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SONSONA CONFIDENT OF MAKING WEIGHT
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 05 Jun 2014
?Marvelous? Marvin Sonsona is confident of making the 126 pound featherweight limit by the time of the official weigh-in at 3:00 p.m. on Friday (Saturday in Manila) for his rematch against former Wilfredo Vazquez Jr of Puert Read Full Story >>>For whom the bell tolls
By Joaquin Henson, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 05 Jun 2014
The confusion on why Puerto Rican referee Luis Pabon ordered the ringing of the bell to start the fifth round in the WBA featherweight title bout between Nonito Donaire, Jr. and Simpiwe Vetyeka in Macau last weekend has p Read Full Story >>> DONNIE CELEBRATES
By Rene Bonsubre, Jr., PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 05 Jun 2014
WBO light flyweight and Ring magazine lineal world champion Donnie ?Ahas? Nietes is back in Cebu after a well deserved vacation. His victory party was a bit overdue. Nietes also turned 32 three days after his all-important re Read Full Story >>> NAVARRO KNOCKS OUT MOSQUERA TO WIN THE WBC FECARBOX TITLE IN PANAMA
By Carlos Costa, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 05 Jun 2014
In an exciting Wednesday night boxing card at the plush Riu Hotel in Calle 50, Ciudad de Panam?, tough Venezuelan welterweight fighter Charlie Navarro (24-7, 19 KO's) came from behind to score an impressive win over previou Read Full Story >>> RUSLAN PROVODNIKOV ? CHRIS ALGIERI CONFERENCE CALL TRANSCRIPT
PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 05 Jun 2014
Marc Abrams: The ?Siberian Rocky? Ruslan Provodnikov will defend his WBO Junior Welterweight Championship against undefeated New Yorker Chris Algieri Saturday night, June 14, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn and it will Read Full Story >>> Trifecta: Gunn Jr scores third straight first round blowout
PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 05 Jun 2014
Hackensack, NJ (June 4, 2014) ?Fast rising prospect Bobby Gunn Jr. continued his path of destruction last Saturday at the Birchwood Manor in Whippany, NJ, taking out Christopher Strootman in 129 seconds.
After briefly feeling his opponent out, Gunn Jr. decked Strootman with a crisp overhand righ Read Full Story >>> Kings of the Ring: A Conversation with Mike Tyson and Larry Holmes at Turning Stone
PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 05 Jun 2014
VERONA, NY (June 4, 2014) -- Turning Stone hosted "Kings of the Ring: A Conversation with Mike Tyson and Larry Holmes" today to promoted this week's ESPN Friday Night Fights (see fact sheet below), promoted by Iron Read Full Story >>> Cotto-Martinez gamesmanship shows fighters will still do anything for an edge
By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports, Thu, 05 Jun 2014
NEW YORK ? Gamesmanship has been a part of boxing for as long as there have been ropes pulled tightly around four ring posts. Popular boxers have regularly leveraged their notoriety to gain some sort of edge, real or imagined.
Sugar Ray Leonard famously used his influence to land all sorts of adv Read Full Story >>> Back to Basics
By Steve Kim, Sports on Earth, Thu, 05 Jun 2014
LOS ANGELES -- Miguel Cotto has employed various trainers in his distinguished career, ranging from the obscure to the distinguished. As he prepares to face middleweight king Sergio Martinez this Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, in a bid to become the first Puerto Rican to win championships Read Full Story >>> Big Fish: Cotto Vs. Martinez Preview And Prediction
By Tim Starks, The Queensberry Rules, Thu, 05 Jun 2014
First, we talk business. Then, we talk the fight.
Sergio Martinez, the 39-year-old middleweight champion of the world, has waited his whole life to fight someone who will give him the kind of payday big-name Miguel Cotto will get him Saturday on HBO Pay-Per-View. Martinez?s 2012 tilt with Julio C Read Full Story >>> Pre-fight jabbing adds intrigue to Cotto-Martinez
By Steve Carp, Las Vegas Review Journal, Thu, 05 Jun 2014
NEW YORK ? No major fight goes without promotions and pictures.
