Posted on Wednesday, April 8th, 2015 at 9:34 am.
Entering 2012 Lucian Bute (31-2, 24 KOs) was considered by many one of the top 168 pounders in the world if not the #1 guy. He was unbeaten in 30 fights and the IBF Super middleweight champion of the world. Bute was regularly packing venues in Canada. Bute was born in Romania has fought the :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 Friday, April 3rd, 2015 at 3:40 pm.
In a bit of a surprise move, former light welterweight champion Amir Khan announced that he will be facing Chris Algieri on May 30th at a venue to be determined. Quite possibly the one with the most shocked look on his face is one Kell Brook who after his domination of Jo Jo Dan this :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, April 2nd, 2015 at 6:52 am.
There is a tug of war going on right now on Mexican network television. As it has been explained here before, Mexico is a major TV country and there is no bigger network than Televisa. The media company, which also owns magazines and radio stations, is known to make pop stars of untalented singers, soap :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, March 26th, 2015 at 7:11 am.
No matter what Al Haymon says about newly crowned WBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder, the true king of the heavyweights, thirty-nine year old Wladimir “Dr. Steelhammer” Klitschko, is finally coming back stateside, at least to fight inside a ring, on Saturday, April 25th, at the mecca of boxing Madison Square Garden against American :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, March 25th, 2015 at 9:19 am.
Andre “The Matrix” Dirrell (24-1, 16KOs) is on the cusp of again challenging for a world title. This time it will be for a vacant world title and likely on U.S. soil. Dirrell who is #2 ranked by the IBF will face the IBF #1 contender James DeGeale (24-1, 16KOs) of the UK. When the :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, March 21st, 2015 at 10:41 am.
Look, boxing is not going anywhere. For years both pessimistic fans and media alike have been playing the death march for the sweet science maybe to justify their move to MMA. Boxing has been part of the United Sates consciousness and the world for more than a century although not in its heyday, at this :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 at 7:00 am.
As the world awaits the biggest fight the sport have ever seen set on May 2nd between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas, the rest of the sport still needs to go on and this weekend it did. From Canada Sergey Kovalev proved why he is the best light heavyweight on the :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, March 16th, 2015 at 8:21 am.
It’s been nearly 2 months since Deontay Wilder (33-0, 32KOs) defeated Bermaine Stiverne to win the WBC Heavyweight championship. Entering the fight there was so much talk of Wilder’s lack of competition up to that point, his chin and stamina. Wilder answered all those questions on that night. He completely dominated a very solid fighter :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, March 7th, 2015 at 6:11 am.
Amidst all the hoopla of the first network primetime fight card this Saturday night on the peacock channel NBC, three-time divisional champion Abner Mares returns to the ring on his road back to hopefully another world title. Al Haymon’s “Premier Boxing Champions” will go on air with WBA welterweight champion Keith Thurman defending against former :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…
