A look at Cotto-Martinez Middleweight champion Sergio Martinez is closing in on a finalized deal to defend his WBC and RING titles against Miguel Cotto at Madison Square Garden on June 7. It is also rumoured that, if confirmed, the lucrative fight will take place at a 159 pound catch weight. Cotto has the date

Behind The Gloves’ Allan McGoldrick talk exclusively to two-time world title contender and current WBA interim middleweight champion Martin Murray. Murray discusses with BTG his future hopes among other things. AM Martin, easy one to start with. What have you individually learned from 2013? And what are Team Murray and Hatton Promotions hopes for 2014?

Golovkin a deserved huge favorite over Adama on Saturday Gennady Golovkin is back in action this weekend (Feb. 1) when he defends his WBA & IBO middleweight world titles against Osumanu Adama in the glamorous European destination of Monte Carlo, Monaco. Rumours circulated towards the end of 2013 that the unbeaten Kazakhstan fighter, nicknamed ‘GGG’,

WBC ratings reveal Chavez Jr. #1 at 168, Broner stripped at 135 Despite one controversy covered career win at 168 pounds for son of a legend Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., he is now ranked number one at the weight by the World Boxing Council (WBC). The decision is par for the course for the WBC

Cruz-Cintron added to Mar. 15 NBC Sports card A Pennsylvania ten-round grudge match pitting Bethlehem’s Ronald Cruz against Reading’s Kermit Cintron has been added to the NBC Sports card headlined by heavyweights Tomasz Adamek against Vyacheslav Glazkov, promoter Main Events announced via a press release on Thursday. Cruz (20-2, 15 knockouts) will be fighting in

The State of the Game Several years ago, it was said that MMA would kill boxing and put it in its grave. Like a fighter who is out on their feet and then comes back to score a knockout, boxing’s demise was greatly exaggerated. In order to understand the “state of the game”, you need

  Martinez set for April defense against Hasegawa in Japan IBF junior featherweight champion Kiko Martinez is set to make the second defense of his title against former bantamweight champion Hozumi Hasegawa in the challenger’s home country of Japan according to Nathan Lewkowicz. Lewkowicz is an executive of Sampson Boxing Promotions, a co-promoter of Martinez

Golovkin’s hands full with durable Adama Gennady Golovkin is one of boxing’s rising stars at the moment and he has an upcoming title defense of his WBA middleweight title in Monte Carlo against Osumanu Adama on Feb. 1. Adama enters this fight with a record of 22-3 (16 knockouts). He is a former title challenger

Hopes for 2014 Ah, 2014. A new year that if it’s anything like 2013 will have high’s and low’s in the sweet science. We’ll see at least one fight get major mainstream attention, we’ll (hopefully not) see deserving fighters be robbed from decisions, we’ll be deprived from seeing fights that for business (selfish?) purposes just

TOP 10 Fights we need to see in 2014 2013 was one of the best years in boxing that we’ve had in a long time. We had the massive event of Floyd Mayweather vs. Canelo Alvarez in which Mayweather put on a spectacular performance in defeating the then undefeated Alvarez, to go along with so many