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Boxing: Top 5 world champions who may retire in 2016
By Leo Reyes, Digital Journal, Tue, 29 Dec 2015
At least five elite boxing champions are expected to join a shortlist of retirees from the sport in 2016 after enjoying their reign and making tons of money during their professional careers.
The list of potential retirees who have made a fortune from the sport for at least two decades as profes Read Full Story >>>KEITH THURMAN VS. SHAWN PORTER UPDATE: FEBRUARY PRIME TIME SHOWDOWN LOOMS
By Ben Thompson, FightHype.com, Tue, 29 Dec 2015
Sources close to the situation have informed us that a showdown between undefeated welterweight champion Keith Thurman and former world champion Shawn Porter is definitely taking place in early 2016. Fans have been itching for the fight to be finalized ever since FightHype.com first broke the news b Read Full Story >>> Iceman John Scully's Boxing Year in Review
By Amy Green, Boxing Buzz, Tue, 29 Dec 2015
Charles Dickens got it right. For boxing, the year 2015 could be summed up as ?it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.? Boxing returned to network television courtesy of Al Haymon and his PBC series; Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao finally engaged in their long anticipated bout. So, Read Full Story >>> Manny Pacquiao vs. Adrien Broner: It Actually Makes Good Sense
By Tony Deebs, The Boxing Tribune, Tue, 29 Dec 2015
When the rumor started circulating that Adrien Broner had become a candidate for the April 9 Manny Pacquiao opponent slot, it almost seemed as though somebody was playing a joke on us. After all, Al Haymon?s Broner and Bob Arum?s Pacquiao are separated by layer after layer of fight-stifling boxing p Read Full Story >>> 2015 A Year of Transition in Boxing
By Charles Saunders, Boxscorenews.com, Tue, 29 Dec 2015
SONAHR: December 28, 2015 - In future annals of boxing history, the year 2015 will be remembered as one in which the old order ? ?old? meaning a status quo that had lasted at least a decade ? ended, and a new era began to emerge. At the beginning of the year, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao Read Full Story >>> Gradovich returns, but not necessarily with Donaire in mind
By Ryan Songalia, RingTV.com, Tue, 29 Dec 2015
MANILA, Philippines ? Instead of a Christmas tree, Evgeny Gradovich had a punching bag. Instead of mistletoe hanging overhead, there was a speedbag.
The former IBF featherweight titleholder is spending the holidays training at the Robert Garcia Boxing Academy in Oxnard, California, training for a Read Full Story >>> Floyd Patterson ? The Shy Champion
By Nick Bond, BoxingNews, Tue, 29 Dec 2015
ONE thing fight fans probably never really forgave Floyd Patterson for was that, when he held the heavyweight title, he didn?t defend against either Eddie Machen or Zora Folley.
Machen and Folley were the two outstanding contenders. Instead of meeting them, Patterson defended against the likes of Read Full Story >>> UNBEATEN 43 YEAR OLD HEAVYWEIGHT IKE IBEABUCHI HIRES MICHAEL KONCZ AS HIS ADVISER
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 29 Dec 2015
Ibeabuchi.
Unbeaten 43 year old one-time top heavyweight, former Nigerian Ike ?The President? Ibeabuchi has hired Michael Koncz as his adviser as he plans to make a comeback beginning with a fight on the April 9 card of eigh Read Full Story >>> Inoue, Parrenas Make Weight For Super Flyweight Title Tilt
By Jake Donovan, BoxingScene.com, Tue, 29 Dec 2015
It will have been exactly 52 weeks since the last time Naoya Inoue and Akira Yaegashi appeared on the same card. The night ended with Inoue knocking out long-reigning super flyweight champ Omar Narvaez to wrap up a 2014 campaign that landed BoxingScene.com Fighter of the Year honors, while Yaegashi Read Full Story >>> The Year's Best in Philippine Boxing
By JM Siasat, GMA News Online, Tue, 29 Dec 2015
As the year of 2015 comes to a close, we take a look back at the highlights of our proud Filipino warriors competing in the Sweet Science.
