Posted on Tuesday, February 11th, 2014 at 11:48 pm.
Beating his drum louder than a native American calling for an emergency pow wow, Cuban Erislandy (19-1-2, 12KOs) Lara let the four winds know that despite anybody and everybody with a name and a near undefeated record between the weights of 154 and 160 pounds has been avoiding the current most feared man in boxing, :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, February 11th, 2014 at 4:37 am.
Depending on whom you believe, Floyd Mayweather Jr’s next opponent will either be former two-time world champion Amir “King” Khan or current welterweight champion Marcos “Chino” Maidana on May 3rd at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Despite the date being announced hours after his last fight, a twelve round shellacking of the :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, January 30th, 2014 at 5:40 am.
It’s good to be Danny Garcia. Coming off the biggest win of his young career over the highly-touted knockout artist Lucas Matthysse last September on the biggest stage of last year, the under card of Floyd Mayweather Jr’s drubbing of Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. Now the undefeated Garcia is set to climb back into a ring :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, January 29th, 2014 at 6:50 am.
Current WBO super featherweight champion Mikey Garcia (34-0, 28KOs) might have cemented himself as a sure thing opponent for Filipino star Manny Pacquiao later this year. After a shaky second round where Garcia saw his knees buckle from a hard left hook from Tijuana’s Juan Carlos Burgos, Garcia returned the favor in the third with :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, January 27th, 2014 at 10:15 am.
Boxing History: January 25, 1932 Willliam “Gorilla” Jones KO 6 Oddone Piazza, Milwaukee. Wins vacant world middleweight title. William Landon Jones (1906–1982) known as “Gorilla” Jones, was an American boxer and twice NBA Middleweight Boxing Champion of the World. Jones was never knocked out although he himself won by 52 knockouts out of 101 wins :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 at 9:04 pm.
It seems all systems are a go for the return bout between WBO welterweight champion Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley and Filipino congressman Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao on Saturday, April 12th, from the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Despite his next fight date scheduled almost as soon as Pacquiao walked out the ring in China :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, January 20th, 2014 at 8:24 pm.
Controversy abounds the proposed rematch between newly crowned WBC featherweight champion Jhonny Gonzalez and three-time divisional belt holder Abner Mares. After Gonzalez shocked the boxing world with a first round knockout of the fast rising Mares last August, Mares proved to be the warrior everybody knew he was by asking for an immediate rematch. Despite :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, January 16th, 2014 at 8:43 pm.
Events moved rapidly in the latest saga of the Robert “Ghost” Guerrero story. Last week, it was announced by Team Guerrero that his lawyer Bruce Zabarauskas had served Golden Boy Promotions with papers stating that Guerrero wanted out of his contract with the company and that the “term sheet” he signed in January of last :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, January 16th, 2014 at 10:41 am.
Boxing History: January 14, 1944 Jake LaMotta W 10 Fritzie Zivic, Detroit. Referee: Sam Hennessey. Scoring: 6-3-1, 8-2, 8-2. Zivic was hurt in the 7th and 8th. LaMotta lost the 2nd and 4th rounds on low blows. Lamatta’s Record: 106 Fights: 83-19-4 with 30 KOs Born: Giacobbe LaMotta better known as Jake LaMotta, nicknamed “The :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 at 6:23 am.
Mixed feelings welcomed the news that the legendary Tijuana four divisional world champion Erik “Terrible” Morales will climb into the ropes and into the squared circle for the sixty-second time as a professional on March twenty-second of this year against Jorge “Maromerito” Paez Jr in a twelve round welterweight contest. No word yet if the :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…
