30 Jun 2015

Bruno Escalante and Andy Vences top bill of August 1st, Redwood City card

  Though no official bouts have been announced the August 1st card in Redwood City, CA is taking shape as junior bantamweight Bruno “The Aloha Kid” Escalante (13-1 6KOs) returns after nearly a year and half layoff after a hand injury that occurred in his last bout against Victor Ruiz

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30 Jun 2015

Joshua out of July 18th fight, likely for September 12th card

Unbeaten 2012 Olympic super heavyweight gold medalist Heavyweight Anthony Joshua (13-0, 13 KOs) has pulled out of a July 18 fight at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England. No reason has been officially given, but it seems that Joshua will return September 12th at The O2 Arena in London on

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30 Jun 2015

Welterweight prospect Rudy Macedo looking to return this year

Nonito Donaire Sr. trained boxer, welterweight Rudy Macedo (1-0 1KO) of Novato, CA hasn’t been in the ring since October of last year when he put together an impressive knockout of Mario Aguirre in Sacramento, CA. Macedo, a highly decorated amateur world champion who was a PAL champion, 5 times

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30 Jun 2015

Shumenov-Flores headlines July 25th card in Las Vegas

    Former world champion Beibut Shumenov (15-2, 10 KOs) meets cruiserweight contender and NBC boxing analyst B.J. Flores (31-1-1, 20 KOs) on Saturday, July 25 on Premier Boxing Champions on NBCSN live from The Pearl at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas with televised coverage beginning at 9 p.m.

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30 Jun 2015

De La Hoya releases statement on ill-fated return

Hall of Fame boxer Oscar De La Hoya last week made ill-fated comments stating that he would return to the ring to face Gennady Golovkin. The statement know looks in hindsight to be more of a bit of a shock statement to generate headlines in front of a few Golden

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30 Jun 2015

Antoine Douglas headlines ShoBox July 17th

On Friday, July 17 at the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, will be headlined by Antoine Douglas (17-0-1, 11 KOs) of Burke, VA and Istavan Szili (18-0-2, 8 KOs) of Frenkendorf, Switzerland. Douglas most notably spent some of his last camp sparring with Andre Ward in preparation for his bout with Paul

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30 Jun 2015

Cotto-Canelo rumored for late November

Well, the fight we have been waiting for sometime between Miguel Cotto and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is at least begun negotiations with a date to be determined as New York, Texas and Las Vegas all seem to be front runners for landing the fight with, the Thomas & Mack Center

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29 Jun 2015

Weights from Philadelphia, PA

Venue: 2300 Arena, Philadelphia, PA Network: Fox Sports 2 Vyacheslav Shabranskyy 179.7 vs Paul Parker 177.6 Damon Allen 135.8 vs Luis Rodriguez 138.4 D’Mitrius Ballard 169.4 vs Josue Obando 168.1 Lamont Roach Jr. 133.6 vs Christian Santibanez 134 Kevin Rivers Jr. 125.5 vs Luis Lizarraga 127.9 Victor Vasquez 135.6 vs Osnel

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28 Jun 2015

Two Northern California Boxers Advance To Olympic Qualifiers

As we are halfway through 2015 it is about that we start to look at 2016 and with 2016 comes the Olympic Games in Rio. Bantamweight Ruben Villa of Salinas, CA and super heavyweight Marlo “Deion” Moore of San Leandro, CA will move onto the Olympic Qualifiers later this year.

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28 Jun 2015

CSAC says Haymon was sabotaging rival shows

In a very interesting exclusive with Ivan G. Goldman of BoxingInsider.com, California State Athletic Commissioner John Frierson says Al Haymon was purposely booking venues in California to sabotage rival promotions, in particular Golden Boy Promotions, who is currently suing Haymon along with the brokers who have funded his boxing endeavor.  

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