San Diego Fight and San Diego Boxing
Moments before the Pacquiao-Margarito fight this past Saturday night at Cowboys Stadium, Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach complained of Margarito’s intent to drink a beverage containing ephedrine or in other words, speed. Well, after twelve lopsided rounds in which the Filipino Congressman completely annihilated the brave but plodding Mexican warrior en route to the vacant WBC [...]
With the pending mega fight between Filipino congressman Manny Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38KOs) and the “Tijuana Tornado” Antonio Margarito (38-6, 27KOs) looming over the Texan horizon for this Saturday night, I have been catching up with each respective training camp in the same manner every other respectable boxing fan has, through HBO’s “24/7″ series. So far [...]
If you were to drop a quarter right on the border between San Diego, CA, and Tijuana, Mex, and mapped out a 25-mile radius, I believe you would have difficulty to do that anywhere else in the world and find more former champions, world class ranked fighters and up and coming prospects than in this [...]
After more than a year and a half of speculation from the boxing world, derision from his detractors and a highly publicized California State Athletic Commission hearing, in as much that it was broadcast live on the world wide web, Antonio “Tijuana Tornado” Margarito will once again fight on American soil. To many, this event [...]
The Deadline So the deadline that Top Rank’s head honcho Bob Arum set forth for Mayweather Jr. to sign the contract to fight Filipino wunderkind Manny Pacquiao came and went, now what? As it was rumored Arum is now pushing for either a Miguel Cotto or Antonio Margarito match up for the now Filipino Congressman [...]
In a recent post on twitter.com, Steve Kim of MaxBoxing.com stated there were serious talks of a mega fight between Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30KO) versus former middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (36-2, 32KO) for December in either Dallas, TX, or Las Vegas, NV. The sudden upswing of Chavez Jr’s competition is coming on the [...]
In his June 23rd Random Thoughts column on ESPN.com, the well respected Dan Raphael mentioned that there were talks for a December 4th rematch between Puerto Rico’s Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28KOs) and Antonio Margarito (38-6, 27KOs) of Tijuana, MX. In their July ’08 first match up, Margarito survived an early ambush from the Boricua to completely destroy the [...]
Boricua three divisional world champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28KOs) of Caguas, PR, jumped back into the win column after his some what bizarre TKO over previously undefeated Yuri Foreman (28-1, 8KOs) last Saturday night from Yankee Stadium in New York City. The historic bout was for Foreman’s WBA jr. middleweight which now Cotto has added [...]
It goes without saying that I love boxing. Not just the three minutes of controlled mayhem that happens inside a ring but also because of everything that happens outside of it. The controversies, dramas and feel good story of poor boy making good. Another aspect of why I love boxing is the atmosphere of watching [...]
R.I.P. Jennifer and Edwin Valero -After all is said is done, the end of Edwin Valero turned into a real tragedy. In a career that only saw victory with twenty-seven wins, all by knock out, his life outside of the ring, at least in the last couple of years, was filled with a number of [...]
Recent Comments