Lem’s latest: Steward remembered on Lampley’s ‘Fight Game’
The late Emanuel “Manny” Steward trained Thomas Hearns, Julio Cesar Chavez Sr., Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, Wladimir Klitschko and Mike McCallum among his seemingly endless list of current and former world champions.
read moreVazquez-Diaz targeted for Sept. 28
IBF lightweight titleholder Miguel Vazquez could pursue his 13th straight victory in a rematch with Ammeth Diaz, who he may fight on Sept. 28 in Mexico.
read moreLem’s latest: Road to Donaire-Rigondeaux
RING junior featherweight champion Nonito Donaire takes on unbeaten WBA counterpart Guillermo Rigondeaux on April 13.
read moreLem’s latest: Broner mum on rivals; Bradley to have say
Golden Boy Promotions has big plans for Adrien Broner’s next fight, which could be a 135-pound unificiation bout with Ricky Burns or a jump to welterweight to face Paulie Malignaggi, but the unbeaten WBC lightweight beltholder won’t discuss his potential opponents.
read moreBurns-Vazquez moves to April 20
Due to a viral infection, IBF lightweight titleholder Miguel Vazquez’s March 16 clash with WBO counterpart Ricky Burns will be postponed to April 20.
read moreLem’s latest: Santa Cruz vacates 118-pound belt; Katsidis retires
Leo Santa Cruz has vacated his IBF bantamweight belt in favor of rising into the junior featherweight division.
read morePromoters: Kessler-Froch II is on
IBF super middleweight titleholder Carl Froch has struck a deal to face WBA interim beltholder Mikkel Kessler in a rematch. Kessler defeated Froch by unanimous decision in April of 2010.
read morePromoter: Vazquez would ‘spank’ Broner
Zanfer Promotions’ Sean Gibbons said “Adrien Broner can play around with these chumps and brush his hair and act like he’s doing something, but until you fight Miguel Vazquez, you can not call yourself the best lightweight in the world.”
read moreIBF to approve Vazquez-Burns ‘tonight’
IBF Championships Chairman Lindsay Tucker expects to approve a March 16 clash between his organization’s lightweight titleholder Miguel Vazquez and WBO counterpart Rick Burns on Monday.
read moreIBF would approve Vazquez-Burns
The IBF would approve a proposed bout between its lightweight titleholder Miguel Vazquez and the WBO 135-pound beltholder Ricky Burns.
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