13 Jul 2018

Boxing Weekend Preview: Pacquiao returns, Teofimo Lopez on ESPN

Manny’s back? The man who carried most of my young adulthood interest in boxing, Manny Pacquiao will return this weekend on ESPN+ as part of the main event feature against Lucas Matthysse in Malaysia. Pacquiao is a huge question mark at the moment as he left his longtime coach Freddie

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10 Jul 2018

Boxing Recap: No Ramirez, No Problem – Top Rank Results

Ramirez didn’t return home In what was supposed to be a homecoming for WBC super lightweight champion Jose Ramirez instead saw him as a member of the crowd as his opponent Danny O’Connor suffered a form of kidney failure forcing him to collapse, taken to a hospital and removed from

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06 Jul 2018

Kavaliauskas vs. Abreu now headlines Fresno, CA ESPN card

The Jose Ramirez-Danny O’Connor WBC super lightweight title bout was called off after it was determined O’Connor was physically unable to compete. Ramirez will now make his first title defense at a later date, while the NABF welterweight title bout between Egidijus “The Mean Machine” Kavaliauskas and Juan Carlos Abreu has

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04 Jul 2018

Boxing Weekend Preview: Jose Ramirez returns home to Fresno w/ belt

Ramirez comes home WBC super lightweight champion Jose Ramirez will defend his title for the first time and it what better setting than the place he virtually built in terms of a boxing market at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, Ca, against Danny O’Connor. The bout might not be

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01 Jul 2018

Boxing Weekend Results: Zurdo Ramirez, Ruben Villa, Rodney Hernandez

Zurdo in a holding patterns Undefeated WBO super middleweight champion Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez made the fourth defense of his title on Saturday night in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by defeating Alexis Angulo in a twelve-round main event. That is about where the flattery stops at. Ramirez looked flat getting buzzed, but

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29 Jun 2018

Gilberto Ramirez makes weight ahead of ESPN title fight

Tonight on ESPN, WBO super middleweight champion Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez will look to defend his title once again as he faces Roamer Angulo. The co-main event features a cracker-jack of a bout between hometown fighter, Alex Saucedo and Lenny Zappavigna. The fights are taking place at the Chesapeake Energy Arena, Oklahoma

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28 Jun 2018

Michael Conlan fights in Northern Ireland on Saturday

Michael “Mick” Conlan will make his long-awaited homecoming on Saturday when he headlines a card from The SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Conlan (7-0, 5 KOs) will face former world title challenger Adeilson Dos Santos (19-4, 15 KOs) in a scheduled 10-rounder, which will be streamed live and exclusively in the United States

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27 Jun 2018

Boxing Weekend Preview: Ruben Villa, Zurdo Ramirez, Michael Conlan

Zurdo on ESPN [Saturday, ESPN] Undefeated WBO super middleweight champion Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez will be making his fourth defense of his title on Saturday night in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma as he faces Roamer Alexis Angulo in a twelve-round main event. Ramirez at his best is a tricky southpaw who defies

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26 Jun 2018

Jonathan Guidry added Regis Prograis July 14th card on ESPN

New Orleans-based undefeated heavyweight prospect Jonathan Guidry (10-0, 2 KOs) will face Aaron Chavers (8-4-1, 3 KOs), of Oklahoma City, OK, in a six-round clash Saturday, July 14, at Lakefront Arena in New Orleans. Presented by Top Rank, in association with DiBella Entertainment, Guidry vs. Chavers will be a featured undercard fight to the highly

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26 Jun 2018

“Mean Machine” tops Ramirez vs. O’Connor undercard

The Mean Machine, Egidijus Kavaliauskas, is looking to cement his name as a welterweight to watch when he defends the NABF title against Juan Carlos Abreu, July 7 at the Save Mart Center in Fresno as the ESPN-televised co-feature to Jose Ramirez’s WBC super lightweight title defense against Danny O’Connor. The undercard will

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