23 May 2015

Football player Frank Gore signs Willie Nelson to managerial pact

Per Brian Schwartz’s Facebook page, trainer of junior middleweight Willie Nelson, Nelson has signed a deal with Indianapolis Colts RB Frank Gore’s newly established boxing management company, Groves Finest. Gore who use to train in the offseason with Schwartz when he played for the San Francisco 49ers is now looking

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18 May 2015

ESPN to show Povetkin-Perez

ESPN will be going out with a bang for their “Friday Night Fights” series as it will televise Alexander Povetkin vs. Mike Perez with a brief delay in the evening for the North American audience. For diehard boxing fans with extra free time you can stream the fight at 12:30 PM

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15 May 2015

Weights from ESPN2 Friday Night Fights

Venue: Connecticut Convention Center, Hartford, CT Promoter: SMS Promo/DiBella Ent/Universal Promo TV: ESPN2 Reynaldo Ojeda 135 vs. Monty Meza-Clay 134 Luis Rosa 123.5 vs. Jonathan Perez 123 Jair Ramos 139 vs. Curtis Morton 139 Ivan Golub ?? vs. Kostya Rovenskyy ?? Charles Foster 174 vs. Joe Gardner 174 Alberto Candeleria

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05 May 2015

Boxcino Finals May 22nd Marks End Of ESPN Friday Night Fights

ORANGE, Calif. (May 5, 2015) – Junior middleweight Brandon Adams (16-1, 12 KOs) is returning to a familiar situation. After coming up short in last year’s Boxcino finals and suffering the only loss of his career, the Los Angeles-native dropped down one weight class and fought his way back to

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05 May 2015

Mayweather Open To Rematch With Pacquiao, Stephen A. Smith Says…

Floyd Mayweather defeated Manny Pacquiao this weekend in dominant decision win which netted a gate of 72 million and ungodly numbers for the whole event which will be released shortly. On ESPN’s SportsCenter Twitter Account, Stephen A. Smith, an ESPN personality, explained that he received a text message from Floyd Mayweather

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04 May 2015

Mayweather-Golovkin is the new Mayweather-Pacquiao and that’s not a good thing

With only 48 hours in the books since “the fight of the century”, Floyd Mayweather now has a new “mega-fight” already being offered up by pundits in the form of middleweight, Gennady Golovkin. Golovkin, who has been purely dominate in the middleweight division up until this point, is now being

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02 Apr 2015

DeCarlo Perez “The fact that Jessie is tough and experienced has me working hard but not worried.”

Middleweight prospect DeCarlo Perez, of Atlantic City, NJ, gets another tough test when he takes on rugged Jessie Nicklow, of Baltimore, MD, in the scheduled eight-round semifinal on Friday evening, May 8, at the 2300 Arena. Topping the seven-bout card is the 10-round heavyweight showdown between Amir “Hard Core” Mansour,

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26 Mar 2015

RANCES BARTHELEMY MOVES UP TO LIGHTWEIGHT VACATES IBF 130 LBS. TITLE. RETURNS TOMORROW NIGHT ON ESPN FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS

Former IBF Super-Featherweight Champion Rances “Kid Blast” Barthelemy (21-0, 12 KOs), has vacated his title in pursuit of bigger fights at Lightweight.  Barthelemy’s first fight at 135 lbs. will take place tomorrow night at the Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida, against Angino Perez (18-4, 16 KOs).  Barthelemy vs. Perez, a 10-round bout,

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26 Mar 2015

Weights From Hialeah Park Casino in Miami

Robert Alfonso 241 vs. Raymundo Lopez 252.6 Antonio Tarver Jr. 154.4 vs. Bruce Lutchmedial 156 Ahmed Elbiali 175.2 vs. Michael Stafford 173.4 Michael Seals 175.2 vs. Carlos Reyes 183.2 Daquan Arnett 156.4  vs. Travis Hartman 153.2 Yasmany Consuegra 229.6 vs. Taurus Sykes 251.2 Wilky Campfort 152.8 vs. Devon Moncrieff 155 Kamil Laszczyk 128.6

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26 Mar 2015

Fan Favorite Ahmed Elbiali Returning This Thursday on ESPN Friday Night Fights

Egyptian light heavyweight slugger Ahmed Elbiali (9-0, 9 KOs) will return to familiar ground this Thursday, March 26: fighting in an ESPN Friday Night Fights-televised undercard bout, this time, a six-rounder against England’s Mike Stafford (13-2, 3 KOs).   The special Thursday night edition of ESPN Friday Night Fights, presented

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