Malignaggi: Holt should move to welterweight
Kendall Holt after Friday night’s loss to Lamont Peterson: “My body just wasn’t responding. My body and my mind just weren’t on the same page. My body wanted to do one thing, and my mind said do something else.”
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.”
read moreSchaefer: Sky is limit for Peterson
Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer said of IBF junior welterweight titleholder Lamont Peterson, “I think that there are going to be many great fights ahead for him.”
read morePeterson stops Holt in the eighth round, eyes Matthysse
IBF junior welterweight titleholder Lamont Peterson overcame a slow start to stop ex-beltholder Kendall Holt at 1:42 of the eighth round after flooring him in the fourth and sixth rounds on Friday night.
read morePeterson continues to roll with the punches
IBF junior welterweight titleholder Lamont Peterson will end a 14-month ring absence when he meets Kendall Holt tonight: “There will be no ring rust. None whatsoever,” said Peterson. “I look sharp in the gym. I feel good.”
read moreLem’s latest: Weeks makes DC. debut; attorney on Peterson-Holt card
Referee Tony Weeks will make his East Coast debut with Friday night’s Lamont Peterson-Kendall Holt fight at The D.C. Armory in Washington, D.C.
read moreQ&A: Holt says stamina, weight no problem vs. Peterson
Kendall Holt on Friday’s bout with Lamont Peterson: “This fight, I’m going to set things up and make things happen. I have had some good sprints, some good boxing and I am ready to go a good, hard 12 rounds.”
read moreBroner: Peterson-Holt ‘a helluva’ fight. Ask the experts
Boxing expert Rich Marotta says Lamont Peterson’s defense against Kendall Holt “should rank pretty high on the entertainment scale.”
read moreQ&A: Broner on Mayweather, Showtime, HBO, Peterson
Does Adrien Broner want to be on the Floyd Mayweather-Robert Guerrero undercard? Lem Satterfield spoke to the WBC lightweight titleholder about that and other subjects at the final presser for the Lamont Peterson-Kendall Holt fight.
read moreQ&A: Schaefer discusses Mayweather’s move to Showtime
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer says Floyd Mayweather’s move to Showtime ends the days when the network could not compete with rival U.S. cable giant HBO.
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