Posted on Tuesday, January 20th, 2015 at 6:12 am.
This Saturday night history was made when Tuscaloosa, Alabama’s Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (33-0, 32KO) didn’t knock out but clearly out-boxed defending WBC heavyweight champion Bermane “B. Ware” Stiverne (24-2-1, 21KO) to become the first American-born heavyweight to capture a slice of the heavyweight pie since 2006. Along with that Wilder became the first undefeated :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, January 15th, 2015 at 6:35 am.
After much hearsay, assumptions and gossip, reclusive advisor Al Haymon announced his NBC deal named “Premier Boxing Champions” which kicks off on March 7th at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The first telecast which will be shown on NBC will feature WBA interim welterweight champion Keith “One Time” Thurman (24-0, 21KO) vs :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, January 14th, 2015 at 5:02 am.
In the last Boxing 360 blog, we went over three out of the five fights we want to see in 2015. Now we come back with the other two. Will we see any of these fights? Some of these? None of these? Only time will tell. 4. Miguel Cotto (39-4, 32KO) vs Gennady Golovkin (31-0, :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 at 6:41 am.
Christmas has come and gone and the New Year has begun. Good thing the boxing gods hear our prayers all year long or at least we want to believe that. With that said, this week we will go over the five fights we definitely want to see in the next twelve calendar months. In no :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, January 9th, 2015 at 12:58 pm.
Twenty-four year old Saul “Canelo” Alvarez got bold last week when he sent WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto an open letter through the press asking him not to duck him and to sign the contact to face each other on the much fought over May 2nd date. In the letter Alvarez went as far to :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, January 7th, 2015 at 5:46 pm.
THE LATEST AND GREATEST BETWEEN MAYWEATHER & PACQUIAO In hopes of bringing boxing fans the latest news in the on goings of the sport, Boxing 360 has your most recent progress report of the ongoing negotiations between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao for their proposed mega fight. Top Rank’s Bob Arum told a prominent :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, January 6th, 2015 at 7:43 am.
In the past two blogs, we delved into the different reason why either former interim WBA light welterweight champion Mauricio “Maestro” Herrera or current WBO lightweight champion Terence “Bud” Crawford should be named 2014’s Fighter of the Year. Now in this third and last installment on the topic we will go over why hardcore boxing :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, January 2nd, 2015 at 1:03 pm.
In the last blog we went over why many in the boxing world have nominated veteran junior welterweight Mauricio “Maestro” Herrera as the Fighter of the Year on the strength of two robbed decisions, the first against Danny Garcia last March and the second against Jose Benavidez Jr just a couple of weeks ago, both :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, January 2nd, 2015 at 8:51 am.
It seems the whole boxing world is split on who deserves the honor of Fighter of the Year for 2014. The more generous ones deem that Mauricio “Maestro” Herrera deserves it for his work inside the ring although he might not have gotten the decisions at the end of his fights. The more logical ones :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, December 30th, 2014 at 8:19 am.
Boxing History: December 28, 1881 World Heavyweight Champion, Jess Willard, was born. At 6 ft 6 1⁄2 in and 235 lb, Willard was the tallest and the largest heavyweight champion in boxing history, until the 270 pounds Primo Carnera won the title on June 29, 1933, and the 6 ft 7 in Vitali Klitschko won :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…
