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Fresh off of his dominant victory over Dannie Williams this past Friday night, I touched bases with once-beaten lightweight contender Hank Lundy to get his thoughts on his performance as well as discussing his past, present, and future in the sport.
WBA junior welterweight champion Marcos Maidana and his team broke some pretty big news yesterday when it was revealed that the Argentinean bruiser will now be working with respected trainer Robert Garcia.
Recently I spoke with trainer Emanuel Steward about the upcoming duel between his charge, Ireland’s Andy Lee, and WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. The is penciled in for an HBO showcase on June 16th at the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, and Steward seemed very eager when assessing Chavez as an impending foe.
For the past five-plus years you would be hard-pressed to find many top-level prizefighters who have tested themselves the way that Armenian Vic Darchinyan has. Possessing a 37-4-1 record with 27 knockouts, Darchinyan has won some and lost some along the way, engaging in notable battles with the likes of Nonito Donaire, Cristian Mijares, Joseph Agbeko, Jorge Arce, and Abner Mares, amongst others. Darchinyan’s awkward style comes in hand with some very stout power and that will always make him worth watching.
As I have been reporting the past few weeks, there is a bevy of young talent inside of the Mayweather Boxing Club in Las Vegas these days. Gearing up for a May 5th challenge of Miguel Cotto’s WBA junior middleweight crown, undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. has gone with a bit of a youth movement heading into the fight, bringing in some younger and bigger sparring mates to help him get ready for the bout.
Some noticeable action went down in the lightweight division this past weekend. On Friday night, once-beaten contender ‘Hammerin’’ Hank Lundy again showed resilience in recovering from a first round
A few days ago on BoxingScene.com, Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum revealed that a June 16th fight between WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and once-beaten Andy Lee was close to becoming a reality.
The drama was high last night in Mexico as upset-minded Sergio Thompson pulled off a shocker in halting highly-regarded former champion Jorge Linares in the second round of a heated match.
J’Leon Love doesn’t come across as your typical 24-year old. An unbeaten middleweight (10-0, 6 KO’s), Love has a sense of appreciation and modesty about him that are hard to find in most aspiring prospects in the game of boxing.
In the first part of my latest interview with respected trainer Robert Garcia, we took a look back at his trip to Puerto Rico earlier this month, where he worked the corner of his younger brother and featherweight contender Mikey Garcia in his victory over Bernabe Concepcion while also was present for the madness of the Orlando Salido-Juan Manuel Lopez rematch.