From Rio to Florida! This Friday, February 24, former 2016 Rio Olympians and Top Rank® fighters, Teofimo Lopez and Antonio Vargas, will be in action in separate bouts, at ‘Showdown’ presented by All Star Boxing at the Tony Rosa Community Center.
On Monday, February 20, 2017, two-division world champion and boxing pay-per-view king Canelo Álvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) and former WBC World Middleweight Champion Julio César Chávez, Jr. (50-2-1, 32 KOs) kicked off their four-city promotional tour in Mexico City.
Watch the Canelo Alvarez vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. kickoff press conference live from Mexico City starting at 3:00 pm, EST.
Top super welterweight prospects Chris Pearson and Justin DeLoach meet in a 10-round showdown in the main event of ShoBox: The New Generation on Friday, February 24 live on SHOWTIME (10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast) from Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, Calif.
Read on for five things we learned from Showtime Boxing on Saturday, February 18, 2017.
Adrien "The Problem" Broner (33-2 24 KO) won a very close split decision in a ten-round war against Adrian Granados (18-5-2 12 KO) that left the crowd in mixed emotions.
Adrien Broner and Adrian Granados battled in a close, back-and-forth main event Saturday on SHOWTIME, with the four-division world champion Broner eking out a split decision victory from Cintas Center at Xavier University in his hometown of Cincinnati.
In the opening bout of the evening, Marcus Browne (19-0, 14 KOs)knocked down Thomas Williams Jr. (20-3, 14 KOs) three times on his way to a sixth-round KO (:42).
In the SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING co-feature, Lamont Peterson (35-3-1, 17 KOs) narrowly edged WBA (regular) Welterweight World Champion David Avanesyan (22-2-1, 11 KOs) in an entertaining 12-round unanimous decision (115-113, 116-112 twice) to become a two-division champion.
On Saturday, February 17, 2017, Adrien Broner (33-2-0, 24 KOs) scored a split decision victory against Adrian Granados (18-5-2, 12 KOs) at the Cintas Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
On Saturday night, at Xavier University’s Cintas Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, Lamont Peterson (35-3-1, 17 KOs) won the “regular” WBA World Welterweight title from a game David Avanesyan (22-2-1, 11 KOs) in gritty war of attrition.
On Saturday, February 19, 2017, Marcus Browne (19-0, 14 KOs) scored three knockdowns en route to a sixth-round knockout victory against Thomas Williams Jr. (20-3, 14 KOs) at the Cintas Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
On Friday, February 17, 2017, Roberto Manzanarez (34-1, 28 KOs) scored a fourth-round knockout victory against Gamaliel Diaz (40-16-3, 19 KOs) at the Belasco Theater in Downtown, Los Angeles, California.
On Friday, February 17, 2017, Jose Felix Jr. (35-2-1, 27 KOs) took on Jonathan Maicelo (25-2, 12 KOs) in the UniMas/Solo Boxeo main event.
On Friday, February 17, 2017, 48-year-old Roy Jones Jr. (65-9, 47 KOs) stepped into the ring against bare knuckle boxing legend, Bobby Gunn (21-7-1, 18 KOs).
