Canelo Alvarez fighting Austin Trout

February 16, 2013

By: Chris DeGuia

On May 4, 2013 Saul "Canelo" Alvarez is going to fight Austin "No Doubt" Trout on the undercard of Floyd Mayweather Jr and his opponent TBD. The fight will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada. Saul Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KOS) defeated Shane…

According to Chepo Reynoso, Canelo's manager, there have been discussions with Golden Boy's Oscar De La Hoya and Eric Gomez about staging a fight on April 21, and there are two possible opponents being mentioned - James Kirkland (30-1, 27KOs) and former three division world champion Shane Mosley (46-7-1,…

Esteemed trainer Jeff Mayweather offers his expert opinion...with some degree of professional certainty...on a variety of current boxing topics...not the least of which amongst them being his feelings on this weekends (Saturday, December 3) grudge-rematch, between puerto-rican star WBA junior-middleweight champion Miguel Cotto and denuded challenger, former title-holder, antonio…

BY: Vitali Shaposhnikov

After his lackluster performance against Manny Pacquiao (53-3-2) in May, most people expected and hoped for Shane Mosley (46-7-1) to retire from the sport of boxing. Despite being a tremendous fighter and a living legend, Shane looked old and uninterested in fighting…

August 23, 2011



Spar Videos: Top 140lb prospects Mercito Gesta and Jose Benavidez spar at Wildcard Boxing…

After a light work out at the Glendale YMCA, Big Steve asks me:” What’s up with Floyd? The other day in LA ,I saw him spend an hour signing autographs and talk to every single fan until they were all gone and then I find out that he was just charged for assaulting and threatening a security guard at his house…

Ten days past this year’s version of the Superbowl of boxing, a much written and talked about showdown between Manny Pacquaio and Shane Mosley, I am still wondering why major events of sweet science turn out to be major disappointments as of late. What…

“He didn’t want to fight him, but I do,” said unbeaten, light welterweight champion Timothy ‘The Desert Storm” Bradley when I met him at the media center immediately following Mosley Pacquiao fight:” And you know I will.”…

“It almost seemed like this whole fight was set up to bait Mayweather,” said, amateur coach of Burbank Boxing Club, Steve Harpst upon my return from covering the biggest boxing event of this year that left a lot of fans very disappointed. “And what’s up with…

“It has been a long time since I heard boos during Manny Pacquaio fight” said my friend, a scribe from Glendale, Rick Assad:”Wait a minute; it has never happened before.” But that is exactly what took place on Saturday night in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Garden Arena as…

“All my life, I’ve had to fight. As a child I had to fight to eat,” said Manny Pacquiao yesterday at the final press conference preceding his much anticipated May 7^th welterweight championship showdown with Sugar Shane Mosley. Sold out MGM Grand Garden Arena will host the biggest boxing event of…

While congressman/pound for pound king, Manny Pacquiao and former three division world champion, Sugar Shane Mosley made their grand arrivals at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas yesterday, I was at Starbucks on Western Boulevard in Glendale, pondering how many stories have been…

It’s a small wonder that Manny Pacquiao has never been late to a fight. There is military time, which goes from zero to twenty four hours a day and then there is Manny Pacquiao’s time which is usually a couple of hours behind. Scheduled to depart from Wild Card boxing Club at fourteen hundred hours military time, Team Pacquiao, with much fan fair around, left on Manny’s time, only three hours and twenty five minutes late. No one fan has complained. You have to understand: it’s just Manny.…

With less than a week before this year’s version of the Super bowl of boxing, a welterweight showdown between pound for pound king, Manny Pacquiao and a former three division champion, Sugar Shane Mosley, team Pacquiao is ready to go. Hordes of Filipino…

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