After spending months trying in vain to wedge itself into the boxing mainstream, Jay Z's Roc Nation Sports became a major player in the business in less than one full business day. On Friday, not only did Roc Nation add its first superstar to the team in undefeated super middleweight kingpin Andre Ward, but they also added an immediate veteran infrastructure and supporting … [Read more...]
Boxing’s Best Christmas Wish List!: The Sunday Brunch
Hola amigos y familia, welcome to a balmy, 84 degree candy cane scented edition of Panama City's highest grossing, most money spinning proper pugilistic paper, The Sunday Brunch - We are the boxing equivalent of Die Hard 1, Gremlins, Home Alone and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation all rolled up into one easy-to-digest fruitcake flavored mid-day snick snack. This week's … [Read more...]
Rigondeaux Set To Return 12/31 in Tokyo
WBA/WBC junior featherweight champ Guillermo Rigondeaux (14-0, 9 KOs) is still looking for a serious co-promoter, but will return to the ring, anyway, on a December 31 card in Tokyo, Japan. The Cuban Olympic gold medalist will face Japanese featherweight contender, Hisashi Amagasa (28-4-2, 19 KO), on a card that also features WBA super featherweight world titlist, Takashi … [Read more...]
There Goes My Hero: The Sunday Brunch
Hola familia y amigos, welcome to an extraterrestrial tinged episode of Central America's highest-grossing, hardest-hitting weekly pugilistic paper, The Sunday Brunch - We are the mythos of bronze-age goat herders, re-written hundreds of times, by thousands of people and finally translated into American English. We're taking a glance back at the great, the legendary Bernard … [Read more...]
Matchmaker’s Corner: “The Jackal” vs “Hi-Tech”, Rigondeaux vs Lomachenko
by Eric "Sugar Foot" Duran The two greatest amateur boxers in the history of the sport. You can go as far as to say, they're two of the greatest amateur athletes ever. Guillermo Rigondeaux amassed a 463-12 record as an amateur. He won gold medals at the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games. The only thing that kept him from a 3-peat was the secret battle to defect from the Cuban … [Read more...]