By Jaime C. Feal In what some are calling the biggest fight since rivals Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture squared off a decade ago, UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones takes on the undefeated former Olympic wrestler Daniel Cormier. There is no love lost between Cormier and Jones, who have …
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Mayweather-Pacquiao Camps Reportedly Still Negotiating, Ditto For Canelo and Cotto
By Sean Crose Right when it looked like fight fan’s renewed hopes for a Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather showdown were proving futile yet again, a recent article from The Ring makes it clear that negotiations for the proposed superfight are indeed ongoing. “We’re still in negotiations with Floyd’s group through Top …
Read More »Jackie Kallen: 2015 Starts Off With Heavyweight Title Clash in America
by Jackie Kallen The heavyweight division has been a troubled sea for many years. At least for Americans, who have been searching high and low for a successor to the Klitschko monopoly. After all, the heavyweight division was pretty much our domain from the Joe Louis days to the Ali …
Read More »With Roc Nation Behind Him, Dusty Hernandez Harrison Is Enjoying The Ride
by Sean Crose “I would not trade places with anybody else in boxing.” So says Buddy Harrison, father, mentor and trainer of Dusty Hernandez Harrison, the up and coming undefeated welterweight who’s about to headline Roc Nation’s first boxing card next Friday, January 9th, at Madison Square Garden. The bout, …
Read More »Boxing Insider Notebook: Fury, Shumenov, Rigondeaux, Boxcino 2015, and more…
By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of December 23rd to December 30th, covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. Fury Faces Risky Defense Against Top Ranked Hammer at the 02 Arena Undefeated heavyweight destroyer Tyson …
Read More »Leo Santa Cruz Claims Fighting Guillermo Rigondeaux Wouldn’t Be “Interesting”
by Sean Crose “Guillermo Rigondeaux, the people don’t like his style, and I don’t think that’d be an interesting fight.” So says Leo Santa Cruz, a fighter no one thinks is good enough to beat Guillermo Rigondeaux. Welcome to the Kardashian era, an age where even the sport of boxing …
Read More »Rumor Mill: Cotto To Forgo Bout With Canelo In Order To Face Mayweather In Rematch?
By Sean Crose It must be nice to be Miguel Cotto as 2014 comes to a close. A year ago, he was considered a has-been. Now, he’s THE hot item in all of boxing. For not only does Canelo Alvarez want to face him in the ring, but Floyd Mayweather …
Read More »What Haters of Manny Pacquiao Don’t Say about Floyd Mayweather’s Weight
By Ivan G. Goldman Sometimes Floyd Mayweather devotees wonder aloud why Manny Pacquiao has fought with spectacular (though not uniform) success from straw-weight all the way up to welterweight and even junior middle on some occasions. Not possible, they contend, declaring something illegitimate has been ingested or otherwise absorbed. Mayweather …
Read More »A More Mature Amir Khan Travels To Pakistan To Aid Terror Victims
by Sean Crose British welterweight Amir Khan has made the journey to his ancestral homeland of Pakistan to give aid to those who suffered horribly when the Taliban killed 132 school children just days ago. The fact that Khan, himself a devout Muslim, is going out of his way to …
Read More »Boxing Insider Notebook: Kovalev, Pascal, Fury, Tarver, Haye, Seldin, and more….
By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of December 16th to December 23rd, covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. Quotes from Kovalev vs. Pascal Press Conference Sergey Kovalev (26-0) and Jean Pascal (29-2-1) are set …
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