Lem’s latest: Sanchez says Cloud-Hopkins is Norris-Leonard
Tavoris Cloud’s trainer, Abel Sanchez — who trained Terry Norris to brutally defeat Sugar Ray Leonard — says his fighter is “about to retire another legend on Saturday night” when Cloud faces 48-year-old Bernard Hopkins.
read moreWard returns to gym post-shoulder surgery
RING super middleweight champion Andre Ward has received clearance to return to training after undergoing shoulder surgery last month.
read moreLem’s latest: Weeks makes DC. debut; attorney on Peterson-Holt card
Referee Tony Weeks will make his East Coast debut with Friday night’s Lamont Peterson-Kendall Holt fight at The D.C. Armory in Washington, D.C.
read moreWeeks among officials chosen for Peterson-Holt
Veteran referee Tony Weeks will work Friday night’s title bout between IBF junior welterweight beltholder Lamont Peterson and ex-beltholder Kendall Holt.
read moreWill Salido-Garcia be a repeat of Salido-Lopez I?
WBO featherweight titleholder Orlando Salido aspires to a similar performance against Mikey Garcia as he had during two knockout victories over Juan Manuel Lopez.
read morePhoto gallery: Salido-Garcia final press conference
Mikey Garcia, Orlando Salido, Gennady Golovkin, Gabriel Rosado, Rocky Martinez and JC Burgos at the final press conference for the Jan. 19 show at Madison Square Garden.
read more‘God-fearing’ Rosado aims to KO Golovkin
Gabriel Rosado on Gennady Golovkin: “I’ve fought the better competition. I predict that I’ll win by a ninth-round knockout.”
read moreTrainer: Burgos seeks early KO of Martinez
Trainer Gerardo Espinoza said Juan Carlos Burgos wants to be the first fighter to knock out WBO junior lightweightt beltholdere Roman “Rocky” Martinez.
read morePhoto gallery: Salido-Garcia media day
Orlando Salido, Mikey Garcia, Gennady Golovkin, Gabriel Rosado, Rocky Martinez and JC Burgos working out at Kingsway Gym in New York before the Jan. 19 card at Madison Square Garden.
read moreCould Martinez-Burgos steal the show? The experts weigh in
Juan Carlos Burgos on his fight with Rocky Martinez: “Our fight is a classic Mexican-Puerto Rican rivalry, and our styles are perfect for one another. Not only will we steal the show, but I’ll take the belt.”
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