Posted on Tuesday, June 24th, 2014 at 5:16 am.
Fights are like women, they come and go. Some are good, some are bad. Some are forgettable and some you remember for the rest of our life. For those types of fights, boxing sets up a committee, a ballot is written up and a fight is tagged forever as the fight of the year. Mixtures :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, June 20th, 2014 at 9:27 pm.
The biggest mystery in boxing right now is which of the Al Haymon-signed fighters will continue with Golden Boy Promotions after Richard Schaefer, the former CEO of the company for over ten years, ceremoniously left his post a few weeks ago. With nearly a hundred member client list which keeps growing by the day, the :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 Wednesday, June 4th, 2014 at 8:47 pm.
All hell broke loose in the boxing world earlier this week when former CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, Richard Schaefer, announced just that. That in fact he was the “former” and not the current chief executive officer of the company he helped found a little over ten years ago in 2003. In a statement released :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, June 2nd, 2014 at 8:42 pm.
With Richard Schaefer’s not that surprising resignation from Golden Boy Promotions this week, everything is up in the air for one of the most important dates of the boxing year. As it was announced a couple of weeks ago, the considered king of boxing, Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr, had announced that he would be :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, May 24th, 2014 at 5:42 am.
If things would have gone the way HBO and Kathy Duva planned them, WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis “Superman” Stevenson would be defending his green and gold strap tomorrow night against Andrzej Fonfara on the Home Boxing Office network instead than live on Showtime from the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. The variable in the :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, April 29th, 2014 at 3:26 am.
As the cold war between Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank seems to be thawing, the civil war inside the Los Angeles-based promotional company owned by Oscar De La Hoya is heating up as the “Golden Boy” himself and his appointed CEO, Swiss banker Richard Schaefer, are not looking eye-to-eye on one major issue: Whether :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, April 11th, 2014 at 9:13 pm.
TOP RANK’S ARUM MIGHT HAVE SCORED THE BEST SHOTS OF THE WEEKEND Despite an olive branch being extended the last holiday season by Golden Boy Promotions’ Oscar De La Hoya towards Bob Arum of Top Rank, the octogenarian did not hesitate to shoots some stingers towards the MGM Casino in Las Vegas, pound for pound :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, March 25th, 2014 at 12:12 am.
A sizeable shift in the boxing business might be in the works as the most successful promotional company in the last couple of years, Golden Boy Promotions, might undergo major changes in its executive branch pretty soon. Talk around town from various sources is that the “Golden Boy” Oscar De La Hoya, majority owner and :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 at 10:48 pm.
Just last week it was announced by Richard Schaeffer, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, that he offered former three divisional world champion Miguel Angel Cotto of Puerto Rico the sum of $10 million dollars to face Saul “Canelo” Alvarez some time in 2014. Schaeffer did not specify which of the three proposed 2014 dates, March, :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…
