Manny Pacquiao’s looking pretty much like a bowss right there on the cover of Time mag, the Asian edition. I’ll have more to say on his latest publicity blitz in half a minute. Mainly I’m just happy that a few fights I’ve been writing about every week for months are getting unstuck to varying degrees, as [...]
‘REAL CHAMPIONS’ PAUL WILLIAMS VS. SERGIO MARTINEZ CHRIS ARREOLA BACK IN ACTION DEC. 5 IN ATLANTIC CITY ON HBO Los Angeles, CA (November 5, 2009) – What do a pair of fearless world champions do - one who is the most feared fighter and the other most avoided - when no other fighter is willing to get into the [...]
After a two-week search for a new opponent, Paul Williams has one. He will meet junior middleweight titlist Sergio Martinez in a nontitle middleweight bout Dec. 5, Williams promoter Dan Goossen told ESPN.com.
by Lem Satterfield Filed under: WBA , WBC , IBF , WBO , HBO , FanHouse Exclusive , IBO Paul Williams is pursuing a fight with either WBO junior middleweight champion Sergiy Dzinziruk or Sergio Martinez on Dec. 5 in Atlantic City now that his scheduled bout for the same night, against Kelly Pavlik , has been canceled, his promoter, Dan Goossen , and his trainer and manager, George Peterson, told FanHouse....
Maybe they should just cancel the rest of the boxing year and chalk it up to injury. Another potentially great fight has been derailed in the injury-plagued year of ’09, this one a bout that we hardly even had a chance to imagine. Bob Arum’s Top Rank Promotions sent out a press release last night stating that, due to a lingering staph infection on the middle finger of his left hand, Kelly...
• Police say boxer slain in apparent robbery • Forrest becomes third boxer murdered within a month The former welterweight boxing champion Vernon Forrest has been shot and killed during an apparent robbery in Atlanta, according to reports in the United States. Forrest, 38, may have been robbed and was shot "multiple times in the back", said a spokeswoman for the Atlanta police...
Many at OnThEGRINDBoXing believed that Mora shouldn't even get this shot at Pavlik, and that Pavlik should go on to face someone like a Sergio Martinez or a Vernon Forrest. I think The Latin Snake deserves his shot for a couple [...]
WBC NAMES SERGIO MARTINEZ WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPION (June 10, 2009) The World Boxing Council has officially named Sergio Martinez the welterweight champion of the world. Martinez (44-1-2, 24 KOs) won the interim version of the title last October, stopping well-regarded veteran Alex Bunema in 8 rounds. In a statement released by the WBC on May 20, President Jose [...]
Vernon Forrest, who is out indefinitely with a rib injury and long overdue on a mandatory junior middleweight title defense against interim titlist Sergio Martinez, was stripped of his belt on Thursday.
Daniel Santos will face Sergio Martinez on Feb. 14 on an HBO "Boxing After Dark" card that was expanded from two fights to a tripleheader to accommodate the Santos-Martinez bout.
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