Boxing

Boxing Notebook

Mar 13th, 2010 | By Joe McDonald | Category: Boxing, Top Story

CLOTTEY READY FOR PACQUIAO:   Before leaving for Dallas Texas last week for the biggest fight of his career against welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, Joshua Clottey showed his skills sparring in the Bronx and at the Kingsway Gym in Manhattan.  Pacquaio-Clottey Saturday evening on HBO pay-per-view is the replacement [...]



Mosley and Mayweather nearly come to blows

Mar 4th, 2010 | By Jonathan Yaghoubi | Category: Boxing, Top Story

Boxing superstars Floyd Mayweather and Shane Mosley kicked off their three city media tour with a bang on Tuesday afternoon at the Nokia Theatre in New York City. Both are promoting their mega fight that will take place on May 1st at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Both men had no interest on waiting that [...]



A Boxer’s Quest

Feb 11th, 2010 | By Taylor Hallman | Category: Boxing, Top Story

It was finally time for Jose Torres  fight.  I’d been observing him preparing all evening at Nomads Adventure Quest in South Windsor, Connecticut where the Western New England Golden Gloves were being held.  The owners of the Untouchables boxing gym in Springfield, Mass had asked me to come up and take pictures of their fighter.  [...]



Lopez and Gamboa shine in Knockout wins

Jan 26th, 2010 | By Jonathan Yaghoubi | Category: Boxing, Top Story

Juan Manuel Lopez and Yuriorkis Gamboa took one more step to a future big money showdown between the two kings of the featherweight division.
“JuanMa” Lopez (28-0, 25 KO’s) totally dominated and outmatched the skilled Steven Luevano to take away his WBO featherweight title in fantastic style. Lopez knocked out Luevano with a crushing right-left combo [...]



Pacquiao vs. Clottey To Take Place in Big D

Jan 22nd, 2010 | By Jonathan Yaghoubi | Category: Boxing, Top Story

Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey concluded their two-day, two-city press conference earlier today in New York at Madison Square Garden. Pacquiao (50-3-2, 38 KOs), boxing’s No.1 pound for pound fighter, will make the first defense of his WBO welterweight title when he faces off against the WBO’s number 1 contender, Joshua Clottey(35-3, 20 KOs).
The fight [...]



HBO’s Boxing After Dark makes it first broadcast of 2010 with a very exciting doubleheader.

Jan 22nd, 2010 | By Jonathan Yaghoubi | Category: Boxing, Top Story

For the second time in three months, two of boxing’s brightest young stars will headline a card at the Wamu Theatre in Madison Square Garden. Juan Manuel Lopez and Yurikois Gamboa look to take one last step toward a possible collision course between the two if they are victorious. [...]



Boxing Fact or Fiction

Jan 16th, 2010 | By Jonathan Yaghoubi | Category: Boxing, Top Story

1. Gatti/Ward was the best trilogy of the decade.
Fact..With all due respect to the Vazquez-Marquez trilogy, there was no series of fights this decade that even came close to the amount of drama that Gatti/Ward brought us. It was not just the best trilogy of the decade, but it might been the best in the [...]



Will Someone Get Them Together?

Jan 7th, 2010 | By Rich Mancuso | Category: Boxing, Top Story

Happy New Year!  And hopefully it will be for all of you and for the boxing world that is in limbo. Because the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. can’t seem to agree on blood testing procedures for their potential super bout that is slated for March 13th in [...]



Kids at Morris Park Looking for Another Gym After Inferno

Dec 27th, 2009 | By Rich Mancuso | Category: Boxing, Rich Mancuso, Top Story

They came to their second home Wednesday. The professionals who train at the Morris Park Boxing Gym, the prospects preparing for the upcoming Golden Gloves tournament, and the kids who live in the community, stunned to see their gym destroyed by a fire earlier in the day that also left two families homeless.
“We will rebuild [...]



Undefeated Professional Boxers Continue Win Streak at Broadway Boxing

Dec 20th, 2009 | By Howard Goldin | Category: Boxing, Top Story

Five young, professional boxers continued their undefeated professional careers in the ring at B.B. King’s Blues Club and Grill during the latest edition of DiBella Entertainment’s Broadway Boxing on Wednesday evening, December 16. Each of the young pugilists displayed the skills acquired during an impressive amateur career. Although most of the bouts were short in [...]