By: William Holmes Both Showtime and HBO will be televising competing cards from Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday night. The Cosmopolitan City of Las Vegas will be the host site for Saturday’s Top Rank promoted and HBO televised card and will feature two world title fights supporting the main event …
Read More »Floyd Mayweather Allegedly Interviewed as Murder Witness, Plus Car Accident Lawsuit
By Sean Crose Floyd “Money” Mayweather may be known as the world’s most famous boxer, but right now he’s attracting a lot of news outside the ring. As has been endlessly reported, Mayweather seems to have been a witness, via FaceTime, to a horrific murder-suicide earlier this week. Gossip website …
Read More »Jackie Kallen: Can Ishe Smith Dig Deep Enough To Become A Champion Again?
by Jackie Kallen Friday night in San Antonio, TX, former “Contender” Ishe Smith will face Erislandy Lara for the WBA Junior middleweight belt. This is an important fight for both men. All title fights are important, but in this case, both men know that a win will elevate their game …
Read More »Jackie Kallen: Trout, Banks, and Tarver All Hope To Revive Careers on Stacked ESPN2 Card
by Jackie Kallen This Thursday evening (December 11), Craig Goossen, taking over the reins at Goossen Promotions, is putting on a terrific card at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, CA. To be televised on ESPN2, the main event is a WBA interim Super Bantamweight title fight. 24-2 Tyson …
Read More »Lucas “Big Daddy” Browne Calls Out Chisora and Chagaev
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Read More »The Third Stage of Timothy Bradley: The Comeback
By Tyson Bruce With the exception of Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, there may not be a more accomplished fighter in boxing than Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley, 31-1-0 (12 KOs). Yet, despite wins over such acclaimed fighters as Kendall Holt (when it still meant something), Devon Alexander, Ruslan Provodnikov, and …
Read More »The Inspiring Rise of Terence Crawford
by Chris ‘Polish Hitman’ Morris Being a “boxing writer” can be a very thankless job. Fans and readers will bash your work incessantly if it doesn’t fall into what they deem acceptable. Fighters themselves can blow up over a fight report. I’ve had both fans and fighters in my face …
Read More »Boxing Insider Notebook: Jay Z, Floyd Mayweather, Tyson Fury, Tarver, Shumenov, and more…
By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of December 2nd to December 9th, covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. Jay Z’s Roc Nation Sports and Fox Sports Reach Three-Event Agreement Jay Z’s Roc Nation Sports …
Read More »LAPD Wants To Question Mayweather Over Murder/Suicide
by Sean Crose Just one short day after rapper and Floyd Mayweather friend Earl Hayes killed himself and dancer/actress Stephanie Moseley, the famed boxer is in the news again. The LA Times is reporting that the LAPD wants to talk with Mayweather since he reportedly witnessed the horrific crime through …
Read More »Floyd Mayweather Reportedly Witnesses Murder/Suicide
TMZ is reporting that Floyd Mayweather suffered the misfortune of witnessing a murder/suicide live via FaceTime. The site states that Mayweather “was on FaceTime with one of his best friends when the guy pulled out a gun, shot his wife and then killed himself.” The shooter, Earl Hayes, was a …
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