By Jackie Kallen As a boxing manager, it is always a difficult decision when it comes to signing a new boxer. It is a huge commitment on both parts and there has to be trust, camaraderie, and mutual respect. That can be hard to find in this (or any) sport. …
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The San Antonio metropolitan complex is vastly underrated when it comes to its value as a sports mecca. It has proven in the past that it will come out to support big-time boxing and it is doing it once again, as the April 20 junior middleweight unification fight between Austin …
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When the Olympics are conducted in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, the boxing competition is going to have a slightly different feel to it…..kind of. That is because the Amateur International Boxing Association (AIBA) has cleared the path for professionals to participate, following the lead of other sports….kind of. AIBA …
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By: William Holmes The following is the Boxing Insider notebook for the week of March 26th to April 1st, covering the comings and goings in the sport of boxing that you might have missed. Bellew and Chilemba Fight to a Draw Tony Bellew (19-1-1) and Isaac Chilemba (20-1-2)fought to a …
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“30 DAYS IN MAY,” a revealing documentary film chronicling the days surrounding Floyd Mayweather’sincarceration in 2012, premieres Wednesday, April 3, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME®. The one-hour film was created exclusively from never-before-seen footage and features the only interviews Mayweather has conducted about this “life-changing experience.” “30 DAYS IN …
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By Ivan G. Goldman Las Vegas attracts some of the least-knowledgeable fight crowds around, which accounts for all the booing while Nebraska’s Terence Crawford gave Colombia’s Breidis Prescott a boxing lesson last night. Photo: Chris Farina/Top Rank Many in attendance are gamblers who got comped tickets from the casino. No …
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By: William Holmes HBO’s Boxing After Dark was broadcast from Las Vegas, Nevada at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. It featured two junior welterweight bouts and the main event was a rematch of one of the most exciting fights of 2012. The first bout of the night was between Terence …
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By Kirk Jackson Saturday, March 30th at the Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas marks the day of the rematch between Mike Alvarado and Brandon Rios. The first fight was a classic slugfest, lasting 7 rounds before finally being called to a halt by referee Pat Russell. Both fighters left …
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By: William Holmes ESPN Friday Night Fights was broadcast tonight from the Turning Point Casino in Verona, NY and was broadcast on ESPN instead of ESPN 2. The casino room looked packed and the first fight began immediately at 9:00 PM. The first fight of the night was between Bronze …
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By Ivan G. Goldman Golden Boy’s Ring magazine website, which rushed onto the net with an erroneous PEDs accusation against Lamont Peterson yesterday and retracted it hours later, lamented in its onsite apology that it had relied “on a claim made by a source that refused to be named.” But …
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