Ricco Rodriguez is taking a break from his less than auspicious boxing career to do some MMA in the UK. He headlined a card for the Cage Warriors promotion in Liverpool and defeated Brit Rob Broughton by submission:
The main event of the evening featured two of the biggest fighters ever to grace the Cage …
11 months after the firing of highly respected Larry Hazzard, the state of NJ finally has a replacement:
New Jersey finally has a new boxing commissioner.
Eleven months after firing Larry Hazzard, State Attorney General Anne Milgram announced Monday that Willingboro native and current Kansas Athletic Commission executive Aaron Davis would oversee professional boxing and mixed martial …
If at first you don’t succeed….
The September 30th boxing card at the Silver Nugget Casino in N Las Vegas will be unique in that it will headline a former UFC heavyweight champion in his quest to win the heavywight championship as both an MMA comatant and as a boxer.
In 2004 Ricco Rodriquez upset UFC legend …
Affliction is going to be working with Golden Boy Promotions, but the announcement will most likely come at a press conference within the next two weeks and not at this weekend’s Casamayor/Marquez fight. Apparently, its a timing issue at this point with getting all of the documents reviewed and signed.
Our sources “in the know” are now suggesting that Affliction will be co-promoting the January show and future events with Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions…..obviously nothing is a done deal in the fight game until it happens, and this could change at any moment. For now, this is the plan…..this was also …
Affliction VP Tom Atencio has indicated that a major announcement will be made on Saturday’s Casamayor/Marquez boxing match. While Affliction is a minority sponsor of the event, the setting of the venue is curious and has led to speculation on a couple of fronts. Bottom line, the setting of the announcement seems to …
Our pugilistic associates over at THE SWEET SCIENCE have a good roundup of some expert opinion on the forthcoming De La Hoya/Pacquaio megafight:
“People are talking that Manny Pacquiao can beat me,” said De La Hoya (39-5, 30 KOs) during a telephone press conference call. “When Freddie Roach started saying, ‘Oscar can’t pull the trigger’ or …
Gary Shaw’s “downsizing” to a consultant with EliteXC has been known for awhile now, but our associates over at The Sweet Science have an informative behind the scenes with one of Dana White’s biggest (and many) foils:
Shaw hopes to bring some lessons learned back to boxing. He knows that
MMA does a better job at loading …
A few days ago KJ Noons sent out a rambling, whining rant about how EliteXC didn’t treat him fairly, didn’t pay him enough and didn’t appreciate him, yadda yadda yadda all of which is why he can’t fight Nick Diaz. Nick Diaz’s camp responded on GracieFighter.com with a pretty hilarious crackback. It’s worth …
Add EliteXC to the list of those who are tired of “Nature Boy” KJ Noons antics. Not that anyone blames him for not wanting to fight Nick Diaz under the best of circumstances, and certainly after all of the trash talking he’s done:
EliteXC has big plans for its Oct. 4 appearance on CBS. With …
