Anthony Dirrell didn’t expect to be perfect after being out of action for 17 months. But the super middleweight from Flint, Mich., was good enough Friday to stay undefeated.
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In those times over the past few years when media from all dots on a global map heard from Robert Guerrero’s people, I would think of the Inyo National Forest, which covers parts of California and Nevada and stretches some 2 million acres.
He survived cancer. He bounced back from a motorcycle accident. So when Anthony Dirrell says he’s a blessed individual, believe it.
Whew. I’m sure glad Dr. Robert Voy’s prognosis that day in June 2012 proved wrong. So is boxing.
Thousands of dads train their kids to fight, strapping on a pair of oversized boxing gloves and showing them the rudiments of the sport in the garage, the backyard or a gym. From that, a handful have the aptitude to take their sons to the professional level. And from that number, a select few are able to guide their prodigy to a world title.
In a press conference gripping with tension, Ruben Guerrero, father of Robert Guerrero, called Floyd Mayweather Jr. a “woman beater” at the MGM Grand on Wednesday afternoon in Las Vegas.
From the outset of the promotion in early March, Robert Guerrero has said that God had a plan for him to face Floyd Mayweather Jr. and hand Mayweather his first loss as a professional.
J’Leon Love was ringside Feb. 23 when Ishe Smith won the IBF junior middleweight title in Detroit. He’s hoping to one day follow in Smith’s footsteps and win a belt of his own.
The rhetoric has toned down somewhat. But the confidence remains unabated. And the message is still the same, even if he delivers it differently these days.
Here we go again. Top Rank and Golden Boy tentatively plan to hold pay-per-view fight cards on the same night — Sept. 14 — and it appears the Nevada Athletic Commission will approve both of them.
Now that he has a championship belt, Ishe Smith wants to defend it in front of his hometown fans.
Despite the pandemonium of a normal Floyd Mayweather Jr. media day, he appeared calm Wednesday as he prepares for his May 4 WBC welterweight title defense against Robert Guerrero.
The subject was distractions, and Robert Guerrero, a self-professed expert on the matter, was making a convincing case on how to deal with them before his May 4 fight against WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. at the MGM Grand Garden.
The Nevada Athletic Commission unanimously approved a boxing license for reigning WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. Monday, clearing the way for him to compete May 4 against Robert Guerrero at the MGM Grand Garden.
Don King rarely promotes fights in Las Vegas anymore, but the 81-year-old Hall of Famer will be at Treasure Island on Friday as lead promoter for the WBA interim lightweight title fight between Angelo Santana and Carlos Cardenas.
