Posted on Saturday, November 1st, 2014 at 8:23 am.
Boxing History: November 1, 1922 Mickey Walker W 15 Jack Britton, NYC. Wins World Middleweight Title. New Jersey native, Edward Patrick “Mickey” Walker (July 13, 1903) – April 28, 1981) was an American professional boxer who held both the World Welterweight and Middleweight Championships at different points in his career. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, November 1st, 2014 at 8:03 am.
Boxing fans, we have good news and we have bad news. The good news is that according to Oscar De La Hoya, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, the negotiations between former super welterweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and current WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto are underway. The bad news is that according to him, they :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, October 30th, 2014 at 7:58 am.
This past week it was reported by an article in ESPN Deportes, the web portal’s Spanish edition, that infamous boxing trainer Javier Capetillo license had been reinstated by the same entity that banned him for life, the California State Athletic Commission. If we go back to early 2009, prior to his TKO loss in the :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 at 7:55 am.
With the Manny Pacquiao vs Chris Algieri fight gearing up for late November, Ruslan Provodnikov, the man Algieri defeated to get the shot at the “Pac-Man”, and his team seem to in a bit of hot water. After losing to Algieri back in June, Provodnikov, known as the “Siberian Rocky”, was not able to secure :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, October 25th, 2014 at 1:41 pm.
What is it about Timothy Bradley that he just can’t catch a break? Despite only being beaten once and by one of the best fighters of this generation, Manny Pacquiao, having gone overseas to win his first title and fighting the best in his division, it seems to be awfully tough for the former two-divisional :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, October 23rd, 2014 at 12:27 pm.
You might say many things about Bernard Hopkins but not being smart is not one of them. The forty-nine-year old has had many incarnations in his life and in his twenty-six year old boxing career. Ex-con, fighter, promoter, unified world champion, “Executioner” and “Alien” have been some of the titles that Hopkins has walked this :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, October 21st, 2014 at 7:19 am.
The west coast crowned their king this past Saturday night. With Los Angeles being a prominent Latino stronghold for boxing, you would imagine that man would have been a Mexican or Mexican-American fighter. It wasn’t. The man who walks around L.A. as if he owns is none other than a native of a small :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, October 18th, 2014 at 5:54 am.
boxing history: October 17, 1938 Joey Archibald W 15 Mike Belloise, NYC. Archibald wins vacant New York World Featherweight Title. Joey Archibald (February 20, 1914 – February 3, 1998) was the former world boxing featherweight champion. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. Archibald won the NYSAC version of the then vacant world crown when :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, October 18th, 2014 at 5:25 am.
Repercussions are still falling on the shoulders of Floyd Mayweather Jr from events that were broadcast on the second episode of Showtime’s “All-Access”, the reality-type show that delves into the home life of fighters as they get ready for major PPV events to be broadcast by the network. In that particular episode which was in :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, October 16th, 2014 at 5:37 am.
Earlier this week four-time divisional world champion Juan Manuel Marquez held a press conference in a plush Mexico City hotel to announce that the boxing world would need to wait until December to find out if he will continue in the sport. The forty-one year old Marquez announced that he has began to train again :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…
