Negotiations for a June bout between unified middleweight Champion Gennady Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) and WBO middleweight titlist Billy Joe Saunders have reportedly fallen through. According to Chris Mannix with Yahoo! Sports, Team GGG will focus on a September clash with Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs), who faces Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. on May 6th. The unification fight … [Read more...]
Canelo Alvarez-James Kirkland…I’m Seeing Red: The Sunday Brunch
Hola familia, amigos y enemigos. Welcome to a cilantro, lime and guajillo chili pepper flavored edition of Central America's highest rated, most hard-hitting investigative pugilistic paper this side of the Panama Canal, The Sunday Brunch - We are to run-on sentences what Manny Pacquiao is to impromptu shoulder surgeries. This week we're touching on Canelo's rousing decapitation … [Read more...]
Toe to Toe: Tonight’s Undercard Attractions
Leo Santa Cruz (26-0-1, 15 KO's) vs. Cristian Mijares (49-7-2, 24 KO's) Santa Cruz is getting better each time we see him. The reigning WBC super bantamweight champion makes the second defense of his world title against former multi-division title holder Mijares in tonight's main supporting bout. Santa Cruz won the WBC strap last August, stopping Victor Terrazas in three … [Read more...]
Mapping Out Mayweather’s Next Five Fights: The Sunday Brunch
Hello team and welcome to a coconut milk, lemongrass and Thai chili scented edition of boxing’s most wildly popular mid-Sunday quasi food-themed column, The Sunday Brunch. Today we are taking a hard look at what the next five fights for Floyd Mayweather could entail. Hang on to your autographed copy of C.J. Ross’ newest book “Why I Got Away With It” and pop some amino acids, … [Read more...]
The Sunday Brunch: T.B.E. Edition
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to a hotdog, ketchup and American cheese flavored edition of boxing’s number one mid-day Sunday Brunch style column. We ask the tough questions like: ‘what does Hulk Hogan’s headband do when the Hulkster powers down for the evening?’ And ‘If Floyd Mayweather fought Manny Pacquiao standing on Danny Garcia’s shoulders in a rubberneck/hardcore lumber … [Read more...]