According to The Montreal Journal, the National Director of Public Health, Horacio Arruda, continues to maintain the hard line with professional boxing. At the end of the day Friday, he rejected a plan from Eye of the Tiger Management (EOTTM) to present a closed doors boxing event in a region of Quebec.
Lou DiBella is doing what he can to shore up his promotional company as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to throttle businesses small and large worldwide. But there are limits to his efforts, and the longer the virus sticks around, the more likely it is that he will have to acknowledge the writing on the wall…that means answering some tough questions about whether it’s worth it for him to stay in business.
By Thomas Hauser - Go to YouTube. Type in "Russ Anber magic." Click on several of the videos that come up and you'll see a guy with a deck of cards. Or maybe he'll be manipulating three metal cups and some tiny balls. "I've seen that guy before," you might say to yourself. "Wasn't he in Vasyl Lomachenko's corner?" That's right; he was. And the corners of Oleksandr...
The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen "Breadman" Edwards tackling topics such as Andre Ward vs. Joe Calzaghe, the tactics of Floyd Mayweather, the legend of Salvador Sanchez, close decisions, and much more.
The President of the World Boxing Council (WBC), Mauricio Sulaimán, warned that "we are living through something that no one could have imagined." The event activity of boxing is slowly coming back after several months of limbo due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Eye of the Tiger Management head Camille Estephan is stuck playing the waiting game caused by Covid-19. The Canadian-based promoter is pounding the table with hopes of producing boxing shows in Quebec, but his demands seem to be falling on deaf ears.
The president of the World Boxing Association, Gilberto Mendoza, admits that there is difficulty in reducing the number of titles that his organization sanctions, but also states that credibility in an industry like boxing is not simply given by sanctioning a single title per weight class. In the last few years, the vast majority of fans have become tired of the countless world champions in every weight class.
While professional boxing in the United States is slowly getting back on its feet, it could be out for the count up in the north. Quebec government officials are currently mulling a proposal that would potentially put a halt to all boxing events in the Canadian province for the foreseeable future, that is, until a vaccine for Covid-19 turns up.
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - So, have you heard? Michael Nunn is fighting this weekend. Yes… that Michael Nunn. The same one who was a middleweight champion and a super middleweight champion. The same one who made title defenses against guys named Curry, Starling and Barkley, among others. The same one who subsequently spent more than a decade...
Greg Cohen’s recent days as a convict are almost over, but given the floundering state of the boxing economy, he may find that his hands are still shackled as a free man. The New Jersey-based promoter is projected to be released from federal prison on August 2, according to a spokesperson with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.