May 20th, 2015 at 5:52 am.
WBA Flyweight champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (43-0, 37KOs ) did much more than warm the fans up for the main event this past Saturday. He actually took the spotlight with his performance. In the main event Gennady Golovkin did what he was supposed to do in the end stopping a game Willie Monroe Jr. in :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, May 19th, 2015 at 7:00 am.
WBA Featherweight Jesus Cuellar (26-1, 20KOs ) will face former two- division world champion Vic Darchinyan (40-7-1, 29KOs ) June 6th. The bout will air on NBC on The Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) series. The venue for the card will be the StubHub Center, in Carson, California. Tom Brown (TGB Promotions) is promoting the show. :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, May 19th, 2015 at 6:36 am.
Fight by fight and punch by punch undefeated Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (33-0, 30KO) keeps cementing himself as the best middleweight in the world. The thirty-three year old made fairly quick work this past Saturday night at the Forum in Los Angeles, CA, of “B” level fighter Willie Monroe Jr (19-2, 6KO) dropping him three times :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, May 18th, 2015 at 7:54 am.
The Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) televised opener on Spike Friday, May 29 will be Bryan Vasquez (34-1, 18KOs ) vs. unbeaten Javier Fortuna (27-0-1, 20KOs ). Site location will be the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The pair will battle for the vacant WBA super featherweight world title. Each fighter has held WBA interim :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, May 15th, 2015 at 5:42 pm.
Al Haymon really did a number on one Oscar De La Hoya. Granted, the rumored billionaire wrote a hefty check to Golden Boy Promotions not too long ago to be able to take a big chunk of the promoter’s stable to the Premier Boxing Champions series. The payoff might have just been to make a :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, May 15th, 2015 at 9:49 am.
All indications seem to point to a literally huge matchup between unified heavyweight champion of the world Wladimir Klitschko (64-23, 53 KOs) and mandatory challenger Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs). The size of the two fighters alone will draw attention for even the casual fans. Klitschko stands at 6′ 6″ and Fury at 6′ 9″. :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, May 14th, 2015 at 9:07 am.
The British Heavyweight boxing history has had its share of success over the years. Immediately the name of Hall of Famer Lennox Lewis may jump out at you. Lewis fought the best of his era. He also unified the division titles and retired on top. In this years that followed David Haye was able to :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, May 13th, 2015 at 8:38 pm.
Earlier this week the much anticipated return of newly crowned WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (33-0, 32KO) was announced by Al Haymon and company for June 13th at the Bartow Arena in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, live on Showtime. No, Wilder will not be facing Wladimir Klitschko or be giving Bermane Stiverne a rematch. He :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, May 13th, 2015 at 6:03 am.
No one was likely more disappointed to see Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. lose to Andrzej Fonfara more than four-time world champion Carl Froch (33-2, 24 KOs). Chavez Jr. seemed to be headed for a showdown with Froch in Las Vegas this summer. All that was derailed last month as Chavez Jr. suffered the first stoppage :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…
