Posted on Tuesday, October 14th, 2014 at 8:05 am.
boxing history: October 13, 1939 Henry Armstrong KO 2 Howard Scott, Minneapolis. Armstrong retains World Welterweight Title. Armstrong’s 2nd defense in 4-days! He had 5 TITLE fights in October of 1939: Oct 9 Al Manfredo, Des Moines, IA, TK 4 -Welterweight Championship of the World Oct 13 Howard Scott, Minneapolis, MN, KO 2 -Welterweight Championship :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, October 14th, 2014 at 7:36 am.
It is going to be a rambunctious affair this Saturday night in Carson, California, when rising star Gennady “GGG” Golovkin defends his WBA and IBO middleweight title while Mexican Marco Antonio “Veneno” Rubio puts up his interim WBC strap in the ring of the StubHub Center. Broadcast live by HBO, it will mark the third :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, October 11th, 2014 at 6:18 am.
Whenever boxing fans debate the question, the name most often mentioned is that of Sugar Ray Robinson. However, many boxing historians would argue in favor of Sam Langford, a lesser-known fighter born in Weymouth, Nova Scotia, in 1886. During the first quarter of the twentieth century, the prospect of facing the five-foot-seven-inch dynamo, who weighed :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, October 11th, 2014 at 5:45 am.
Like many in the boxing media, Boxing360 has tried to keep an arm’s length in any talks for a possible fight between the pound for pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr and the fighter of the last decade Manny Pacquiao. This tussle has been talked about since 2007 and seven years later I don’t think these :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, October 9th, 2014 at 4:51 am.
After all the recent hoopla to announce Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s move back to HBO, including a day long field trip at the New York offices of the influential network by the Mexican star and his chaperone Oscar De La Hoya, the air was let out of the balloon this past Monday when it was announced :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, October 7th, 2014 at 6:22 am.
Boxing History: September 30, 1961 Benny (Kid) Paret W 15 Emile Griffith, NYC. Paret regains World Welterweight Title. Benny “the Kid” Paret, born Bernardo Paret (March 14, 1937 – April 3, 1962), born in Santa Clara, Cuba, was a Cuban welterweight boxer. Paret won the world welterweight title twice in the early 1960s and died :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, October 7th, 2014 at 5:56 am.
This past Saturday night the boxing world saw the end of an illustrious career filled which at the end was full of controversy. Former multi-divisional world champion Jorge “Travieso” Arce of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, said good bye to the squared circle after a nearly eighteen year career. Arce saw the end in a WBC :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, October 4th, 2014 at 5:53 am.
Legendary Don King has never been a man of few words. Ever since starting his career as a promoter after some stints in prison back in the ‘60s, King made himself stand out not only with his unique hairdo back then but also for his gift of gab. Now in his early eighties and :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, October 2nd, 2014 at 3:36 pm.
During a day long visit earlier this week in the New York offices of HBO, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya as well as the golden goose himself, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, announced what everybody in the boxing world already knew, who his next opponent is. Despite names like James “Mandingo Warrior” and Demetrius :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, October 1st, 2014 at 6:51 am.
This week the boxing world was met with some tragic news. It lost one of its own. Dan Goosen, president of promotional company Goosen Tutor, lost a secret battle with liver cancer which not many knew about until this past weekend when the news that he was not well was plastered on twitter. By Monday :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…
