Oscar De La Hoya signed Manny Pacquiao to a seven fight deal and the way he did it is looking like a textbook snag from the King playbook. De La Hoya grabbed Pacquiao right after Pacman arrived at the Los Angeles airport on Monday.
In defense of his WBC International super flyweight title, Jorge “Travieso� Arce (45-3-1, 35 KOs) stopped former WBO 108-pound champion Hawk Makepula (28-4, 18 KOs) at 1:00 of the fourth round Saturday night at the Dodge Arena in Hidalgo, Texas.
On this day in 1952, Rocky Marciano won the heavyweight title with a 13th round knockout of Jersey Joe Walcott at Philadelphia’s Municipal Stadium.
Emanuel Steward is suffering. He ‘sat down on the couch, hunched over and covered his face with his hands – the same hands that made him an amateur champion as a young man and later helped him tutor some of the greatest fighters who ever stepped in the ring,’ reports the AP.
At the murder trial of the man accused of murdering Julian Letterlough, Senior Judge Albert A. Stallone on Thursday asked a Berks County jury to resume deliberations in the case of accused shooter Kenneth Blunt.
On this day in 1927, one of boxing’s most notorious events took place… and Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight championship against Jack Dempsey.
Four-time world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield and his November 10 PPV opponent, Fast Fres Oquendo, held a Thursday morning press conference to publicize their November 10 12-round bout at the Alamodome in San Antonio.
When you go to some of the other top boxing websites, please notice that many of those sites feature ads from promoters and other power players in this business. Some of those websites regularly feature content straight from the mouths of those sponsors of their websites.
On October 8, another major card will take place in the great city of Milan. In the main event, former WBO world lightweight and super lightweight champion Giovanni Parisi (41 wins, 4 losses and 1 draw) will fight European welterweight king Frederic Klose (38-5).
Undefeated Welsh super middleweight sensation Joe Calzaghe, with his body healed and his confidence soaring, is in training to defend his IBF/WBO titles against Sakio Bika on Saturday, October 14, at the M.E.N Arena in Manchester, England.
