Jersey George's Boxing Blog

Category: Boxing

  • Prospects Vito Mielnicki and Joey Spencer Score Stoppages in Newark

    With the New Jersey Devils season put on hold boxing headlined the The Rock in Newark, New Jersey Christmas night. Roseland, New Jersey’s own Vito Mielnicki fought his first main event and reached the tenth round for the first time in his career in his tenth career victory. At age nineteen and standing six feet…

  • Boxing Results Round Up: Beterbiev, Ramirez, Parker and Morrell Victorious

    Artur Beterbiev Knocked Out Marcus Brown in 9 Artur Beterbiev continued his run of knockouts reaching 17-0 with all victories coming inside the distance.  The thirty-six year old Russian unified titlist at light heavyweight has not been very active having missed all of 2020 and fighting twice in 2021.  He got his biggest win to…

  • Conor Benn Scores KOTY Contender

    Conor Benn is the son of British boxing icon Nigel Benn and he has just reached the 20-0 13 KO mark. Saturday on DAZN he headlined a UK card against former 140 lb. titlist Chris Algieri. The welterweight Benn is just twenty five years of age but is continuing to climb the ranks and score…

  • Thoughts on BKFC from Tampa Prelims

    I decided to watch the live free prelims of the BKFC card in Tampa last night. I am an appreciator of bareknuckle boxing though I am not a regular fan of BKFC as a promotion, they are the leading legal and sanctioned bareknuckle boxing outlet. They came on my radar a few years ago when…

  • A Response to Montero on Boxing: PPV & Sustainability to the American Scene

    Michael Montero who does boxing commentary on YouTube via Montero on Boxing and is a writer for Ring Magazine touched upon the topic of pay per view costs on the fans and the success these cards have had. His video is off the back of a tweet he put out illustrating the cost of buying…

  • International Boxing Hall of Fame 2022 Inductees Announced

    Many times these hall of fame announcements are semi controversial with fans bickering over certain guys getting in. Whether it be European fans feeling their legends are underappreciated or accusing the hall of letting in subpar American fighters based on a bias; and American fans feeling someone in the long history of the sport is…

  • Deontay Wilder Retirement?

    Ring Magazine just ran a story about Deontay Wilder speaking on the topic of retirement. Across the front page of Google are various articles discussing a possible retirement from the sport for the Bronze Bomber. Wilder did an interview with comedian Kevin Hart and to paraphrase said that he accomplished what he set out to…

  • Devon Haney Retains WBC Lightweight Title

    Devon Haney avoided the upset that derailed Teofimo Lopez last week by winning a decisive unanimous decision over Joseph Diaz Jr. last night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The WBC Champion at lightweight made his fifth successful title defense of a belt that was awarded to him in 2019 without a…

  • Fight of the Day # 4: Roy Jones Jr vs Montell Griffin II

    Revenge is best served with a left hook! Keeping in the spirit of rematches of controversial fights and short fights here is Roy Jones Jr going up against Montell Griffin. For those unfamiliar, Griffin was the first man to “defeat Roy Jones” as a pro when they met in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Griffin had…

  • Fight of the Day #3: Kendall Holt vs Ricardo Torres II

    I missed a day yesterday so I chose a short fight to catch up. Whatever you do, please do not blink when watching this fight. Bombs away from the start Kendall Holt of Paterson, New Jersey and Colombia’s Ricardo Torres met in a WBO 140 lb. title tilt in 2008 in Las Vegas. This was…