Alvarado gets weapons possession charge; Weeks assigned Stiverne-Wilder
In Lem Satterfield’s latest notebook, we get details on the latest developments on the Mike Alvarado arrest and who will officiate Bermane Stiverne-Deontay Wilder.
read moreFloyd Mayweather on his reading ability, Ariza, Maidana’s ‘dirty fighting’
In a recent conference call, RING welterweight/junior middleweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. answered questions regarding Kenny Bayless, Alex Ariza and Marcos Maidana’s aggressive approach in their first bout.
read moreMarcos Maidana to Floyd Mayweather Jr.: ‘Stop crying; fight like a man’
The gamesmanship is on. In the only fight trainer Robert Garcia deemed feasible for Floyd Mayweather Jr., his fighter, Marco Maidana is challenging the RING welterweight champion to “fight like a man.”
read moreMarcos Maidana: Mayweather ‘always coming up with excuses’
Marcos Maidana dismisses Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s comments about dirty tactics in their first fight, saying he’s not one to talk.
read moreLem’s latest: Tony Weeks to referee Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Marcos Maidana
Veteran referee Tony Weeks and judges Dave Moretti, Burt Clements and Michael Pernick have been named to officiate the May 3 Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Marcos Maidana world welterweight title bout in Las Vegas, Nev.
read moreBernard Hopkins defends Tony Weeks’ Alvarez-Angulo stoppage
Bernard Hopkins defended referee Tony Weeks 10th-round stoppage of the Canelo Alvarez-Alfredo Angulo fight. “I think that it was a good call,” said Hopkins, who fights Beibut Shumenov on April 19.
read moreExclusive: Tony Weeks talks about stopping the Alvarez-Angulo fight
Referee Tony Weeks told RingTV.com he has “absolutely no reservations” about stopping the Canelo Alvarez-Alfredo Angulo fight in the 10th round in order to spare Angulo from being seriously hurt.
read moreQ&A: Weeks on Provodnikov’s KO of ‘warrior’ Alvarado
Referee Tony Weeks on Ruslan Provodnikov’s 10th-round TKO of Mike Alvarado: “I went over to his corner and I asked Mike directly, twice, ‘Are you okay?’ and, ‘Do you want to continue fighting?’ and both times, he said, ‘No,’ so I stopped the fight.”
read moreReferee Mora rises from career low
“I really felt like there was a death…I knew that I had made a horrible call in the 11th round,” Nevada referee Russell Mora told RingTV.com of his failure to penalize Abner Mares for clear low blows in the first Joseph Agbeko fight.
read moreQ&A: Ref Weeks discusses Peterson’s KO of Holt
Referee Tony Weeks on stopping IBF junior welterweight beltholder Lamont Peterson’s triumph over ex-titleholder Kendall Holt in the eighth round: “Some fighters just have too much heart, and we have to save them from themselves.”
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