0 comments by Alex McClintock on 6/8/2015
In my time doing this weekly schedule (more than two years), I can’t recall a stretch where high level boxing has been on TV as consistently as it has in the last month. I use the term “high level” fairly loosely — if you look at this week’s fights, there are a lot of big […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor on 6/6/2015
NEW YORK CITY — Lineal middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (39-4) returned to the ring after a year of inactivity to defend his title for the first time in facing Daniel Geale (31-3) in Brooklyn Saturday night on HBO. Cotto (above left) made a statement by knocking Geale out with a brutal assault that ended it […]
0 comments by Jeff Pryor
NEW YORK CITY — Keep checking back here for running undercard results from ringside for the Cotto vs Geale undercard, leading into Saturday’s HBO main event between Miguel and Daniel. Dustin Fleischer vs. Kareem Milner — Welterweight Entering the ring with the support of the local crowd, Dustin Fleischer (1-0) came out swinging against his […]
0 comments by Tim Starks
Robert Guerrero won a controversial split decision Saturday on NBC, the kind that is damning because of whom he did it against. Aron Martinez was there to restore Guerrero to the win column, pure and simple, and instead it was a bruising fight — in its tone, and literally, on each man’s face — that Guerrero […]
0 comments by Lou Catalano on 6/2/2015
Robert Guerrero needs a win. Badly. He’s lost two of his last three, albeit against some pretty nasty welterweight competition named Keith Thurman, Yoshihiro Kamegai and Floyd Mayweather. He lost basically every second to Mayweather, but gutted out a win 13 months later against Kamegai, who is a badass. In his first fight for Al […]
0 comments by Lou Catalano on 6/1/2015
There was a fact forgotten underneath all the avocado and spandex jokes — Chris Algieri can actually fight. He reiterated that fact for us Friday night on Spike TV against Amir Khan. Algieri was last seen getting bounced around the ring and beaten up badly by Manny Pacquiao last November. The majority of fans and […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock
Miguel Cotto knows that when Miguel Cotto fights its a big deal for the boxing world (and Miguel Cotto). Fans of third-person sports interviews and 157 lb middleweights rejoice; Cotto is fighting Australia’s Daniel Geale this week. That’s almost it for the boxing schedule, really, though there are some club fights on Tuesday and a […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/29/2015
Chris Algieri brought it Friday night on “Premier Boxing Champions” on Spike, giving Amir Khan more than anyone thought he might be able to give. It wasn’t enough for Algieri to win the decision. It might’ve been enough to cost Khan, who aspires to a Mayweather showdown, a lot of money. Algieri had no chance […]
0 comments by Sam Sheppard on 5/28/2015
Martin Murray sat beside compatriot Darren Barker in the Sky Sports Studio as a smile grew across his face. A sturdy, thick-necked middleweight with a history of violent crime, he listened incredulously as Birmingham-born Matthew Macklin boasted proudly of his exploits, both domestically and abroad. Calling in from his gym on the south coast of […]
0 comments by Lou Catalano on 5/27/2015
Chris Algieri had a really, really bad night against Manny Pacquiao the last time he was in the ring. There’s no shame in that; Pacquiao has given plenty of great fighters plenty of bad nights. But Algieri has bounced back to a headlining spot on TV, and Friday night on Spike’s “Premier Boxing Champions” broadcast, […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/26/2015
(50 Center lowered to the boxing ring while rapping; via) The schadenfreude is pretty heavy Tuesday after 50 Cent filed for bankruptcy for his boxing promotion company, SMS Promotions. This is just a note of caution about what it means, what it doesn’t mean and what it might not mean. It should surprise no one that […]
0 comments by Alex McClintock on 5/25/2015
If the boxing schedule is anything to go by, this whole Al Haymon thing seems to be working out OK so far. This week he’s promoting (er, sorry, “advising”) a show featuring welterweights Amir Khan and Chris Algieri. It’s not going to set the world on fire, but the undercard could be a cheeky hit. […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/24/2015
People just can’t get enough cinnamon these days. Quick Jabs We were waiting to talk about the Canelo Alvarez ratings for his fight with James Kirkland until we got more solid info on how much the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao replay helped boost it, but there is no solid info on that. What we do know […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/23/2015
James DeGale and Andre Dirrell waged a close battle Saturday on NBC — and it was actually a battle, contrary to our expectations of a hunt-and-peck affair — and DeGale came out on top by decision, despite visiting from the U.K. and taking on the “house” fighter. The two super middleweights took turns being totally […]
0 comments by Tim Starks on 5/22/2015
Goodnight, Friday Night Fights on ESPN2. Fittingly, the show’s official ending — before it moves to boxing adviser Al Haymon’s empire under a different name — concluded with two knockouts. One was a surprise. One wasn’t. Brandon Adams, who looked like he would be the best fighter to come out of this installment of the […]
