Posted on Monday, September 7th, 2015 at 5:49 pm.
If we didn’t know any better, we would never have guessed that the current pound for pound king of boxing, Floyd Mayweather Jr, is fighting this weekend and reportedly his last fight, no less. Set for Showtime Pay-Per-View, Mayweather Jr takes on former welterweight champion Andre Berto this Saturday night. With absolutely no buzz whatsoever, :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, July 7th, 2015 at 5:44 am.
In a surprising move, the World Boxing Organization actually made the right move when it announced earlier that in fact they had stripped the current pound for pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr of the WBO welterweight title that he captured in his last fight. If we remember correctly, Mayweather Jr picked up the strap to :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, June 11th, 2015 at 6:16 am.
Here you go fight fans, your latest installment of the biggest news of the week: 1. “Canelo” Wants Cotto – Well, that is not news since Alvarez and his team have been calling out the Puerto Rican since the middle of last year and even have gone as far as to make him two offers, :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, May 4th, 2015 at 8:25 am.
The highly anticipated mega fight this past Saturday night between unbeaten pound for pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. and superstar Manny Pacaquaio left a lot of fans unfulfilled. The build up for the fight actually out did the fight itself. It really didn’t come to much of a surprise to those who have followed Mayweather’s :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, April 2nd, 2015 at 6:52 am.
There is a tug of war going on right now on Mexican network television. As it has been explained here before, Mexico is a major TV country and there is no bigger network than Televisa. The media company, which also owns magazines and radio stations, is known to make pop stars of untalented singers, soap :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, March 19th, 2015 at 7:24 am.
As Saul “Canelo” Alvarez begins to garner some traction in the United Sates becoming more popular with each fight, he has been a major star in his native Mexico for years. Controversy and a love affair got him there. The love affair came first when he entered in a relationship with the beautiful Marisol Gonzalez. :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 at 8:45 am.
Austin, Texas born James Kirkland (32-1, 28 KOs) has finally landed the marquee fight that has eluded him for quite some time now. Whether it was out of the ring issues, managerial, or promotional issues until now he hadn’t landed the big fight. To make it even sweeter Kirkland will get his big fight in :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, November 1st, 2014 at 8:03 am.
Boxing fans, we have good news and we have bad news. The good news is that according to Oscar De La Hoya, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, the negotiations between former super welterweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and current WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto are underway. The bad news is that according to him, they :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, October 9th, 2014 at 4:51 am.
After all the recent hoopla to announce Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s move back to HBO, including a day long field trip at the New York offices of the influential network by the Mexican star and his chaperone Oscar De La Hoya, the air was let out of the balloon this past Monday when it was announced :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…
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…
