Lem’s latest: Chavez Jr.-Vera weight TBA; Arum says “pot” is OK
Bob Arum defended Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.’s use of marijuana and use of the drug in general during a media conference call on Tuesday. “I want to go on record as saying that there is nothing wrong with smoking pot,” Arum said during the call.
read moreQuillin-Rosado on Oct. 26 Hopkins-Murat card
WBO middleweight titleholder Peter Quillin will face Gabriel Rosado on the Bernard Hopkins-Karo Murat card on Oct. 26 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.
read moreMosley ‘can’t wait’ for Mundine fight
Three-division titleholder and future hall of famer Shane Mosley will face former super middleweight beltholder Anthony Mundine in a unior middleweight bout in Australia on Oct. 23.
read moreMosley rep: Mundine fight on, issues resolved
Shane Mosley and Anthony Mundine appear to have reached an agreement to fight in Australia on Oct. 23.
read moreLem’s latest: Mosley mulls Mundine
Shane Mosley, who turns 42 in September, could face Anthony Mundine in October.
read moreHopkins calls Murat ‘dangerous’
“I keep saying ‘I’m different’ because it is true and I’m going to prove it once again on July 13,” said 48-year-old Bernard Hopkins, referring to his upcoming fight with Karo Murat, who is 19 years younger.
read moreQ&A Mosley: ‘I’m not washed up’
Shane Mosley on his victory over Pablo Cesar Cano: “This fight was to let them know that I’m still here. I’m not washed up. I’m not too old. I’m older, but I’m not too old. I’m still smart and I can still run down these young guys.”
read moreHopkins: After Murat, then Froch, Bute, Cleverly?
If he gets beyond a mandatory title defense against Karo Murat in July, IBF light heavyweight beltholder Bernard Hopkins would like to face Carl Froch or Lucian Bute. (This story also contains a video of Hopkins accepting Gennady Golovkin’s challenge.)
read moreQuillin to play cat and mouse with Guerrero
WBO middleweight beltholder Peter Quillin:”The only thing that Fernando Guerrero is going to be able to do is to be a mouse and run back into that hole, because I’m going to be a cat on his ass.”
read moreCloud calls Hopkins’ shades, mask, hoodie ‘childish’
Tavoris Cloud on Bernard Hopkins’ outfit at Wednesday’s press conference: “It was funny to just turn around and to just see a grown man with a ski mask on standing there and not saying nothing to nobody.”
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