FIGHTER OF THE YEAR: Donnie Nietes
The two-division Filipino world champion had a pretty busy year, competing in a total of three fights this 2015. Now th Read Full Story >>> 2015 Fighter of the year: Canelo Alvarez
By Dan Rafael, ESPN.com, Tue, 29 Dec 2015
In 2013, Canelo Alvarez, Mexico's biggest boxing star, turned back a stiff challenge from Austin Trout to win a decision and unify two junior middleweight belts but then lost them, along with his undefeated record, by decision to Floyd Mayweather in a fight that generated more money than any boxing Read Full Story >>> Mayweather Sr: Pacquiao Would Land Well on Crawford
By Ryan Burton, BoxingScene.com, Tue, 29 Dec 2015
The next opponent for Manny Pacquiao is still up in the air. The eight division former champion is scheduled to return on April 9th in Las Vegas. Pacquiao was going to announce his opponent on December 11th, but then delayed his decision until an undetermined date.
The three candidates being ment Read Full Story >>> The Seductive Id of Boxing?
By Peter Wood, Boxing.com, Tue, 29 Dec 2015
Norman Mailer once called the rarest athlete in sports ?The Big Toe of God.? Certainly a lofty honorific ? sublime and sacred?
In 1949, when Joe Louis reigned, there were only eight living former heavyweight champions ? Jess Willard, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Max Schmeling, Jack Sharkey, Primo C Read Full Story >>> "Fighting Words" - Five Big Stories to Follow in 2016
By David P. Greisman, BoxingScene.com, Mon, 28 Dec 2015
The early weeks of the year tend to be a slower time for the sport, and 2016 appears as if it will be no different.
The schedule for the first part of next year is still being fleshed out, but so far January?s highlights look to include the heavyweight title doubleheader on Jan. 16 featuring Deon Read Full Story >>> Fight Club: Changing of the guard in boxing as new champions emerge
By Alex Rea, Sport 360, Mon, 28 Dec 2015
This was the year the boxing landscape changed dramatically. As one era came to an end in the first half of 2015, another sprang into life towards the end of it.
Overall, there?s been a tremendous change after we finally got what we wanted with the long-awaited ?Fight of the Century? coming toget Read Full Story >>> Eight Days a Weeks
By Robert Ecksel, Boxing.com, Mon, 28 Dec 2015
Tony Weeks has a cool, relaxed, cordial, inviting manner. There?s no bluster or bombast. He has nothing to prove. He appears to be a man at peace?
I?m just a lucky so-and-so. Not only am I tall, dark and handsome, give or take a few inches, a couple of hues, and a grudging acceptance that beauty Read Full Story >>> MICHAEL ORTEGA TAKES OVER AS REFEREE IN WBO TITLE FIGHT BETWEEN CHAMPION KOSEI TANAKA AND FILIPINO CHALLENGER VIC SALUDAR
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 28 Dec 2015
At the request of the promoter of the WBO minimumweight title fight between champion Kosei Tanaka of Japan and Vic Saludar of the Philippines, WBO president Francisco ?Paco? Valcarcel has assigned Michael Ortega to tak Read Full Story >>> DELA TORRE TO TRAIN UNDER CUBAN COACH IN THE U.S.
By Rene Bonsubre, Jr., PhilBoxing.com, Mon, 28 Dec 2015
Undefeated lightweight prospect Harmonito Dela Torre (17W-0L,12 KO?s) arrived in Miami, Florida last December 26 and will undergo a month long training session. Boxing promoter and manager Jim Claude Manangqui Read Full Story >>> 2015: The best of Philippine boxing
By Ryan Songalia, Rappler, Mon, 28 Dec 2015
MANILA, Philippines - The calendar for 2015 included 365 days, but for Philippine boxing, everything centered around a single date.
May 2 (or May 3 if you were in the Philippines) was the day that the 5+ years of build-up for a clash between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr would be settle Read Full Story >>> 2015 Boxing Disappointment of the Year
By Jake Emen, ProBoxing-fans.com, Mon, 28 Dec 2015
The Biggest Disappointment in Boxing in 2015:
The biggest disappointment of the year can go to anything. It can be ?awarded? to a fighter who came up way short of expectations for one reason or another, or one who avoided the best competition. It can go to an entire aspect of the sport, a string Read Full Story >>>
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