Posted on Tuesday, June 24th, 2014 at 5:41 am.
Boxing History: June 21, 1949 Ezzard Charles W 15 Jersey Joe Walcott, Chicago. Charles wins vacant World Heavyweight Title. Ezzard Mack Charles (July 7, 1921–May 28, 1975) was an American professional boxer and former World Heavyweight Champion. Charles defeated numerous Hall of Fame fighters in three different weight classes. He retired with a record of :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, June 24th, 2014 at 5:16 am.
Fights are like women, they come and go. Some are good, some are bad. Some are forgettable and some you remember for the rest of our life. For those types of fights, boxing sets up a committee, a ballot is written up and a fight is tagged forever as the fight of the year. Mixtures :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, June 20th, 2014 at 9:27 pm.
The biggest mystery in boxing right now is which of the Al Haymon-signed fighters will continue with Golden Boy Promotions after Richard Schaefer, the former CEO of the company for over ten years, ceremoniously left his post a few weeks ago. With nearly a hundred member client list which keeps growing by the day, the :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, June 20th, 2014 at 3:48 am.
This Saturday night from the Stub Hub Center in Carson, CA, near Los Angeles and live on Showtime a special fight. In one of the three scheduled for broadcast bouts undefeated featherweight Gary Russell Jr will face off against former amateur star Vasyl Lomachenko for the vacant WBO 126-pound title. Lomachenko from Russia is in :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 at 4:18 am.
Boxing History: June 16, 1949 Jake LaMotta KO 10 Marcel Cerdan, Detroit. LaMotta wins World Middleweight Title. After 9-rounds LaMotta led 51-39, 48-42, 49-41. The fight was postponed one day because of rain. Cerdan was a 2 to 1 favorite. There was a crowd of 22,183 at Briggs Stadium. The gross gate was $150,762 and :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 at 3:41 am.
With a steady jab and one eye undefeated nutritionist Chris Algieri upset the apple cart by taking a split decision win and the WBO light welterweight title from the most recent darling of the boxing world, the “Siberian Rocky” Ruslan Provodnikov. The thirty-year old Algieri was seen as a mere formality by not only Team :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, June 14th, 2014 at 11:10 am.
Boxing History: June 13, 1935 James J. Braddock W 15 Max Baer, Long Island. Braddock wins World Heavyweight Title. Scoring: Referee McAvoy scored 9-5-1; Lynch 11-4; Kelly 7-7-1. Upset of the Year! James Walter “Cinderella Man” (June 7, 1905 – November 29, 1974) was an American boxer who was the world heavyweight champion from 1935–37. :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, June 14th, 2014 at 10:52 am.
It sure feels as if the “Siberian Rocky” Ruslan Provodnikov is on the cusp. Considered a B-level fighter and only good enough for “Friday Night Fights” on ESPN prior to his fight against Timothy Bradley just last year, now Provodnikov finds himself in his third HBO broadcast fight in a row in his last fight :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, June 12th, 2014 at 6:31 pm.
Here we are again. Another four years and another world cup, the most popular sporting event in the world. It might not be in the United States but around the rest of the globe nothing captures the world sport fan’s imagination like the World Cup. Boxing is still chugging along with programming on all its :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, June 9th, 2014 at 10:13 pm.
Just as things change, more they stay the same. Boxing is a sport like no other. In team sports, you might have a club that wins titles with years in between but it is rare for the squad to remain the same between one championship year and the other. In boxing, although the supporting cast, :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…
