05 Aug 2015

IBF Featherweight champ Lee Selby signs with Al Haymon

IBF featherweight champion Lee Selby has signed a deal to work with boxing advisor Al Haymon. As with most Haymon clients, Selby will still keep the services of his longtime manager, Chris Sanigar. Via press release Selby explained his feeling upon the deal. “I’m delighted to have signed with Al Haymon

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05 Aug 2015

Weights from LA Fight Club

Venue: Belasco Theater, Los Angeles, California TV: Fox Deportes Abraham Lopez 125 vs. Jorge Diaz 125.6 Roy Tapia 122.8 vs. Juan Luis Hernandez 122.4 Jonathan Navarro 139.8 vs. Andrew Gomez 139 Hector Tanajara 134 vs. Thomas De Leon 137.6 Francisco Ochoa 131 vs. Marquis Pierce 127 Pablo Rubio 121.5 vs.

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04 Aug 2015

Fox Sports 1 goes Toe to Toe with PBC weeknights

FOX Sports today announced that it has reached a multi-year, multi-platform agreement to telecast Premier Boxing Champions (PBC), under which it will be the exclusive boxing program for FOX Sports 1, with content also going to FOX Deportes. The announcement was made by David Nathanson, FOX Sports Head of Business

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04 Aug 2015

Mayweather-Berto official for September 12th on PPV

Floyd Mayweather will be fighting Andre Berto on September 12th at The MGM Grand, which most basically knew by now, but the biggest shock of the announcement was the fact that the event will be on pay-per-view.  The bout is being  billed as $64.95/$74.95HD. The price point has angered some

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04 Aug 2015

UFC prelims pull in more viewers than PBC card on ESPN

UFC 190 Prelims on FS1: 1.322M viewers from 8-10p. PBC on ESPN: 1.073M from 9-10:57p — Sports TV Ratings (@SportsTVRatings) August 4, 2015   Well, Premier Boxing Champions noticed a slight increase in ratings from their first telecast, that being said it is still very bleak news as the second

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03 Aug 2015

IBF orders Artur Beterbiev-Bernard Hopkins eliminator

  The promoter of Artur Beterbiev (9-0, 9KOs), has revealed that the International Boxing Federation has ordered his boxer to face living legend Bernard Hopkins (55-7-2, 32 KOs) in an IBF light heavyweight eliminator. Hopkins is nearly 50 and essentially looking for one last big fight for a substantial pay, which Beterbiev

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03 Aug 2015

Ava Knight and Zab Judah sign with Greg Cohen Promotions

Multiple time world champion Ava Knight (13-2-3 5KOs) announced via Instagram that she has signed with Greg Cohen Promotions. Knight, who is one of the most decorated women fighters of her generation has been plagued by the business side of the sport, as she had been having problems with promoters

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03 Aug 2015

What you might have missed over the weekend

– Despite losing and probably retiring afterwards, Paulie Malignaggi wrote a really great piece explaining why he fights for Derek Jeter’s website. – Yudel Jhonson and Jorge Cota had a great, sloppy, fun fight at junior middleweight on Bounce TV, which was criminally slept on. The bout included 3 knockdowns

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03 Aug 2015

Boxing schedule August 6th-8th

Thursday, August 6th Los Angeles, FOX Deportes, 10:00 pm EST, Abraham Lopez vs Jorge Diaz featherweight, 10 rounds , Roy Tapia vs Juan Luis Hernandez, junior featherweight, 8 rounds. In what will be the final of the Fox Deportes “Fight Club LA” cards for Golden Boy Promotions in Los Angeles,

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03 Aug 2015

Andrade’s promoter suing Roc Nation Sports for tampering

Last week, WBO junior middleweight champion Demetrius “Boo Boo” Andrade was stripped by the WBO for failing to defend his title for 13 months, in fact Andrade hasn’t even taken a bout since defeating Brian Rose for the title. On July 29, Andrade’s promoters Star Boxing and Banner Promotions filed

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