By Geno McGahee This Saturday in Brooklyn, New York, WBA welterweight champion, Paulie Malignaggi, 32-4, 7 KO’s, tries to hold onto his title against the “next big thing” in boxing, Adrien Broner, 26-0, 22 KO’s, who is moving up from lightweight to challenge. This is a very compelling matchup with some serious questions posed to [...]
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Adrien Broner Vs Paulie Malignaggi: OFFICIAL BOXING BREAKDOWN – Showtime Saturday Fight Card – Boxing News
June 17th, 2013 
Geno Mike Tyson Returns to Boxing: THE BITE FIGHT by George Willis – BOOK REVIEW
June 12th, 2013 Geno By Geno McGahee I’m 38 years old and when I speak to other boxing fans from my generation, they all mention the same name that drew them to the sport: Mike Tyson. I began watching boxing sporadically when Larry Holmes ruled boxing, but his in-ring exploits or out of the ring persona didn’t capture my [...]
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Tags: bite fight, george willis, holyfield, Rematch, Showtime, Tyson 
No Comments »Marcos Maidana Vs Josesito Lopez & Alfredo Angulo Vs Erislandy Lara: BOXING WAR HEATS UP – Boxing News
June 3rd, 2013 Geno Kelly Swanson Thanks, everybody for joining us for this call. We’re going to have four separate fighters on the phone, and we’re going to start with Alfredo Angulo and Erislandy Lara followed by Maidana and Lopez. I’m going to turn it over to Dave Itskowitch, Chief Operating Officer of Golden Boy Promotions right away so [...]
Lamont Peterson Vs Lucas Matthysse BOXING RESULTS – SHOWTIME BOXING NEWS
May 18th, 2013 Geno By Geno McGahee Devon Alexander, 25-1, 14 KO’s, dominated Lee Purdy, 20-4-1, 13 KO’s, en route to a seventh round stoppage. Alexander threw a lot of punches and punished Purdy every round, avoiding nearly all of the incoming punches. Purdy could never find anything that worked and spent most of the time defending. He brought [...]
Lucas Matthysse Vs Lamont Peterson OFFICIAL BOXING BREAKDOWN: Saturday Night Showdown on Showtime: BOXING NEWS
May 13th, 2013 Geno By Geno McGahee This Saturday, Lamont Peterson, 31-1-1, 16 KO’s, will be stepping into the ring against one of the most dangerous punchers in boxing, Lucas Matthysse, 33-2, 31 KO’s, in a 12 round bout on Showtime.
Canelo Alvarez – Austin Trout BOXING SHOCKER – Major Update – Boxing News
April 9th, 2013 Geno From the makers of ALL ACCESS, SHOWTIME® Sports takes viewers behind the scenes and into the lives of undefeated WBC Super Welterweight World Champion Canelo Alvarez and unbeaten WBA Super Welterweight World Champion Austin Trout with a sneak peek of their highly anticipated fight in a special ALL ACCESS: CANELO vs. TROUT PREVIEW. Cameras follow [...]
Canelo Alvarez – Austin Trout BOXING NEWS: Major Change – BOXING NEWS
April 4th, 2013 Geno Junior middleweight prospect KeAndrae “Lightning” Leatherwood (12-2-1, 8 KOs) has been added to the undercard of Saul Alvarez and Austin Trout’s unification bout at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas which takes place April 20th. Boxing 360′s Leatherwood will compete in a 10-round bout against Golden Boy Promotions undefeated Julian Williams (11-0-1, 6 KOs) from [...]
Floyd Mayweather JR SHOWTIME DEAL SHOCKER: Ishe Smith Cries After Emotional Victory – BOXING NEWS
February 24th, 2013 Geno Ishe Smith captured the IBF Junior Middleweight World Championship and became the first Las Vegas native to win a major world title when he scored a split decision victory over Cornelius “K9” Bundrage in the main event of a special edition of SHOWTIME BOXING at the Masonic Temple Theatre in Detroit, Mich. The fight was [...]
