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 […]
After another quiet summer, boxing is back with a vengeance. HBO opened an action packed rest of the year with a day-night doubleheader headlined by Gennady “GGG” Golovkin heading to London to take on Kell Brook and his giant balls in front of a sold out O2 Arena filled with some of the world’s most […]
A few weeks ago, when UCN got some exclusive early access to Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, we ran into a new character in Big Bear as Abel Sanchez and Team GGG prepare for next week’s fight against Kell Brook in London. Sparring parter to the middleweight champion of the world, Kenneth McNeil, came up with our […]
A few weeks ago, after Andre Ward was a no-show for what was supposed to be the opening press conference announcing #KovalevWard, UCN’s Steve Kim appropriately asked “We have a fight…right?” As we readied ourselves for a Saturday full of NFL pre-season action, Steve answered his own question. You can all book ur […]
This week, super-agency WME-IMG officially took the reigns of the UFC, after purchasing it for a mere $4B, and watched Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz battle for 5 intense, bloody rounds in their first event as ownership. Ari Emanuel, co-CEO of WME-IMG (and the inspiration for Entourage character Ari Gold) was smiling ear-to-ear at […]
Oh, boxing, let’s face it. You are as compelling outside of the ropes as you are inside the ring. Sure, we love when two masters of The Sweet Science step into the ring and put on a show. Hell, we love it when two guys who don’t know technique but know how to let their […]
Following his induction to the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame last weekend, the former WBA lightweight strap holder, and UCN friend and contributor, Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini stopped by the office/studio for a lively Facebook Live version of Gloves Off with UCN’s Steve Kim. Wide ranging and hard hitting, as always, Ray let his hands (and mouth) […]
