By: Sean Crose Fighters may be plying their trade at much older ages than was previously common. Still, professional boxing is essentially a young man’s game. Diego Pacheco, however, might well be the youngest pro fighter of note at the moment. For, on Saturday night at the Auditorio Municipal Fausto …
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Frank Warren’s Press Conference Notes
By: Oliver McManus In front of a convened press pack at the BT headquarters in London, Frank Warren held an hour long press conference on Monday to discuss the forthcoming plans for his promotional stable. We take a look at the key announcements and what they could mean. Tyson Fury …
Read More »Wilder Reacts to Fury’s Top Rank Deal
By: Michael Kane The boxing world was expecting the rematch between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury to be sealed this week. Negotiations have taken a twist it would seem after the announcement that Tyson Fury has signed a co promotion deal with Top Rank. The general feeling is that negotiations …
Read More »Carlos “Mexicanito” Licona The Smallest US World Champion Loses His IBF Mini Title
By: Ken Hissner Carlos “Mexicanito” Licona was born in Mexico City, MEX, and now at age 23 resides in Westminster, CA. On February 16th he lost in his first defense of his newly won IBF Minimumweight World Title at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, CA. His opponent ,the No. …
Read More »Anthony Joshua vs. Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller Press Conference Quotes
Media gathered for the kick off press conference at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Tuesday February 19. DAZN and Matchroom USA formally announced the United States debut of Anthony Joshua to defend his WBA Super, IBF, WBO and IBO World Heavyweight titles against Brooklyn’s Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ …
Read More »Tyson Fury and the Heavyweight Alliances
By: LV Boxing When news broke of Tyson Fury’s (27-0-1, 19 KOs) mega deal with Top Rank worth 80 million dollars over his next five fights it sent the boxing in a frenzy. Reason being is that it was so unexpected. Fury, who is the Lineal Heavyweight champion was thought …
Read More »Joshua, Miller, Engage In Hostile Presser
By: Sean Crose Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller decided sportsmanship wasn’t his thing at Tuesday’s presser to kick off his June 1st heavyweight title fight against Anthony Joshua at Madison Square Garden. No sooner were the two men face to face, than Brooklyn’s Miller gave the champion a hard shove. Joshua, …
Read More »James DeGale vs Chris Eubank Jr: Make It or Break It
By: Waqas Ali As the war of words continues, only one fighter will have his career going further on fight night and the other could contemplate retirement. James ‘Chunky’ DeGale will be facing fellow countrymen Chris Eubank Jr at the O2 arena in London, England. This will be the first …
Read More »Weekend in Review: Bellator, UFC Fumble at Goal Line
By: Jesse Donathan A February 17, 2019 MMAFighting.com Twitter post detailed UFC fighter Andrea “KGB” Lee answering a fans question concerning what they could expect at the UFC on ESPN 1 card in Phoenix. “Expect… you know… some violence,” said Lee with the kind of quiet confidence only a professional …
Read More »Ring Masters Championships 2019 Is Off to a Triumphant Start
The Ring Masters Championships is off to a triumphant start. In just its second year, Metro’s premier tournament has drawn a field of over 700 boxers from 70 clubs throughout the metropolitan area, all vying for the right to slug it out in Madison Square Garden for the title “Ring …
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