Posted on Thursday, August 7th, 2014 at 6:12 am.
It was only some months ago that everybody was clamoring for WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis “Superman” Stevenson. So much so that Main Events’ Kathy Duva even filed a lawsuit against Al Haymon, Golden Boy, Yvon Michel among others in hopes of having the United Sates justice system secure a fight for her fighter, Sergey :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 at 5:04 pm.
Boxing History: August 5, 1931 (Slapsie) Maxie Rosenbloom W 15 Jimmy Slattery, Brooklyn. Rosenbloom retains World Light Heavyweight Title. Rosenbloom’s Record: 274 fights, 207-39-26 (19 KO’s) World Light Heavyweight champion 1930-34 He was nicknamed “Slapsie Maxie” by Damon Runyon for slapping opponents with an open glove. Using an open glove was later banned by the :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 at 4:43 pm.
A win via ninth round disqualification was not the way that former lightweight champion Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios wanted to come back into the boxing limelight but that is exactly what happened when Argentinean Diego “La Joya” Chaves was deemed too dirty to continue by third man in the ring Vic Drakulich on Saturday night :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, August 1st, 2014 at 6:36 am.
If Al Haymon followed the school of promoting developed by one Robert Arum of Top Rank, the fight card scheduled for September 6th from Cincinnati, Ohio, and to be broadcast live by Showtime would be the appetizer for a main course to be delivered early next year. In it hometown favorite and boxing bad boy :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, August 1st, 2014 at 6:27 am.
In another example of why boxing is the theatre of the unexpected, welterweight Diego Chaves of Argentina finally landed in Las Vegas to face former world champion Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios live on HBO this Saturday night from the Cosmopolitan Hotel. The Rios-Chaves ten-round bout will share the bill with the WBA junior welterweight Jessie :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, August 1st, 2014 at 6:19 am.
It seems to be slim pickings for the newly crowned four-time divisional champion Miguel “Julito” Cotto of Puerto Rico. Even though many including Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, Gennady Golovkin and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr have mentioned his name, Cotto has not come out and said who he is willing to face next. The thirty-three year old :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, July 31st, 2014 at 6:24 am.
130 years ago today in Boxing History: July 30, 1884 The first bout under the Marquis of Queensberry rules was fought in Staten Island, New York! Jack Dempsey (The Nonpareil) KO 22 George Fulljames. Dempsey becomes the first recognized world middleweight champion! The fight took place on July 30th 1884 in Great Kills, Staten Island :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, July 31st, 2014 at 6:03 am.
It must have been whole lot of wishful thinking on Julio Cesar Chavez Jr when he said he was willing to boil himself down to 160lbs to face the first four-time divisional champion Miguel Cotto sometime in the fall. As wise as he is craggily, Bob Arum of Top Rank said that would never happen :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, July 31st, 2014 at 5:39 am.
It seemed as if the Golden Boy Promotions internal split between Richard Schaeffer and Oscar De La Hoya finally nudged Floyd Mayweather Jr to get his outfit, Mayweather Promotions, off the ground and do something. Unlike his hip-hop record label Philty Rich Records that has been dormant since its inception, Mayweather Promotions with its Leonard :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, July 28th, 2014 at 8:57 pm.
This Saturday night in the “big room” of the mecca of boxing, the Madison Square Garden in New York, undefeated middleweight WBA and IBO champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (30-0, 27KO) made his return to the ring with a splash as he stopped Australia’s Daniel Geale in three brutal in the main event broadcast by HBO. :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…
