Month: June 2021

Unbeaten prospects will highlight the non-televised undercard this Saturday, July 3 as Angel Alejandro battles fellow unbeaten Rudy Ochoa in an eight-round super featherweight duel, while Shon Mondragon takes on José Pérez in a six-round featherweight attraction from Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California in a Premier Boxing Champions event. Unbeaten Interim WBA Super
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Posted on 06/29/2021 By: Hans Themistode At the age of 33, Danny Garcia has had a long and successful career. At one point, he ruled over the 140-pound division, knocking off top names such as Amir Khan, Zab Judah and Lucas Matthysse. He then moved on to the welterweight division where he captured a world
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Feature • Issue • Premium AFP via Getty Images The death of British heavyweight Brian London brings to mind two personal memories. By Thomas Hauser BRIAN LONDON, who plied his trade a generation before Lennox Lewis destroyed the narrative of “horizontal English heavyweights,” died on June 23 at age 87. London was born in West
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Posted on 06/28/2021 By: Kirk Jackson Again, he displayed star power. Another exciting, back and forth fight, another exhilarating finish and a wonderful display from both Gervonta “Tank” Davis (25-0, 24 KOs) and Mario “El Azteca” Barrios (26-1, 17 KOs). While we await pay-per-view results and other pecuniary numbers from the event this past weekend,
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7:42 PM ET Associated Press The International Boxing Association’s new president is confident his beleaguered organization will be welcomed back into the Olympic family after the Tokyo Games. Umar Kremlev said at a news conference Monday in Switzerland that AIBA is implementing the changes necessary to get back in the good graces of the International
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Less than two weeks after initially coming together, Nonito Donaire’s August 14th bantamweight unification match with John Riel Casimero has already hit rough waters. The two camps, specifically Donaire’s wife and manager Rachel Donaire and Casimero’s promoter Sean Gibbons, spent the weekend in a war of words over Casimero’s enrollment in VADA testing. Things seemingly
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Issue • News • Premium Bert Hardy/Getty Images Regardless of what happened against Muhammad Ali in 1966, Brian London deserves to be remembered among the best of all 20th century British heavyweights, writes Matt Christie BRIAN LONDON not only fought them all, he outlived them all. The former British heavyweight champion, who shared a ring
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