By: William Holmes On Saturday night HBO presents a split site showing of championship boxing as Miguel Cotto takes on Delvin Rodriguez and Terence Crawford takes on Andrey Klimov in Orlando, Florida, while world champion Wladimir Klitschko takes on Alexander Povetkin for Wladimir’s world heavyweight titles from Moscow, Russia. Saturday …
Read More »HBO Boxing Results: Klitschko and Crawford Bores, Cotto Excites with a Stoppage
By: William Holmes Orlando, Florida was the host for two of the fights on HBO’s triple header. Top Rank Promotions was the lead promoter and featured a fast rising future title contender and a battle tested veteran looking for another shot at glory. The other bout was between Wladimir Klitschko …
Read More »Teddy Atlas: Drama Queen
By Johnny Walker Famed boxing trainer Teddy Atlas seems to be a natural trouble magnet, so his latest problems with the camp of his fighter, WBA “Regular” heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin, are in many ways par for the course. Atlas has been quoted in recent days saying he is very …
Read More »Tale of Two fighters: Adonis Stevenson & Julio Caesar Chavez Jr.
By Tyson Bruce Boxers, like everyone else, are largely products of their environments. Where a fighter comes from and what he has to fight for can be as big of an indicator of success as just about anything else. Last Saturday we saw this put into stark contrast when two …
Read More »Wladimir Klitschko Approaches a Decade of Heavyweight Domination Versus Alexander Povetkin
By Johnny Walker After watching the “mega-dud” middeweight “fight” between Floyd Mayweather and Canelo Alvarez put most objective boxing fans to sleep last weekend, this weekend HBO picks up –this time with no pay-per-view charges!-a fight that at least has the possibility to be exciting: former Olympic heavyweight champion Alexander …
Read More »Video: Miguel Cotto Talks to The Boxing Media about his future
www.BoxingInsider.com brings you inside Freddie Roach’s Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, CA as MIquel Cotto answers questions about his HBO fight on October 5, 2013 with Delvin Rodriquez in Orlando, FL. Miquel speaks about training with Freddie, his passion for the game, a possible future fight with Mayweather and more! …
Read More »Media Interview with Bryan Vera – Talks about Chavez Jr fight
Operator – Welcome to the Bryan Vera conference call. I will now turn the call over to your host, Marc Abrams. Mr. Marc Abrams – Hello, everyone, from the media. I thank everyone for joining us today. We’re having a special conference call with Bryan Vera in the wake of …
Read More »Will Miguel Cotto come back with a vengence?
By Jackie Kallen Will Freddie Roach be Miguel Cotto’s secret weapon when he faces off against Delvin Rodriguez October 5 in Orlando on HBO? He is banking on it. He knows that another loss (he has dropped his last two in a row) could send to him the dreaded “Palookville” …
Read More »Can’t Imagine a Bigger Star than Floyd Mayweather? Your Mind Must Be Asleep
By Ivan G. Goldman You can have a lot of fun reading boxing articles, and I had great fun recently when I came across the statement that “it’s hard to conceive of a believable star in the absence of Floyd Mayweather.” I’m too polite to say who wrote that, but …
Read More »Team Amir Khan Releases Statement on Floyd Mayweather Rumors
Team Khan Statement Team Khan would like to dispel recent reports that Amir Khan has pulled out of a potential match-up against Devon Alexander on December 7th, taking up a fight against Floyd Mayweather in May of next year instead. Contrary to this story, Amir Khan is currently in training …
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