WBO world light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (24-0-1, 22koes) returns to the ring this Saturday, to defend his title against Australian challenger Blake Caparello (19-0-1, 6koes) at the Revel Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This will be Kovalev’s third defence of the title, which he ripped from the head of Nathan Cleverly, in four rounds last July. Sergey Kovalev … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2014
Golden Gloves: Keeping it Simple
by Ted Sares I fought Golden Gloves –Anonymous "Remember this, your first few fights will be decided on conditioning and your will to fight. Neither of you have developed enough skill to where it has a major bearing on the fight."—Jackson: see: http://en.allexperts.com/q/Boxing-1533/2009/2/Preparing-Gold-Gloves.htm "I used to street fight when I was younger. And then … [Read more...]
Win, Lose, Draw…or None of the Above: Women’s Boxing – The Weekly Wrap Up
WBF light middleweight title champion Anne Sophie Mathis (27-4, 23 KO’s) put her title on the line Saturday night at the Anhalt Arena in Dessau, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany, squaring off against WBF and WBO middleweight champion Christina Hammer (18-0, 8 KO’s) with the vacant WBO light middleweight title also up for grabs. The card was headlined by Robert Stieglitz’s WBO … [Read more...]
Gennady Golovkin vs Daniel Geale: The GGG Man Guns Down Geale
There was something beautifully brutal about Gennady Golovkin’s (30-0, 27koes) three round demolition of Daniel Geale (30-3, 16koes) on Saturday, in defence of his WBA world middleweight title, at New York’s famed Madison Square Garden. Although this was Golovkin’s third appearance at ’the Garden,’ it was his first in the ‘main room,’ and he delivered a performance worthy of … [Read more...]
Golovkin, Mayweather, and More; Magno’s Monday Rant
Gennady Golovkin is the type of fighter that has burly men's men weak in the knees and moist in the boxers. Yes, the love is great for this man and it will only get greater as he tears through a division ill-equipped to handle him. Saturday night, in his first bout against a true Top 5-7 fighter, "GGG" once again made headlines as the smiling assassin and well-mannered … [Read more...]