Top Rank and Nonito Donaire want Jorge Arce. They want to take Arce's porous defense, wrapped around a weary body, ravaged by sixteen years of battles and they want to feast on his squishy innards. They want to batter the undersized "Travieso" in a highlight reel performance and they want to showcase it as the live fight after the Pacquiao-Marquez replay on December … [Read more...]
Arce-Martinez, Sanchez-Mayol Headline Los Mochis Card This Saturday
This Saturday, at the Gimnasio Polifuncional in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, Jorge "El Travieso" Arce (60-6-2, 46 KOs) returns to the ring for the first time since June's disappointing two-round no contest against Jesus Rojas. The 33-year-old veteran 4-division world champ will be taking on former world champ, Mauricio Martinez (36-12-1, 24 KOs). Arce, a native of Los … [Read more...]
The Politics of Weight; Magno’s Monday Rant
Usually fighters wait until they are millionaires before they start becoming jaded and disinterested in the fans who pay their salary. Adrien Broner, anointed heir to the Floyd Mayweather Jr. legacy, is once again showing himself to be well ahead of the curve when it comes to career progression. At 21, he had already won his first paper world title (WBO super featherweight) … [Read more...]
Bradley Upsets Pacquiao Amid Controversy, Other PPV Results from the MGM Grand
Perplexing is too tame of a word to describe the decision rendered by the three judges presiding over the Pacquiao-Bradley bout at the MGM Grand Saturday night. With Duane Ford and C.J. Ross scoring the bout 115-113 for Bradley and Jerry Roth ruling it 115-113 for Pacquiao, the judging trio contributed to, perhaps, the worst judging travesty in recent memory. From the … [Read more...]
Pacquiao-Bradley: The Only Preview You Need
by Fox Doucette On Saturday night, June 9th, at 9 PM Eastern/6 PM Pacific on HBO PPV, WBO welterweight champion and Boxing Tribune/Fox Sports #2 pound-for-pound fighter in the world Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KOs) takes on WBO junior welterweight champion-in-recess (presumably pending the result of this fight) and Boxing Tribune/Fox Sports #10 P4P Timothy Bradley (28-0, 12 … [Read more...]