As a result of extremely high demand, Staples Center, Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions have released upper concourse tickets, reasonably priced starting at $25, to the January 24 WBA Welterweight Championship showdown between three-time welterweight champion Antonio Margarito and three-division world champion “Sugar” Shane Mosley.
2008 was a tumultuous year for the sweet science with a lot of big fights, big triumphs and big let downs. Some of the boxers who won truly big fights in our recently departed year include Manny Pacquiao, Wladimir Klitschko, Vitali Klitschko, Joe Calzaghe, Chad Dawson, Ricky Hatton, Paul Williams, Tomasz Adamek, Carl Froch, Vernon…
US Olympian Ricardo Williams will make his first local appearance in five years on Saturday, January 31 in the main event of “Homecomingâ€, an evening of world class professional boxing at the U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati, presented by TMAX Events and TKO Boxing Promotions.
The Antonio Margarito vs. Sugar Shane Mosley WBA Welterweight Championship fight is just the ticket for a great holiday gift! There are two great Holiday Gift Packs available.
The Antonio Margarito vs. Sugar Shane Mosley WBA Welterweight Championship fight is just the ticket for a great holiday gift! Priced at $300, $150, $75 and $50, tickets go on sale today, Friday, December 12, at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET, at all TicketMaster outlets, by phone at 213-480-3232 and online at www.ticketmaster.com….
© Gene Blevins – Hoganphotos / Golden Boy Promotions The welterweight division’s two most exciting fighters, three-time world champion Antonio Margarito and three-division world champion “Sugar” Shane Mosley, plan to open 2009 with an explosive world championship fight.
Sycuan Ringside Promotions announced today that former WBC Welterweight Champion Carlos Baldomir is presently in training camp in the U.S. preparing for a major fight later this year. Baldomir, 44-11-6 (13), who hails from the same Argentina hometown as the late, great World Middleweight Champion Carlos Monzon, is hopeful of being pitted against one of…
The wait is over and the fight is on…Olympic Gold Medallist and 10 time world champion “The Golden Boy†Oscar De La Hoya will face current Ring Magazine No. 1 ranked pound for pound champion Manny “Pacman†Pacquiao on Saturday, December 6 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada in a bout that will be…
Multi-weight former world champion Oscar De La Hoya is scheduled to make a major announcement today regarding his immediate future in the sport. The 35 year old boxer has become one of the world’s top promoters over the last five years and had previously said that he will not fight past 2008. Most expect the…
Although everyone knew that last weekend’s bout with Antonio Margarito would be very dangerous fight for Miguel Cotto, I was of opinion that Cotto’s boxing skills would prevail against the one-dimensional Margarito. However, when i saw weight-in I was stunned to see how much Margarito appeared to be the bigger man. He was taller, with…
After years of frustration, Antonio Margarito went out and took from Miguel Cotto the respect he was due. Neither De La Hoya nor Mayweather Jr. wanted to face this contender. On Saturday night, Cotto understood the reason why! In what could probably be considered the Fight of the Year, a determined Margarito knocked out the…
In one of the most anticipated showdowns of the year, the battle of supremacy in the welterweight division took place last night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas as Mexico’s Antonio Margarito made the most of his WBA title challenge to reigning champion Miguel Cotto by stopping the Puerto Rican superstar in a brutal…