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Category: Fight Posts

  • Gennady Golovkin Destroys Ryota Murata in 9

    Even at forty years of age and after a near sixteen month layoff Gennady Golovkin “GGG” put on a vintage performance in his younger foe’s backyard. For Golovkin it was his first fight in Japan as a professional and he had not competed on the Asian continent in over a decade. Murata at thirty six…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Fight of the Day # 2: Muhammad Ali vs George Chuvalo II

    Today I watched the Muhammad Ali and George Chuvalo rematch from 1973. The fight took place in Vancouver Canada and was roughly seven years after their 1966 encounter in Toronto where Ali still the champion defeated Chuvalo by unanimous decision. Having seen that fight several times on ESPN Classic its hard to forget the hard…

  • Australia’s George Kambosos Pulls Off The Upset At The Garden

    In a fight that has been over six months in the making, George Kambosos dropped Teofimo Lopez in the opening round and won split decision to take over the lightweight division. Originally scheduled for June 2021 in Miami, Lopez tested positive for COVID-19 and after eight date changes and a change in promoters and broadcasters…

  • Mikaela Mayer Victorious in All Action Brawl in Vegas

    Women’s boxing has been gaining a lot of steam from recent promotional pushes on platforms like DAZN and ESPN+. There have been more frequent main events, touted title fights/unification fights, and some very exciting scraps when the best are paired and meet in the ring. Last night Mikaela Mayer the IBF champion at 130 lbs.…