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With the new year almost a full two months old, one of the busiest promoters in southern California, Thompson Boxing, opened their 2013 season with another installment of their “Path to Glory” series held at the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario, CA, with a sold out crowd as their guests. Recorded for a later broadcast on [...]
It has been a long winding road for twenty-six year old Christopher Martin (25-2-3, 8KOs). From first lacing up the gloves as a fourteen year old kid and now a professional for a little over six years, the correctional officer by the day and married father of two has known success but just recently also [...]
Thompson Boxing Promotions returns to the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario with a double shot of boxing action to open up 2013. Newly signed Christopher “Marvelous” Martin showcases his super bantamweight talent in the main event on Friday, February 22. Martin faces Mexican veteran Jose Angel Beranza in a fight set for eight rounds for the [...]
San Diego, California, super bantamweight Christopher “S.D. Kid” Martin (25-2-3, 8KOs) will have his chance at redemption when he faces the man that ruined his undefeated record in Mexico City’s Jose Angel Beranza (35-25-2, 27KOs) in the eight round main event of southern California’s Thompson Boxing’s fight card slated for Friday, February 22nd. The bout [...]
Last weekend two local San Diego fighters put on exceptional performances on a national platform. First on Friday night, the “SD Kid” Chris “Marvelous” Martin (24-2-3, 7KOs) earned a rare knock out and snapped a three fight winless streak when he stopped Roberto “Azabache” Castañeda (19-2-1, 14KOs) of Mexicali, Mexico, in the sixth round of [...]
Crossroads, according to an online site, the official definition is: a road that crosses another road, or one that runs transversely to main roads. In the world of boxing, it is almost cliché to deem a bout a crossroads fight but in the case of Christopher Martin and Teon Kennedy, who meet Friday, January 13th, [...]
In a serious apple cart turner, previously undefeated super bantamweight Christopher Martin (23-1-2, 6KOs) of San Diego, CA, was defeated last Saturday night, October 1st, in his Top Rank debut in Las Vegas, NV. Martin took on the ultra durable Jose Angel Barranza (34-21-2, 26KOs) of Mexico City, Mexico. After ten grueling rounds in which [...]
Undefeated local favorite super bantamweight Christopher Martin (23-0-2, 6KOs) of San Diego, CA, will make his Top Rank Promotions debut on Saturday, October 1st, on the under card of Toshiaki Nishioka-Rafael Marquez WBC super bantamweight title bout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Fox Sports will televise the card. The world ranked Martin [...]
For the majority of this week, both WBA super welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29koS) of Puerto Rico and Tijuana’s Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27KOs) have been traveling all over the western hemisphere to promote their up coming rematch on Saturday, December 3rd. With stops in Puerto Rico, New York, Mexico City and finally Los Angeles, [...]
With all the talent concentrated in the San Diego/Tijuana region, you would think that both border towns would be more of a power house in the world of boxing. Because of politics, the economy or other uncontrollable reasons San Diego and Tijuana are in a bit of a fisticuffs drought this year but that has [...]
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