By Sean Crose As of this Wednesday, Bernard Hopkins will be forty-nine years old. The fact that the man remains one of the top boxers in the world is nothing short of amazing. What’s more amazing, however, is the fact that one day, probably in the near future, there will …
Read More »Middleweight Division Starts Off an Electric Year January 24th NBCSN at Resorts
Atlantic City, NJ: The Stevens-Majewski fight scheduled for Friday, January 24th on NBCSN live from Resorts Casino and Hotel in Atlantic City, NJ marks the first of many explosive middleweight match-ups awaiting boxing fans in 2014. The red hot middleweight division saw some memorable bouts in 2013 and is jam-packed …
Read More »Pascal/Bute: Who wants it more?
By Jackie Kallen What do light heavyweights Lucian Bute and Jean Pascal have in common? First of all, both live in Laval, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal. On Saturday on HBO, the two local favorites will fight one another for the NABF Light Heavyweight title. This will be a huge …
Read More »Lamont Peterson Media Work Out Quotes
LAMONT PETERSON, IBF Junior Welterweight World Champion “I intend to continue to be the champion after my fight on January 25. “I don’t worry about comments from him [Dierry Jean]. At the end of the day he’s got to get in the ring with me. He can say whatever he …
Read More »The Burden of Adonis Stevenson: Money Is On His Mind But Kovalev Is In His Face.
By Tyson Bruce It’s good to be Adonis Stevenson these days. The Montreal hitter went from being an underground curiosity to the lineal light heavyweight champion of the world in a matter of a year. Stevenson also has the good fortune of being from a boxing crazy city, which means …
Read More »Like It Or Not: Here Comes Broner-Maidana II
By Sean Crose “So I took a loss,” Adrien Broner is quoted by ESPN’s Dan Rafael as saying. “But my check was amazing.” New year. Same old Broner. Thought you were rid of the guy for a few months? Guess again. News has arrived that Broner is exercising a rematch …
Read More »ESPN Friday Night Fights Results: Rodriguez, Kayode, and Raheem are Victorious
By: William Holmes The Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Washington was the host city for tonight’s ESPN Friday Night Fights card. The main event was changed at the last minute since Arash Usmanee suffered an ankle injury while he was sparring. Yenifel Vicente took his spot in the main event …
Read More »Derric Rossy to Take On Joey Damejko on Jan 25 at Golden Nugget
DERRIC ROSSY TO TAKE ON JOEY DAWEJKO ON SATURDAY JANUARY 25 AT GOLDEN NUGGET ATLANTIC CITY Special Guest Appearance by Rosie Pierri from Real Housewives of New Jersey in Support of Fight to Knock Out Malnutrition in Children FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (JANUARY 10, 2014)–On Saturday, January 25th, …
Read More »Boxing Insider Notebook: Molina, Pascal, Bute, Garcia, Mchunu, and more…
By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of December 31st to January 7th, covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. New Mchunu Opponent Announced for January 24th When the popular nationally televised live boxing series Fight …
Read More »Why The Pascal-Bute Fight Matters
By Sean Crose Let’s go back in time, way back, to the summer of 1987. For it was then that rising star Mark Breland fought live on ABC Sports one Saturday afternoon. Breland, a former Olympian, was supposedly on his way to big things. Already a featured attraction, the young …
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