Posted on Tuesday, February 18th, 2014 at 8:06 pm.
In Part I we dug into the first PPVs of 2014 culminating on the sure to be May 3rd Showtime PPV mega-event between the biggest draw in the business Floyd Mayweather Jr and either Brit Amir Khan of Marcos Maidana of Argentina. In this Part II we will dive into the summer months and the :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, February 17th, 2014 at 8:38 pm.
After a quiet 2013 on the PPV front with despite the biggest one in the last ten years with Mayweather vs Alvarez back in September, 2014 is now gearing up to having an overflow of pay to watch boxing events with the first in about three weeks. Some of these fights no doubt deserve to :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, February 14th, 2014 at 8:48 pm.
Mexican ring star Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is already credited with one record during his nine-year professional career. On March 5th, 2011, Alvarez captured the vacant WBC light middleweight champion at the tender age of twenty, only months shy of the previous record holder, Fernando “Feroz” Vargas. Alvarez went on to defend the title six times :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, February 13th, 2014 at 8:55 pm.
Built in 1967 the LA Forum besides being the former home of the Los Angeles Lakers, world-class concerts and the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings, also has a rich boxing history. The program named Forum Boxing was developed by the late great Lakers owner Jerry Buss who put on shows at the arena in the 80s :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, February 12th, 2014 at 9:01 pm.
After reigning supreme over the World Boxing Council for over thirty-eight years, Jose Sulaiman passed away earlier this year from complications after open-heart surgery late last year. Earlier this week his son, executive secretary Mauricio Sulaiman was elected unanimously by twenty-six representatives of the WBC. Many in the boxing world, from fans, media, fighters and :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, February 11th, 2014 at 11:48 pm.
Beating his drum louder than a native American calling for an emergency pow wow, Cuban Erislandy (19-1-2, 12KOs) Lara let the four winds know that despite anybody and everybody with a name and a near undefeated record between the weights of 154 and 160 pounds has been avoiding the current most feared man in boxing, :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, February 11th, 2014 at 4:37 am.
Depending on whom you believe, Floyd Mayweather Jr’s next opponent will either be former two-time world champion Amir “King” Khan or current welterweight champion Marcos “Chino” Maidana on May 3rd at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Despite the date being announced hours after his last fight, a twelve round shellacking of the :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, January 30th, 2014 at 5:40 am.
It’s good to be Danny Garcia. Coming off the biggest win of his young career over the highly-touted knockout artist Lucas Matthysse last September on the biggest stage of last year, the under card of Floyd Mayweather Jr’s drubbing of Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. Now the undefeated Garcia is set to climb back into a ring :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, January 29th, 2014 at 6:50 am.
Current WBO super featherweight champion Mikey Garcia (34-0, 28KOs) might have cemented himself as a sure thing opponent for Filipino star Manny Pacquiao later this year. After a shaky second round where Garcia saw his knees buckle from a hard left hook from Tijuana’s Juan Carlos Burgos, Garcia returned the favor in the third with :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 at 9:04 pm.
It seems all systems are a go for the return bout between WBO welterweight champion Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley and Filipino congressman Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao on Saturday, April 12th, from the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Despite his next fight date scheduled almost as soon as Pacquiao walked out the ring in China :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…
