TMZ SPORTS -- Shots fired from boxing legend Bernard Hopkins -- who's dissing McGregor vs. Mayweather in a BIG way ... saying the whole thing is a "fake news" fight. FYI, B-Hop works for Golden Boy Promotions and is hypi  

Unbeaten Taras Shelestyuk Tests Unblemished Mark Saturday, July 1 in Sacramento, CA.
PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 24 Jun 2017

ORANGE, Calif. (June 23, 2017) - Thompson Boxing Promotions heads to Northern California on Friday, July 1st to promote its first show in Sacramento starring unbeaten, Olympic bronze medalist Taras 'The Real Deal" Shelestyuk (15-0, 9 K  Read Full Story >>>

Baltimore Pro Boxing Returns July 13 with Tribute Card
PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 24 Jun 2017
Baltimore, MD (June 23, 2017) - Baltimore Pro Boxing will pay tribute to the late Murray “Bushwacker” Smith Sr. when they return to Michael’s Eighth Avenue in Glen Burnie, MD Thursday, July 13th for an exciting pro-am fight card. $45 general admission, $65 ringside, $100 individual VIP seats and   Read Full Story >>>

UFC's Kevin Lee Gives Khabib Nurmagomedov Deadline for Ass Kicking
PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 24 Jun 2017

TMZ SPORTS -- UFC rising star Kevin Lee says Khabib Nurmagomedov is running scared ... and he's ready to expose the so-called #1 contender for Conor McGregor's lightweight belt. Lee told TMZ Sports he's been gu  Read Full Story >>>

BRYANT JENNINGS SIGNS WITH TOP RANK
PhilBoxing.com, Sat, 24 Jun 2017
Two-Time Heavyweight Championship Challenger Ready to Make Another Run at the Title LAS VEGAS, NEV. (June 23, 2017) -- Top Rank® announced that it has signed two-time world heavyweight championship challenger BRYANT JENNINGS to an exclusive promotional agreement. Co-promoted by Antonio Leonard   Read Full Story >>>

Jeff Fenech tells Jeff Horn to ‘twist, bash and bully’ Manny Pacquiao
By Grantlee Kieza, CourierMail.com.au, Sat, 24 Jun 2017
A LONG time ago in a city far, far away I helped a young street tough win a world boxing title. And then another. And then another. Thirty-two years later Jeff Fenech and I will be together at Suncorp Stadium Sunday week, hoping that the new model Jeff — Jeff Horn — can score one of the biggest w  Read Full Story >>>

Justine Fortune admits Pacquiao won't look good with simple decision over Horn
By Gerry Ramos, Spin.ph, Sat, 24 Jun 2017
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Jeff Horn seemed to be the ideal opponent for Manny Pacquiao in his search for a knockout win. So it would really be a big letdown if the reigning World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion walks away with a simple decision in his 12-round bout against Horn eight   Read Full Story >>>

Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor: Expect a spectacle, not a fight
By Dan Rafael, ESPN.com, Sat, 24 Jun 2017
You wouldn't buy a ticket to the circus expecting to see Shakespeare, would you? And I bet you wouldn't hit McDonald's expecting the finest filet mignon either. So if you are inclined to part with around $100 to watch the Showtime pay-per-view card on Aug. 26 headlined by all-time great Floyd May  Read Full Story >>>

Canelo-Golovkin: There Isn't Any Legitimate Bad Blood
By Keith Idec, BoxingScene.com, Sat, 24 Jun 2017
NEW YORK – Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin obviously want to knock each other out. But unlike the most recent HBO Pay-Per-View main event we witnessed between Andre Ward and Sergey Kovalev, Alvarez and Golovkin don’t dislike one another. Their long-awaited battle September 16 is strictly busi  Read Full Story >>>

Ancajas up against tough foe
By Nick Giongco, Tempo, Sat, 24 Jun 2017
Jerwin Ancajas will have his hands full when he makes the second defense of his world super-flyweight crown underneath the Manny Pacquiao headliner on July 2 in Brisbane. Teiru Kinoshita (25-1-1 with eight KOs) has been described by Ancajas’s trainer-manager Joven Jimenez as being ultra-aggressiv  Read Full Story >>>

Manny Pacquiao vs. Jeff Horn Picked Up By BoxNation
By Noah Feldman, BoxingScene.com, Sat, 24 Jun 2017
Superstar Manny Pacquiao’s world title defence from ‘down under’ when he puts his WBO welterweight title on the line against undefeated number two world-rated contender Jeff Horn will be aired exclusively live on BoxNation. The eight-division world champion and the reigning ‘Fighter of the Decade  Read Full Story >>>

