Don’t cry for Argentina because Martinez is a champion

ATLANTIC CITY   Sergio Martinez said he would have a plan to counter the right of Kelly Pavlik and he would use his speed in the ring to take the middleweight title away from the champion. But it was also a nasty cut sustained by Pavlik above the right eye that contributed to Martinez getting a [...]

Martinez Gets His Opportunity With Pavlik

NEW YORK – Kelly Pavlik (36-1. 32KO’s) the WBC/WBO middleweight champion does have his reason to defend the title and get redemption Saturday evening at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City against Sergio Martinez.  Sidelined the past year with a staph infection in his right hand, the champion also knows the challenge will be tough. Martinez. [...]

Cotto promises to forget about Pacquiao and make history at Yankee Stadium

NEW YORK – Miguel Cotto did not want to discuss the last fight against Manny Pacquiao back in November.  The twelfth round TKO loss out in Las Vegas, where Cotto would relinquish the WBO welterweight championship is a bad memory. So at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx New York Friday afternoon there was only mention [...]

Boxing Notebook

CLOTTEY READY FOR PACQUIAO:   Before leaving for Dallas Texas last week for the biggest fight of his career against welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, Joshua Clottey showed his skills sparring in the Bronx and at the Kingsway Gym in Manhattan.  Pacquaio-Clottey Saturday evening on HBO pay-per-view is the replacement for what was supposed to be the [...]

Mosley and Mayweather nearly come to blows

Boxing superstars Floyd Mayweather and Shane Mosley kicked off their three city media tour with a bang on Tuesday afternoon at the Nokia Theatre in New York City. Both are promoting their mega fight that will take place on May 1st at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Both men had no interest on waiting [...]

An Unknown’s Quest in the Golden Gloves

It was finally time for Jose Torres  fight.  I’d been observing him preparing all evening at Nomads Adventure Quest in South Windsor, Connecticut where the Western New England Golden Gloves were being held.  The owners of the Untouchables boxing gym in Springfield, Mass had asked me to come up and take pictures of their fighter.  [...]

Lopez and Gamboa shine in Knockout wins

Juan Manuel Lopez and Yuriorkis Gamboa took one more step to a future big money showdown between the two kings of the featherweight division. “JuanMa” Lopez (28-0, 25 KO’s) totally dominated and outmatched the skilled Steven Luevano to take away his WBO featherweight title in fantastic style. Lopez knocked out Luevano with a crushing right-left [...]

Pacquiao vs. Clottey To Take Place in Big D

Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey concluded their two-day, two-city press conference earlier today in New York at Madison Square Garden. Pacquiao (50-3-2, 38 KOs), boxing’s No.1 pound for pound fighter, will make the first defense of his WBO welterweight title when he faces off against the WBO’s number 1 contender, Joshua Clottey(35-3, 20 KOs). The [...]

HBO’s Boxing After Dark makes it first broadcast of 2010 with a very exciting doubleheader.

For the second time in three months, two of boxing’s brightest young stars will headline a card at the Wamu Theatre in Madison Square Garden. Juan Manuel Lopez and Yurikois Gamboa look to take one last step toward a possible collision course between the two if they are victorious. It would be the most exciting [...]

Fact or Fiction

1. Gatti/Ward was the best trilogy of the decade. Fact..With all due respect to the Vazquez-Marquez trilogy, there was no series of fights this decade that even came close to the amount of drama that Gatti/Ward brought us. It was not just the best trilogy of the decade, but it might been the best in [...]

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