It was the worst kept secret in Monaco, but the bout between Martin Murray and Domenico Spada was little more than a prelude to a February 2015 contest between WBA middleweight champ Gennady Golovkin and the UK's Murray. As for Saturday's contest, itself, it was a predictable win for the more talented Murray (29-1-1, 12 KOs), who didn't dazzle, but managed to dominate the … [Read more...]
Under the Radar: October 23rd – 26th, 2014
10/23 - Aaron Pryor Jr. (19-7, 12 KO’s) vs. Marcus Upshaw (17-13-2, 8 KO’s) - Renaissance Hotel, Washington, District of Columbia, USA After a four fight losing streak, Pryor comes in off three straight victories, winning the USNBC Silver super middleweight title in his last bout. Upshaw is 4-6 in his last 10, losing and eight round decision last time out. 10/24 – Manuel … [Read more...]
ESPN3 Picks Up Saturday’s Monaco Card Featuring Martin Murray, Randy Caballero,Eleider Alvarez, Hekkie Budler
ESPN3.com has picked up the rights to carry the live stream of this Saturday's interesting and diverse boxing card from Monaco. Headlining the five-fight card will be UK middleweight Martin Murray (28-1-1, 12 KOs) against Italy’s Domenico Spada (39-5, 19 KOs). Murray,32, whose career-best efforts have thus far earned him a tough decision loss to Sergio Martinez in 2013 … [Read more...]
Under the Radar: Fights That Didn’t Make the Big Headlines – December 20th- 21st, 2013
12/20 – Kevin Johnson (29-4-1, 14 KO’s) vs. Christian Hammer (15-3, 10 KO’s) - Hamburg, Germany The “Kingpin” hasn’t made much noise since losing to Vitali Klitschko in 2009; a few wins over lower level opposition, and a trip to the finals of the U.K.’s Prizefighter tournament, where he lost to Tor Hamer. He followed that with a loss to Tyson Fury before managing a win over … [Read more...]
The Weekend Hangover: Controversy, Controversy and More Controversy…
New York, New York – Boxing returned to the Yankee Stadium in bizarre fashion as Miguel Cotto (33-2, 28 KO) stopped a hobbling Yuri Foreman (28-1, 8 KO) in the ninth round to win the WBA junior middleweight title. Cotto, 153.5, utterly dominated the fight, wobbling Foreman, 154, on numerous occasions with hard straight punches early on. It was obvious that Cotto was the … [Read more...]