California-born junior middleweight Neeco “The Rooster” Macias, 17-0 (10), will return to the ring for his third bout of 2018 and his first since inking a new promotional deal with Golden Boy Promotions, when he takes on veteran Jesus Soto Karass on November 8th, at Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California (ESPN2, 11 p.m. ET/ […]
American fans got to witness elite 140-pound World Boxing Super Series combatants Regis Prograis and Ivan Baranchyk in New Orleans, last week, but, over in Scotland, a young boxer with less than 15 fights is being heralded as the next great junior welterweight. No, Josh “The Tartan Tornado” Taylor, 13-0 (11), does not hold an […]
On the night of October 22, 2011, Nonito Donaire (then the WBC and WBO 118-pound champion) out-pointed Omar Narvaez over 12 rather pedestrian rounds at the Theater of Madison Square Garden, in New York City. It was the last time that Donaire fought as a bantamweight. For the past seven years, which encompass 15 […]
Serhii “El Flaco” Bohachuk kept his perfect record alive after knocking out Ronald Montes in the first round on Tuesday night. The middleweight contest was the main event of a 360 Promotions “Hollywood Fight Nights” club show held at the Avalon Theater in Hollywood, California. “Gracias, muchachos,” said the Ukrainian prospect to the crowd […]
On Saturday, November 3, live from the Don Haskins Convention Center in El Paso, Texas, WBC junior lightweight world champion Miguel “El Alacrán” Berchelt, 34-1 (30), will defend his title against Miguel “Mickey” Roman, 60-12 (47), live on ESPN. Berchelt, from Cancun, Mexico, is looking to successfully make the fourth defense of his world […]
Regis “Rougarou” Prograis outboxed Terry Flanagan to a dominant unanimous decision (119-108, 118-109 and 117-110) win on Saturday night – advancing himself to the World Boxing Super Series junior welterweight tournament semi-final – and the southpaw contender showed a different dynamic in the process. The fight was the main event of a card streamed […]
K2 Promotions Managing Director Tom Loeffler recently “came out of seclusion” to sit down with Steve Kim to discuss IBF/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin’s long-awaited fight against THE RING Magazine middleweight champion/WBO junior middleweight titlist Saul “Canelo” Alvarez on Sept. 16 at a venue to be determined. At the end of the interview, Tom answers […]
Live from Madison Square Garden, the opening kick-off press conference for “Middleweight Madness” between Gennady “GGG” Golovkin and Daniel Jacobs. The press conference is scheduled for 12pm Eastern and 9 am Pacific.
It was a busy week for boxing’s favorite octogenarians. Top Rank’s Bob Arum is taking his highest draw, Manny Pacquiao, under his own pay-per-view production after HBO passed on Pac-Man’s upcoming fight against Jessie Vargas. Arum also made news when tweeting “Amateur hour is over” when he gave Michael Conlan the biggest contract ever for […]
The week started at The Forum in Inglewood, CA, home of 1980s Showtime Lakers, with a great brawl, memorialized by the Undisputed Champion Network (thank you HBO Sports), between Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez and Carlos Cuadras, as Chocolatito won a title in his 4th division. Relive an epic #boxing duel between @chocolatitobox and @CuadrasOficial, great video by @UCNlive https://t.co/0FipCcl2yJ — Fighters Land […]
