Posted on Thursday, October 9th, 2014 at 4:51 am.
After all the recent hoopla to announce Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s move back to HBO, including a day long field trip at the New York offices of the influential network by the Mexican star and his chaperone Oscar De La Hoya, the air was let out of the balloon this past Monday when it was announced :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, October 2nd, 2014 at 3:36 pm.
During a day long visit earlier this week in the New York offices of HBO, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya as well as the golden goose himself, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, announced what everybody in the boxing world already knew, who his next opponent is. Despite names like James “Mandingo Warrior” and Demetrius :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, September 30th, 2014 at 7:54 am.
Last week an important and somewhat surprising announcement was made by Golden Boy Promotions’ founder and now CEO Oscar De La Hoya. In his statement to the press from the Los Angeles offices of his company De La Hoya announced that Golden Boy’s star fighter, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, will be returning the airwaves of the :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, August 15th, 2014 at 5:44 am.
Fights are made all the time. Some are made too soon, some right on time and some of them are made years after both fighters have left their prime. One fight that is being talked about that falls in the last scenario is the WBC featherweight title defense between champion Jhonny Gonzalez vs four-divisional champion :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, August 7th, 2014 at 6:12 am.
It was only some months ago that everybody was clamoring for WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis “Superman” Stevenson. So much so that Main Events’ Kathy Duva even filed a lawsuit against Al Haymon, Golden Boy, Yvon Michel among others in hopes of having the United Sates justice system secure a fight for her fighter, Sergey :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, July 31st, 2014 at 5:39 am.
It seemed as if the Golden Boy Promotions internal split between Richard Schaeffer and Oscar De La Hoya finally nudged Floyd Mayweather Jr to get his outfit, Mayweather Promotions, off the ground and do something. Unlike his hip-hop record label Philty Rich Records that has been dormant since its inception, Mayweather Promotions with its Leonard :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, July 14th, 2014 at 9:03 pm.
Despite a crime was committed in front of over fourteen thousand fight fans at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, this past Saturday night, no culprits were arrested. Nobody knew who was the guilty one, whether it was New Mexico judge Levi Martinez or something more sinister that leads all the way up :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, July 9th, 2014 at 9:27 pm.
With all the excitement of the most watched World Cup in history, it is easy to forget that this Saturday the biggest Mexican star of the moment will climb into the ring for the second time this year. Former WBA and WBC super welterweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez will face Erislandy “American Dream” Lara in :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, July 8th, 2014 at 5:19 am.
Once a fighter wins a title, he hopes for bigger and better fights along with the purses that correspond in fighting the best. For fifteen-year old veteran Jhonny Gonzalez, the current WBC featherweight champion, it has led to everything but. Gonzalez captured his latest title last August when he impressively and shockingly knocked out the :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, June 26th, 2014 at 9:09 am.
A very telling fight card has just been announced for Saturday, August 9th, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Golden Boy Promotions, now led by its founder Oscar De La Hoya, is presenting a tripleheader that will be broadcast live by Showtime. Originally believed that newly crowned IBF welterweight champion Shawn Porter would :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…
