Just posted–the Savage Science tribute to boxing great Alexis Arguello, who died today in Nicaragua at the age of 57:
Alexis Arguello remembered @ The Savage Science
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We’ll have live coverage of the ‘Ultimate Chaos’ MMA card from Biloxi, MS on Saturday night. It’ll start 6 PM Pacific/9 PM Eastern on Saturday, June 27. In addition to Sapp vs. Lashley play by play the card also features an intriguing heavyweight battle between Pedro Rizzo and Gilbert Yvel. The working [...]

SAVSCI writer Ralph Gonzalez recently interviewed light middleweight boxer Danny Perez. Here’s the video and the link to his article at your #1 source for boxing news and commentary–not to mention our brother site–The Sweet Science:
Danny Perez: Every Fight Is My Last Chance @ The Sweet Science

Here’s a report from Sky Sports UK on the Floyd Mayweather rib injury suffered in training which has necessitated the postponement of his fight with Juan Manuel Marquez.

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Bad news for those of us who can’t wait to see Floyd Mayweather Jr. back in the ring. Seems he injured a rib in training and his 7/18 fight against Juan Manuel Marquez has been postponed. No timetable for a rescheduled date as of yet.
As always, you can get the latest boxing [...]

Over at The Sweet Science, David Avila has a preview of Darchinyan/Arce and offers an interesting look at the fight sport demographics of Southern California:

First, Vic Darchinyan’s been saying that despite holding three world titles the respect has not come forth. He wants it.
Forget respect, what about getting fans?
The pocket destroyer Darchinyan (31-1-1, [...]

Saturday night’s Jorge Arce/Vic Darchinyan super flyweight title matchup could be boxing’s “fight of the year” when its all said and done. It’s a “can’t miss” fight, so while you’re following our live round by round of the UFC Ultimate Fight Night event open another window and follow the Arce/Darchinyan round by round with [...]

Over at THE SWEET SCIENCE, boxing writer extrodinaire Ron Borges looks at the on again/off again/now on again megafight between reigning “pound for pound” champion Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton:
Pacquiao took Hatton and his promoters, Oscar De La Hoya and Richard Schaefer, to the brink and then made them blink. He did the [...]

Over at THE SWEET SCIENCE, Ron Borges has an excellent article about Saturday’s brutal (and not in a good way) matchup between the 2nd tallest fight sport competitor in the world (behind Hong-Man Choi) Nikolai Valuev and Evander Holyfield:
Evander Holyfield was right. So were the people who said he can’t fight any more.
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Anderson Silva is reportedly working with top boxing trainer Freddy Roach. Roach has been working with Andrei Arlovski for some time now, and his influence on “The Pit Bull” has been demonstrable. Arlovski has always had fast hands for his size, but now they’re an even more dangerous weapon.
As the post [...]