Barely 15 kilometers (10 miles) separate their training camps in South Florida, yet the lives – and careers – of middleweights Bernard Hopkins and Jermain Taylor have a more noticeable gap. Nearly five years after winning a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympics, Taylor try to do what 18 others have failed – dethrone Hopkins…
“Ideally, Cotto – Mayweather in the future could be like Leonard – Duran. The same kind of ingredients, the Latin fighter, the darling kid, it really has that type of possibility.‖Top Rank President Todd duBoef on Floyd Mayweather’s future fights. I had the good fortune to speak with Top Rank President Todd duBoef in Atlantic…
The heavyweight division is the biggest division in size, in punches and in paying out the biggest paychecks. On the other end, it is also one of the most lackluster and confusing divisions out there. Who is the king of the heavyweights? Don King, spare us the financial profiting you seem to receive while pushing…
***Article with lots of Fight Photos*** For the first half of his title defense against Gerardo Verde, Ivan Calderon lived up to his “Iron Boy” nickname. The diminutive minimumweight hammered his younger opponent at will, blunting the Mexican’s aggression with sharp, discouraging counters. For a while it looked as if Calderon would pull off a…
***Article with lots of Fight Photos*** Click for larger image© Curtis McCormick Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. easily had his way with a decent journeyman on Saturday night’s Mayweather – Gatti undercard in Atlantic City and entertained the audience with a methodical breakdown that brought back images of his famous father in his prime. Rueben Galvan…
Tons of Photos from Hattons time at the Gatti – Mayweather fight Click for larger image © Paul Speak
Only July 16, an intriguing match-up will take place. Call it historical; call it whatever you wish but this just might be the changing of the guard for an old warrior. Bernard Hopkins (46-2-1, 32 KOs) will square-off against the brightest middleweight prospect this decade in Jermain “Bad Intentions” Taylor (23-0, 17 KOs) in what…
I had the luxury of spending some quality time watching some old footage of Oscar de la Hoya’s two fights against Shane Mosley and a thought entered my mind right then and there. What would a fight be like between De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather? This fight has the promise of rising to the…
Fans arriving early to the “Trailblazers’ event at the Nottingham Arena on July 9th co-headlined by Carl Froch and Junior Witter will get to see an extra – guaranteed to be exciting – fight. With doors opening at 5.30pm and boxing not scheduled to start until 6.30pm, promoters Hennessy Sports have decided to fill the…
Friday night’s “Plymouth Rocks” pro boxing show, presented by NER Promotions, will be the focus of Thursday and Friday night’s New England Ringside Radio Shows. NER Promotions, a division of New England Ringside, promotes its first ESPN2 Friday Nights Fight show – Plymouth Rocks – Friday evening (July 1) in historic Plymouth (MA), headlined by…
Former British heavyweight champion Julius Francis continues to fall from the respectable position he once occupied on the domestic heavyweight scene in the United Kingdom. Francis, who once defeated Danny Williams and was Mike Tyson’s opponent on the former heavyweight champion’s U.K. tour, has now lost his last twelve fights, bringing his record to a…
Further to the news just given that former WBC super middleweight champion Eric Lucas will return to the ring this September, we are happy to inform you that current WBC super middleweight champion Markus Beyer of Germany is poised to make his return to the ring, also in September. Beyer finally proved his superiority over…