UFC Heavyweight Champ Cain VelasquezTRAVIS BROWN “GASSED” EARLY IN CAREER CHANGER
Los Angeles, CA- Fabricio Werdum (18-5-1) became the next heavyweight (265 lb. limit) title challenger with a dominant 5-round decision win over Travis Browne (16-2-1) in the main event of UFC on Fox 11. Browne started the bout...
BERNARD HOPKINS UNIFIES ALPHABET TITLES AT 175LBS AT AGE 49!
Las Vegas, NV-Sometimes things defy what appears to be common sense or logic, and Saturday night at the D.C. Armory in Washington D.C. that is exactly what ocurred. While Bernard “The Alien” Hopkins (55-6-2, 32 KOs)
Bernard Hopkins
was a slight favorite...
HEAVYWEIGHTS TOP UFC ON FOX 11 SATURDAY 8 PM ET
Travis Browne-Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva
Los Angeles, CA- The UFC comes back to Big Fox for UFC on Fox 11 Saturday (April 20). The event is headlined by a bout between heavyweights (265 limit) Fabricio Werdum (17-5-1) and Travis Browne (16-1-1)...
TIME FOR HOPKINS TO FIND A NEW VOCATION
Bernard Hopkins Owns “Just for Men”
Las Vegas, NV- It seems as if Bernard “The Alien” Hopkins has been around the boxing game forever. With multiple championships in the 160 and 175 lb. divisions, the 49-year old current IBF light heavyweight champion (175)...
MANNY PACQUIAO HAS DECISIONS TO MAKE
Manny “What Do I Do” Pacquiao
New York, NY- Newly crowned WBO welterweight (147 lb.) champ Manny Pacquiao (56-5-2, 38 KOs) clearly defeated Timothy Bradley (31-1, 12 KOs) this past weekend and has placed himself back in the boxing mix. But will this win have...
DON’T DISMISS ALEX ARIZA WHEN HE SPEAKS
Pacquiao & Alex Ariza
San Francisco, CA- Nutrition guru and strength conditioning coach Alex Ariza has made quite a mark in his boxing tenure. He started getting props for his being with Manny Pacquiao during a period of time when the Filipino was making...
SAW ARCHIE MOORE LETTERS NOW IN HALL OF FAME
Paint On Side Of Pacquiao BusSan Francisco, CA– In the late 1980s, the late Godfather of boxing writers Jack Fiske showed me a number of handwritten letters from then light heavyweight challenger Archie Moore. “The Old Mongoose” eloquently penned letters to...
FOX SPORTS & OSCAR DE LA HOYA DO CHICAGO
Ronny Rios-Andrew Cancio
Chicago, IL- It was an exciting night with boxing at the UIC Pavilion and broadcast on Fox Sports. The main event was a barn burner, filled with back and forth action between jr. lightweights (130 lb.) Ronny Rios...
Toby Gibson’s Last Fight
TOBY GIBSON THIRD SUICIDAL REFEREE
Las Vegas, NV– Toby Gibson, a veteran Nevada boxing referee was found dead on November 24, 2008 in the garage of his home in Las Vegas by his wife. And while nobody is saying just how the 61-year old Gibson...
LOTS OF FISTIC HISTORY IN CHI-TOWN
“Sugar Ray” Robinson
Chicago, IL– This was once a boxing hot bed playing host to some of the biggest fights of the 20th century such as Gene Tunney’s “Long Count” victory over Jack Dempsey, Sugar Ray Robinson’s decision over Carmen Basilio to even the score...
