After boxing’s No. 1 pound for pound fighter and box office attraction Manny “PacMan†Pacquiao plays a little chin music on WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto, Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, he will head over to the Mandalay Bay Events Center to perform a live post-fight concert with his MP Band.
Puerto Rican power-punching great Wilfredo “Bazooka†Gomez, three-time world champion in three weight classes, leads the global voting process in the Bantamweight Division of the “World’s Greatest Ever Boxer†(WGEB) promotion. Gomez holds a very slight advantage against the other nine “WGEB†official Bantamweight nominees: “Panama†Al Brown, Manuel Ortiz, Eder “Golden Bantam†Joffre, Ruben…
A month removed from the eagerly anticipated rematch bout between WBC Light Heavyweight champion Jean Pascal (24-1-0, 16KO) and former champion and #4 rated WBC contender Adrian Diaconu (26-1-0 15 KO), both boxers underwent the required WBC 30-day safety weigh-in yesterday. The weight limit for such requirement was set at 192.5 lbs.
A five star matchup in anyone’s eyes takes place tonight when Puerto Rican WBO welterweight champion defends his crown against multi-weight world champion Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas. For Cotto, himself a two weight world champion, it’s the second defence of the title he won back when stopping Michael Jennings…
Boxing’s excellent year of 2009 heads for a potential zenith this weekend with the Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto fight. Anyone who has even a passing interest in the sport should want to watch this match. The true measure of a fight is how many questions it raises when you try to analyze it. This fight has…
While Andy Lee’s bout with reigning French and European Union Middleweight Champ Affif Belghecham will be the main focus of attention on this Saturday’s Yanjing Fight Night at the University Sports Arena two other Limerick boxers will be looking to make it a memorable occasion for the cities fight fans. The World rated Lee headlines…
© Lawrence Lustig Colin Lynes may look a bit bleary-eyed in next month’s Prizefighter but he will have a good excuse. His wife Kelly is due to give birth just days before Colin will be taking part in Barry Hearn’s latest Prizefighter event, the first ever light-welterweights competition.
After controversy, heated conversations and negotiations were settled, former three-time lightweight world champion Juan “Baby Bull” Diaz and former junior welterweight world champion Paulie “Magic Man” Malignaggi met face-to-face yesterday to announce the December 12 rematch of their exciting August 22 bout. Diaz and Malignaggi will square off on neutral ground at the UIC Pavilion…
Former amateur standout Mondre “The General†Pope has signed an exclusive promotional contract with New Jersey based Pound For Pound Promotions, it was announced today by its President, John Lynch. The 20 year old junior lightweight prospect, a native of Norfolk, Virginia, is coming off a six round decision win over Gerardo Robles on October…
Top Rank has lined up some special activities in support of the Wounded Warrior Project in Las Vegas as part of the great battle between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto.
By Per Ake Persson 24-year old German amateur star Jack Culcay, world champ 2009, has turned pro and signed a promotional deal with Universum, writes Bild. Culcay, who’s mother is from German and father from Ecuador, will campaign at junior middle.
I admit that I’m not the best reader in the world, but I agreed to review a new boxing book recently released by Hatherleigh Press entitled ‘Life In The Ring’. Written by John E. Oden, a white-collar boxing champion, this book is a compilation of the life-stories of boxing legends of yesteryear and present day….