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by Johnny Walker No matter how he tries to nonchalant it, American heavyweight Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder has got to be feeling the heat as his WBC world heavyweight title belt dance with champion Bermane “B. Ware” Stiverne grows closer — as close as tonight in Las Vegas, Nevada. …

By: William Holmes The Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, New York was the host site for this year’s inaugural 2015 Friday Night Fights broadcast. “Hammerin” Hank Lundy was scheduled to face Boxcino lightweight tournament winner Petr Petrov in the co-main event of the night, but missed weight by …

By Tyson Bruce Showtime Boxing and the WBC would like the general public to believe that the latter organization’s current World Champion Bermane Stiverne and challenger Deontay Wilder are fighting for the heavyweight championship of the world. The informed boxing public, however, understand that this is a marketing ploy, designed …

By Ivan G. Goldman Now it may be up to the networks. Either Showtime and HBO agree to a joint broadcast of Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather on May 2 or one corporation backs off in exchange for something else. And of course there’s also a third possibility – that negotiations will …

By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of January 6th to January 13th, covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. Golden Boy Promotions Signs Twelve Fighters, but Loses Several Al Haymon Managed Fighters Golden Boy Promotions …

By Ivan G. Goldman The long-awaited welterweight superfight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao may finally emerge from the closed-door negotiations that are clearly being conducted as we speak. If Floyd’s reading skills were better, the fight might have happened long ago. Mayweather has basically conceded that the nasty literacy-related …

by Kirk Jackson The year 2013 was bittersweet for Adrien Broner (29-1, 22 KOs). Nearly reaching the pinnacle of the sport and amassing pound for pound status, he captured the WBA welterweight title by defeating Brooklyn’s Paulie Malignaggi. With this summer time victory, Broner earned his third world title, in …

By Sean Crose Richard Schaefer and Oscar De La Hoya have apparently settled their differences. Yet there’s a catch. Golden Boy is also cutting loose fighters Adrien Broner and Danny Garcia. They are now strictly in the stable of mega manager/adviser Al Haymon. Those are two quite lucrative draws who …

By Tyson Bruce The Jay Z led promotional label Roc Nation gripped the attention of the boxing world this week with the acquisition of Shaw Promotions and the signing of one of boxing’s most gifted practitioners in Super Middle Weight champion Andre Ward. The big week for the company crested …

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