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ANTOINE DOUGLAS AND DORSETT BARNWELL STAY UNDEFEATED WITH BIG WINS IN VERONA, NY
NUTLEY, NJ (August 28, 2013)—Last Friday night at the Turning Stone Casino Resort in Verona, New York, Middleweight Antoine Douglas and Heavyweight Dorsett Barnwell...
Jhonny and Abner, Leslie and Glenn
Saturday in Carson, Calif., Jhonny Gonzalez floored Abner Mares with a left-hook lead in the third minute of their featherweight title match then stopped...
Opportunity Knocks: Mares can enhance his pound-for-pound credentials against Gonzalez
Abner Mares defies traditional categories, perhaps because he’s nimble enough to switch from one to the other quickly and sometimes seamlessly. Within a...
A relenting pursuit of Juan Diaz’s relentlessness
LAREDO, Texas – Saturday at this city’s Energy Arena brought nothing unexpected, and perhaps 1,000 or so spectators, with the red corner going 6-0...
Weights from U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago
Andrzej Fonfara 173 vs. Gabriel Campillo 175
IBF Light Heavyweight Title Eliminator
Mike Mollo 226 vs. Artur Szpilka 233
Adrian Granados 140 vs. Mark Salser 138
Paul...
Thanks, but no thanks: Angel Garcia complains about a media gift that figures to...
It didn’t take long for Angel Garcia to erupt. He’s complaining to media that his son, Philadelphia junior-welterweight Danny Garcia, isn’t getting a...
To Laredo for the Baby Bull: Another homage to 2009’s fight of the year
SAN ANTONIO – Saturday at Laredo Energy Arena, about 150 miles southwest of here, Houston’s Juan “Baby Bull” Diaz will make a 10-round match...
Pedraza decisions Tolmajyan
Jose Pedraza scored a ten round unanimous decision over Gabriel Tolmajyan in a Super Featherweight bout.
It was a close bout with many close round...
Is there a next great in American heavyweights? Deontay Wilder gets his chance to...
The search for a great American heavyweight is turning into a job for archaeologists.
Maybe, Deontay Wilder can begin to drag the...
Prizefighting, Saunders, damages, vulnerability, graciousness
Most American prizefighters are damaged necessarily, damaged from taking others’ fists and hopes, damaged by youthful experiences that guided them through amateur boxing’s comparative...
SUPER FLYWEIGHTS ZULINA MUNOZ VS. MARIBEL RAMIREZ TO HEADLINE ON TELEVISA DEPORTES AND...
LOS ANGELES, August 2 - The Agustin Millan Gymnasium in Toluca, Mexico will be the scene of one of the most exciting tripleheaders of...
Legacy: Mayweather, Pacquiao figure to generate debate about what it is and what it...
There may never be a Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao fight and there’s no reason to review, ad nauseam, all of the things that...
Figueroa and Arakawa, humility and volume punching
SAN ANTONIO – I like to think I write quickly, finding words within the readymade template, lede to nut to quote to body, that...
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...
