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Written by Michael Woods
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Thursday, 25 April 2013 16:32
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 Zab Judah felt dissed that he was made to wait in the bowels of Barclays in Brooklyn on Thursday, so the 35-year-old hitter, set to challenge junior welter champ Danny Garcia Saturday night, said to heck with it. He took his crew and left the building, leaving Garcia to hype the faceoff by his lonesome. The separate-appearances-at-the-presser concept was put in place by promoter Golden Boy after a Tuesday fan event at Modell's in Brooklyn was crashed by Judah, and he and Garcia father-trainer Angel got into it, in the sporting goods store. The nastiness was sparked in December, when the two crews nearly rumbled at Gallagher's in NYC, during a presser to announce the scrap. After Oscar De La Hoya presided over a presser and called Bernard Hopkins, middleweight champ Peter Quillin, challenger Fernando... Read more...
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Written by Michael Woods
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Thursday, 25 April 2013 09:45
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 "This is a religious guy, but he had Marilyn Monroe on his wall in his house, he be contradicting himself," says Floyd Mayweather to open the third episode of Showtime's All-Access docu-mercial, ahead of his May 4th clash with the man he's branding a hypocrite, Robert Guerrero. Money says he has seen a few clips of Ghost and dismisses him as a "flat footed fighter." We then hear the "Ghostbusters" theme, resulting in a nice little royalty check for Ray Parker Jr. "Who you gonna call," Floyd says as he walks around his gym, and we hear Common doing the voiceover work. (Sorry, my friends, will be a Liev Scriber devotee till the end of days). We see the man who mops the Mayweather gym and Floyd says he surrounds himself with the "right team." We see Rafael Garcia, cutman, and cousin DeJaun... Read more...
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Written by David A. Avila
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Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:21
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 ONTARIO, CALIF.-Heavyweights hit hard but can they back up words exchanged on Wednesday during a press conference? “I don’t have anything to say,” said heavyweight contender Bermane Stiverne. “On Saturday night, I’m not here to just knockout you Chris. I’m here to chop your head off.” Riverside’s Chris “The Nightmare” Arreola’s posture suddenly perked up. Then it was his turn to talk in front of the podium. “Chop my head off?” asked Arreola who seemed to be on full alert from the comment tossed his way. “But in case you didn’t know, I’m a crazy X#!*^! guy!” It was like dropping a decanter of nitroglycerine after Stiverne (22-1-1, 20 Kos; seen on the left, with Arreola on the right, in Al Applerose photo) uttered those words. He faces Arreola (35-2, 30 Kos) on Saturday April... Read more...
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Written by Kelsey McCarson
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Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:44
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 On Saturday, April 27, in front of over 40,000 of his countrymen at Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield soccer stadium in Buenos Aires, Sergio Martinez (50-2-2, 28 KOs) will face the UK’s Martin Murray (25-0-1, 11 KOs) for Martinez’s lineal middleweight championship of the world. Martinez also wears the RING and WBC title belts, while Murray is the WBA interim champion. The bout will headline HBO’s weekend telecast and begins at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT. It will be the television giant’s first-ever boxing event in South America. The two headliners, along with their promoters and managers, met with the media Wednesday via international conference call. Lou DiBella, promoter for the event, said Martinez was as big a star as any right now in his homeland of Argentina. During the cab ride over from the airport,... Read more...
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Written by The Sweet Science
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Wednesday, 24 April 2013 10:16
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HBO BOXING® SPANS THE HEMISPHERES WHEN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING®: SERGIO MARTINEZ VS. MARTIN MURRAY, LUIS CARLOS ABREGU VS. ANTONIN DECARIE AND CHRIS ARREOLA VS. BERMANE STIVERNE IS SEEN SATURDAY, APRIL 27 HBO Sports® spans two continents, visiting South America for the first time, for a tripleheader headlined by the return of middleweight superstar Sergio Martinez when WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: SERGIO MARTINEZ VS. MARTIN MURRAY, LUIS CARLOS ABREGU VS. ANTONIN DECARIE AND CHRIS ARREOLA VS. BERMANE STIVERNE is seen SATURDAY, APRIL 27 at 8:30 p.m. (live ET/tape-delayed PT) from Buenos Aries, Argentina and Ontario, Cal. exclusively on HBO. Separate HBO Sports teams in both locations will call all the action, which will be available in HDTV, closed-captioned for the hearing impaired and presented in Spanish on HBO Latino. Jim Lampley, Max Kellerman, Roy Jones Jr. and Harold Lederman will be ringside in Buenos Aries, while Bob Papa, Andre Ward and Steve Weisfeld will call the action from... Read more...
