Posted on Saturday, February 21st, 2015 at 7:59 am.
Of the many topics that current pound for pound champion Floyd Mayweather Jr likes to brag about, from his houses, trips, cars, planes, jewelry, money and women, Mayweather Jr did good on holding off the announcement of his next fight until he was good and ready. Earlier today Floyd Mayweather Jr announced to the world :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, January 28th, 2015 at 6:02 pm.
The boxing universe is up in arms from the hoopla caused by the Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao meet and greet earlier this week in Miami. Both at the American Airlines Arena for the professional boxing game between the Miami Heat against the Milwaukee Bucks, they had a quick summit during halftime where they :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, January 21st, 2015 at 3:41 pm.
Deadlines come and go. Some get met, some don’t. In boxing, it is no different and two important ones were set forth in this first month of January. After a couple of months of haggling and of tension filled silence from Team Cotto the deal that Golden Boy Promotions had offered since the end of :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, January 9th, 2015 at 12:58 pm.
Twenty-four year old Saul “Canelo” Alvarez got bold last week when he sent WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto an open letter through the press asking him not to duck him and to sign the contact to face each other on the much fought over May 2nd date. In the letter Alvarez went as far to :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, December 30th, 2014 at 7:55 am.
Just last week Oscar De La Hoya, boss of Golden Boy Promotions, was named promoter of the year by the most respected magazine in sports, Sports Illustrated. It is quite an honor for a man that only truly took the reins of his company earlier this year even though the outfit has been in business :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, December 18th, 2014 at 5:53 am.
Earlier this week Golden Boy Promotions’ head honcho Oscar De La Hoya mentioned during the 52nd WBC Annual Convention held this year in Las Vegas, Nevada, that he will try to put together a fight that has been talked about for the last couple of years. In a battle of Los Angeles, CA, residents De :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, December 10th, 2014 at 6:17 pm.
In the first half of this article the fact that Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions have slowly but surely began working together again after the demise of Richard Schaeffer was discussed. Despite of that, the two entities have competing fight cards this upcoming Saturday night on the two networks each are aligned to. Top :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 Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 at 8:04 pm.
One journey has been stranger than the other but both of these men will look to get back to where they once were only some years ago. Former champions “Vicious” Victor Ortiz and Abner Mares are scheduled to be part of what looks to be the last Golden Boy Promotions card of the year on :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…
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…
