Best I Faced: Verno Phillips
Battle-hardened veteran Verno Phillips held three portions of the junior middleweight title during the 1990s and early to mid 2000s,...
read moreJermain Taylor TKO 7 Juan Carlos Candelo, could return on Jan. 25
Former undisputed middleweight champion Jermain Taylor ended a 14-month ring absence with Saturday night’s seventh-round technical knockout of Juan Carlos Candelo.
read moreLem’s latest: Maidana says Broner is not ‘a slick boxer’
Marcos Maidana says Adrien Broner “has not been tested by a natural welterweight like me. That’s why this is the hardest fight of his life.” Maidana challenges Broner for the WBA 147-pound title on Dec. 14.
read moreWho wins Martirosyan-Andrade? Ask the experts
Unbeaten U.S. Olympians Demetrius Andrade and Vanes Martirosyan will fight for the WBO’s vacant junior middleweight belt on Saturday.
read moreWho wins Quillin-Rosado? Ask the experts
Undefeated WBO middleweight beltholder Peter Quillin is the favorite going into his title defense against Gabriel Rosado on Saturday, however Rosado’s reaction upon looking into Quillin’s eyes at Wednesday’s press conference was “I’m going to punish this dude.”
read moreStevens ready to ‘destroy’ Golovkin
Curtis Stevens on Gennady Golovkin: “I’m moving faster, I’m quicker than I expected. I’m just ready. I’m just ready to go in there and destroy him.”
read moreStevens: Golovkin is ‘God’ among middleweight ‘peasants’
Curtis Stevens on why he pursued Gennady Golovkin: “Golovkin is the so-called ‘Most-Feared Middleweight in the World,’ so why not? Why not go after God instead of going after the peasants in the middleweight division?”
read moreStevens on Golovkin: ‘Why are his punches so slow?’
Curtis Stevens on Gennady Golovkin: “How much punching power does he really have? He has power, but he doesn’t have that thumping power.”
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