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Boxing’s headlines from the Left Coast
On Saturday, Brandon Rios, the current WBA lightweight champ and stablemate Mikey Garcia are having a charity boxing function in Oxnard, Ca. with all the proceeds going to the family of amateur boxer Gustavo Rodriguez who was shot and killed last week. “Gustavo was just 17,” said Robert Garcia of the Robert Garcia Boxing Academy. […]
Major change to Friday’s Locked N’ Loaded event at the Doubletree
Late change for Friday, June 24th’s boxing show at the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario reads: Reynoso and Almaraz step up into “Locked N’ Loaded” main event on June 24!” With Efrain Esquivias sidelined due to a cut suffered in training, Thompson Boxing Promotions’ “Locked N’ Loaded” event on Friday will now feature Jose “El Nino” […]
Dos Santos gets much deserved title shot after destroying Carwin
Did you get to see Junior “Cigano” Dos Santos’ destruction of Shane Carwin (12-2-0) on Saturday night from the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia? It was an impressive, dominating performance by Dos Santos, another exceptional Mixed Martial Artist from Brazil, another member of the Brazilian fighting group, Black House Team Nogueira headquartered here in […]
Best pound for pound female boxers to meet
Friday evening, Holly “The Preacher’s Daughter” Holm (30-1-3), the current women’s pound for pound champion pitched a shutout against Victoria Cisneros (5-12-2, 1 KO) at the Route 66 Casino Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The bout was a rematch of an earlier meeting in which Holm beat Cisneros 100-90 and 99-91 twice. In that bout […]
Nguyen no match for Del Valle plus other fights of local interest
On Saturday evening from the Roseland Ballroom in New York City on the second consecutive night of fights on Showtime’s ShoBox, featherweight Luis Del Valle completely dominated Dat Nguyen to win by scores of 99-91 on all three scorecards. Nguyen fought locally at the Pala Casino on August 22, 2009 against Noe Lopez Jr. Many […]