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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
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.
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.
Devon Alexander vs. Diego Chaves purse bid order for July 2nd
Welterweights Devon Alexander and Diego Chaves will do battle for the IBF welterweight title, but before the fight will go to purse bid, which will happen on Thursday, July 2nd. Both fighters have on a run of ugly fights as Alexander has recently lost to most of the high level
Jessie Vargas “Pat Russell saved Tim Bradley’s career”
An angry Jessie Vargas took the post-fight press conference to give his take on his fight with Timothy Bradley and the last ten seconds that will be talked about for weeks to come. Let’s recap in case you missed it and begin with the facts. Jessie Vargas hurt Tim Bradley
Twitter reacts to HBO Boxing card
Bradley dominates, but weird ending steals headlines Vargas has made his last few fights WAY tougher than they should have been. He's gonna have to dig deep tonight. #boxing #BradleyVargas — Raging Babe (@M_RagingBabe) June 28, 2015 Ward saying people overrate punching power. Ehhh…it's what the people like. It's like
Bradley outpoints Vargas despite bizarre ending to bout
Carson, CA – Timothy Bradley defeated Jessie Vargas by unanimous decision with the scores of 116-112, 117-111 and 115-112 to win the interim WBO welterweight title at the StubHub Center in Carson, CA. The scores were read mere minutes before Pat Russell stepped between the two fighters as it appeared
Valdez gets off canvas to win HBO debut
Top Rank super featherweight Oscar Valdez (16-0 14KOs) faced trouble early as he was dropped by Rueben Tamayo (25-6-4 17KOs) in the first round. Some would say that it was Tamayo stepping on Valdez’s foot, but it was still not the best thing to occur in the opening round of