Posted on Tuesday, June 16th, 2015 at 5:35 am.
As expected this past Saturday night from the smaller Theatre at the legendary Madison Square Garden on the island of New York, Puerto Rico crowned a new king in Felix Verdejo as the twenty-two year old put together an impressive performance against the tough as leather Ivan “Bam Bam” Najera over ten rounds. With the :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015 at 5:10 am.
Last week was our inaugural Boxing360 pick of the week. The fight was between IBF world flyweight champion Javier Mendoza (23-2-1, 19 KOs) of Tijuana, Mexico and former world title challenger Milan Melindo (32-1, 12 KOs) of the Philppines. Our pick was Melindo who went on to lose by a technical decision due to a :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, May 23rd, 2015 at 6:00 am.
Like any fighter that has suffered a loss, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr wants to get back in there as quickly as possible. After a little bit more of a year outside the ring because of promotional problems, Chavez Jr finally came back last month in a light heavyweight fight against former title challenger Andrzej Fonfara :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, April 9th, 2015 at 5:41 am.
For all intents and purposes, it looks like Australian Daniel Geale will be the first man to challenge newly crowned WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto. It has been a long and winding road for the Puerto Rican super star that captured the title last June with a complete domination of Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez. It will :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, February 24th, 2015 at 3:24 pm.
This Saturday afternoon stateside interim WBC, IBO and WBA middleweight super champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin remained undefeated and continued his knockout streak by stopping British tough guy Martin Murray inside eleven rounds after dropping him three times, twice in the fourth and again in the tenth. As expected the tough but feather-fisted Murray put up :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, February 11th, 2015 at 10:11 am.
When unified world champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (31- 0, 28 KOs) was a guest at a recent boxing show in the Los Angeles, California area he was swarmed by tons of fans in attendance the entire night. Golovkin graciously signed autographs and took several pictures embracing his new found fame. A few years earlier he :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, November 4th, 2014 at 1:27 pm.
CHAVEZ JR AND AL HAYMON: A PACT MADE IN HEAVEN? Troubled Former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr started this week with a bang as he announced that he had signed with influential manager Al Haymon and that his return is being planned for early 2015. Bob Arum, founder and head honcho of Top :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, July 28th, 2014 at 8:57 pm.
This Saturday night in the “big room” of the mecca of boxing, the Madison Square Garden in New York, undefeated middleweight WBA and IBO champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (30-0, 27KO) made his return to the ring with a splash as he stopped Australia’s Daniel Geale in three brutal in the main event broadcast by HBO. :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, June 9th, 2014 at 10:13 pm.
Just as things change, more they stay the same. Boxing is a sport like no other. In team sports, you might have a club that wins titles with years in between but it is rare for the squad to remain the same between one championship year and the other. In boxing, although the supporting cast, :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, November 13th, 2013 at 8:32 pm.
It was no surprise when it was announced at the 51st annual World Boxing Council convention held in Thailand last week that former middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr (47-1-1, 32KOs) has decided to abandon the 160 lbs. division and move up the eight pounds to super middleweight. The news did not come as a :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…
