BOXING

The sport books have been all but ignoring the women’s side of combat sports now for too long.  Here we take a look at the upcoming calendar on the women’s side, starting with this weekends WBA Light Welterweight title fight in Moscow between Ana Laura Esteche and Svetlana Kulakova. The calendar is filled with women […] More

Mexican boxing phenom Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez is scheduled to take on Joshua Clottey this December 6th, perfectly setting up his follow-up fight for 6 months down the road, on Cinco de Mayo, Mexican Independence day.  Though the lines are not up for the Clottey fight yet, Alvarez is expected to come in a wide favorite, […] More

October 24th in Moscow Russia, a battle of two of the top heavyweights in the world will take place as Alexander Povetkin (27-1) takes on French-Cameroonian Carlos Takam for one of the WBC’s lesser belts (Silver). Takam is an impressive (30-1-1) overall, and he is coming off a win over veteran divisional measuring stick Tony […] More

This Saturday, September 27th in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Former WBA Super World Welterweight title holder Ricardo Mayorga returns to boxing after a three and a half year absence when he faces journeyman Allen Medina (9-23).   Mayorga was last seen in a boxing ring back in March of 2011, when he had a credible performance against […] More

Last weekend in Las Vegas, Floyd Mayweather Jr and Marcos Maidana met for a second time in a rematch of their April bout, and the results were the same: UD 12, Mayweather.  The reports are that over 900,000 PPV buys were tallied, meaning we are bound to see Mayweather flashing 8 figure checks and doing […] More

This Saturday, September 13th, the Manchester Arena in the UK will host a card of big time boxing that features some of England’s top up and coming boxers. Olympic gold medalist and the latest darling of the British boxing press is Heavyweight Anthony Joshua, who is making a pit stop to cash another win in […] More

This Saturday, September 6th SHOWTIME airs a solid boxing card from Cincinnati, Ohio’s US Bank Arena.  The card features a main event of Adrien Broner taking on Emmanuel Taylor in a light welterweight bout that sees Broner favored big at the sport books (-1100). Also on the card are Lucas Martin Mathysse, who is heavily […] More

This Saturday, September 6th in Belfast, Northern Ireland, undefeated British Super Bantamweight Carl Frampton (18-0) makes his first attempt at a world title when he faces IBF Super Bantamweight titleholder Kiko Martinez. Frampton is favored at (-430), with the comeback on Martinez at (+340).  The bout is a re-match that Frampton won by stoppage in […] More

British boxing Heavyweight Anthony Joshua (7-0) returns to the ring on September 13th to face Konstantin Airich at the Manchester Arena.  Joshua was originally scheduled to fight Yaroslav Zavorotoni on August 30th, but that planned event was cancelled.  Joshua, the 2012 Olympic gold medalist who has run his record to 7-0 as a professional, was […] More

Marco Antonio Rubio takes on Gennady Golovkin at the StubHub Center on October 18th, 2014.  The lines are not up yet at the books, but look for Golovkin to be a big favorite when they do hit. Golovkin is belt collecting, as he seeks to add Rubio’s interim WBC Middleweight title to his growing collection […] More

The hype around the November 22nd, 2014 Manny Pacquiao versus Chris Algieri that is scheduled for China should begin to get heavy sometime after the weekend of September 13th, when the Maidana-Mayweather 2 bout is history, but the books have already opened Pacquiao a huge favorite….. More

The Saturday, September 13th welterweight bout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas between p4p top dog Floyd Mayweather Jr and Marcos Maidana is fast approaching. As usual, the books have Mayweather a heavy favorite at (-900), with the comeback on Maidana at around (+600).  The line is actually a bit WIDER than the first […] More