But when Miguel Cotto and Sergio Martinez went to the top of the Empire State Building on Monday to promote Saturday?s World Boxing Council middleweight title fight at Madison Square Garden, there had to be some apprehension on the p Read Full Story >>> History is Miguel Cotto's objective
By Keith Idec, NorthJersey.com, Thu, 05 Jun 2014
NEW YORK ? Miguel Cotto's confidence bordered on arrogance Wednesday.
That's just the level of self-assurance the Puerto Rican icon needs if he's to pull off an upset Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in one of the biggest fights of his celebrated career.
"I'm not Kelly Pavlik," Cotto sa Read Full Story >>> Even 152 is Too Much For Pacquiao-Canelo
By Salvador Rodríguez, BoxingScene.com, Thu, 05 Jun 2014
In an earlier story on BoxingScene.com, former junior middleweight champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez stated that he wouldn't consider a catch-weight for a potential fight with Manny Pacquiao. Canelo made it clear that a Pacquiao fight would have to take place at nothing less than a 154-pounds Read Full Story >>> Oscar De La Hoya is trying to solve Golden Boy Promotions issues
By Chris Mannix, Sports Illustrated, Thu, 05 Jun 2014
Well, Oscar De La Hoya: Thanks for that.
Late Wednesday night, the embattled Golden Boy Promotions president released a terse, 37-word statement that (we think) was a response to his former friend/CEO Richard Schaefer's abrupt resignation from the company.
"Golden Boy Promotions is moving Read Full Story >>> Oscar De La Hoya Speaks
By Robert Ecksel, Boxing.com, Thu, 05 Jun 2014
If there was a top and bottom to the now defunct relationship between Richard Schaefer and Oscar De La Hoya, Golden Boy Promotion?s now former CEO and current president, Schaefer would be the top and De La Hoya would not.
Despite having spent years in front of cameras and microphones, trading Read Full Story >>> Provodnikov vs. Algieri: Russia?s toughest fighter comes to New York
By Scott Tonelli, 3MoreRounds.com, Thu, 05 Jun 2014
On Saturday, June 14th, HBO Boxing After Dark will televise the WBO Junior Welterweight clash between Freddie Roaches? pupil, ?The Siberian Rocky? Ruslan Provodnikov (23-2, 16 KO?s), and Long Island, NY native Chris Algieri (19-0, 8 KO?s) in Algieri?s own backyard. The Barclay Center in Brooklyn, NY Read Full Story >>> Insider Notebook: Schaefer, Golovkin-Geale, Cotto, More
By Robert Morales, BoxingScene.com, Thu, 05 Jun 2014
Abel Sanchez had been worried that the WBA would make his fighter - middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin - fight his mandatory defense against unknown Jarrod Fletcher of Australia on July 26 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Alas, the WBA this week agreed to let Golovkin, who also hold Read Full Story >>> Rocky Juarez: ?I think Pacquiao is still a great fighter and a great champion, but Marquez has always had his number?
By Jenna Jay, OTR Boxing Radio, Thu, 05 Jun 2014
Former world title challenger Rocky Juarez recently appeared on the 217th edition of ?On The Ropes? to discuss his future in the sport after his recent comeback win. Juarez, now 34 has challenged for a title 6 times, and while coming close, he still has his eyes on winning a championship belt in 201 Read Full Story >>> Nigel Benn ?gob-smacked? at WBC ?Best Champion? belt honour
By Phil D. Jay, World Boxing News, Thu, 05 Jun 2014
Former two-weight world champion Nigel Benn has revealed his delight and disbelief at being voted as one of the 'Best Champions' in a recent vote conducted by new World Boxing Council President Maurcio Sulaiman.
The 50 year-old, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest British fighters of al Read Full Story >>> COTTO AND MARTINEZ PROMISE A REAL WAR
By Ronnie Nathanielsz, PhilBoxing.com, Thu, 05 Jun 2014
Three division world champion Miguel Cotto and WBC middleweight champion Sergio ?Maravilla? Martinez have promised ?a real war? when they clash at New York?s famed Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Manila Time.
At their Read Full Story >>>
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