Feb

Chavez suspended nine months, fined $900,000

Former WBC middleweight beltholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. can resume his fighting career after June 15, in accordance with a nine-month suspension handed down on Thursday by the Nevada State Athletic Commission as a result of his positive drug test for marijuana use.

Q&A: Ref Weeks discusses Peterson’s KO of Holt

24

Feb

Q&A: Ref Weeks discusses Peterson’s KO of Holt

by Lem Satterfield

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.”

Lem’s latest: Weeks makes DC. debut; attorney on Peterson-Holt card

22

Feb

Lem’s latest: Weeks makes DC. debut; attorney on Peterson-Holt card

by Lem Satterfield

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.

20

Feb

Bey tests positive for testosterone

by Lem Satterfield

Unbeaten lightweight prospect Mickey Bey has tested positive for high levels of testosterone following his third-round knockout of Robert Rodriguez on Feb. 2 in Las Vegas, Nev.

Weeks among officials chosen for Peterson-Holt

18

Feb

Weeks among officials chosen for Peterson-Holt

by Lem Satterfield

Veteran referee Tony Weeks will work Friday night’s title bout between IBF junior welterweight beltholder Lamont Peterson and ex-beltholder Kendall Holt.

Lem’s latest: Chavez case review, Williams update

08

Jan

Lem’s latest: Chavez case review, Williams update

by Lem Satterfield

Julio Cesar Chavez’s positive post-fight drug test case will be reviewed in February; Plus, a Paul Williams update and a look at 6-foot-5 junior middleweight prospect Alantez Fox.

Chavez Jr.’s attorneys to update NSAC on Tuesday in Las Vegas

07

Jan

Chavez Jr.’s attorneys to update NSAC on Tuesday in Las Vegas

by Lem Satterfield

Attorneys for former WBC middleweight titleholder Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. will address his positive post-fight drug test for marijuana as well as his future before the Nevada State Athletic Commission on Tuesday.

Q&A: Golovkin predicts early-to-middle rounds KO of Rosado

02

Jan

Q&A: Golovkin predicts early-to-middle rounds KO of Rosado

by Lem Satterfield

Unbeaten middleweigt beltholder Gennady Golovkin on fighting Gabriel Rosado: “First round, hard work, hard fight. Second round, hard work… by the fifth round, I will knock him out.”

Q&A: Trainer Sanchez calls Golovkin ‘a puncher, not a boxer’

01

Jan

Q&A: Trainer Sanchez calls Golovkin ‘a puncher, not a boxer’

by Lem Satterfield

Trainer Abel Sanchez calls WBA middleweight titleholder Gennady Golovkin a “Mike Tyson-esque kind of individual that goes out there to kind of search and destroy.”