Posted on Tuesday, January 5th, 2016 at 2:23 am.
Unbeaten world ranked Samuel Vasquez (20-0,14KOs) of Pennsylvania will face upset specialist Aaron Martinez (20-4-1, 4KOs) Southern California. The two will square off January 23rd in a scheduled for 10 round welterweight contest. The bout will be the co-feature to the main event featuring former world champions Danny Garcia vs. Robert Guerrero. The site of :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, December 17th, 2015 at 10:45 am.
We chose the topic last week of the 2015 upset of the year as the debate. We made it quite clear that a more high profile fight didn’t necessarily beat out a fight that wasn’t fought on a major stage. It’s more the quality of the fighter who was upset. We gave a few examples :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, December 10th, 2015 at 8:23 am.
Last week we chose the topic of who you think wins the rematch between newly crowned heavyweight champion of the world Tyson Fury and Wlad Klitschko. Fury ended Klitschko’s more than 11 year unbeaten streak with a dull but clear victory. Klitschko could not solve the Fury defensive puzzle almost all night long. When Klitschko :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, March 20th, 2015 at 9:17 am.
Former world champion Marcos “El Chino” Madaina champion (35-5, 31KOs) had quite the year in 2014. He got two cracks at boxing’s pound for pound unbeaten King and two-division world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. Though he came up short twice his stock went up in a big way with his effort in both fights. In :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 at 10:14 am.
Former IBF Welterweight world champion Shawn Porter (24-1-1, 15KOs) returns to the ring Friday after nearly an 8 month layoff. Credit Porter for not looking to fight a softer touch either after such a lengthy time away from action. His opponent Robert Garcia (36-3 , 23KOs) is a natural welterweight and riding an eight fight :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, December 16th, 2014 at 6:16 pm.
Either fight couldn’t be any different to each other but at the end it was a means to an end. This past weekend we had a double bill on each of the two major fight networks in the sport. On Showtime we had the clash between former champions in Amir Khan vs Devon Alexander while :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, December 10th, 2014 at 6:46 am.
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, MORE THEY STAY THE SAME, PART I No matter how much things change, a lot of them stay the same. In the last major weekend for boxing, fans will have to choose from two separate fight cards going down at the same time. On HBO, former two-divisional champion Timothy “Desert Storm” :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, October 25th, 2014 at 1:41 pm.
What is it about Timothy Bradley that he just can’t catch a break? Despite only being beaten once and by one of the best fighters of this generation, Manny Pacquiao, having gone overseas to win his first title and fighting the best in his division, it seems to be awfully tough for the former two-divisional :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, July 3rd, 2014 at 5:46 am.
As expected, the considered current pound for pound king of boxing, Floyd Mayweather Jr, announced that on September 13th he will face once again Marcos Maidana of Argentina in a rematch of their early May first fight. In that twelve round bout for Maidana’s WBA and Mayweather’s WBC welterweight titles, Maidana of Argentina gave one :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, May 1st, 2014 at 1:31 am.
Hind sight is always 20/20. British star Amir “King” Khan thought he had everything laid out for his career after his shaky win over former champ Julio Diaz back in April 2013. Khan felt that he was on the short list to face boxing’s kingpin Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr soon enough. After Mayweather decided on :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…
