By: Ken Hissner At Madison Square Garden on St. Patricks Day Saturday night over ESPN Top Rank Promotions put on a good seven fight promotion with two title fights including Jose Carlos Ramirez and Amir Imam in the Main Event. Super Lightweight Jose Carlos Ramirez, 22-0 (16), of Avenal, CA, …
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Top Rank Boxing on ESPN Preview: Ramirez vs. Imam, Conlan vs. Berna, Gvozdyk vs. Amar
By: William Holmes On Saturday night Top Rank Boxing will return to the Theater at Madison Square Garden to televise three fights on ESPN for a St. Patrick’s Day Boxing special. The WBC Lightweight World Title as well as the WBC Interim Light Heavyweight World Title will be on the …
Read More »Update on Boxers from the 2012 Olympics
By: Oliver McManus Whilst flicking through an array of Wikipedia pages in my boredom last week I found myself repeatedly coming back to the Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics article with disbelief at the sheer plethora of talent across the weight divisions. It’s one thing to be a world …
Read More »Three of the Most Succesful Managers Today: David McWater, Egis Klimas & Vadim Kornilov
By: Ken Hissner This article is about three of the most successful managers in boxing today with all living in the US but two not born here. They are all active in boxing with great boxers. We have David McWater, living in NYC, Egis Klimas from Lithuania living in WA …
Read More »Amir Iman: “It’s Time To Get The Title Now”
by: Sean Crose Bob Arum used a Thursday press conference to promote this Saturday’s Madison Square Garden card to push his political beliefs. “We’re getting rid of all these Republicans, like Nunes and McCarthy,” the octogenarian promoter claimed at one point. “They’re all gone,” Arum also used the occasion to …
Read More »Bob Arum and Don King Renew Old Rivalry
By: Bryant Romero Bob Arum and Don King will renew their old rivalry at the ‘Mecca of Boxing” this Saturday for Ramirez vs Imam world title fight. It may well be the last time you will see Bob Arum and Don King co-promoting a boxing match that will feature Jose …
Read More »Crawford Hand Injury Postpones Horn Fight
by: Sean Crose While training for his upcoming bout with WBO world welterweight champion Jeff Horn, Terence Crawford has injured his hand, causing the April 14th bout between the two men to be postponed. Horn defeated Manny Pacquiao by a wildly controversial decision last summer in his homeland of Australia …
Read More »Philly’s Avery Sparrow is a Return to Old Philly Boxing
By: Ken Hissner Philly’s Avery Sparrow puts all his trust in his promoter IBHOF promoter/matchmaker J Russell Peltz. He is currently No. 14 in the WBO ratings due to a victory over previous No. 5 Jose Lopez. Photo Credit: Kenny Ludwig This is what Peltz had to say about his …
Read More »Lomachenko To Face Linares On May 12th In New York
By: Sean Crose It wasn’t an easy fight to make, but Vasyl Lomachenko will be facing Jorge Linares for Linares’ WBA world lightweight title this coming spring. The 10-1 Lomachenko, considered by some to be the best pound for pound fighter in the world, is currently the WBO world super …
Read More »Boxing Insider Notebook: Lara, Hurd, Imam, Ramirez, Top Rank, ESPN, and more….
Compiled By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of March 6th to March 13th; covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. Lara and Jarrett Hurd to Clash on April 7th Erislandy Lara, the longest reigning world …
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