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Shiming defeats Ortega
Olympic hero Zou Shiming remained perfect by scoring a six round unanimous decision over Jesus Ortega in a Flyweight bout at the Venetian Resort...
Fight Night at the Park 2 heats up at the weigh in!!!
Jersey City, New Jersey’s Patrick “Paddy Boy” Farrell (8-2-1, 4Ko’s) was excited at the opportunity when the main event at Schuetzen Park in North...
Burgos Survives Amidu Scare
LINCOLN, CALIFORNIA – In a great action fight, Yakubu Amidu rose to the occasion against the world class Juan Carlos Burgos, forcing a split...
PED Culture: It’s no lie, Ryan Braun is an example for boxers who call...
The furor over major league baseball’s suspension of Ryan – or is that Lyin’? – Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers in the never-ending and...
Burgos Back at Work
LINCOLN, CALIFORNIA – Regarded by many as an uncrowned super featherweight champion, Juan Carlos Burgos aims to put the disappointment of a controversial...
ANDRE BERTO vs. JESUS SOTO KARASS KNOCKOUT KINGS II FINAL PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES
OSCAR DE LA HOYA, President of Golden Boy Promotions
"I want to acknowledge a person that is doing a tremendous job in bringing boxing...
Omar Figueroa, “Knockout Kings II” and the Rio Grande Valley
SAN ANTONIO – The promotional posters for “Knockout Kings II” that arrived in some writers’ inboxes these last few weeks were different from the...
Matthysse-Garcia: An addition for the Mayweather-Canelo card and a plan for the future
The announcement Thursday that Lucas-Matthysse and Danny Garcia will fight on the Floyd-Mayweather Jr.-Canelo Alvarez undercard on Sept. 14 is a further sign that...
AJOSE-LUNDY MEET AT CROSSROADS ON ESPN FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS
New York, NY (7/16/13) - There comes a point in almost every fighter's career when they have to face a crossroads. This Friday...
“The Good Son” is great stuff
“The Good Son,” an online preview of which I watched Saturday evening, froze two times at its 35-minute mark. The first time I...
Jose Benavidez, Jr., back in the gym with hopes of resuming his career
Jose Benavidez, Jr., unbeaten as a junior-welterweight, is expected to test a troublesome right hand next week in sparring at a Phoenix-area gym where...
An evening with The One
SAN ANTONIO – Monday round 6:00 PM a large crowd awkwardly gathered round a stage awkwardly situated in the plaza that precedes Misión San...
Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin: Good, giving and game
Kazakhstani middleweight titlist Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin wears his initials and nickname on the waistband of his trunks, often in gold blocks, and inadvertently titillates...
Golovkin fights to keep himself in position for bigger business
GGG is an acronym still searching for some definition. Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin has an unbeaten record, boxing’s best knockout ratio, Olympic silver, a good...
Broner, Malignaggi, and the pleasure of seeing each get hit in the face
Saturday in Brooklyn two of prizefighting’s reliably unlikable personalities spent 36 minutes punching one another, much to the delight of those who watched them...
Heavyweight Calm: Nothing insulting about the Banks-Mitchell rematch
They may find Jimmy Hoffa before America finds another great heavyweight. It’s almost redundant to call the search futile. Yet it continues Saturday, mostly...
Garcia, Lopez, Bearden and resilience
DALLAS – Thirty five miles due west of American Airlines Arena, where Oxnard’s Mikey Garcia unpicked Puerto Rican Juan Manuel Lopez Saturday, there is...
Weights from Dallas
Oscar Valdez 127.5 - Gil Garcia 128
Vanes Martirosyan 154.75 - Ryan Davis 157.5
Adrien Broner brushes past the obvious
Adrien Broner has used his favorite theatrical prop to comb his hair and stroke his ego, but has yet employed it to brush up...
In Heavy Training for his Upcoming Fight, Don ‘Da Bomb’ George Takes Time...
Chicago-based middleweight contender Donovan "Da Bomb" George wishes to congratulate his friend and former opponent Adonis Stevenson for his WBC Light Heavyweight title-winning KO1...
At The Crossroads: Lopez, Maidana fight for relevancy
Josesito Lopez has a nickname that is a mixed blessing. He’s called the Riverside Rocky because he came from nowhere. If the nickname sticks,...
Her vengeance unassured
She sets her left foot slightly in front of her right and tries to keep them a shoulders’ width apart, whatever that means, and...
GETHIN ON THE BRINK OF A WORLD TITLE SHOT
GETHIN ON THE BRINK OF A WORLD TITLE SHOT
Gethin v Diaz in an IBF World title eliminator tonight at 8pm
Martin Gethin
Walsall hardman Martin...
Risk-to-Reward: Mayweather has Canelo in his calculations
Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s brilliant career and shrewd mastery of the risk-to-reward ratio are no coincidence. Mayweather has put himself into history’s pound-for-pound debate and...
Risk-to-Reward: Mayweather has Canelo in his calculations
Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s brilliant career and shrewd mastery of the risk-to-reward ratio are no coincidence. Mayweather has put himself into history’s pound-for-pound debate...
Froch and Kessler, gentlemen and consensus
In round 6 of their super middleweight match, Saturday, Englishman Carl “The Cobra” Froch and Dane Mikkel “Viking Warrior” Kessler briefly got separated by...
Back in the Debate: Ward’s skillful snub of the WBC re-ignites pound-for-pound campaign
Andre Ward kept himself in the pound-for-pound debate with smarts evident all over again this week when he trashed the World Boxing Council...
Argenis Mendez in England for training camp to Prepare for 1st IBF super featherweight...
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (February 26, 2013) - International Boxing Federation (IBF) super featherweight champion Argenis "The Thunderstorm" Mendez (21-2-, 10 KOs) has arrived in...
The Machinery of enthusiasm
“Yes, right,” said Argentine Lucas Matthysse in Spanish, Saturday, when asked if he next wished to fight junior welterweight champion Danny Garcia. “For that...
Mayweather’s spot on top of money list hinges on a projection
Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s No.1 spot on another list of highest-paid athletes is attached to a key word: Projected.
Sports Illustrated projects Mayweather to...