Literary giant chronicles Ali, golden age of heavyweights
By Matthew Aguilar, El Paso Times, Sat, 24 Jun 2017
It had been an eventful preamble to the unlikely moment Muhammad Ali sent George Foreman to the canvas at 4 a.m., Oct. 30, 1974, to regain the heavyweight title in the African jungle. It included the rise of Don King, Ali’s disintegrating marriage, a partnership with a vicious dictator, Belgian Shep  Read Full Story >>>

Shocker: Fans scammed of money as websites sell non-existent Mayweather v McGregor tickets
World Boxing News, Sat, 24 Jun 2017
Conor McGregor's handler Dana White has urged fans wanting tickets to the August 26 Floyd Mayweather fight to wait for something official to be released. As WBN reported recently, tickets for Floyd Mayweather's return to the ring are in high demand already, according to some well-known 'ticket se  Read Full Story >>>

Bufano’s Gym—A Small Factory Where Men’s Muscles Were Made
By Peter Wood, Boxing.com, Sat, 24 Jun 2017
From the 1950s through the 1990s, Bufano’s was a boxing hotbed, a big name in boxing circles. Now, it’s so small it fits only inside my head… Bufano’s Boxing Gym doesn’t exist anymore. Its lockers and shower are ripped out, the ring torn down. I explore it now in the only place left for it—my mem  Read Full Story >>>

'Horn-Pacquiao way bigger than Mundine-Green farce'
By AAP, Yahoo! Sports, Fri, 23 Jun 2017
Jeff Fenech believes Jeff Horn's blockbuster against Manny Pacquiao can help restore legitimacy in Australian boxing after Anthony Mundine and Danny Green's "clowny" sideshow earlier this year. Three-time world champion Fenech reckons the July 2 fight will be the biggest ever seen on Australian s  Read Full Story >>>

'It cuts deep. I had suicidal thoughts': Why Jeff Horn took up boxing
By Andrew Webster, The Sydney Morning Herald, Fri, 23 Jun 2017
Jeff Horn doesn't know how many there were. Probably about 30, all different ages, some in school uniform and some not. He just knows they were going to bash him and his friend. It had started earlier that day at school in Brisbane's south. His mate had accidentally bumped into an older student,   Read Full Story >>>

De La Hoya: Canelo-Golovkin Winner is No. 1 Pound-for-Pound
By Keith Idec, BoxingScene.com, Fri, 23 Jun 2017
NEW YORK – Oscar De La Hoya believes Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin will fight for more than millions of dollars and four middleweight titles. According to “The Golden Boy,” the winner of their September 16 bout won’t just leave the T-Mobile Arena ring in Las Vegas with the IBF, IBO, WBA and  Read Full Story >>>

Mayweather’s trainer: I’m ‘worried’ McGregor will get frustrated and ‘do something crazy’
By Anton Tabuena , Bloody Elbow, Fri, 23 Jun 2017
With MMA vs boxing being the general theme for their August super-fight, many fans and pundits have been talking about Conor McGregor possibly straying from the boxing ruleset when he faces Floyd Mayweather. Even UFC commentator Joe Rogan recently said that Conor McGregor would be a “folk hero” if h  Read Full Story >>>

Mark Wahlberg reveals the one way Conor McGregor can defeat Floyd Mayweather
By Niall McIntyre, SportsJoe.ie, Fri, 23 Jun 2017
Everybody seems to have a different opinion on the upcoming Mayweather Vs. McGregor fight. Sceptics have assured us that the fight is set to be a disgraceful non-contest, an unnecessary circus. McGregor's supporters claim the Dubliner will put it up to the undefeated boxing legend Floyd Maywea  Read Full Story >>>

CANELO ALVAREZ AND GENNADY GOLOVKIN CONCLUDE INTERNATIONAL PRESS TOUR WITH HOLLYWOOD RED CARPET AFFAIR
PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 23 Jun 2017

CANELO VS. GOLOVKIN IS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 AT T-MOBILE ARENA IN LAS VEGAS PRESENTED LIVE BY HBO PAY-PER-VIEW® LOS ANGELES (June 22, 2017) Lineal and RING Magazine Middleweight World Champion Canelo Alvarez   Read Full Story >>>

Gomera and Nam-Joon Lee Make Weight For WBA Asia 126-Lbs Title Saturday in Korea
By Carlos Costa, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 23 Jun 2017

Filipino Jelbirt Gomera (L) of Highland Boxing weighed-in at 56.85 Kgs (125.33 lbs) while the much taller Korean Featherweight Champ Nam-Joon Lee made 57.15 kgs (126 lbs) today ahead of their 12-rounder title clash for the v  Read Full Story >>>

