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Public persona-wise, Pacquiao versus Broner plays out like an ultimate good-versus-evil battle. The personification of sportsmanship, Pacquiao has always been respectful, diplomatic and humble in and out of the ring. Broner, on the other hand, is a profanity-spewing, tantrum-throwing villain in the sport. The quintessential antihero, his schtick has always been to sell more tickets to fans who want to see him lose than win.
Just like that, Houston is once again devoid of a world titleholder as the two boxers who held alphabet belts were dethroned in 2018, both somewhat controversially. Their defeats are detailed in the Fight of the Year and Upset of the Year awards. For the first time in three years the Fighter of the Year award goes to a boxer who does not share identical DNA with anyone. Trainer of the Year for 2018 ended up in a tie.
This is one of the freakiest heavyweight matchups in terms of body types. At 6-foot-7 and 6-foot-9 respectively, Wilder versus Fury might go down as the tallest combined heavyweight title fights of all time.
US Marine Corps sergeant Eric Morante was only 23 when he lost his right leg to a vehicle-borne IED driven by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2007. After enduring three-and-a-half years of surgeries and treatment therapies, Morante was determined to regain as much normalcy and fulfillment as he could in civilian life.
On the eve of his 23rd professional fight, streaking junior welterweight Regis Prograis (22-0, 19 KOs) finds himself smack in the middle of two major phenomena taking the boxing industry by storm on a global level – DAZN and the World Boxing Super Series (WBSS).
The latest installment of ShoBox: The Next Generation will see undefeated 130-pounder Jon Fernandez (16-0, 14 KOs) of Spain take on O’Shaquie Foster (13-2, 8 KOs) of Texas in the main event of a quadrupleheader. The showdown, at the Firelake Arena in Shawnee, OK, will be for Fernandez’s WBC silver super featherweight belt.
Since hanging up his gloves in 2007, former heavyweight contender Lou Savarese has punched his meal ticket as a trainer and promoter. Together with partner Bobby Benton, he bought over the Main Boxing Gym and began staging boxing events at various venues in and around Houston. The cards typically showcased local young up-and-coming prospects trying to pad their records and make their way up the ranks.
Only a year has passed since their first fight so, short of one or both fighter growing old overnight, it will be the same two fighters squaring off in the rematch. But while they might not have changed physically as fighters since their first encounter, Gennady Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KOs) and Saul "Canelo" Alvarev (49-1-2, 34 KOs) will undoubtedly have altered their game plans as neither secured the victory the first time around.
Eugenics has always been a highly controversial and misunderstood science. On the one hand it has been used to breed thoroughbred race horses, cuddly best-of-show canines, high-yielding dairy cattle and disease-resistant crops. But in the 1930s a monster of a man by the name of Adolf Hitler attempted to genetically engineer a master race. We all know how that turned out.
Regis Prograis was ranked number two by the WBC last year when Terrence Crawford vacated all four 140-pound belts to move up to welterweight. The logical step was for Prograis to fight for the vacant belt against number 1 contender Jose Ramirez. But the sanctioning body inexplicably decreed that Ramirez would fight third-ranked Amir Imam for the belt and Prograis would be matched against fourth-ranked Victor Postol for the interim belt making him the mandatory challenger for the belt.