By: William Holmes The heavyweight division was heavily featured on tonight’s edition of Premier Boxing Champions on Fox Sports 1 as Amir Mansour took on Gerald Washington in the main event of the night in the heavyweight division at the Little Creek Casino and Resort in Shelton Washington. The opening …
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Boxing Insider Notebook: GGG, Cotto, Canelo, Pacquiao, Ortiz, Khan and more….
By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of October 6th to October 13th, covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you may have missed. GENNADY “GGG” GOLOVKIN, WBA, IBO and WBC Interim Middleweight Champion Media Day Quotes “Training camp is …
Read More »Gerald Washington Climbs The Heavyweight Ladder
By Sean Crose “If you’ve got two guys who can box, the bigger guy’s gonna win.” So rising heavyweight Gerald Washington (16-0) told me in early 2014. Now, closing in on two years later, Washington will be headlining a Fox Sports 1 card when he goes up against the formidable …
Read More »Sleep-Inducing Floyd Mayweather Outings May Hurt Gennady Golovkin-David Lemieux PPV Show
By Ivan G. Goldman The Gennady Golovkin-David Lemieux numbers will tell us more about how badly the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao “super-fight” poisoned the well for pay-per view presentations. The much-vaunted, long-awaited welterweight farce on May 2 – a fight that seemed like it took centuries to put together — sold …
Read More »Gennady Golovkin – The Construction Of A Superstar
By Sean Crose Yup, that’s Gennady Golovkin you see shadowboxing in that Apple commercial. No doubt it’s a sign that Madison Avenue feels the Kazakh fighter can move from the margins which currently contain the sport’s contemporary fan base and into the mainstream consciousness. Golovkin is unique, after all. His …
Read More »PBC on NBC Sports Network Results: Guzman and Bracero both win by KO
By: Matthew N. Becher Live from the Lowell Memorial Auditorium in Lowell, Massachusetts, Premier Boxing Champions presents its latest installment on NBC Sports Network. With two fights, one in the Super Bantamweight division against the heavy handed Jonathan Guzman (19-0 19 KO) who has won all of his professional fights …
Read More »Interview with John “Apollo Kidd” Thompson: “I am looking to take this belt & move forward with it”
By: Matthew Becher John Thompson (17-1 6KO) is a young and upcoming fighter out of Newark, New Jersey. He was the winner of ESPNs 2nd annual Boxcino Championship by defeating the two time finalist Brandon Adams by second round knockout earlier this year. Thompson now has the chance of a …
Read More »Boxing Insider Notebook: Pacquiao, Klitschko, Ali, Fury, Golovkin, and more…
By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of September 29th to October 6th, covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. Pacquiao to Run for the Philippine Senate Manny Pacquiao has announced that he plans to make …
Read More »Ruslan Provodnikov Teams Up With Joel Diaz
By Sean Crose “Yes, he’s training with me,” Joel Diaz said when asked if he and Ruslan Provodnikov, the Siberian Rocky, had combined forces. “He came to me,” Diaz added, “and he’s there for me to improve him and we made some improvements with just a couple of weeks.” So, …
Read More »Adrien Broner, Because Floyd Mayweather Says So
By Sean Crose Ashley Theophane is not ranked among the top fifteen of super lightweights by the WBA. His current record stands at 39-6 with 11 knockouts. The man is thirty-five years old and his most notable fight was a split decision loss to Danny Garcia way back in 2010. …
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