By: Ken Hissner King’s Promotions returned to the Sands Casino Event Center in Bethlehem, PA, Tuesday night over FS-1 with an 8 bout card. Photo Credit: Kenyon Sessoms/Premier Boxing Champions In the Main Event super lightweight Mario “Golden Boy” Barrios, 20-0 (12), of San Antonio, TX, won over Naim Nelson, …
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By: Kirk Jackson Well we did not witness the “Drama Show” many fans expected this weekend, with the higly anticipated bout featuring the long reigning alphabet middleweight champion Gennady “Triple G” Golovkin and the Lineal champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. Photo Credit: USA Today It’s time to sort out the drama …
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By: Ken Hissner This Friday over ESPN former Philly 2012 Olympic alternate Jesse “Hard Work” Hart brings his 22-0 (18) record to the Convention Center in Tucson, AZ, challenging WBO Super middleweight champion Mexican southpaw Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez, 35-0 (24). Both boxers are promoted by Top Rank who along with …
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by B.A. Cass By the time the main event began at just after 11 PM, the crowd at the Foxwood’s Fox Theater had already thinned out. It had been a long night. They had already seen Ireland’s Raymond Moylette win a split decision over Donte Bryant. Next came the pro …
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By Ivan G. Goldman What can we say about judge Adelaide Byrd, who scored only two rounds for Gennady Golovkin even though most folks agree he won more rounds than Canelo Alvarez? I must phrase this carefully because you can call public figures incompetent and they have no grounds for …
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By: Sean Crose Saul Canelo Alvarez had earned back a lot of the good will he had lost. After more than a little time looking as if he were avoiding middleweight terror Gennady Golovkin, the Mexican star pleased the fight world immensely by finally agreeing to face the feared Kazakh. …
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By: Ken Hissner WBA, WBC and IBF world champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, 37-0-1 (33), from KZ now fighting out of L.A. kept his titles against former super welterweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, 49-1-2 (34), of Guadalajara, MEX, after receiving only a disputed draw Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena. Golden …
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By: Sean Crose Leading up to Gennady Golovkin’s fight with Canelo Alvarez this weekend, it seemed like any outcome might be possible. Golovkin (37-0-1), of course, was seen by some as being on the road to taking his man out. Yet more than a few thought it would be Canelo …
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By: William Holmes Golden Boy Promotions and HBO decided to start their pay per view at 8:00PM EST instead of 9:00PM EST so that they could start the main event earlier than other notable pay per view bouts where the main star often wouldn’t walk into the ring until close …
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By: William Holmes Three bouts were televised on tonight’s HBO PPV offering before the start of the main event between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin. The undercard fight between Nicola Adams and Alexandra Vlajk was called off after Alexandra Vlajk failed the pre-fight medical. Three fights were on the untelevised …
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