On behalf of Top Rank and PR Best Boxing, we would like to welcome you to today’s conference call with WBO junior lightweight champion Roman “Rocky†Martinez and challenger undefeated former WBO featherweight champion Mikey Garcia. This is the main event of the tripleheader televised live on HBO this Saturday night beginning at 9:30 PM…
Despite failing to make weight and losing the WBO featherweight crown on the scales, Mikey Garcia had no problems in wiping out former titleholder Juan Manuel Lopez at American Airlines Center in Dallas, TX on Saturday night. The 25 year old from Oxnard, CA immediately imposed his authority on Puerto Rican left-hander Lopez, using an…
WBO featherweight champ Mikey Garcia is in action tomorrow night as he places his belt at risk for the first time when he meets heavy-handed southpaw Juan Manuel Lopez at American Airlines Center in Dallas, TX. Fresh off his manhandling of hard as nails Mexican pressure artist Orlando Salido to capture the WBO title in…
Undefeated WBO featherweight champion Mikey Garcia will make his first title defense, against former two-division world champion Juan Manuel Lopez, Saturday, June 15, at the American Airlines Center. Mikey Garcia vs Juan Manuel Lopez will be televised live on HBO Boxing After Dark, beginning at 10:45 p.m. ET/PT. This will be the first time HBO…
Rafael “Chocho†Guzman is the new opponent for undefeated No. 1 featherweight contender Mikey Garcia in the co-main event of “The Son Also Rises: Sebastian Zbik vs. Julio César Chávez, Jr. World Middleweight Championship,†this Saturday at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The 10-round featherweight rumble will open the two-bout HBO Boxing After Dark broadcast…
Undefeated WBC middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik defends his title against undefeated Julio César Chávez, Jr. in the main event of “The Son Also Rises,†this Saturday night at Staples Center. The fight will be televised live on HBO, beginning at 10 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast.) Chávez Jr., son of three-division world champion…
This Saturday at Staples Center, in Los Angeles, WBC female super welterweight champion Christy Martin returns to the ring for the first time in two years, completing a personal and professional comeback. Seeking her landmark 50th career victory, she will be facing Dakota Stone in a rematch of their 2009 world title fight, won narrowly…
Top-rated contender Mikey Garcia will risk his undefeated record and No. 1 ranking when he faces the power-punching Miguel Beltran Jr. on June 4 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The Garcia-Beltran 10-round featherweight rumble will be the co-main event on “The Son Also Rises,†headlined by the Sebastian Zbik vs. Julio César Chávez Jr….
Tonight, in the Adrian Phillips Ballroom at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall, at “Featherweight Fury!†Yuriorkis Gamboa will defend his WBA featherweight and IBF titles against interim WBA Super Featherweight Champion Jorge Solis and undefeated NABF & NABO champion Matt ‘Sharp Shooter’ Remillard of Manchester, Conn. will defend his featherweight titles against No. 1-ranked Mikey Garcia…
New Jersey-based trainer Mike “Red†Skownowski reports that training unbeaten NABF and NABO featherweight champion Matt “Sharp Shooter†Remillard for his March 26 showdown against unbeaten IBF No. 1 contender “Mikey†Garcia, despite being together a little more than month, seems like they’ve been working together for a year. Remillard-Garcia is the 12-round co-feature on…
The fight to determine America’s leading featherweight, pitting unbeaten NABF and NABO champion Matt “Sharp Shooter†Remillard against undefeated IBF # 1 contender Mikey Garcia, is the 10-round co-feature on Top Rank’s “Featherweight Fury,†March 26 on HBO After Dark live from Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey . The 24-year-old Remillard (23-0, 14…
Top-10 contender Pawel “Raging Bull†Wolak will be In Harm’s Way on Saturday, December 4, when he challenges undefeated WBC Silver middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in a 12-round title fight. Wolak replaces the injured Alfonso Gomez, Chávez’s original opponent, who withdrew today after an MRI detected a ligament tear in his left elbow.