By: Ken Hissner Rising Star Promotions, Debra Lamanna, matchmaker Cesar Gonzalez, keeps New Jersey boxing alive with a 12 bout card at the Showboat Hotel & Casino, in Atlantic City, NJ, Saturday night. With the vacant USA New Jersey State Super Middleweight Title at stake Atlantic City’s Antowyan Aikens, 13-4-1 …
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Top Rank is proud to announce that pound-for-pound superstar and the current WBO welterweight world champion Terence “Bud” Crawford has agreed to new multi-year agreement with the company. Crawford, who originally signed with Top Rank in 2011, has captured world titles in three weight classes and won the award for …
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by: Sean Crose Shawn Porter and Danny Garcia will meet in a highly anticipated showdown Saturday night for the WBC welterweight title that was vacated by Keith Thurman. The bout will be the featured attraction on a Showtime card that will begin airing live at 9 PM Eastern Standard Time …
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By: William Holmes HBO has put on two previous cards featuring fighters all in the super flyweight division, and they dubbed it “Super Fly”. Saturday will feature their third Super Fly event, and it will be televised live on HBO from the Forum in Inglewood, California. Three fights will likely …
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By: Ken Hissner Former IBF World Welterweight Champion Kermit “El Asesino” Cintron has announced his retirement per Marshall Kauffman of King’s Promotions out of Reading, PA. At the age of 38 Cintron’s last fight didn’t end as well as he would have liked. On February 13th of 2018 he was …
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Tuesday, September 4, 2018 The MODERATOR: This is Fred Sternburg, and on behalf of GGG Promotions, Golden Boy Promotions and all of our wonderful sponsors, welcome to Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin’s media conference call. We are 11 days away from the Big Drama Show: The rematch everyone has been looking forward …
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By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of August 28th to September 4th; covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. The Eight Great Cruiserweight Contenders and Match-Ups for Season II’s Muhammad Ali Trophy Season One stars …
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FOX Sports today announced it has reached a landmark four-year, multi-platform agreement with Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) making FOX Sports the preeminent broadcaster for PBC’s top-tier championship fights featuring its biggest and brightest stars. The announcement was made by Mark Silverman, President, National Networks, FOX Sports and Alan Haymon, President …
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By: Shakeria Hawkins @ShakeriaHawkins Shawn Porter isn’t convinced that Danny Garcia wants to have a toe-to-toe center of the ring type of fight. “That’s maybe where he thinks that he can win the fight. So whatever the case may be, that’s not what I’m prepared to do. The number one …
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By: Kirk Jackson Rising star Ryan Garcia (16-0, 13 KO’s) improved his record last weekend earning a very tough ten-round majority decision victory against contender Carlos Morales (17-3-3, 6 KO’s) at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California. The fight headlined Golden Boy Promotions’ latest offering of Golden Boy …
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