Posted on Tuesday, December 30th, 2014 at 7:55 am.
Just last week Oscar De La Hoya, boss of Golden Boy Promotions, was named promoter of the year by the most respected magazine in sports, Sports Illustrated. It is quite an honor for a man that only truly took the reins of his company earlier this year even though the outfit has been in business :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, December 26th, 2014 at 3:39 am.
In the last two installments of the Boxing 360 blogs we went over the best 2-5 fights of the year. From the little guys in “Chihuas” Rodriguez against Takayama to the welterweight wars between “The Machine” Matthysse and John Molina Jr and Robert “Ghost” Guerrero against man of the rising sun Yoshihiro Kamegai. In the :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014 at 3:24 pm.
In the last Boxing 360 blog we began our list of the best fights of 2014. Listed at #5 was the come from behind win of Chris Algieri over Ruslan Provodnikov while #4 was the awesome brawl between Robert Guerrero and Japanese kamikaze Yoshihiro Kamegai. In this edition we are going to name the next :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, December 22nd, 2014 at 1:52 pm.
With 2014 coming to an end it is time for everybody in the boxing business to give their take of what were the best fights of the year. Here at Boxing 360, we are no exception. For all intents and purposes 2014 has not been the best year out of this decade for fight fans :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, December 19th, 2014 at 7:56 pm.
Its uncanny how some fighters’ style fit their personality almost as perfect as a glove. Adrien Broner is as flashy with his gold, actions and clothes off the ring as much as he is inside of it, Brandon Rios aggressive style in the ring is reflected in his expletive-filled personality outside of it. WBC heavyweight :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, December 18th, 2014 at 5:53 am.
Earlier this week Golden Boy Promotions’ head honcho Oscar De La Hoya mentioned during the 52nd WBC Annual Convention held this year in Las Vegas, Nevada, that he will try to put together a fight that has been talked about for the last couple of years. In a battle of Los Angeles, CA, residents De :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, December 16th, 2014 at 6:16 pm.
Either fight couldn’t be any different to each other but at the end it was a means to an end. This past weekend we had a double bill on each of the two major fight networks in the sport. On Showtime we had the clash between former champions in Amir Khan vs Devon Alexander while :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, December 10th, 2014 at 6:28 pm.
Boxing History: December 10, 1951 Harold Johnson W 10 Archie Moore, Milwaukee. Johnson ends Moore’s 25-fight unbeaten streak. Harold Johnson was born 8-9-1928 Manayunk, Pennsylvania, USA RECORD: won 76 (KO 32) + lost 11 (KO 5) = 87 Johnson is called “one of the best technical boxers of all time” by The Boxing Register. His :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, December 10th, 2014 at 6:17 pm.
In the first half of this article the fact that Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions have slowly but surely began working together again after the demise of Richard Schaeffer was discussed. Despite of that, the two entities have competing fight cards this upcoming Saturday night on the two networks each are aligned to. Top :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, December 10th, 2014 at 6:46 am.
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, MORE THEY STAY THE SAME, PART I No matter how much things change, a lot of them stay the same. In the last major weekend for boxing, fans will have to choose from two separate fight cards going down at the same time. On HBO, former two-divisional champion Timothy “Desert Storm” :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…
