08 Nov 2016

Amateur boxing Saturday in Sacramento at Caballero’s

This Saturday, November 12th, Caballero Nor Cal Boxing will hold an amateur event at their gym on 35 Quinta Ct. Sacramento, CA 95829. The weigh-in is from 9am to 11am, physicals take place from 11am-12pm and the show starts at 1PM. The price for the event is unlisted.

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08 Nov 2016

Team Demetrius Andrade Addresses Failed Negotiations For Culcay Fight

 The World Boxing Association (WBA) ruling, which recently ordered a new purse bid for the Demetrius Andrade-Jack Culcay bout, showed that there is more to the story than the Sauerland Promotion version of events which caused their WBA Junior Middleweight World Title fight to be cancelled. Ed Farris of A-Team

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08 Nov 2016

Marshawn Lynch offers support to Andre Ward

Former NFL superstar Marshawn Lynch paid a visit to Two-Time World Champion Andre Ward at training camp, ahead of his “Pound For Pound” showdown against Sergey Kovalev on Nov. 19 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.   In Ward’s first fight at light heavyweight against the then-undefeated Sullivan Barrera at

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08 Nov 2016

JoJo Diaz Jr set for undercard of B-Hop-Joe Smith Jr

Joseph “JoJo” Diaz Jr. (22-0, 13 KOs) will look to defend his NABF Featherweight Championship for the fourth time this year, as the former 2012 U.S. Olympian steps into the ring for a 10-round slugfest against Horacio “Violento” Garcia (30-1-1, 22 KOs) in the co-main event of Bernard Hopkins’s final

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07 Nov 2016

Reminder: Boxing in Sacramento on Friday Night!!!

This Friday, November 11th, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Sacramento, CA with the first bell at 7:30PM. The card is headlined by light heavyweight Ryan “The Rhino” Bourland (10-1 4KOs) taking Gilberto Rubio (6-3 4KOs) in a re-match of their split decision fight this past summer on July 9th at

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07 Nov 2016

Carlos Balderas signs with Ring Star Sports

Ringstar Sports, the newly formed promotional company headed up by longtime boxing executive Richard Schaefer, made another big move last week when the company signed highly touted 2016 U.S. Olympian Carlos Balderas, along with his brother Jose, to promotional agreements. Ringstar will represent the two amateur standouts as they turn

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07 Nov 2016

Terence Crawford-John Molina Jr official for December 10th

After a week or so of speculation, WBC and WBO light welterweight champion Terence “Bud” Crawford (29-0, 20 KOs) will be defending his title next month against  John Molina Jr. (29-6, 23 KOs) on December 10 on HBO Championship Boxing in Crawford’s hometown at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska. The

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07 Nov 2016

Thoughts on Manny Pacquiao vs. Jessie Vargas

Over the weekend I spent the course of a few days in Las Vegas, Nevada to watch the fight between Manny Pacquiao versus Jessie Vargas which took place at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Below are my general thoughts that I usually put in the form

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07 Nov 2016

Carlos Balderas to Richard Schaefer’s new company?

Over the weekend, many were transfixed to the fight in Las Vegas, Nevada between Manny Pacquiao and Jessie Vargas, but others were looking at were top amateurs and Olympians are going to end up as with Gabriel Flores Jr. of Stockton, CA signing with Top Rank, that may have paved

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02 Nov 2016

Pacquiao vs. Vargas Press Conference (video)

This Saturday night, November 5th, at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada WBO welterweight champion Jessie Vargas will fight future boxing hall of famer Manny Pacquiao on pay-per-view. Though some have dismissed the fight, I personally find the style match-up interesting as Vargas has only lost once

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