Amir Khan (19-1, 15 KOs; age 22) will fight Mexican legend and Marco Antonio Barrera (64-6, 43 KOs; age 34).
No venue or TV has been announced, but the bout will take place in the UK.
Barrera is promoted by Don King, Khan by Frank Warren. Khan is now being trained by Freddie Roach, and [...]
It just struck me, as I read the comments to the news that Pacquiao-Hatton I is on….TSS is home to the smartest fight fans out there. More than any other fightsite, the smartest fans come here.
Just my two cents, I may be biased…
EM
And Happy Holidays if you celebrate something else!
MJW
Log on, or else! Or else you won’t, in which case you will miss another superior BORGES column…
This note just in case you thought we were blowing off the Wlad-Rahman fight entirely!
Broadcasting & Cable reports that Oscar De La Hoya’s loss to Manny Pacquiao generated 1.25 million buys and $70 million in PPV revenues.
This marks the fourth time a non-heavyweight boxing match has hit the million buys mark, the report said, and this number makes it the biggest PPV event of the year, in boxing or [...]
It looks like maybe the rumored Berto/Mosley fight was hatched merely as a negotiating ploy, because Dan Rafael reports that Margarito/Mosley is back on.
“It’s back together. Everybody got satisfied. Everybody was sensible,” Top Rank’s Bob Arum, Margarito’s promoter, told ESPN.com’s Rafael. “We adjusted the purses as far as HBO putting more money in and [...]
The best is about to get better, TSS Universe.
Monday, we’re adding another top-notch talent to the stable.
He’s a veteran, and as we all savor the superlative showing by Bernard Hopkins, I think you’ll agree that there is no substitute for the breadth and depth of knowledge coming from somebody who’s been a fighterwriter [...]
ESPN has a newsmagazine show, like 60 Minutes. It’s called E:60. They ran a segment on Kelly Pavlik on the latest episode. Jeremy Schaap reported, and I have to say the piece, utilizing music by Bruce Springsteen (”Youngstown,” off The Ghost of Tom Joad) is rock-solid.
I throw down my two cents in the piece.
Here [...]
A tidbit I forgot to share…
Freddie Roach told me that new client Amir Khan will give Manny Pacquiao sparring leading up to the Dec. 6 Oscar/Manny tiff.
Also, New Yorker Yuri Foreman will be brought in to give an Oscar-type look.
The young Puerto Rican bantamweight star Juan Manuel Lopez took care of business, and foe Cesar Figueroa in brisk fashion on Saturday evening in Hato Rey, PR. A lead left hand/right hook combo sent Figueroa, a 30-year-old Mexican fighter, to the mat, and he couldn’t beat the count of ten. The time of the stop: [...]
