Ring Ratings Update: All aboard the Boots Bandwagon! Shakur Stevenson jumps to No. 1 at 130
The Ring Ratings Panel had three weeks’ worth of debate on what to do with Oscar Rivas and Sandor Martin...
read moreDougie’s Monday mailbag (Kovalev-Alvarez, Dmitry Bivol, Wilder vs. Fury)
BOXING AT ITS BEST Hey Doug, I just wanted to write in to comment on the great light heavyweight showdown we got...
read moreGennady Golovkin’s trainer: ‘We have the best fighter in the world’
WBA middleweight beltholder Gennady Golovkin “beats” RING super middleweight champion Andre Ward if they were to meet, according to Golovkin’s trainer, Abel Sanchez, who ranks the 160-pounder behind Sugar Ray Robinson and Bernard Hopkins as the best in the division’s history.
read moreAndre Ward calls Gennady Golovkin ‘a great fight for boxing’
RING super middleweight champion Andre Ward on the prospect of facing WBA middleweight titleholder Gennady Golovkin: “A lot of people say that he’s gotten a lot of unnecessary hype, but I’ve got a lot of respect for Gennady Golovkin…When that fight happens, it’s going to be a great fight for boxing.”
read moreBeibut Shumenov wants Bernard Hopkins next
WBA beltholder Beibut Shumenov wants to unify all of the belts in the division, beginning with a bout against IBF titleholder Bernard Hopkins in March or April.
read moreRichard Schaefer eyes Bernard Hopkins-Beibut Shumenov ‘immediately’
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer said that he would begin working on a light heavyweight title unification bout between IBF titleholder Bernard Hopkins and WBA beltholder Beibut Shumenov “immediately.”
read moreWard on Hopkins and ‘Boogey Men’ Golovkin, Kovalev, Stevenson
Super middleweight champ Andre Ward said that Gennady Golovkin, Sergey Kovalev and Adonis Stevenson are being made out to be “The Boogey Men of their divisions.”
read moreIBF: Hopkins, Molina have time to mull big fights
Carlos Molina has until next June to defend his IBF junior middleweight belt against a mandatory challenger, and Bernard Hopkins has until next July to do the same with his IBF light heavyweight title.
read moreCould Mayweather, Ward be in Hopkins future?
IBF light heavyweight titleholder Bernard Hopkins has some options on what he does next but he says he’s looking for a “super fight” for his next bout and would like to face Floyd Mayweather Jr. as a middleweight.
read moreHopkins ‘craves’ KO versus Murat, shot at Mayweather
Bernard Hopkins on Karo Murat: “I need a stoppage, definitely. I haven’t had a knockout since 2004.”
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