Floyd Mayweather JR NEXT OPPONENT NAMED: SHOWTIME DEAL Announced – Boxing News
February 19th, 2013 Geno By Geno McGahee The pound for pound best in the game, Floyd Mayweather, JR., just signed on the dotted line with the Showtime network, inking a six fight deal, starting with a May 4th showdown with Robert Guerrero. Floyd has been with HBO for a long time, but money talks and Money Mayweather has been [...]
Lucas Matthysse Vs Mike Dallas JR WAR: SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING News
January 26th, 2013 Geno All the boxers competing on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING and SHOWTIME EXTREME tomorrow, Saturday, January 26, made weight Friday at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The always-exciting, hard-hitting WBC Interim Super Lightweight World Champion Lucas Matthysse (32-2, 30 KO’s), of Trelew, Argentina, will defend against confident, upset-minded Mike “The Silent Assassin” Dallas Jr. [...]
Amir Khan Dominates, Deontay Wilder Destroys & More – SHOWTIME FULL BOXING REPORT
December 16th, 2012 Geno British superstar and former Unified Super Lightweight World Champion Amir “King” Khan punctuated a sensational day-night boxing marathon presented by Golden Boy Promotions and SHOWTIME Sports® by winning a dominant 10th round TKO over gallant but out-gunned Carlos Molina Saturday on SHOWTIME® from The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. Making his first start with new [...]
Amir Khan READY FOR WAR – British Boxing News – Saturday Night Showtime Showdown
December 13th, 2012 Geno Golden Boy Promotions hosted the final press conference Wednesday for the unprecedented day-night boxing doubleheader that will take place this Saturday, Dec. 15, live on CBS Television Network (first fight 4:30 p.m. ET/1:30 p.m. PT), SHOWTIME EXTREME® (9:00 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) and SHOWTIME® (10:30 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) [...]
Miguel Cotto – Austin Trout GETS HEATED – BOXING WAR Ready to Erupt – BOXING NEWS
November 29th, 2012 Geno SHOWTIME® Sports will offer a live stream of Friday’s weigh-in for the world championship showdown between Four-Time and Three-Division World Champion Miguel Cotto and WBA Super Welterweight World Champion Austin Trout. Fans can go to sports.sho.com/live at 1 p.m. ET/ 10 a.m. PT to watch the fighters hit the scales live from the Affinia Manhattan [...]
Miguel Cotto Vs Austin Trout: Official BOXING BREAKDOWN – Saturday Night’s Title Fight
November 27th, 2012 Geno By Robert Brizel The somewhat salty and less lucrative light middleweight division puts its future on the line in Madison Square Garden in New York City this Saturday when 27-0 southpaw Austin Trout of New Mexico defends his WBA title and tries his hand at victory against battle tested box office draw and crowd pleaser, [...]
Posted in BOXING NEWS Tags: boxing, cotto, fight, Puerto Rico, saturday, Showtime, trout No Comments »Ricky Hatton BOXING RETURN NEWS – Hitman Returns – BRITISH BOXING NEWS
November 20th, 2012 Geno Former WBA welterweight world champion Vyacheslav Senchenko isn’t intimidated by the prospect of fighting in front of 18,000-plus hostile Ricky Hatton fans. The once-beaten Ukrainian views his fight against the two-time world champ and British superstar at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, as an opportunity to prove that he’s one of the elite fighters in [...]
Abner Mares – Anselmo Moreno HEADLINE SHOWTIME TRIPLE HEADER – BOXING NEWS
November 8th, 2012 Geno All six fighters squaring off in Saturday’s tripleheader at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles participated in a final press conference on Wednesday to discuss the highly anticipated SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast, live at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast). In a battle of world champions, Abner Mares (24-0-1, 13 KO’s), of Hawaiian Gardens, [...]
Abner Mares Vs Anselmo Moreno HEADLINE BOXING TRIPLE HEADER – Showtime Boxing News
November 6th, 2012 Geno Six of the talented and exciting fighters who will compete this Saturday live on SHOWTIME® and SHOWTIME EXTREME® from STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, Calif. participated in a public media workout Monday in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. On hand for the outdoor event were undefeated WBC Super Bantamweight World Champion Abner Mares (24-0-1, 13 [...]
