Jersey George's Boxing Blog

Category: Golden Boy

  • Fight Preview Round Up: October Four Card Finale! Part I

    Tureano Johnson offers stiff challenge in Jaime Mungia’s second fight at 160 Jaime Mungia enters his second fight at the middleweight limit with trainer Erik Morales in their third installment as a team. Mungia is only twenty-four years of age, 35-0 (28) 6-0 (3) in title fights, and a rising young star in the deep…

  • Boxing News: Week of September 21st, 2020

    Boxing just added more events to the fourth quarter calendar which was already looking good from Showtime’s announced bouts back in August. According to ESPN the following fights are confirmed: October 31st: Uysk vs Chisora at heavyweight in a clash rescheduled from May. Usyk is the WBO’s top contender and like Dillian Whyte he risks…

  • Opinion: Canelo vs DAZN vs GBP

    Back in August I covered the story of Canelo Alvarez and the Avni Yildirim fight and the blow back with fight app DAZN. For a refresher https://jerseygeorgesboxingblog.com/2020/08/21/boxing-news-week-3-august-2020/ there is the link to the story. Over the last 48 hours it has broken that Canelo has sued both DAZN and his promoter Golden Boy Promotions for…

  • Vergil Ortiz Jr: Statement Win on DAZN

    Vergil Ortiz Jr reached 16-0 last night and maintained his 100% KO percentage in Indio, California. As ESPN dominated the return to boxing behind Bob Arum’s Top Rank promotions, Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions returned with their first show in the COVID Era. This fight had a lot on the line with all…