Lem’s latest: Arum to suggest Pacquiao have head examined
Top Rank CEO Bob Arum will suggest that Manny Pacquiao have a neurological examination despite calling two doctors’ “eye-balling” assessments of Parkinsons’ disease in the fighter “ludicrous.”
read moreQ&A: Salido plans to ‘cut down’ Garcia
WBO beltholder Orlando Salido says featherweight rival Mikey Garcia “has never faced a fighter who applies the type of pressure that I do,” adding, “I’m going to give him trouble from the first bell to the last.”
read moreLem’s latest: Verdejo on Garcia-Salido card; Wach admits to doping
Puerto Rican junior lightweight Felix Verdejo will be after his second straight win against an opponent to be determined on the undercard of a Jan. 19 clash between Orlando Salido and Mikey Garcia at Madison Square Garden.
read moreQ&A: R. Martinez promises ‘fireworks’ against Burgos
Puerto Rican WBO junior lightweight beltholder Rocky Martinez on his clash with Mexico’s Juan Carlos Burgos: “I’m looking forward to giving the fans a great fight, and a great show, and I think that we could steal the show that night.”
read moreLem’s latest: Lopez returns, Kessler-Froch II?
Former beltholder Juan Manuel Lopez wiill try to rebound from his second knockout loss to Orlando Salido when he returns to the ring on Feb. 2 against Aldimar Silva Santos in Lopez’s native Puerto Rico.
read moreQ&A: Golovkin predicts early-to-middle rounds KO of Rosado
Unbeaten middleweigt beltholder Gennady Golovkin on fighting Gabriel Rosado: “First round, hard work, hard fight. Second round, hard work… by the fifth round, I will knock him out.”
read moreQ&A: Trainer Sanchez calls Golovkin ‘a puncher, not a boxer’
Trainer Abel Sanchez calls WBA middleweight titleholder Gennady Golovkin a “Mike Tyson-esque kind of individual that goes out there to kind of search and destroy.”
read moreGeale-Mundine II slated for Jan. 30 in Australia
Australian IBF middleweight titleholder Daniel Geale will try to avenge his lone defeat against countryman Anthony Mundine on Jan. 30.
read moreMartinez recovering from knee surgery
RING middleweight champion Sergio Martinez is recovering from knee surgery with an eye toward fighting on April 27 in his native Argentina.
read moreMartinez has surgery, eyes April 27 return, then Chavez rematch
Sergio Martinez had surgery to repair torn ligaments in his right knee. THE RING middleweight champ wants to make a defense of his belts on April 27 and then face Julio Cesar Chavez in a rematch on Sept. 14.
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