Denver’s Mike Alvarado will risk his WBC Continental Americas super lightweight title, his undefeated record and his Top-10 world rating when he takes on Gabriel Martinez in a homecoming rumble, his first in over two years, this Saturday, July 30, at Softball Country. The vacant IBF Latino junior welterweight title will also be at stake….
Canada-based Romanian top-contender Ionut Dan Ion, AKA Jo Jo Dan, will fight Floyd Trumpet for the vacant UBO Inter-Continental Welterweight title on July 29 at the Jean Pierre Sports Complex in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago. This has been confirmed by Floyd Trumpet Fight Productions, and Gancor Promotions on behalf of Dan, after Emilio…
Austin Trout makes his maiden voyage tonight at Auditorio Miguel Barragan in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, putting the WBA 154 pound belt on the line against David Lopez in an-all southpaw battle. Trout gets the unusual experience of a reigning champion heading into an arena full the challenger’s faithful fans but the American came through…
Last night’s much hyped showdown between WBO welterweight king Manny Pacquiao and former three weight world champion Shane Mosley failed to live up to expectations last night at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand. Mosley, at age 39 at least six years out from his prime, started well, using his jab and the occasional right to keep…
Six thousand fans, including the first arrival at 5 a.m., jammed MGM Grand Garden Arena Friday for the Free Public Weigh-in featuring Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley. Another 2,000 were turned away. Tonight at the sold-out MGM Grand Garden Arena, eight-division world champion Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KOs), of General Santos City, Philippines, will risk his…
They started hovering around the make-shift ring in the lobby and the front entrance at MGM Grand an hour before the first of the custom-designed buses were scheduled to arrive. First, a little after 11 a.m., came the Shane Mosley bus. Then, at a tad after 1, the bus carrying Manny Pacquiao and his team…
Big night of fights this evening with three world title bouts taking place on two different cards south of the border. We kick things off at Coliseum Don King in Texcoco where WBC light fly supremo Gilberto Keb Baas, 35-20-4 (22), looks to retain his title for a third time when faces the challenge of…
Knockout artists Mike Alvarado and “Sugar†Ray Narh will battle for the vacant WBC Continental Americas super lightweight title on the pay-per-view undercard headlined by the Manny Pacquiao vs. Sugar Shane Mosley WBO welterweight championship rumble, Saturday, May 7, at the soldout MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nev. Alvarado and Narh have a combined professional…
Former World Middleweight Champion Kelly “The Ghost†Pavlik will make his long-awaited return to the ring when he takes on undefeated WBC Continental Americas super middleweight champion Alfonso “El Tigre†Lopez, Saturday, May 7, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nev.
The year’s most hotly anticipated clash at bantamweight turned out to be far less competitive than expected as the Philippine’s Nonito Donaire blew out Fernando Montiel to capture the Mexican’s WBC and WBO belts at Mandalay Bay casino in Las Vegas. Montiel started off cautiously and that proved to be a mistake as Donaire hit…
A hotly anticipated clash at bantamweight takes place tonight as WBC/WBO champ Fernando Montiel puts his belts at risk against top flyweight Nonito Donaire this evening at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Casino. Despite the general idea that this is a 50-50 fight or possibly that Donaire is the favorite, Montiel, 44-2-2 (34), has an enormous…
Mexican sensation Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has been the talk of the boxing world for the last two years, but on Saturday, February 5, his older brother Rigoberto Alvarez will be making some noise of his own when he defends his WBA Interim Super Welterweight Title against El Paso, Texas’ unbeaten Austin Trout in the main…