Posted on Friday, May 15th, 2015 at 5:42 pm.
Al Haymon really did a number on one Oscar De La Hoya. Granted, the rumored billionaire wrote a hefty check to Golden Boy Promotions not too long ago to be able to take a big chunk of the promoter’s stable to the Premier Boxing Champions series. The payoff might have just been to make a :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, May 13th, 2015 at 8:38 pm.
Earlier this week the much anticipated return of newly crowned WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder (33-0, 32KO) was announced by Al Haymon and company for June 13th at the Bartow Arena in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, live on Showtime. No, Wilder will not be facing Wladimir Klitschko or be giving Bermane Stiverne a rematch. He :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, May 12th, 2015 at 11:42 am.
Former world champions Adrien Broner (30-1,22 KOs) and Shawn Porter (25-1-1, 16 KOs) will meet June 20th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas . The pair has agreed to a catchweight between 144-145 pounds. It’s a true test for both guys in the toughest test since losing their perspective world titles. Broner will enter :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, April 28th, 2015 at 9:32 am.
Andrzej Fonfara (27-3, 13 KOs) was a longshot to defeat Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (48-2-1, 32 KOs) a few weeks ago April 4th on Showtime. Looking back on it now it seems extremely hard to believe. Chavez Jr. had not fought in over a year leading up to the fight and was moving up to :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, April 20th, 2015 at 3:36 pm.
Saturday night at the StubHub Center in Carson, CA, and live on Showtime a huge derailment in the plans of not only Julio Cesar Chavez Jr happened but also on his advisor and head of the Premier Boxing Champions, Al Haymon. After a thirteen month exodus from the ring, Chavez Jr came back against light :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, April 17th, 2015 at 12:42 pm.
Earlier this week on a very popular Spanish-language radio station based out of Los Angeles, WBC super-bantamweight champion Leo Santa Cruz and former three-divisional champion Abner Mares once again met face to face. No, they weren’t announcing an upcoming fight between the two but merely just sharing with the boxing world, and possibly with their :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, April 15th, 2015 at 10:00 am.
Entering 2015 fans were optimistic that the anticipated showdown between light heavyweight champions Adonis “Superman” Stevenson (26-1 , 21 KOs) and Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev (27-0-1 , 24 KOs) would finally go down this years. Both fighters had scheduled fight in the first quarter of the year but were heavily favored to win. Kovalev was perceived :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, April 15th, 2015 at 7:25 am.
Just this past Saturday the boxing world enjoyed the second installment of the Premier Boxing Champions on the peacock network, NBC. This along with a handful of other cards under the Al Haymon banner on other networks like CBS and Spike TV has established a brave new world in the sport but is it too :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, April 14th, 2015 at 8:56 am.
WBC Super middleweight champion Andre Dirrell (27-0-1, 22 KOs) & WBA middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs (28-1, 25 KOs) will both be defending their world titles in separate bouts April 24th at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois. Dirrell will take on Badou Jack (18-1-1, 12 KOs) while Jacobs will fight Caleb Truax (25-1-1,15 KOs). The :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, April 11th, 2015 at 5:11 am.
There might not be a bigger gamble in boxing than to be a Julio Cesar Chavez Jr fan. The twenty-nine year old son of a legend jumps into the ring once again on Saturday, April 18th, after thirteen months without any action. Chavez Jr will be facing light heavyweight title challenger Andrzej Fonfara at the :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…
