Manny Pacquiao, with two victories against Erik Morales, and one against Oscar Larios, is the year’s top fighter, according to USA Today’s fine fight scribe Chuck Johnson.
It looks like Joe Calzaghe’s planned stateside debut next summer will not be against middleweight king Jermain Taylor, who’s been itching to come up in weight, but not for the reason you might think.
Trained by Sean Fitzgerald, the promising 27-year-old Worcester junior middleweight was the 2004 New England Golden Gloves champion, and had recently been working as a sparring partner for WBA champion Jose Rivera while pursuing his own career.
On Saturday, May 5, the biggest fight to hit the sport in decades, and maybe the richest fight in history, between six-division world champion Oscar De La Hoya and unbeaten four-division world champion Floyd Mayweather, will take place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
On this day in 1935, film director John G. Alvidsen was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He would go on to win an Academy Award for directing “Rocky.�
According to today’s Sun, Madonna, the Queen of Pop, aka the Material Girl, plans on directing her first feature film, called “Blade To The Heart,� which explores the fatal Emile Griffith-Benny Paret fight at Madison Square Garden in 1962.
He emerged in 2006 as a pound-for-pound contender and has for years been seen as an all-action banger, so the people are eagerly awaiting the next move for Manny Pacquiao.
On this day in 1905, Philadelphia Jack O’Brien won the world light heavyweight title with a 13th-round stoppage of Bob Fitzsimmons in San Francisco.
Joe Calzaghe, the Wales whaler who’s set to defend his WBO title on April 7 against Contender Peter Manfredo, is trying to protect a 2007 showdown with Jermain Taylor.
“Sylvester Stallone is not a boxer, but he plays one in the movies, so he knows a thing or two about the sport.�
