Undefeated prospect Vanes Martirosyan (30-0, 19KOs) will face Richard Gutierrez (26-7-1, 16KOs) Saturday October 29th at the Winstar Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma. Ranked #8 by The Boxing Tribune and trained by Freddie Roach, Martirosyan is an exciting up-and-comer in the junior middleweight division. To the surprise of boxing fans everywhere, he recently turned down a … [Read more...]
Super Six? Junior Middle’s Got Super 16
By Fox Doucette Earlier this week, the esteemed editor in chief of this fine publication and I got into a bit of a discussion about whether Kermit Cintron (33-4-1, 28 KOs), who is scheduled to fight Saul Alvarez (38-0-1, 28 KOs) on November 26th for El Canelo's WBC belt at 154, is the toughest test that Alvarez has yet faced. I argued that Cintron is just Matthew Hatton or … [Read more...]
4-Round Boxing News Brief (The Latest on Donaire, Angulo, Rigondeaux, Fury)
-- Nonito Donaire vs. Omar Narvaez is set for October 22 in New York with Madison Square Garden being pegged as the preferred site. Donaire is the current WBC and WBO bantamweight champ while the 36-year-old Narvaez is the reigning WBO super flyweight titlist. -- Number one and number two ranked WBC junior middleweights, Vanes Martirosyan (30-0, 19 KOs) and Alfredo Angulo … [Read more...]
The Dream Fight Series (Part Two)
As part of The Boxing Tribune's Dream Fights series, here's three fights that need to happen, for the sport and for the fans: Ruslan Provodnikov (19-1, 13 KOs) vs. Kendall Holt (27-4, 15 KOs), jr. welterweights Holt faces Danny Garcia on October 15th for a minor belt in the WBO hierarchy and is ranked fourth by that organization. Provodnikov is ranked #11 by the WBO, and with … [Read more...]
Vanes Martirosyan: Fear Him, Duck Him, You Can’t Escape Him
by Fox Doucette Followers of the 154-pound division know that right now that weight class is wide open, with a slew of not-quite-there-yet fighters competing in what amounts to a free-form sort of tournament to decide who will reign as the division's king. Once Miguel Cotto finally hangs up the gloves as the division's consensus #1 guy, he is going to pass the torch to … [Read more...]