BOXING

Showtime will air two very competitive feature fights this Saturday from the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas.  The main event bout features WBC World Featherweight champion Jhonny Gonzalez defending his title as an underdog against Gary Russell Jr.  Now, Gonzalez is paying out at +160 and Russell Jr. is paying out at -185. Gonzalez has […] More

Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Fla. will host a night of boxing this Thursday and the featured 10-round bouts are schedule to air on ESPN2.  Lines are posted at the books for the fights, however there is no over/under on rounds available. At welterweight, Frederick Lawson (23-0) puts his undefeated record on the line against Colombia’s dangerous Breidis […] More

On Saturday at the Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield, England, current IBF welterweight champion and hometown kid Kell Brook defends his title against Romania’s Ionut Dan Ion, the IBF’s mandatory challenger. Brook has not fought since last August, when he travelled to Las Vegas and defeated Shawn Porter for the IBF crown he is now defending.  In […] More

This Saturday night the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada hosts a United States Boxing Association Heavyweight title fight as American Steve Cunningham takes on Ukraine’s Vyacheslav Glazkov in a 12-round bout.  The match serves as the co-feature supporting the World Light Heavyweight title fight between Sergey Kovalev and Jean Pascal, and will air in HBO in the […] More

This Friday, Spike TV will air the new Premier Boxing Champions telecast featuring two welterweight bouts with top notch names as Andre Berto takes on Josesito Lopez and Shawn Porter faces Roberto Garcia.  The books are not showing lines for the fights yet, but they are sure to be up within the next 48 hours. Berto […] More

Montreal’s Bell Centre hosts a Light Heavyweight World Title bout on Saturday, March 14 as legend-slayer Sergey Kovalev fights Jean Pascal.  The books currently have Pascal as a huge underdog at +500 odds, with Kovalev returning at -700.  The over/under for this scheduled 12-rounder is 9.5 rounds, with the over paying at +150 and the under paying […] More

Former world champion Roy Jones Jr defeated trial horse Willie Williams by knock out in Round 2 at a match last night in Cabarrus, North Carolina. Jones is now 46 years old, and he continues to pursue a world championship in a fifth weight class.  He has owned major world championships at middleweight, super middleweight, […] More

The eyes of the boxing world were firmly on the UK, as two high profile cards went down on the British Isles.  At the O2 Arena in London, Heavyweight Tyson Fury ended his fight with Cristian Hammer in the eight round as Hammer could not answer the bell for the ninth.  Over in Belfast, Northern […] More

Thjis Friday night in Turkey, heavyweights Tony Thompson and Odlanier Solis do battle for the WBC Continental Americas title.  Right now, the books have Solis installed as the favorite at (-290), with the comeback on Thompson at (+245). Now, the two men met before, back in March of 2014, and Thompson walked away with a split decision […] More

Europe held the attention of the boxing world this past weekend as world champion Arthur Abraham and Gennady Golovkin made title defenses.  In Germany, Abraham defeated England’s Paul Smith decisively over 12 rounds at the O2 Arena in Germany, while Golovkin dispatched Martin Murray in the 11th round of their bout in Monaco. Abraham won this […] More

After a negotiation that took more than half a decade, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. are finally signed to fight.  The date scheduled is May 2nd, and the location will be the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.  A speculative line had been up for a bit, and not much has changed since the official […] More

The weigh-ins are complete for Saturday’s Martin Murray vs Gennady Golovkin middleweight title fight in Monaco.  Golovkin came in at 158.9 pounds, and Murray came in at 159.9. Now, the lines are still in the astronomical neighborhood, as Golovkin is a (-3000)  favorite over Murray, who is paying back at (+1500).  More intriguing might be the […] More