Posted on Monday, April 13th, 2015 at 11:24 am.
This past Saturday WBC super lightweight champion Danny Garcia (30-0, 17 KOs) defeated IBF Junior welterweight champion Lamont Peterson (33-3-1, 17 KOs) by a 12 round majority decision at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New York. Both fighters entered as world champions but neither were defending their titles. Instead they fought at an agreed upon :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, April 9th, 2015 at 9:15 am.
WBO world middleweight champion ‘Irish’ Andy Lee (34-2, 24 KOs) will face Peter ‘Kid Chocolate’ Quillen (31-0, 22 KOs) of Brooklyn, New York this Saturday. The bout will be the televised scheduled for 12 round Co-Feature to the main event between world champions Danny Garcia & Lamont Peterson. The challenger Quillen will be have his :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, April 7th, 2015 at 6:30 am.
This Saturday Puerto Rico will be waiving their flags and sitting at the edge of their seats watching one of their own in one tough fight. No, it is not WBC/WBA light welterweight champion Danny “Swift” Garcia, who fights IBF champ Lamont Peterson in a non-unification fight on NBC as part of the “Premier Boxing :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, March 24th, 2015 at 4:11 am.
No secret that the upcoming fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao scheduled for Saturday, May 2nd in Las Vegas might just be the most lucrative prizefight in the history of the sport. According to a recent ESPN analysis the fight can easily make over $400 million dollars in revenue between a record breaking :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, March 6th, 2015 at 9:41 am.
IBF Junior welterweight world champion Lamont Peterson (33-2-1, 17 KOs) can be assured of two things after his upcoming fight vs. WBA Super World super lightweight/WBC World super lightweight world champion Danny Garcia (29-0 , 17 KOs). He will remain world champion and Garcia will as well when the bout is over. The two world :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, February 26th, 2015 at 8:12 am.
Emergence in 2014 WBO Lightweight champion Terrance Crawford (25-0, 17 KOs) truly had a superb year in 2014. This was led off by his championship winning performance over Ricky Burns. Crawford went into the homeland of Burns in Scotland, UK and won by unanimous decision. That is a very difficult task to say the least. :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, February 17th, 2015 at 11:30 am.
Opportunity knocking for Danny Garcia vs Lamont Peterson Unified junior welterweight world champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17KOs) will look to get back on track to star status when he faces IBF junior welterweight champion Lamont Peterson (33-2-1 17KOs) April 11th. Between the two of them they own 3 of the 4 recognized world titles in :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, February 12th, 2015 at 2:31 am.
This week a fan-friendly fight was announced for Saturday, April 11tt. No, it is not the catch weight bout between the undefeated Danny Garcia and Lamont Peterson and no, it is not the WBO middleweight fight between newly crowned king Andy Lee and Peter Quillin. Although those two fights should be very pleasing to the :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, February 10th, 2015 at 6:10 am.
In less than a month the boxing world will see something unprecedented in nearly thirty years. For the first time since Larry Holmes went fifteen rounds with Carl “The Truth” Williams in May of 1985, a professional boxing match will be seen live on primetime over the NBC airwaves. On Saturday March 7th, Premier Boxing :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, January 2nd, 2015 at 1:03 pm.
In the last blog we went over why many in the boxing world have nominated veteran junior welterweight Mauricio “Maestro” Herrera as the Fighter of the Year on the strength of two robbed decisions, the first against Danny Garcia last March and the second against Jose Benavidez Jr just a couple of weeks ago, both :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…
