by Tyson Bruce Getting to watch a fight like David Lemieux vs Gabriel Rosado on HBO (broadcast this Saturday night from Brooklyn’s Barclays Center) is a bit like going to a five star restaurant and ordering a cheeseburger. Lemieux is essentially a prospect on the rebound and Rosado is a …
Read More »
by Sean Crose The votes have been tallied and former heavyweight champ Riddick Bowe, along with former lightweight champ Ray Mancini and former featherweight champ Naseem Hamed, are Hall of Fame bound. All three men are certainly well known in the fight world – and even beyond – and will …
Read More »
By: William Holmes The Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York will be the host site for Saturday’s HBO Boxing After Dark broadcast. Three competitive fights with possible world title fights for the winners down the road will be televised. Two bouts will take place in the middleweight division and one …
Read More »
by Sean Crose Mike Tyson. Manny Pacquiao. Tommy Hearns. There’s nothing like watching an exciting fighter at work. And, make no mistake about it, Keith Thurman is exciting. Really exciting. Unfortunately, he hasn’t been around for a while. “Boxing is boxing,” Thurman said on a Tuesday conference call to promote …
Read More »
by Sean Crose Main Events and Interbox promotions have just announced that multi-division light heavyweight champ Sergey Kovalev will be fighting the dangerous former titlist Jean Pascal on March 14th in Quebec, Canada. An official and joint press release from both promotional companies reads: “The fight is to take place …
Read More »
By Bryanna Fissori, Boxing Insider Legal Analyst After near three months from the time of the incident, former Middleweight Champion Boxer Jermain Taylor (32-4-1) was charged for shooting his cousin, Tyrone Hinton, multiple times at Taylor’s suburban home in Little Rock, Arkansas this summer. The boxer was taken into custody …
Read More »
By Ivan G. Goldman I wish I could tell you whether the latest dealings involving members of the Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao camps will result this time in the super showdown the world craves. If they do fight, fans will have to pay plenty to see them do it. …
Read More »
by Johnny Walker Rising UK heavyweight Tyson Fury utterly destroyed rival UK contender Dereck “Del Boy” Chisora tonight at the ExCel Arena in London, United Kingdom. The bout was a rematch of a 2011 bout also won by Fury in a wide unanimous decision. This time, Chisora didn’t make it …
Read More »
by Sean Crose I can only assume Dereck “Del Boy” Chisora had something wrong with him Saturday in London. How else to explain his one sided beatdown at the hands of Tyson Fury? Sure, Chisora may not be Ali, but he’s never – EVER – looked like he did this …
Read More »
By: William Holmes The Century Link Center in Omaha, Nebraska was again the host site for Terence Crawford’s WBO Lightweight title defense. This was the second time HBO was in Omaha, Nebraska in 2014, and Crawford is establishing himself as a major draw in the Midwest. HBO first showed a …
Read More »