Kessler vs. Froch II: 3 questions to determine whose hand will be raised
As Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler’s heads hit their respective pillows tonight, their thoughts will turn to this weekend. The pair engaged in a thrilling manifestation of all that is good with boxing three years ago in Herning, Denmark in the midst of the Super Six Tournament, and are finally set to do the same again this Saturday night in London, England.
They aren’t the only...
Mikkel Kessler & Carl Froch workout photos & videos
WBA Super-Middleweight Champion Mikkel Kessler (46-2, 35 KOs) has arrived in London prior to his blockbuster unification rematch with IBF champion Carl Froch (30-2, 22 KOs). The Viking Warrior held a media training session at the Hayemaker gym today, which followed Carl Froch's public workout from the day before. Froch held his workout session at the Old Market Square in Nottingham...
Tony Bellew confident of victory ahead of Chilemba rematch
Bomber promises improved output in final eliminator rematch with Isaac Chilemba
Tony Bellew has vowed to overcome Isaac Chilemba’s spoiling tactics and land himself a shot at the WBC title when the pair rematch as chief support to Carl Froch’s blockbuster bout with Mikkel Kessler at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday, live on Sky Sports Box Office in ‘Warriors’ Call’ in...
Photos & notes from Robert Guerrero fundraiser in Gilroy
This past Saturday C.A.R.A.S and the Community of Gilroy honored Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero with a fan festival fundraiser. The Ghost was presented with a "Key to the City" by Gilory Mayor Don Gage along with proclamations from State Assembly Member Luis Alejo and County Supervisor Mike Wasserman.
Robert signed autographs throughout the day. Childhood...
The Week’s Boxing Schedule, Featuring Carl Froch, Delvin Rodriguez And Roman Gonzalez
Gotta love Giovani Segura – not only is he an action hero, but he’s pushing the already stretched frontiers of sponsorship in boxing by emblazoning the name of a registration services company on his Julio Cesar Chavez style headband. Who knows what this week will bring in terms of advertising, but it’ll have some good boxing. Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler fight on HBO in a...
NASCAR: After All Star win, Jimmie Johnson on verge of historic accomplishments in 2013
So far in 2013, five-time Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson has won both the Daytona 500 (the biggest race of the year) and the All-Star race with its million dollar purse.
He’s also won at Martinsville, giving him two points-paying wins on the season. Throw in the fact that he’s leading the points–by a wide margin–and the No. 48 team has itself the makings of a pretty special...
LANCE “LAYEM DOWN” WILLIAMS
Lance started boxing when he was eight years old. Coming out of Muscatine Iowa he ended up with an amateur record of 135-16. Williams won six Iowa Golden Gloves titles. He made it to # 6 in nation one year.In several years he was rated in the Top Ten. Lance won numerous USA boxing state and midwest region titles. He was a seven time state and regional Silver Gloves titlist. Williams...
Chad Dawson vs. Adonis Stevenson preview & prediction
Fight Pick & Preview - "Bad" Chad vs. "Superman" Stevenson:
On June 8, WBC Light Heavyweight Champion “Bad” Chad Dawson defends his belt against hometown favorite Adonis Stevenson at the Bell Centre in Montreal. Dawson is looking to get cooking again as top dog in his weight class after a disastrous attempt to unseat 168-pound kingpin Andre Ward 9 months...
Weekend Afterthoughts On Lucas Matthysse's Invulnerability, Denis Lebedev's Face And More
In the world of great reaction shots to someone getting knocked out as everyone else around them goes nuts, Marco Antonio Barrera witnessing Manny Pacquiao get KO'd > Danny Garcia witnessing Lamont Peterson get KO'd by Lucas Matthysse Saturday. Matthysse, who might face Garcia next for junior welterweight supremacy, said he thought Garcia looked worried. You decide (via...
The great Andre Ward decides to sever ties with the WBC
Rather than becoming the organization’s “Emeritus Champion” and battling the winner of the June bout between Sakio Bika and Marco Periban, The Ring and WBA super middleweight titlist Andre Ward decided to sever ties with the WBC. Ward (26-0, 14 KOs) most recently exited the squared circle in September with a 10th round TKO victory over “Bad” Chad Dawson. A gold medal winner...
Jones crushes Lebedev: The strange odyssey of Guillermo Jones continues…
On May 17, Guillermo Jones scored a major upset with an 11th-round knockout of WBA Cruiserweight Champion Denis Lebedev. Jones, 41, has enjoyed a bizarre, but successful career and he is now back in the mix along with promoter Don King--despite the fact that both fighter and promoter had been written off recently.
Jones is a fighter with a world-class pedigree that stretches back...
Mikey Garcia vs. Juan Manuel Lopez preview & prediction
Fight Pick & Preview - Mikey Garcia vs. JuanMa:
In what figures to be a hard-hitting featherweight title bout, newly-crowned Mikey Garcia makes his first defense against former champion Juan Manuel Lopez on June 15 in Dallas. Garcia has been making some noise lately and is beginning to venture into more dangerous waters. Lopez, meanwhile is looking to put a stop to the slide...
