In a bout that may very well steal the show as the co-main event for Canelo Alvarez vs. Floyd Mayweather, Danny Garcia (26-0, 16 KOs) will have to use his amateur background to force Lucas Matthysse (34-2, 32 KOs) to make mistakes; while Matthysse should begin the fight by pressing the action early and making it ugly.
Tweets over the last few days seemed to indicate that Theophane became the newest addition to Mayweather's promotional stable, Mayweather Promotions. RingTV.com caught up with the British junior welterweight, who confirmed he has signed.
Not only does THE RING's No. 1-rated junior welterweight, Lucas Matthysse, believe that he can take out RING champion Danny Garcia in their a Sept. 14 Showtime Pay Per View-televised battle on the undercard to the main event featuring Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Canelo Alvarez at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, but he also believes that his power will carry into the welterweight division should he receive a desired shot at Mayweather.
Hard-hitting RING No. 1-rated junior welterweight Lucas Matthysse said he fully expects his hammer-fisted countryman, Diego Chaves, to emerge victorious from Saturday's welterweight clash.
Returning former junior middleweight titleholder Yuri Foreman made it an easy night on Wednesday at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City, as he widely outpointed Philadelphia trialhorse Jamaal Davis in their eight-round main event. Brooklyn's Foreman (31-2, 8 KOs) was fighting for the third time since a two-year reprieve from the ring. He had lost two straight fights, to Miguel Cotto and Pawel Wolak respectively, before taking a nearly two-year sabbatical.
One of the few things that interim titles can be credited with is their ability to draw attention to fighters who would have gone unnoticed without those largely worthless straps wrapped around their waists. It can be argued that, for all the money being misspent in sanctioning fees today, the purchase of an interim title may be one of the wisest investments available for the up-and-coming but cash-strapped aspiring champs.
Former junior middleweight title challenger Delvin Rodriguez vows not to be "an easy comeback fight" for Puerto Rican three-division titlewinner Miguel Cotto when they meet on Oct. 5 on HBO at the Amway Center in Orlando, Fla., site of a 2 p.m. open-to-the-public press conference announcing the event on Tuesday.
In May, RING junior welterweight champion Danny Garcia was ringside at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City when No. 1-rated contender Lucas Matthysse destroyed IBF 140-pound beltholder Lamont Peterson, dropping him three times on the way to a third-round knockout.
You wouldn't have guessed it based on the fact that it was easily the most important year of his professional career, but Nonito Donaire was at one point contemplating retirement during 2012.
Former WBA middleweight titleholder Felix Sturm found it hard to find the win column starting with the loss of the alphabet trinket to Daniel Geale last September.
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Will the “Magic Man” be able to solve “The Problem”? After months of trash talking, WBA welterweight titleholder Paul Malignaggi finally gets his opportunity to burst the considerable bubble of WBC lightweight king Adrien Broner when the two meet in an...
Photographer Naoki Fukuda's action shots from Mikey Garcia's fourth-round KO of Juan Manuel Lopez in Dallas on Saturday night.
