23 Jul 2015

Danny Garcia media day highlights

Danny Garcia, who was joined by his father and trainer Angel, took part in a media day event for which the aforementioned quotes are attributed. Garcia will be looking for his record fifth main event victory at Barclays Center on Saturday, August 1 when he takes on former world champion,

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22 Jul 2015

Andre Ward says he is ready right now for Gennady Golovkin

Andre Ward recently hit the ESPN studios to do what those in the business call “the car wash” in which he went through all of the media avenues on the ESPN campus interjecting opinions he has on current sports topics. Just like what happens whenever Ward does media, Gennady Golovkin, a dominant

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22 Jul 2015

Fairfield, CA’s Avila to co-main event HBO Latino card on August 8th

Manuel “Tino” Avila (17-0 7 KOs) of Fairfield, CA will take on former world title contender Yoandris “El Nino” Salinas (21-1-2 14KOs) of Miami, Fl for the NABF super bantamweight title which will now be the co-main event of HBO Latino broadcast on August 8th headlined by Johan Perez vs.

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22 Jul 2015

Team Golovkin pushing for David Lemieux fight

WBA “super” middleweight champion WBC interim middleweight champion, Gennady Golovkin and his team are pushing for a title fight against IBF middleweight champion, David Lemieux. The reason being both fighters have little options at the current moment, although Golden Boy Promotions, Lemieux’s promoter, has stated that they’d like to see

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21 Jul 2015

Jack-Groves postponed, rumored to be on Mayweather-Berto undercard

The fight between super middleweight WBC champion Badou Jack and mandatory challenger George Groves, scheduled to take place on Aug. 22 in Las Vegas and be televised on Showtime, has been postponed although no reason has been given. As first reported by ESPN.com, no one close to the situation with either Mayweather

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21 Jul 2015

This week’s boxing schedule

July 24th, Friday Mexico City, Mexico, Telemundo, tape delay – Romulo Koasicha vs. Guillermo Avila, 12 rounds, featherweights; Martin Casillas vs. Roberto Pucheta, 8 rounds, bantamweights A decent couple of bouts for diehard boxing fans who enjoy the lighter weight classes, the main event features a battle of two guys

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21 Jul 2015

Klitschko signs new TV deal that guarantees five more fights

Per Sky Sports, the best heavyweight in the world Wladimir Klitschko has agreed upon a five fight extension with RTL, a Germany broadcast channel. Klitschko who is gearing up for a fight on October 24th against heavily touted Tyson Fury, a man who stands three inches taller than Klitschko at

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21 Jul 2015

Matthysse-Postol set for October 3rd

It is now official as Argentine puncher Lucas Matthysse will be taking on Ukrainian volume Viktor Postol in a styles clash to determine the next WBC junior welterweight champion vacated by Danny Garcia earlier this year. The news was first reported by ESPN.com, who also in their report explained that the deal

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20 Jul 2015

TMZ Sports says Mayweather-Berto is ‘a done deal’

It looks like Amir Khan might be out of luck, again…again. This afternoon TMZ Sports announced that Mayweather-Berto is ‘a done deal’. The bout scheduled for September 12th is being speculated to end up on CBS.   Below is the official statement from TMZ Sports   It’s on … Floyd Mayweather

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19 Jul 2015

Arum feels Pacquiao has been ‘unprofessional’ and is ‘not an active fighter right now’

Top Rank Inc CEO Bob Arum had some choice words for Manny Pacquiao after the Macau, China card last Saturday after watching Argentina’s Cesar Cuenca beat China’s ‘IK’ Yang to win the IBF junior welterweight title. A report from The National, an English newspaper in Abu Dhabi who offered onsite

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