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Written by Bernard Fernandez
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Wednesday, 24 April 2013 09:17
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 All he knew was that the years flow by like water, and that one day men come home again. ----Thomas Wolfe, “You Can’t Go Home Again” Wolfe, the early 20th century American novelist, was just 37 when he died on Sept. 15, 1938, but his most-quoted work – published posthumously in 1940 – captures the essence of WBC middleweight champion Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez, who at once is irresistibly drawn to the country of his birth while at the same time reluctant to revisit old times and more than a few unpleasant memories. Men do tend to come home again, but often with as much apprehension as anticipation. To the 45,000 or so Martinez-worshipping boxing fans who will jam into an outdoor soccer stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on April 27 to witness their pugilistic hero’s first ring appearance... Read more...
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Written by Michael Woods
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Tuesday, 23 April 2013 16:29
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 I know some of you will call me a fool, ask me if I've lost my fastball, wonder if my pro-New York bias has infected my ability to reason: but all that aside, I'm feeling like Zab Judah might just pull it off on Saturday night at Barclays Center. Yeah, yeah, I know, he messed the bed against Baldomir, blazed out against Mayweather, couldn't exploit advantages against Cotto, froze mentally against Amir Khan (Judah vs. Khan in above Hogan photo)...I'm familiar with all that. Indeed, history is not on Zab's side, as his recent triumphs have been coming against sub-superstars, like Kaiser Mabuza and Vernon Paris, and his signature W, against Cory Spinks, occured in 2005. But I heard something in Zab's voice, and from his crew, including dad Yoel and pal Monte Barrett at a Tuesday open workout for press at the Judah Brothers Gym... Read more...
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Written by David A. Avila
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Tuesday, 23 April 2013 06:48
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 LOS ANGELES-It looks like the state of California is tackling the transgender issue in the fight game. California State Athletic Commission has decided to look into whether transgender athletes should be allowed to compete with other prizefighters. A subcommittee was formed to look into the complicated issue. Fallon Fox (seen above), a transgender female, seeks to compete against female prizefighters in California and took the first official step at the CSAC meeting at Ronald Reagan Building. She was represented by a team consisting of three women including Amy Whelan and Helen Carroll from the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Dr. Paul Wallace who works with CSAC said that, “its been an interesting process. I’ve already been contacted by 12 other commissions.” Fox was... Read more...
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Written by The Sweet Science
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Monday, 22 April 2013 17:25
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 Tyson Fury makes a good villain. Fury is a braggart who calls himself “the best fighter in the world.” To the casual observer, he comes across as an obnoxious big-mouthed lout. As of this writing, the 6-foot-9-inch Brit (or is he is bit shorter than he claims?) has compiled a 21-0 (15 KOs) record against mostly club-fight-level opposition. On April 20th, he made his American debut in New York. Fury’s latest designated victim, Steve Cunningham, was three months shy of his 37th birthday. Cunningham has now lost four of his last five fights and hasn’t beaten a credible opponent since toppling cruiserweight Marco Huck in 2007. Fury tipped the scales at 254 and outweighed Cunningham by 44 pounds. The bout was in The Theater at Madison Square Garden. Main Events (Cunningham’s promoter) kept the NBC license... Read more...
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Written by Joe Rein
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Monday, 22 April 2013 11:00
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 As Canelo Alvarez eyed Auston Trout like a crocodile ready to launch at a hapless wildebeest, he must've hummed the Mariachi version of, “It's just a matter of time." Alvarez is heavy handed (and doubtless will balloon to heavyweight the day he hangs ‘em up) ‘n improves every fight defensively, delighting his faithful in the Alamo Dome, slipping and sliding Trout’s rocket-launcher fusillades, to draw him in, like the spider to the fly. But Trout didn’t take the bait. The epiphany to me was, after consigning Trout ta be even less exciting – if that’s possible-- than Paul Pender, he fought a great disciplined fight, showed the heart of a champion, a major league chin and resolve and the ring generalship ta stay outta range (without running) of Canelo’s... Read more...
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