Pinoy Pride 41: New Generation Warriors gets two TV telecast schedules
PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 23 Jun 2017

Featuring some of the country’s top young prospects, ALA Promotions’ 41st edition of its’ flagship program, Pinoy Pride airs twice after its live event on July 8th. Current WBO International Featherweight champion Mark “Magnific  Read Full Story >>>

Jeff Horn: “I will be trying to get Manny Pacquiao with that same shot Marquez landed!”
By Robert Brown, OTR Boxing Radio, Fri, 23 Jun 2017
Welterweight contender, Jeff Horn, is just over a week away from the biggest fight of his life, as he is set to face 8 division world champion and boxing legend, Manny Pacquiao. While the odds are long for Horn, he believes he can shock the world and defeat Pacquiao in front of the Australian boxing  Read Full Story >>>

Boxing’s Divine Comedy
By Marc Livitz, Boxing.com, Fri, 23 Jun 2017
Is Canelo Alvarez any more animated than Andre Ward? Try not to laugh. Canelo is as quiet as they come, even drab by today’s standards… The expiration date to discuss last Saturday’s light heavyweight championship clash between Andre Ward and Sergey Kovalev must certainly be closing in on us. Of   Read Full Story >>>

Floyd Mayweather trash talks Conor McGregor during open workout
By Chisanga Malata , Daily Star (UK), Fri, 23 Jun 2017
Mayweather, an Olympic bronze medallist, which look horns with the reigning UFC lightweight champion in a multi-million pound boxing match on August 26. Mayweather vs. McGregor, which is currently the talk of the combat sports world, will take place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.   Read Full Story >>>

Op-Ed: Boxing star Manny Pacquiao good for 3 more years in the sport
By Leo Reyes, Digital Journal, Fri, 23 Jun 2017
At the rate Manny Pacquiao is fighting each year, he would still be in top shape for the next three years as long as he continues to sequence his fights twice a year. Pacquiao hasn't fought more than two times in a year since his impressive technical win over Oscar de la Hoya at the MGM Grand Gar  Read Full Story >>>

Gennady Golovkin to retire after Canelo fight?
By Lee Cleveland , Fight Saga, Fri, 23 Jun 2017
The biggest match-up in boxing, Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez vs. Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin, is official for September 16th, 2017. Golovkin and Canelo are two of the best fighters in the world - and most exciting. Moreover, the odds are nearly even and both fighters are explosive and relentless in the ring.  Read Full Story >>>

Onggocan 111 Lbs, Pantilgan 110 Lbs for IBF Youth Title in Calamba, Laguna, Today
By Carlos Costa, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 23 Jun 2017

IBF Flyweight Youth Champion Robert "El Rapido" Onggocan of Dapitan tipped the scale at 111 lbs., while hard-hitting Cebu-based challenger Marjun M. Pantilgan (14-4, 11 KO's) made 110 lbs ahead of their title clash t  Read Full Story >>>

HORN IS UP AGAINST A FREAK
By Aquiles Z. Zonio, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 23 Jun 2017

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Australian boxer Jeff Horn should be in his damnedest best come July 2 when he squares off with World Boxing Organization (WBO) Welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao in a premier Suncorp Stadium in Br  Read Full Story >>>

Dexter Alimento Successful in 30-day Mandatory Weigh-in for WBC Int'l Title Againts Deejay Kriel in South Africa
By Carlos Costa, PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 23 Jun 2017

Filipino former WBC 105-Lbs Youth Champion Dexter Alimento of Iligan City weighed-in at 113 lbs (51.25 Kgs) in his Mandatory WBC 30-day Weigh-in ahead of his rumble against South African Deejay Kriel for the vacan  Read Full Story >>>

"Hurricane" Sammy Valentin held a media day in Tampa today
PhilBoxing.com, Fri, 23 Jun 2017

Sammy Valentin. Tampa, Florida: Undefeated NABO Welterweight Champion and #9 contender WBO "Hurricane" Sammy Valentin (12-0-9 KO's) held a media work out today at the Punch for Fitness Gym in his hometown of Tampa  Read Full Story >>>

Canelo Paying No Mind to Being Underdog Against Golovkin
By Keith Idec, BoxingScene.com, Fri, 23 Jun 2017
NEW YORK – This is one of the few times in his career that Canelo Alvarez will enter a fight as an underdog. Las Vegas and Internet sports books list Gennady Golovkin as a slight favorite over Alvarez (-170) with nearly three months remaining before their middleweight championship showdown. Alvar  Read Full Story >>>