Co-managers, trainers sue Kirkland
Once-beaten junior middleweight contender James Kirkland is embroiled in litigation with his trainers, his management and his promoter, Golden Boy Promotions.
read moreKirkland sues Golden Boy and trainers
Junior middleweight contender James Kirkland is suing for contractual separation from Golden Boy Promotions, his current managers and his trainers, Ann Wolfe and Pops Billingsley.
read moreDon King turns 81 on Monday
Promoter Don King, who turns 81 on Aug. 20, invited Pygmies to the “Rumble In The Jungle,” claims to be able to communicate with Floyd Mayweather in “ghetto-ese,” and once killed a man — just a few stories from the life of the man who coined the phrase “Only in America.”
read moreQ&A Bradley: ‘Mayweather flattens Pacquiao’
WBO welterweight titleholder Tim Bradley: “If Manny Pacquiao doesn’t want to fight me, then I’m looking for a Floyd Mayweather fight. Or I’m looking for a Miguel Cotto fight… I belong in the ring with these guys.”
read moreC. Molina dreams of big fights with Alvarez, Cotto
Junior middleweight contender Carlos Molina on WBC titleholder Saul Alvarez: “When he’s challenging guys that I’ve already fought like Kermit Cintron and James Kirkland, it makes you feel like, ‘Wait a second, if they deserve a shot, then I deserve a shot also.'”
read moreBundrage, manager Steward part ways
IBF junior middleweight titleholder Cornelius Bundrage on his separation from manager Manny Steward: “It’s just time to move on. So I’m putting it out there that I need a new manager, a new promoter, and that I need to be with somebody that’s going to help me to get the big fights.”
read moreDe La Hoya’s not mad about THE RING’s top 10 Olympians list
Oscar De La Hoya on his absence from THE RING’s Top 10 list of fighters who have achieved Olympic and professional success: “I really don’t mind, because I don’t need my head to be blown up any more than it already is.”
read moreLem’s latest: Schaefer rips AIBA, touts Guerrero
Golden Boy Promotions CEO plans to sign several Olympic boxers prior to their pro debuts, but questions the relationship of AIBA, amateur boxing’s governing body, with professional boxing.
read moreMares-Moreno, Abril-Bogere, Russell, Olympians eyed for Oct. 13-14
WBC junior featherweight titleholder Abner Mares, lightweight contender Sharif Bogere and featherweight prosepct Gary Russell Jr. could be a part of a big weekend that includes 2012 Olympian pro debuts, Oct. 13-14, on Showtime and CBS.
read moreLem’s latest: Cloud, Pascal fight hitting snags
IBF light heavyweight titleholder Tavoris Cloud’s defense against Jean Pascal may be in jeopardy for the fall, according to Pascal’s promoter, Yvon Michel.
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