Posted on Friday, December 20th, 2013 at 9:51 pm.
With 2013 winding down and the new gearing up, here is a list of the top five fights that we would like to see in the next twelve months. The list includes bouts that are makeable, no going against the aisle and matching up a Top Rank vs. Golden Boy or HBO vs. Showtime. We :READ MORE…
Posted on Friday, December 20th, 2013 at 4:30 am.
Some fighters just don’t know when to hang them up. Many of them have to be given a forceful shove towards it and most of the time, the push is never gentle. Four divisional world champion Erik “Terrible” Morales received his suggestion towards retirement from a devastating left hook courtesy of WBC/WBA super lightweight champion :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, December 18th, 2013 at 8:48 pm.
Newly crowned WBA welterweight champion Marcos “Chino” Maidana received a hero’s welcome as soon as he stepped on Argentinean soil earlier this week after defeating the previously undefeated Adrien Broner in an exciting fight of the year candidate last Saturday night in San Antonio, Texas. As soon as somebody provided him with a microphone, the :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, December 18th, 2013 at 3:44 am.
Early this week the boxing world received an early Christmas present. WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko announced that he would be vacating his title to pursue politics in his native Ukraine full time. Klitschko mentioned that he did not expect to fight again but did not formally announce his retirement. In true WBC form, the :READ MORE…
Posted on Saturday, December 14th, 2013 at 4:02 am.
“The Problem”.“About Billions”.“Lil’ Bro”. Adrien Broner. It doesn’t matter which moniker he is going by or you call him, the current WBA welterweight is undeniably a major force in the boing business. He first burst in the scene with a close and disputed unanimous decision over hard hitting Daniel Ponce De Leon back in 2011. :READ MORE…
Posted on Wednesday, December 11th, 2013 at 9:13 pm.
After losing his WBA welterweight title to Adrien “The Problem” Broner earlier this year, Paulie “Magic Man” Malignaggi threatened to pull a disappearing act and retire from the squared circle. With a cushy job with Showtime as a commentator and a few years north of thirty, the feather-fisted Paulie felt that his time inside the :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, December 10th, 2013 at 9:33 pm.
With no end to the fiscal nightmare that Manny Pacquiao is living right now, a beacon of light has shown up at the end of the tunnel although that hole might be pretty deep. After his dominating performance over Brandon Rios in late November, Pacquiao was not greeted with a ticker tape parade or a :READ MORE…
Posted on Thursday, December 5th, 2013 at 8:44 pm.
This Saturday night HBO and Showtime as well as Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions go head to head in live prime time broadcast. It is not the first or the last time we will see competing promoters and networks scheduling fight cards the same night and roughly at the same time. Without a doubt :READ MORE…
Posted on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 at 11:43 pm.
The World Boxing Organization’s president Paco Valcarcel recently announced that future hall of famer Juan Manuel Marquez can, if he is willing, directly challenge the sanctioning body’s 140 pound kingpin Ruslan Provodnikov in his next fight. Is the promise of another world title enough to lure the forty-year-old Marquez into the ring? The multi-divisional world :READ MORE…
Posted on Monday, December 2nd, 2013 at 9:16 pm.
A usually dormant division exploded this past weekend with a knock out fest in Quebec when WBC light heavyweight Adonis Stevenson (23-1, 20KOs) impressively stopped his number one contender Tony Bellew in six rounds. More devastating was the knock out by WBO champ Sergey Kovalev (23-0-1, 21KOs) who put to sleep Ismayl Sillakh in two :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…
