Last Saturday nights HBO Boxing after Dark Broadcast featured an absolute special fight between Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios and “Mile High” Mike Alvarado. In the main event, two technically sound fighters in Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire and Toshiaki Nishioka battled it out for supremacy of the junior […]
This weekend in boxing was action-packed and provided enough thrills and surprises to keep the boxing community satisfied. In the super middleweight (168 Ibs.) division, Edwin “La Bomba” Rodriguez (22-0 15KO) continued his rise to the top with a one-sided eighth-round stoppage victory over fringe contender Jason Escalera […]
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (46-1-1 32KO) almost repeated history Saturday night. Almost. With that in mind, Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez (50-2-2 28KO) put on a masterpiece for 11 rounds and showed the kind of will that makes a champion a champion by surviving a brutal last round knockdown and […]
Andre Ward (26-0 14KO) was already favored to beat Chad Dawson (31-2 17KO) but virtually nobody expected Ward to make it look so easy, to dominate and frankly, embarrass Dawson to the point where after Dawson suffered a third knockdown in the tenth round, Dawson asked the referee […]
A star shined bright in Verona, New York yesterday as Gennady Golovkin (24-0 21KO) of Kazakhstan lived up to and exceeded expectations by brutalizing a good fighter in Grzegorz Proska (28-2 21KO) within five rounds. Golovkin came into the fight with high expectations considering his amateur background and […]
Daniel Geale (28-1 15KO) earned the biggest and most important victory of his career by defeating Felix Sturm (37-3-2 16KO) in his own backyard by split decision. The fact that he was able to beat Sturm by a close decision in Germany is a miracle in it of […]
In the main event of a Showtime televised program unbeaten prospect Randy Caballero (16-0 8KO) outpointed game fighter Manuel Roman (15-2-3 6KO) through 10 rounds in the bantamweight division (118 Ibs.). Caballero fought at a distance by throwing accurate jabs and straight right crosses. Roman was able to […]
On Friday night, Carlos Molina (20-5-2 6KO) dominated and outboxed Cuban southpaw Damian Frias (19-5-1 10KO) to a unanimous decision victory in the main event of the season finale of Friday Night Fights on ESPN. Molina won the bout with in-and-out movement and a busier offense as he […]
Monarchy and the United States usually don’t mix, considering the history of this country. But on August 15th, Mariner’s fans would have most likely welcomed one king in particular to govern the city of Seattle. “King” Felix Hernandez delivered a pitching performance worthy of royalty as he dominated […]
Last weekend, virtually everyone was in uproar over the controversial and questionable decision that was awarded to Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley (29-0 12 KO) over Filipino superstar Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao (54-4-2 38 KO). But before we discuss that, let’s not forgot that there were indeed other fights that […]
