By: William Holmes ESPN’s Friday Night Fights was broadcast from the Paramount Theatre in Huntington, New York and featured a junior welterweight main event between Chris Algieri and Emmanuel Taylor. After some technical difficulty at the start of the broadcast, Anthony Gangemi (4-1) and Wendy Toussaint (3-0) met in the …
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By Tyson Bruce 1. Mike Tyson vs. Riddick Bowe: When & What Weight: 1992 at Heavyweight. Why It Didn’t & What Would Have Happened: The fight of course never happened because in 1992 Tyson was convicted of raping the beauty queen Desiree Washington and spent three years in prison. By …
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By Sean Crose WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev is a destroyer. He’s also a star. You know a fighter is the real thing when other fighters start avoiding him. During a conference call which was held Thursday, promoter Kathy Duva, along with Jolene Mizzone of Main Events, lamented the …
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By Ivan G Goldman After many communications between me and a group of nerds at their secret Silicon Valley startup they finally agreed to launch me through the fifth dimension to visit Floyd Mayweather in the year 2044. I found the ex-champ at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip, …
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By Sean Crose So yeah, it looks like Britain’s Amir Khan has won the “Mayweather Sweepstakes.” No announcement has been made yet, but the Englishman won the Twitter poll Floyd held against him and Argentina’s Marcos Maidana. What’s more, a fight with the European fan favorite promises to bring in …
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By Kirk Jackson Throughout the history of the sport, as well as every other sport, there has been gay athletes. With boxing, this being such a gladiator-esque, masculine sport, it’s difficult to picture a gay boxer. Many may have various opinions on the matter and many believe a gay boxer …
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By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of February 4th to February 11th, covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. Chisora Gives Statement on Johnson and Fury Dereck Chisora aims to make quick work of Kevin …
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By: William Holmes Golden Boy Promotions presented tonight’s installment of Golden Boy Live from the Cowboys Dance Hall in San Antonio Texas for a Monday night fight card. The main event featured a welterweight bout between Fidel Maldonado Jr. and John Nater as well as an undercard with two Olympians, …
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By Ivan G. Goldman Negotiating with Floyd Mayweather can be a distinctly unpleasant experience, but recently a frustrated Bob Arum stuck his foot in his mouth by apparently likening the activity to negotiating with Hitler. According to Dan Rafael of ESPN.com, Arum told him, “This is like a tactic — …
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By: Sergio Luis Martinez On February 10, 2014, the Cowboy Dance Hall in San Antonio, Texas will be the site of an eleven fight boxing card scheduled to be televised on Fox Sports 1. The event is co-promoted by the Lone Star State’s own boxing outfit, Leija*Battah Promotions. The upstart …
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