By Jackie Kallen I sure wish I was going to be on the Atlantic City Boardwalk this weekend to watch the big Showtime fight card in person. This is going to be a terrific card. The top two fights are both interesting match-ups and I smell a possible upset in …
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Boxing’s Oldest Extraterrestrial: Bernard Hopkins vs. Karo Murat & Quillin/Rosado
By Tyson Bruce This Saturday 48 year old, IBF light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins will make a mandatory title defense against German based fringe contender Karo Murat, some seventeen years after he made his first defense of what would be the longest reign in middleweight championship history. In many ways …
Read More »Bernard Hopkins to Defend Title Against Mandatory Challenger Karo Murat This Summer
By Chris Cella After IBF light heavyweight champion and future Hall-of-Famer Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins (53-6-2, 32 KO) once again defied Father Time with his win over Tavoris Cloud last month, he resumed his training regimen in hopes of another big named opponent in which he could add to his …
Read More »Showtime Boxing Preview: Hopkins vs. Murat, Quillin vs. Rosado
By: William Holmes It’s amazing that Bernard Hopkins is still fighting professionally, let alone being the current IBF Light Heavyweight Champion. Yet he continues to beat the odds and his critics by performing well on a world class level. Every time you think his career might be over, he goes …
Read More »How Good Is Deontay Wilder?
by Johnny Walker This Saturday night, on the undercard of the Bernard Hopkins vs Karo Murat light heavyweight title fight in Atlantic City, rising American heavyweight giant Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder (29-0) will try to make it 30 knockouts in 30 fights as he takes on journeyman Nicolai Firtha …
Read More »Boxing Insider Notebook: Hopkins Undercard, Andre Ward, Sergio Martinez, and more….
By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of October 15th to October 22nd, covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. Locked ‘N Loaded Results Super bantamweight Enrique Quevedo cruised to a unanimous decision upset victory over …
Read More »Floyd vs GGG: Dream Match…Or Just A Pipe Dream?
By Sean Crose Let’s not kid ourselves, it’s probably just a pipe dream. What a sweet pipe dream it is, though, especially now that the Floyd Mayweather universe appears to be void of much lucrative competition (save for perhaps Manny Pacquiao). By lucrative competition, I mean the kind of opponent …
Read More »Amateur Boxing Reform: Return to Glory or Band-Aid on a Bullet Wound?
By Tyson Bruce While the boxing world is still spinning from the brutal and exciting fight last weekend between Mike Alvarado and Ruslan Provodnikov, another boxing event involving fighters from all around the world is taking place. Confused? Well, that’s because I’m referring to the World Amateur Boxing Championships, which …
Read More »HBO Delivered a KO With the Gatti/Ward Documentary
By Jackie Kallen Few boxing fans of any age can think of a better trilogy of fights than the Gatti/Ward series. These three matches were as exciting as it gets and fans had trouble deciding who to root for since both guys were such great men. They had heart, passion, …
Read More »UFC 166 Results: Cain Velasquez Retains Title with Beating of Junior Dos Santos
By Jaime C. Feal Cain Velasquez is still the man to beat in the UFC heavyweight division after dominating Junior Dos Santos for five rounds. In a bout that looked like their second fight, Velasquez used clinch work, wrestling, and dirty boxing to beat on and wear out JDS. Velasquez’s …
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