Jose Pedraza & Jermain Taylor STUN the Boxing World – Breaking Boxing News
October 13th, 2012 Bad Brad Replay Will Air Tuesday, Oct. 16, At 10 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME EXTREME® Unbeaten lightweight Jose Pedraza (11-0, 7 KOs), of San Juan, Puerto Rico, dominated late replacement Tevin Farmer (7-4-1, 1 KO), of Philadelphia, Penn., en route to an eighth round TKO in the main event Friday on ShoBox: The New Generation live on [...]
Miguel Cotto BOXING UPDATE – Showtime Fight Looms
October 10th, 2012 VinMan Fans get an opportunity to watch a boxer regarded as the most promising prospect from Puerto Rico since superstar Miguel Cotto when talented lightweight and former international amateur standout Jose “The Sniper” Pedraza (10-0) faces southpaw Tevin “The American Idol” Farmer (7-3-1, 1 KO) of Philadelphia in the eight-round main event this Friday, Oct. 12, [...]
Amir Khan Vs Carlos Molina SHOCKER: MAJOR BOXING NEWS
October 10th, 2012 Geno On Tuesday, at the five-star The Mayfair Hotel on Berkeley Street in Central London, former Unified Super Lightweight World Champion Amir Khan, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions Richard Schaefer, Execute Vice President and General Manager of SHOWTIME Sports Stephen Espinoza and Khan Promotions’ Asif Vali met with the top British and European sports media to [...]
Boxing News – Abner Mares To Defend Against Anselmo Moreno, Nov. 10 at STAPLES Center Live on SHOWTIME
October 2nd, 2012 VinMan Sporting a combined record of 57-1-2 with 25 knockouts with three world championships in two weight classes, WBC Super Bantamweight World Champion Abner Mares and former WBA Bantamweight Super Champion Anselmo “Chemito” Moreno prove that great fighters come in small packages. On Saturday, November 10 the fight true boxing fans have been waiting for is [...]
Devon Alexander Vs Randall Bailey DONE DEAL for October 20th – BREAKING BOXING NEWS
September 19th, 2012 VinMan The IBF Welterweight World Championship bout between Devon Alexander and Randall Bailey has been added to boxing’s debut event at Brooklyn, New York’s Barclays Center on Saturday, October 20. An already star-studded fight card now features four compelling world championship bouts with titlists in the 140, 147 and 160-pound divisions defending their belts. An undercard [...]
BOXING NEWS – Jonathan Romero Risks Unbeaten Record FRIDAY NIGHT
September 19th, 2012 VinMan Four promising, talented super bantamweights with a combined record of 62-1-1 will share the spotlight in important fights this Friday, Sept. 21, on ShoBox: The New Generation live on SHOWTIME® (11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) from Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, Calif.
Canelo Alvarez – Josesito Lopez – THE TALKING IS OVER – Boxing News
September 14th, 2012 Geno SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING FINAL WEIGHTS: CANELO ALVAREZ: 154 Pounds JOSESITO LOPEZ: 153 Pounds JHONNY GONZALEZ: 125 Pounds DANIEL PONCE DE LEON: 125 ½ Pounds MARCOS MAIDANA: 147 Pounds JESUS SOTO KARASS: 147 Pounds LEO SANTA CRUZ: 117 Pounds ERIC MOREL: 118 Pounds
Canelo Alvarez Vs Floyd Mayweather JR: Josesito Lopez Stands in the Way Saturday Night – BOXING NEWS
September 12th, 2012 Geno All eight fighters participating in Saturday’s blockbuster Mexican Independence Day weekend world championship event on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING arrived in grand fashion at MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Group Photo (from left to right) – Leo Santa Cruz, Marcos Maidana, Jhonny Gonzalez, Canelo Alvarez, Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya, Josesito [...]
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