British promoter Eddie Hearn says he’s planning on building the largest promotional stable in the history of boxing before he’s through. Hearn, who runs Matchroom Boxing, brags that he’s got the No.1 stable in the UK, and now he plans on expanding to the U.S to become the biggest stable over there as well.
Unbeaten IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin met with replacement opponent Vanes Martirosyan on Wednesday afternoon for their final press conference for this Saturday’s contest on HBO at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
Today’s final press conference took place at the beautiful Sheraton Gateway LAX in Los Angeles, California. Martirosyan’s promoter Don King was on hand, as well as GGG’s promoter Tom Loeffler.
BY CONRAD M. CARIÑO
When an up-and-coming fighter beats an elite fighter who is no longer in his prime, does that guarantee him of achieving an elite status in the future? From what I have observed, the usual answer is “no.”
OKLAHOMA CITY (May 1, 2018) — The Sooner State will welcome home its favorite fighting son and one of boxing’s elite champions for a special edition of Top Rank on ESPN Saturday, June 30 at Chesapeake Energy Arena, home of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder. Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez will make the fourth defense of his World Boxing Organization (WBO) super middleweight title against the hard-hitting Roamer Alexis Angulo, while Oklahoma City’s Alex ‘El Cholo’ Saucedo continues his march to a 140-pound title shot against Lenny Zappavigna in a 10-round special attraction.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY—An 11th world title.That will be Manny Pacquiao’s motivation as he started training for his July 15 fight with World Boxing Association welterweight champion Lucas Matthysse of Argentina at the Wild Card gym here.
After building enough stamina from his cardio workouts earlier in the week, Pacquiao reunited with long-time friends and trainers Buboy Fernandez and Raides “Nonoy” Neri and started slow, doing regular gym drills and plotting pre-fight strategies.
FRESNO, Calif. (April 30, 2018) - Two of the world’s most dynamic 115-pound talents — on a collision course to a potential title unification bout — will take center stage at the Save Mart Center on the first Top Rank on ESPN world championship card on ESPN+, Saturday, May 26 at 9:30 p.m. ET.
IBF welterweight champion Errol ‘The Truth’ Spence Jr. (23-0, 20 KOs) says he wants to fight the winner of the Danny Garcia vs. ‘Showtime’ Shawn Porter fight after he gets through with his IBF mandatory challenger Carlos Ocampo (22-0, 13 KOs) on June 16.
Gennady Golovkin knows he cannot afford to lose this Saturday night when he puts his IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight titles on the line for his fight against replacement opponent and 2004 U.S Olympian Vanes Martiroysyan (36-3-1, 21 KOs) at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
WBO junior middleweight champion Sadam ‘World Kid’ Ali (26-1, 14 KOs) will be defending his title on May 12 against replacement opponent Jaime Munguia (28-0, 24 KOs) at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York.
The 21-year-old Munguia, who comes from Mexico, will be stepping in to replace former WBO 154 pound champion Liam Smith as the opponent for the 29-year-old Ali’s first defense of his WBO title.
Daniel Jacobs’s promoter Eddie Hearn says he thinks the International Boxing Federation are going to strip IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin soon, and leave the belt vacant for Sergey Derevyanchenko to fight Jacobs potentially.
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Daniel Jacobs (34-2, 29 KOs) had to battle harder than expected to defeat previously unbeaten junior middleweight Maciej Sulecki (26-1, 10 KOs) in a WBA middleweight title eliminator match on Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Unbeaten heavyweight contender Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller (21-0-1, 18 KOs) outworked former heavyweight world title challenger Johann ‘Reptile’ Duhaupas (37-5, 24 KOs) in winning a fairly one-sided 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night on HBO Boxing at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
