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Lomachenko vs. Walters: Expert Picks for the Main Event
BleacherReport.com, Thu, 24 Nov 2016
For the second weekend in a row, fight fans will be treated to an intriguing matchup between a slick boxer and a big puncher. Last week it was Andre Ward's unanimous decision over Sergey Kovalev, and Saturday night we'll see Vasyl Lomachenko take on Nicholas Walters.
Lomachenko's budding profess Read Full Story >>>Top Rank's Bob Arum reflects as he promotes 2,000th card of career
By Dan Rafael, ESPN.com, Thu, 24 Nov 2016
There is no official record but it's hard to imagine that any promoter has ever put on more boxing cards than Top Rank chairman Bob Arum, who this year celebrated his 50th year in the boxing business.
The first event Arum promoted was on March 29, 1966 at the Maple Leafs Garden in Toronto, where Read Full Story >>> Op-Ed: Why Magdaleno-Donaire rematch would still sell
By Leo Reyes, Digital Journal, Thu, 24 Nov 2016
A rematch between Jessie Magdaleno and Nonito Donaire would still be one of the fights that fans would possibly watch for the second time because the first fight was competitive and action-packed that the crowd enjoyed watching.
Donaire may have lost the fight on one or two points but losing in t Read Full Story >>> Walters: I Won't Let Lomachenko Off Hook Like Kovalev With Ward
By Keith Idec, BoxingScene.com, Thu, 24 Nov 2016
LAS VEGAS ? Nicholas Walters appreciated plenty about Sergey Kovalev?s performance Saturday night.
But Kovalev made one major mistake, according to Walters, that cost the previously unbeaten Russian knockout artist the biggest fight of his career. When Kovalev had Andre Ward down in the second ro Read Full Story >>> Lomachenko vs. Walters: Odds and Round-by-Round Predictions for Saturday's Fight
By Lyle Fitzsimmons, BleacherReport.com, Thu, 24 Nov 2016
He's got to be the best seven-fight pro on the planet.
Maybe ever.
And now, Vasyl Lomachenko has a big fight to match his status.
The WBO's 130-pound champion will make the first defense of his newly-won crown?wrested five months ago from veteran Rocky Martinez?against rising ex-featherweig Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao-Floyd rematch seen to still rake in money
ABS-CBN News, Thu, 24 Nov 2016
While critics have blasted the idea of having another rematch between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr., former Golden Boy Promotions executive Richard Schaefer believes the fight will still rake in a lot of money.
Schaefer predicts that the retired American fighter will become a big hit if Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao, larger than life
By Jose Antonio Rivera, The Manila Bulletin, Thu, 24 Nov 2016
In Roman times, Cato the Elder was never honored with a statue. while lesser men were. When asked about it, he said, ?I would rather people ask why there is no statue of me than why there is one.?
But the world cannot restrain its adulation for those larger than life. There are statues aplenty o Read Full Story >>> Cebuano boxing officials call for ouster of GAB?s Nasser Cruz
By Dale Rosal, Cebu Daily News, Thu, 24 Nov 2016
A GROUP of Cebuano boxing officials has filed a petition to oust Games and Amusements Board (GAB) Chief of Boxing Chairman Dr. Nasser Cruz from his office because of alleged corruption.
International boxing judge Edward Ligas, along with referees Tony Pesons and Edgar Olalo, and ring physician Dr Read Full Story >>> NBA - - Celtics stun Wolves with fourth quarter rally
By Daniel Quindao Guden, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 24 Nov 2016
MINNEAPOLIS - The dynamic duo of 6'10 center Al Horford and 5'9 guard Isaiah Thomas plus a never-say-die die attitude keyed the Boston Celtics' stunning '99 Read Full Story >>> ALBERT AND JASON PAGARA'S OPPONENTS LAND IN CEBU
PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 23 Nov 2016
Commey (R) and Neequaye.