Bernard Hopkins vs. Karo Murat tickets on sale Tuesday for July 13 fight in Brooklyn
Continuing to break his own records, IBF Light Heavyweight Champion Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins will become the oldest fighter in history to make his initial title defense when he faces number one rated IBF light heavyweight contender Karo Murat on Saturday, July 13 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The bout will mark Hopkins' second time fighting in Brooklyn'...
Matthysse Crushes Peterson; Mayweather Next? Alexander Wins and More
Episode 6 of ”Hit the Mitts” shows the highlights from the TKO victories that took place on May 18, 2013. A great Saturday night of fights showcased Lucas Matthysse drilling Lamont Peterson with his radical power. Matthysse forced Peterson to taste canvas three times in just three rounds of boxing. Devon Alexander was also successful in [...]
JERRY QUARRY
Remember Jerry Quarry? He was a perennial mainstay in the heavyweight division throughout the1960′s and 1970′s. The dominant “White Hope” of that era. Jerry was always in the thick of the title picture and had a tremendous following. The fans either loved him or hated him. They could never seem to find a middle ground and either could the odds makers. Just when it seemed...
Amir Khan is ready to get battered by Floyd Mayweather on September 14 in ‘the biggest fight ever in the UK’
Mediocre pugilist Amir Khan claims negotiations are underway to cement a bout versus the great Floyd Mayweather in the United Kingdom on September 14. In an utterly brilliant showing, the 36-year-old Mayweather (44-0, 26 KOs) unanimously outclassed an inferior Robert Guerrero on May 4 and pocketed $32 million for the mismatch. Comparatively, flattened by a left hook in the fourth...
Lucas Matthysse KO’s Lamont Peterson In Impressive Fashion (Video)
I had the amazing privilege of covering the Lucas Matthysse vs Lamont Peterson showdown at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City for BlackSportsOnline.com, and this my recap of Matthysse’s destruction of Peterson.
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Lucas Matthysse has two losses on his resume, and if you ask anyone with vast boxing knowledge, they will tell you he was robbed on two different occasions.
Last at night...
Lucas Matthysse literally beat Lamont Peterson to the punch on knockdown
Lucas Matthysse cemented himself as one of the most dangerous fighters in boxing with his 3rd-round TKO of Lamont Peterson on Saturday night in Atlantic City.
Matthysse (34-2, 32 KOs) knocked down Peterson once in the second and two more times in the third before the referee called it off to save a woozy Peterson. The Argentine’s first knock down of Peterson (32-1-1, 16 KOs) in...
Sugar Shane Mosley Tops Pablo Cesar Cano In Mexico
Shane Mosley, who will be 42 in September, had not won a fight in over three years coming into Saturday night’s bout with Pablo Cesar Cano. That combined with the 18 year gap in age between the fighters made it hard to think that Mosley was there for anything more than a payday. In the [...]
Wladimir Klitschko will destroy Tyson Fury and ‘rip his heart out and make him quit like the ***** he really is!’
Obnoxious British contender Tyson Fury continues to crudely belittle Wladimir Klitschko in hopes of securing a future bout versus The Ring, WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight champion. “I’ll fight that ***** Klitschko any time any place anywhere,” said Fury, 24, who has beaten a host of tomato cans. “All he has to do is name it and I will ready to rip his heart out and make...
Running Undercard Results For Lamont Peterson Vs. Lucas Matthysse
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Keep coming back here for updates on the undercard for Showtime's main event of Lucas Matthysse-Lamont Peterson (junior welterweight). It's a DEEP card, in terms of number of fights, which I previewed here. Highlights -- among the "names", anyway -- include Anthony Peterson, Shawn Porter and Devon Alexander, as well as other brothers of famous...
Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, and the fight that may never take place!
Floyd Mayweather Jr., the pound for pound best boxer in the business who for the second straight year topped Sports Illustrator’s list of the highest-paid American athletes, generated $90 million in earnings last year — with an in-many-ways-more-remarkable $0 coming from endorsements. Mayweather is one of the most popular sports characters on the planet, on the level of a LeBron...
Joe Calzaghe claims ‘he would have beaten’ Andre Ward
Former undefeated super middleweight titlist Joe “The Pride of Wales” Calzaghe told Sky Sports he would have handled WBA, WBC and The Ring super middleweight champion Andre Ward had they ever fought. A southpaw who Ring Magazine rated as a top ten pound-for-pounder from 2006 through 2008, Calzaghe (46-0, 32 KOs) retired after earning a unanimous decision victory over a shopworn...
Lamont Peterson-Lucas Matthysse weigh-in results, photos & video
The Lamont Peterson vs. Lucas Matthysse weigh-in was held this afternoon in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in advance of Saturday night's Showtime televised match-up between two of the top junior welterweights in the world -- who are ironically fighting this fight at a catch-weight above the division, without any of their titles at stake. So there's that. Right here, you'...
Paulie Malignaggi On Drug Testing; Amir Khan On Welterweight; Richard Schaefer On Floyd ...
At Friday's weigh-in for Lamont Peterson-Lucas Matthysse Saturday on Showtime, BoxingScene's David Greisman and I did some interviews on the fight itself, the topics in the headline, some upcoming bouts, the latest figure for Floyd Mayweather-Robert Guerrero pay-per-view sales and more. Read on for word from welterweight/Showtime commentator Paulie Malignaggi; upward-moving...
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