Cotto, Pacquiao, Roach team up
Former ring foes Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto are each being trained for their upcoming bouts by Freddie Roach. The two future hall of famers met recently at Roach’s Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, Calif.
read moreChavez 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.
read moreQ&A: Salido plans to ‘cut down’ Garcia
WBO beltholder Orlando Salido says featherweight rival Mikey Garcia “has never faced a fighter who applies the type of pressure that I do,” adding, “I’m going to give him trouble from the first bell to the last.”
read moreQ&A: R. Martinez promises ‘fireworks’ against Burgos
Puerto Rican WBO junior lightweight beltholder Rocky Martinez on his clash with Mexico’s Juan Carlos Burgos: “I’m looking forward to giving the fans a great fight, and a great show, and I think that we could steal the show that night.”
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