Published: January 29, 2011
Promoters Bob Arum and Don King have not joined forces in five years and Wednesday afternoon in New York City they definitely made an impact in the boxing world announcing the first major pay-per-view boxing event of the year. However it wasn’t the often bitter rivals who stole the show at BB Kings Club & [...]
Published: April 10, 2010
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 [...]
Published: January 7, 2010
Happy New Year! And hopefully it will be for all of you and for the boxing world that is in limbo. Because the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. can’t seem to agree on blood testing procedures for their potential super bout that is slated for March 13th in [...]
Published: December 7, 2009
A home coming win for Hopkins and Roy Jones could be next: Bernard Hopkins hoped to get Roy Jones Jr. as his next opponent in May. After he defeated Mexico’s Enrique Ornales with a unanimous 12-round decision at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia Pennsylvania Wednesday evening, there were doubts about the fight with Jones. When [...]
Published: May 19, 2009
There was the undefeated Floyd Mayweather, the six-time world champion in five different weight classes at a podium on the 83rd floor of the Empire State Building in New York City Tuesday afternoon. His sixteen month retirement from the ring is over for now and it is back to business. Except this was a more [...]
Published: May 2, 2009
From this perspective there was no doubt that Manny Pacquiao was going to easily win this supposed junior welterweight title fight over the veteran Ricky Hatton in a ring at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas Saturday evening. Pacquaio proved he was the best pound-for-pound fighter in the business when he dominated and put [...]