By Christina Lopez Manny Pacquaio-(Pacman), age 34, has brought an impressive amount of action and heart to the sport of boxing. Holding a record of 54 wins, with 38 of those knockouts, with wearing 8 title belts, has shown that without a doubt Pacquaio has sustained a phenomenal record in …
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By Jaime C. Feal A busy November schedule for the UFC continues Saturday night with UFC Fight Night 32: Belfort vs. Henderson, live on Fox Sports 1 from Brazil. The main event is worthy of headlining a pay-per-view, as two MMA legends in Vitor “The Phenom” Belfort and Dan Henderson …
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By Jackie Kallen HBO is giving us a fight card to be thankful for this weekend. They are serving up four good matches. It’s always satisfying and exciting when two undefeated boxers step into the ring against one another. In Corpus Christi on Saturday night, 33-0-1 Vanes Martirosyan will take …
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By Jackie Kallen This Saturday night in Brooklyn at the Barclay Center, former WBA Light Welterweight champ Dmitriy Salita steps back into the ring for the first time in more than a year. His last fight was October 10, 2012 against Brandon Hoskins. Surprisingly, the “Star of David” is coming …
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On behalf of Top Rank® and PR Best Boxing we would like to welcome you to today’s conference call with WBO junior lightweight champion Roman “Rocky” Martinez and challenger undefeated former WBO featherweight champion Mikey Garcia. This is the main event of the tripleheader televised live on HBO® Saturday night …
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We have a terrific card coming up this Saturday at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas, which will be televised Live on HBO® beginning at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT. The telecast will open up with the two top-rated contenders — both undefeated — in the junior middleweight division fighting …
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By: William Holmes On Saturday night HBO’s Boxing After Dark Series will present a triple header from Corpus Christi, Texas. Top Rank Promotions is presenting this card and there will be two world title bouts as well as the return of the “Filipino Flash” Nonito Donaire. Donaire will look to …
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By Tyson Bruce Last Saturday’s boxing card on HBO could best be described as brutal. The preliminary bout showcased the emergence of a new and exciting heavyweight contender in Mike Perez, who out-boxed the favored Magomed ‘Mago’ Abdusalamov in a rousing slugfest. In the main event, Gennady Golovkin overpowered and …
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By Sean Crose So I was watching an old and forgotten fight on YouTube the other night, as is my wont. Julio Caesar Chavez was pretty much making a fool out of “Lighting” Lonnie Smith. Meanwhile, Ferdie Pacheco was calling the blow-by-blow, along with Mike Tyson, who was still the …
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By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of October 29th to November 5th, covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. 24/7 Pacquiao vs. Rios Premiers on November 9th HBO Sports’ groundbreaking “24/7 reality franchise, which has …
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