Posted on Friday, July 25th, 2014 at 6:00 pm.
A big step is being taken this Saturday night when undefeated hard hitting WBA and IBO middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (29-0, 26KO) faces Australia’s Daniel Geale (30-2, 16KO) in the big room of the mecca of boxing, Madison Square Garden, in New York City and broadcast by HBO. In the semi-main event, two unbeaten :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 at 5:36 am.
The road has not been an easy one for Cuban Guillermo Rigondeaux. After winning gold medals in the Olympic games of 2000 and 2004, he defected in ’07 at the Pan-American Games in Brazil. Along with him was the WBA super middleweight champion Erislandy Lara. They were arrested some days later and stated that they :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, July 14th, 2014 at 9:03 pm.
Despite a crime was committed in front of over fourteen thousand fight fans at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, this past Saturday night, no culprits were arrested. Nobody knew who was the guilty one, whether it was New Mexico judge Levi Martinez or something more sinister that leads all the way up :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, July 9th, 2014 at 9:27 pm.
With all the excitement of the most watched World Cup in history, it is easy to forget that this Saturday the biggest Mexican star of the moment will climb into the ring for the second time this year. Former WBA and WBC super welterweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez will face Erislandy “American Dream” Lara in :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, July 8th, 2014 at 5:47 am.
boxing history: July 6, 1933 Lou Brouillard W 10 Mickey Walker, Boston. The crowd of 16,000 broke all Boston Garden boxing attendance records for the previous two years. New York Times. Lucien Pierre Brouillard, better known as Lou Brouillard, (May 23, 1911 – September 14, 1984), was a Canadian professional boxer who held the World :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, July 8th, 2014 at 5:19 am.
Once a fighter wins a title, he hopes for bigger and better fights along with the purses that correspond in fighting the best. For fifteen-year old veteran Jhonny Gonzalez, the current WBC featherweight champion, it has led to everything but. Gonzalez captured his latest title last August when he impressively and shockingly knocked out the :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, July 3rd, 2014 at 5:46 am.
As expected, the considered current pound for pound king of boxing, Floyd Mayweather Jr, announced that on September 13th he will face once again Marcos Maidana of Argentina in a rematch of their early May first fight. In that twelve round bout for Maidana’s WBA and Mayweather’s WBC welterweight titles, Maidana of Argentina gave one :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, July 1st, 2014 at 6:28 am.
Boxing History: June 26, 1959 Ingemar Johannson KO 3 Floyd Patterson, NYC. Wins World Heavyweight Title. Ingemar floors Floyd 7-times in the fateful third. Jens Ingemar Johansson (September 22, 1932 – January 30, 2009) was a Swedish boxer and former heavyweight champion of the world. Johansson was the fifth heavyweight champion born outside the United :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, June 30th, 2014 at 10:02 pm.
If you based your view on boxing on what you see on the eleven o’clock news, you would think that the sport only existed in May and September. If you follow the sweet science a little more closely than that, you would know that boxing is alive and well not only in the world but :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, June 26th, 2014 at 9:09 am.
A very telling fight card has just been announced for Saturday, August 9th, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Golden Boy Promotions, now led by its founder Oscar De La Hoya, is presenting a tripleheader that will be broadcast live by Showtime. Originally believed that newly crowned IBF welterweight champion Shawn Porter would :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…
