Former heavyweight titleholder Herbie Hide will spend less time behind bars for conspiring to supply cocaine. His attorney appealed the original 22-month sentence, and the appeals court judges cut the sentence to 18 months, according to BBC News. Hide pleaded guilty in November. He’d been accused of arranging for an undercover reporter from tabloid newspaper The Sun.
Gennady "GGG" Golovkin checks in at #2 overall at +17. Guillermo Rigondeaux remains #1 defensively. Erislandy Lara remains +16 after limiting Austin Trout to 20% connect pct. Plus/minus rating is determined by subtracting opponent’s connect percentage from listed fighter’s overall connect percentage, which includes jab connect percentage and power punch connect percentage.
China, where interest in boxing is growing rapidly, has officially joined the World Boxing Council as a member. The WBC reported that the affiliation of China took place in what was described as “a moving ceremony” at the Yanan Hotel in Shanghai. China’s joining the premier boxing organization in the world was witnessed by the President of the Chinese Boxing Federation, Lui Tao and WBC Vice Presidents Kovid Bhakdibumi, Charles Giles, Houcine Houchi, Edmund Lipinski, Rex Walker and Frank Quill.
It has been more than two years since Nick Casal last fought. It has been a long road back. After all, it has been more than a year and a half since Casal was attacked and then hiospitalized with hundreds of stitches and numerous staples. Casal, 28, is scheduled to be back in the ring on Feb. 27 in Niagara Falls, N.Y., facing off against Shakha Moore, according to an email from the promoter, Mercedes Simmons of Pretty Girl Promotions.
The first game at ThrowdownFantasy.com finished this weekend with Gennady Golovkin scoring a 7th round KO over Osumanu Adama. Golovkin earned 72.8 fantasy points with the win. That fight ended the first ever fantasy game at ThrowdownFantasy.com, that saw over 500 players competing for $1,000 in cash prizes. The game had 2 players that tied for first and split $250 first place prize. Those 2 teams both had Curtis Stevens (110.8 FP), Jermell Charlo (93.9 FP), Marco Huck (70.9 FP), Cornelius Bundrage (57.5 FP) and Mikey Garcia (51.3 FP). There were 120 total winners that split the $1,000 in cash prizes.
Talented Pan Asia Boxing Association Randy “Razor” Petalcorin will defend his light flyweight title at the Malvern Town Hall in Victoria, Australia on March 28. His co-manager and well-known Australian promoter Peter Maniatis told the Manila Standard that Petalcorin who is already in Melbourne will face Thailand’s Lookrak Kiatmungmee who fought WBC world champion Xiong Zhao Zhong in China last November 30 and lasted five rounds.
Welterweight contender Kim Poulsen (23-1, 6KOs) will return on March 22nd at Gusenhalle in Gallneukirchen, Austria. Poulsen only fought once in 2013, after three appearances in 2012, and won a lopsided eight round decision over previously undefeated Puriya Haidari. Poulsen has gone unbeaten in his last 20 fights, after dropping a six round decision to Tony Jourda in February of 2007 - where the referee issued a sole score of 58-57.
Maribel Ramirez (9-6-2, 3KOs) won a controversial eight round split decision victory over Esmeraldo Moreno (25-7-1, 9KOs) in a flyweight fight at Foro Polanco in Mexico City, Mexico. Moreno loses for the first time since March 2010 and snaps her eleven fight winning streak. Ramirez lost her last three fights going into this contest. The scores were 77-75 twice for Ramirez and 77-76 for Moreno.
Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan - 30-year-old Yu Kimura (13-2-1, 2KOs) of the Teiken Boxing Gym barely edged out Kencihi Horikawa (25-13-1, 4KOs) over ten rounds to capture the vacant Japanese junior flyweight title. Two judges scored it 96-95 to Kimura, and Horikawa got a 97-94 from the third judge. It was Kimura's fourth win a row since getting stopped by Ryoichi Taguchi in the sixth round in October of 2011 in the very same venue.
Hightly touted undefeated prospect Derrick "Take it to the Bank" Webster makes his long awaited return to the ring when Joey Eye Boxing & XFE presents "Ferrante vs Smith" at the Harrah's Philadelphia Hotel & Casio LIVE around the world on GFL.tv. Webster, who has been out of the ring since a split decision victory over Darnell Boone who is the only man to defeat light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson and score a knockdown on Andre Ward, will lace them up for the 1st time in a little over a year.