Posted on Friday, February 13th, 2015 at 12:58 pm.
Not too long ago life for twenty-eight year old Julio Cesar Chavez Jr was pretty much peaches and cream. Son of the most recognized Mexican boxer of our time, young, wealthy from an early age, rising top prospect with questionable skills and ethics and more importantly a contact with one of the most powerful promotional :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 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 Thursday, November 20th, 2014 at 7:40 am.
At thirty-five year old and with all his extra-curricular activities, from politics, to music, acting and basketball, Manny Pacquiao might not have much left inside a boxing ring. Despite signing an extension with promoter Top Rank until the end of 2016, it doesn’t necessarily mean that he will fight until that date. His next fight :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 at 5:36 am.
The road has not been an easy one for Cuban Guillermo Rigondeaux. After winning gold medals in the Olympic games of 2000 and 2004, he defected in ’07 at the Pan-American Games in Brazil. Along with him was the WBA super middleweight champion Erislandy Lara. They were arrested some days later and stated that they :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, June 30th, 2014 at 10:02 pm.
If you based your view on boxing on what you see on the eleven o’clock news, you would think that the sport only existed in May and September. If you follow the sweet science a little more closely than that, you would know that boxing is alive and well not only in the world but :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, June 20th, 2014 at 3:48 am.
This Saturday night from the Stub Hub Center in Carson, CA, near Los Angeles and live on Showtime a special fight. In one of the three scheduled for broadcast bouts undefeated featherweight Gary Russell Jr will face off against former amateur star Vasyl Lomachenko for the vacant WBO 126-pound title. Lomachenko from Russia is in :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, June 14th, 2014 at 10:52 am.
It sure feels as if the “Siberian Rocky” Ruslan Provodnikov is on the cusp. Considered a B-level fighter and only good enough for “Friday Night Fights” on ESPN prior to his fight against Timothy Bradley just last year, now Provodnikov finds himself in his third HBO broadcast fight in a row in his last fight :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…
