Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana final press conference quotes   LAS VEGAS (April 30, 2014) – A focused Floyd Mayweather stated Saturday’s SHOWTIME® PPV showdown with Marcos Maidana could be the best performance of his storied career knowing that Marcos Maidana has knockout percentage of more than 80 percent. “Everybody keeps asking who is going to crack

Lucas Matthysse outlasts John Molina, stops him in 11th round of Fight of the Year candidate On paper, the fight between Lucas Matthysse and John Molina was considered a mismatch, with Matthysse being a more than 15-to-1 favorite. Saturday night in Showtime‘s co-feature, they proved why they fight the fights as Molina took Matthysse down

Bernard Hopkins-Beibut Shumenov conference call transcript Kelly Swanson This week has been jam-packed with information about the April 19 ‘History at the Capitol. Yesterday, we did a conference call with the undercard fighters, and now, we have our main event fighters available today to talk to the press. I’m very excited about it. Bernard Hopkins,

Amir Khan and Luis Collazo conference call transcript Below is a full transcript of the conference call featuring Amir Khan, Luis Collazo, Richard Schaefer, and Stephen Espinoza. Kelly Swanson I’m going to go ahead and call this media conference call today the second moment of “THE MOMENT” for a fight that was announced this week.

Keith Thurman, Lucas Matthysse, Omar Figueroa card announced for Apr. 26 in Carson LOS ANGELES (March 26, 2014) – StubHub Center in Carson, Calif., has rapidly become known amongst boxing aficionados as the place to be to see world-class fights and fighters. On Saturday, April 26, that reputation continues to grow as Golden Boy Promotions and

Khan-Collazo officially announced for May 3 Golden Boy Promotions officially announced on Monday that Amir Khan will face Luis Collazo on the May 3 Showtime pay-per-view undercard of Floyd Mayweather against Marcos Maidana. The fight takes place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Behind The Gloves reported the other day that the announcement would

Canelo-Angulo PPV tops 350k buys Last Saturday’s Showtime pay-per-view event headlined by Canelo Alvarez‘s tenth round stoppage of Alfredo Angulo exceeded 350,000 PPV buys, the network (as well as Golden Boy Promotions, the promotional company responsible for the event) announced on Friday. The fight also did extremely well at the live gate according to ESPN.com’s Dan Rafael, selling

Floyd Mayweather in trouble? TMZ.com reported on Tuesday evening that Floyd Mayweather allegedly orchestrated a beatdown of former employees, suspicious that they had stolen some jewelry of his that went missing. Though it is currently an unsourced story, TMZ has a decent but not spectacular track record of these things. The allegations specify that two

Russell Jr. squash match added to Ortiz-Collazo Golden Boy Promotions announced Monday via a press release that 2008 US Olympian Gary Russell Jr. will be opening this Thursday’s Super Bowl week show headlined by Victor Ortiz against Luis Collazo. The card takes place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY and will be televised by

Canelo-Angulo LA press conference open to press tomorrow! Tomorrow’s Los Angeles press conference announcing the Mar. 8 Showtime pay-per-view headlined by Saul “Canelo” Alvarez vs. Alfredo Angulo at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas will be open to the public. The event takes place at the Los Angeles Central Public Library in the outdoor plaza