Posted on Thursday, December 12th, 2013 at 8:59 am.
Boxing History: December 10, 1958 Archie Moore KO 11 Yvon Durelle, Montreal. Retains World Light Heavyweight Title. Moore broke Young Stribling’s knockout record (126), by stopping Durelle in the 11th-round. Archibald Lee Wright was born on Dec. 13, 1913, in Benoit, Miss. (according to Moore’s mother and Ring magazine). Or maybe Dec. 13, 1916 in :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, December 11th, 2013 at 9:13 pm.
After losing his WBA welterweight title to Adrien “The Problem” Broner earlier this year, Paulie “Magic Man” Malignaggi threatened to pull a disappearing act and retire from the squared circle. With a cushy job with Showtime as a commentator and a few years north of thirty, the feather-fisted Paulie felt that his time inside the :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, December 10th, 2013 at 9:33 pm.
With no end to the fiscal nightmare that Manny Pacquiao is living right now, a beacon of light has shown up at the end of the tunnel although that hole might be pretty deep. After his dominating performance over Brandon Rios in late November, Pacquiao was not greeted with a ticker tape parade or a :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, December 5th, 2013 at 8:44 pm.
This Saturday night HBO and Showtime as well as Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions go head to head in live prime time broadcast. It is not the first or the last time we will see competing promoters and networks scheduling fight cards the same night and roughly at the same time. Without a doubt :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, December 5th, 2013 at 9:51 am.
Boxing History: December 4, 1961 Floyd Patterson KO 4 Tom McNeeley, Toronto. Retains World Heavyweight Title. On December 4, 1961 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, (37-2-0) originally from Waco, North Carolina, defended his title against Tom McNeeley (23-0-0) from Cambridge, Massachusetts. The champ was 37-2 going in, McNeeley :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, December 4th, 2013 at 7:18 am.
Boxing History: December 3, 1923 Harry Greb W 10 William Bryan Downey, Pittsburgh. Retains World Middleweight Title. First card under McBride law that legalized 10-round decisions in Pennsylvania. Greb was conservative at the start, boxing well within the rules. But Downey provoked him in the third round and Harry reverted to his old style and :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 at 11:43 pm.
The World Boxing Organization’s president Paco Valcarcel recently announced that future hall of famer Juan Manuel Marquez can, if he is willing, directly challenge the sanctioning body’s 140 pound kingpin Ruslan Provodnikov in his next fight. Is the promise of another world title enough to lure the forty-year-old Marquez into the ring? The multi-divisional world :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 at 4:41 am.
Boxing History: December 1, 1973 Bob Foster W 15 Pierre Fourie, Johannesburg, South Africa. Retains World Light Heavyweight Title. Bob Foster (born April 27, 1938) is a native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA whom many boxing critics consider to be one of the greatest Light Heavyweight world champions in history. As an amateur he won :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, December 2nd, 2013 at 9:16 pm.
A usually dormant division exploded this past weekend with a knock out fest in Quebec when WBC light heavyweight Adonis Stevenson (23-1, 20KOs) impressively stopped his number one contender Tony Bellew in six rounds. More devastating was the knock out by WBO champ Sergey Kovalev (23-0-1, 21KOs) who put to sleep Ismayl Sillakh in two :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, December 2nd, 2013 at 8:56 am.
Boxing History: November 30, 1922 Mike O’Dowd DQ 8 Dave Rosenberg, Clermont Avenue Rink, Brooklyn, New York, USA. referee: Patsy Haley Wins New York World Middleweight Title. Mike “St. Paul Cyclone” O’Dowd (April 5, 1895 in St. Paul, Minnesota – July 28, 1957) was the Middleweight Champion of the World from 1917 to 1920. O’Dowd :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…
