“Star Power: Mayweather vs. Ortiz” just got propelled into another galaxy, as it was announced today that rising Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez will defend his WBC super welterweight championship against Alfonso Gomez on the televised undercard of the September 17 pay-per-view extravaganza featuring the WBC welterweight championship mega-fight between Floyd Mayweather and Victor Ortiz. Making…
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….
Chapter three of boxing’s best-selling rivalry goes on sale this week. Manny “Pacman†Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KOs), returns to the Fight Capital of the World to defend his WBO welterweight title against professional nemesis, three-division world champion and future Hall of Famer Juan Manuel Marquez (53-5-1, 39 KOs), of México City. Pacquiao-Marquez III erupts Saturday,…
Undefeated former WBA Featherweight Champion Yuriorkis Gamboa and former WBO Junior Featherweight Champion Daniel Ponce de Leon will collide in one of the season’s hottest fight, Saturday, September 10, in the Adrian Phillips Ballroom at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall. The 12-round featherweight rumble will be televised live on HBO’s World Championship Boxing, beginning at 10:30…
The stakes couldn’t be higher, the drama more intense. On Saturday, Oct. 29, two confident reigning world champions–one from America, the other from Europe–will collide in the eagerly awaited Super Six World Boxing Classic Final, a World Championship Unification, live on Showtime at 10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast, from the historic Boardwalk…
Chapter three of boxing’s best-selling rivalry goes on sale this week. Manny “Pacman†Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KOs), the lone congressional representative from the Sarangani province in the Philippines, returns to the Fight Capital of the World to defend his WBO welterweight title against professional nemesis, three-division world champion and future Hall of Famer Juan Manuel…
On the eve of a special 10-year anniversary ShoBox: The New Generation telecast, all four fighters made weight on Thursday. The Top Rank-promoted doubleheader will feature a night of junior lightweight action on Friday, July 15, at 11:05 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast, from Texas Station Gambling Hall & Casino in Las Vegas.
Three-division world champion Juan Manuel Marquez risks his revenge rematch against professional nemesis and boxing’s No. 1 pound for pound fighter Manny “Pacman†Pacquiao when he battles former world champion Likar Ramos in a 10-round junior welterweight rumble this Saturday, July 16. Marquez-Ramos will headline a three-bout broadcast, which will be streamed live from Plaza…
WBA Interim Super Lightweight Champion Marcos Maidana and WBA & WBO Interim Lightweight Champion Robert Guerrero will tangle on August 27, 2011 for Maidana’s title at the HP Pavilion in San Jose which will be televised live on HBO Boxing After Dark. Marcos Maidana, WBA Interim Super Lightweight Champion
Although they were kept apart and at opposite sides of the building, the bad blood and war of words between unbeaten WBA lightweight champion Brandon “Bam Bam†Rios (27-0-1, 19 KOs), of Oxnard, Calif., and two-time world title challenger Urbano Antillon (28-2, 20 KOs), of Maywood, Calif., continued during a Media Workout Tuesday at Fortune…
Tickets for the biggest boxing event of 2011 “Star Power: Mayweather vs. Ortiz,” featuring boxing’s biggest star Floyd “Money” Mayweather and boxing’s newest star “Vicious” Victor Ortiz, will go on sale Friday, July 8 at 1:00 p.m. ET/ 10:00 a.m. PT.
On Friday July 15th, at the Roseland Ballroom in NYC, Delvin Rodriguez (25-5-2, 14KO’s) squares off against Pawel “Raging Bull” Wolak (29-1, 19KO’s) in a must see ten round jr. middleweight showdown. The bout, promoted by Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing, will be the feature bout on that week’s edition of ESPN’s “Friday Night Fights”. Before…