Keith Idec
1,044 articles · NorthJersey.com
-
Broner: Don’t Care About Mayweather-McGregor, No $$$ In It for Me
By Keith Idec
Floyd Mayweather Jr.?s company is one of the co-promoters of Adrien Broner?s showdown with Mikey Garcia on Saturday night. Broner isn?t nearly as interested in promoting Mayweather?s upcoming fight. The out-spoken Broner…
-
Mayweather Not Mad at Malignaggi For Helping McGregor
By Keith Idec
Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Paulie Malignaggi are both part of the Showtime Sports family, but Mayweather isn?t angry about Malignaggi helping Conor McGregor prepare for their fight. Malignaggi, a Showtime boxing analyst…
-
Crawford Laments Lost Opportunity After Horn Upsets Pacquiao
By Keith Idec
Terence Crawford watched in shock Saturday night as his biggest potential payday all but went away. Before unknown Australian underdog Jeff Horn upset Manny Pacquiao in Brisbane, the undefeated Crawford at least…
-
A Close Look at Manny Pacquiao’s Options for November Return
By Keith Idec
Bob Arum claims this isn?t the start of a Manny Pacquiao retirement tour. After the 38-year-old Pacquiao faces overmatched Australian underdog Jeff Horn on Sunday in Brisbane, Australia, Pacquiao?s promoter expects to…
-
Arum: Pacquiao-Horn on ESPN is “a Gift” for Boxing Fans
By Keith Idec
Bob Arum considers airing the Manny Pacquiao-Jeff Horn fight on ESPN a ?gift? to boxing fans. Pacquiao?s defense of the WBO welterweight title against Horn will be televised live by ESPN on…
-
Dana White: We’ll Learn From Mayweather-Pacquiao Mistakes
By Keith Idec
Dana White warned fans this week to avoid getting scammed by resellers already offering absurdly expensive tickets to the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Conor McGregor fight. White wrote a message on his Instagram page…
-
Canelo-Golovkin: There Isn’t Any Legitimate Bad Blood
By Keith Idec
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,…
-
De La Hoya: Canelo-Golovkin Winner is No. 1 Pound-for-Pound
By Keith Idec
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…
-
Canelo Paying No Mind to Being Underdog Against Golovkin
By Keith Idec
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…
-
Now That Mayweather is Active Again, Canelo Wants a Rematch
By Keith Idec
NEW YORK ? A potential second fight against Gennady Golovkin wasn?t the only rematch mentioned to Canelo Alvarez during their press tour. Now that Floyd Mayweather Jr. has come out of retirement,…
-
Golovkin: If I Finished Jacobs, Probably Don’t Have Canelo Fight
By Keith Idec
NEW YORK ? Going 12 rounds in his last fight and showing some more flaws helped his cause. That?s the silver lining Gennady Golovkin took away from the most difficult fight of…
-
Canelo, GGG on Mayweather-McGregor: Ours is a ‘Real Fight!’
By Keith Idec
NEW YORK ? Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin offered the same advice to anyone who?ll have to choose between buying their pay-per-view fight or Mayweather-McGregor three weeks earlier. Mexico?s Alvarez (49-1-1, 34…
-
Canelo: Golovkin One-Dimensional; I Thought He Lost to Jacobs
By Keith Idec
NEW YORK ? Canelo Alvarez absorbed a lot of useful information from watching Gennady Golovkin?s last fight against Daniel Jacobs. The Mexican superstar noticed that the powerful puncher from Kazakhstan didn?t adjust…
-
Kovalev Angry About Purse Discrepancy for Ward Rematch
By Keith Idec
LAS VEGAS ? If you?re wondering why Sergey Kovalev seems so angry the closer we get to his rematch with Andre Ward, the root of all evil is toward the top of…
-
Virgil Hunter: Ward Was Trained to Knock Out Kovalev This Time
By Keith Idec
LAS VEGAS ? Virgil Hunter is convinced Andre Ward can knock out Sergey Kovalev in their rematch Saturday night. Russia?s Kovalev is considered the bigger puncher of the two and dropped Ward…
-
Ward: You Have to Tip Your Hat to Judges of First Kovalev Fight
By Keith Idec
Now that Andre Ward and his trainer, Virgil Hunter, have watched his fight against Sergey Kovalev numerous times, they feel the same way they did the night of November 19. They?re certain…
-
White: Mayweather-McGregor Bigger Than Mayweather-Pacquiao
By Keith Idec
Organizers of the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Conor McGregor fight have huge expectations for the type of profits it?ll make. Representatives for Mayweather and McGregor are so sold on the marketability of this unusual…
-
Andre Ward: Kovalev’s Power ‘is Not What It?s Cracked Up to Be’
By Keith Idec
Sergey Kovalev obviously was strong enough to drop Andre Ward in the second round of their light heavyweight title fight November 19. Ward recovered from the right hand that knocked him down,…
-
Andre Ward: Desire as Strong as Ever; Not Seeing Signs of Slipping
By Keith Idec
Andre Ward hasn?t felt any signs of physical slippage during training camp for his rematch with Sergey Kovalev on Saturday night. Ward is 33 years old and almost 2? decades removed from…
-
Ward Won’t Play Up USA vs. Russia Angle for Sake of Promotion
By Keith Idec
It would be very easy, considering the current political climate in the United States, to promote the Andre Ward-Sergey Kovalev rematch as the United States versus Russia. The 33-year-old Ward won a…