To celebrate National Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day, fighters competing on the August 1 Premier Boxing Champions card at Barclays Center visited Blue Marble Ice Cream in Brooklyn today where they sampled and served ice cream named after themselves.
Stars of Premier Boxing Champions hosted a media luncheon Saturday afternoon at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and offered their thoughts and predictions for tonight's PBC on NBC main event, which features a battle between former world champions Adrien "The Problem" Broner (30-1, 22 KOs) and "Showtime" Shawn Porter (25-1-1, 16 KOs).
Undefeated superstar Danny "Swift" Garcia (30-0, 17 KOs) will take on Brooklyn's own Paulie "The Magic Man" Malignaggi (33-6, 7 KOs) at Barclays Center as Premier Boxing Champions will be live in primetime on ESPN on Saturday, August 1 with coverage beginning at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.
In Friday night's televised co-feature Javier Fortuna (28-0-1, 20 KOs) defeated Brian Vasquez (34-2, 18 KOs) for the vacant WBA 130-pound title.
An exciting junior lightweight battle between Javier Fortuna and Bryan Vasquez will now open the Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on Spike telecast on Friday, May 29 live from Barclays Center in Brooklyn beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT.
Former two-division world champion Paulie "The Magic Man" Malignaggi (33-6, 7 KOs)held an open workout at Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn Wednesday before he takes on Danny O'Connor (25-2, 9 KOs)on Premier Boxing Champions on Spike, Friday, May 29 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT live from Barclays Center.
According to an article by Lance Pugmire of the LA Times, a fight between three-division champion Adrien Broner and former IBF Welterweight champion Shawn Porter is nearly finalized for June 20 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Paulie Malignaggi (33-6, 7 KOs) returns to ring against Danny O'Connor (29-2, 9 KOs) on the undercard of Khan-Algieri in a 10-round Welterweight fight. Malignaggi talked about balancing his broadcasting career with preparation for his upcoming fight.
Former two-division champion Paulie "The Magic Man" Malignaggi (33-6, 7 KOs) returns to the ring in his hometown to face the skilled Danny O'Connor (25-2, 9 KOs) as the televised co-feature for PBC on Spike TV on Friday, May 29.
Paulie Malignaggi catches up with Nes of Tha Boxing Voice and gives his two cents on a Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao bout.
Check out photos from Golden Boy's meet and greet from Coney Island.
To kick off fight week in Brooklyn, former world champion and SHOWTIME Sports® analyst Paulie Malignaggi plus fighters on the "Danny Garcia vs. Rod Salka" fight card met fans and signed autographs.
Here at Round By Round Boxing we've decided to try our hand at some midyear awards for the categories of fighter of the year, fight of the year, upset of the year, KO of the year, round of the year and who is winning the network war.
Bernard Hopkins (55-6-2, 32 KOs) became the oldest man to unify the Light Heavyweight division after defeating Beibut Shumenov (14-2, 9 KOs) in a twelve-round bout.
On Saturday, April 19, 2014, a 12-round Light Heavyweight unification bout between Bernard "The Alien" Hopkins (54-6-2, 32 KOs) and Beibut Shumenov (14-1, 9 KOs) for the IBF, WBA and IBA Championships headlines an exciting Showtime Championship Boxing triple-header.