The opponents of 'Prince' Albert Pagara and Jason Pagara -- Raymond Commey and Jose Alfaro, have arrived in Cebu today ahead of their boxing matches on the undercard of the Milan Meli Read Full Story >>> Honorio Banario Stronger as a Lightweight, Ready for Another Spectacular Performance
PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 23 Nov 2016
Baguio City?s veteran striker Honorio ?The Rock? Banario (10-6) is ready to return to the ONE Championship cage next Friday, 2 December at ONE: AGE OF DOMINATION. The 27-year-old lightweight standout is scheduled to face Indian Read Full Story >>> Muhammad Ali -- I AM THE GREATEST ... Tree Sculpture! (PHOTO GALLERY)
PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 23 Nov 2016
TMZ SPORTS -- Float like a butterfly, sting like a ... tree?
Check out this tree carving New Jersey artist James O'Neal made of Muhammad Ali ... a piece that took roughly 6 months from start to finish.
O'Neal say Read Full Story >>> Another Judging Controversy Brewing Before Lomachenko-Walters
By Keith Idec, BoxingScene.com, Wed, 23 Nov 2016
LAS VEGAS ? Three days after the Andre Ward-Sergey Kovalev decision caused controversy worldwide, there?s another judging dispute underway in ?the boxing capital of the world.?
This controversy began even before the opening bell, though, not after the judges? scorecards were submitted.
Top Ran Read Full Story >>> Bob Sheridan: ?Andre Ward showed remarkable grit in his ability to come back and I got no qualms about him getting the decision?
By Robert Brown, OTR Boxing Radio, Wed, 23 Nov 2016
Hall of Fame announcer ?The Colonel? Bob Sheridan has seen his share of boxing decisions. Sheridan has been in the sport for over forty years and has seen both the good and the very bad when it comes to judging in the sport of boxing. In part 1 of my interview with Bob Sheridan, I get his thoughts o Read Full Story >>> Vasyl Lomachenko aims to ?terminate the bout? with Nicholas Walters after four rounds
By John Dennen, BoxingNews, Wed, 23 Nov 2016
VASYL LOMACHENKO is sanguine about taking on big-punching Nicholas Walters for the first defence of his WBO super-featherweight title on Saturday (November 26) in Las Vegas. During his long and distinguished amateur career Lomachenko insists he was never troubled by hard-hitters. ?If we are talking Read Full Story >>> Arum: Lomachenko-Walters Could Be FOTY - Unlike Ward-Kovalev
BoxingScene.com, Wed, 23 Nov 2016
Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum is expecting a Fight of The Year candidate on Saturday night, when Vasyl Lomachenko defends his WBO super featherweight title against Nicholas Walters (26-0-1, 21KOs) in an HBO televised main event from the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas.
Lomachenko (6-1, 4KOs), with only seven Read Full Story >>> FULL SLATE OF UNDEFEATED PROSPECTS TO FACE STIFF CHALLENGES ON UNDERCARD OF BERNARD HOPKINS' FINAL FIGHT
PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 23 Nov 2016
Tickets Still Available At Ticketmaster & The Forum Box Office!
LOS ANGELES (November 22, 2016) - Rounding out a stacked card featuring boxing legend Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins, undefeated featherweight c Read Full Story >>> 2016 World MMA Championships November 26-27 in Macau
PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 23 Nov 2016
MONTE CARLO, Monaco (November 22, 2016)- The best amateur mixed-martial-arts fighters in the world will compete Nov. 26-27 at the World MMA Championships in Studio City, Macau, China.
Close to 100 fighters have registered to compete. The 2016 European (Russia) and Asian (Kazakhstan) team champi Read Full Story >>> ATLANTIC CITY BOXING HALL OF FAME WILL HOST ITS FIRST INAUGURAL INDUCTION WEEKEND MAY 26, 27 & 28, 2017
PhilBoxing.com, Wed, 23 Nov 2016
Atlantic City, NJ (November 22, 2016) - Calling all boxing fans! The Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame will host their first inaugural Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Memorial Day Weekend 2017 at The Claridge - A Radisson Hotel located at Park Place & Boardwalk Atlantic City, New Jersey 08401.
Read Full Story >>> Boxing Virtuoso Vasyl Lomachenko Might Really Be Inside the Matrix
By Jonathan Snowden, BleacherReport.com, Wed, 23 Nov 2016
Vasyl Lomachenko is in The Matrix.
That's the premise posited in a YouTube video that spread across the boxing internet this summer. Despite being absurd on its face, it begs some serious reflection.
Maybe it's the vast experience gained in 397 amateur fights (396 were victories), maybe it's Read Full Story >>>
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