Posted on Monday, April 7th, 2014 at 8:25 pm.
It is fight week and nothing truly matches the excitement in the city of sin, Las Vegas, the week of a major fight card. The cards don’t get any bigger than one that includes the one and only Manny Pacquiao. The thirty-five year old Pacquiao faces Timothy Bradley this weekend in a rematch of their :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, April 7th, 2014 at 8:01 am.
Boxing History: April 5, 1915 Jess Willard KO 26 Jack Johnson Wins World Heavyweight Title. The longest heavyweight title fight of the 20th Century. On April 5, 1915 in front of a huge crowd at the new Oriental Park Racetrack in Havana, Cuba, in the 26th round he knocked out champion Jack Johnson to win :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, April 4th, 2014 at 1:58 pm.
Boxing History: April 4, 1970 Bob Foster KO 4 Roger Rouse, Missoula, MT. Retains World Light Heavyweight Title. After being decked 4-times in 3-rounds the ringside doctor decides that Rouse can’t come out for round 4. Afterwards Foster calls out World Heavyweight Champion (Smokin’) Joe Frazier. Bob Foster (born April 27, 1938) is a native :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, April 3rd, 2014 at 9:10 pm.
We are only about a week away from the anticipated rumble between undefeated WBO welterweight champion Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley and Filipino wunderkind Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao next Saturday night in Las Vegas. The bout will be broadcast live by HBO PPV. The bout will be the second run for Bradley and Pacquiao. They first met :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 at 8:08 am.
Beau Jack, (April 1, 1921 – February 9, 2000), was an American lightweight boxer, he was a world champion twice. One of the most popular fighters during the war years, he headlined at Madison Square Garden on 21 occasions, a record that still stands. Beau Jack made his pro debut in May 1940 and fought :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, April 1st, 2014 at 3:49 am.
Earlier this week the tickets briskly went on sale for the first fight at the newly renovated LA Forum in Inglewood, CA. In the main event, four divisional world champion Juan Manuel Marquez will take on Mike Alvarado in a twelve round special attraction. In a special treat in hopes of having close to the :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, March 31st, 2014 at 8:50 am.
Boxing History: March 29, 1940 Joe Louis KO 2 Johnny Paycheck, NYC. Joe Louis retains World Heavyweight Title. Joe Louis had 72 professional fights with only three losses. He tallied 57 knock outs, endured only three defeats, and held the championship from 1937-1949, the longest span of any heavyweight titleholder. After returning from retirement, Louis :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, March 28th, 2014 at 9:23 pm.
As Sergey Kovalev (24-0-1, 22KOs) keeps proving with his fists why he deserves the big money fights, Adonis Stevenson (23-1, 20KOs), the other side of the equation for a large purse face-off, has jumped ship and has gone across the street for his next bout set for May 24th. This past weekend from the Boardwalk :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, March 26th, 2014 at 9:16 pm.
All is set for what looks quite possibly the biggest fight card of the year. Billed as “The Moment”, the event brought to the boxing world by Mayweather Promotions in association with Golden Boy Promotions features the biggest name in boxing, Floyd Mayweather Jr (45-0, 26KOs), as he takes on hard hitting brawler Marcos Maidana :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, March 25th, 2014 at 8:25 am.
Boxing History: March 24, 1975 Muhammad Ali KO 15 Chuck Wepner, Cleveland. Retains World Heavyweight Title. Wepner is credited with a 9th-round knockdown over Ali. In October 2011, ESPN documentary “The Real Rocky” tells Wepner’s epic life story. It also touches on the 2003, lawsuit when Wepner sued Stallone for cashing in on his life :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…
