by Mark Phillips (Boxing Base) | Aug 27, 2015 | Boxing News & Opinions
Keith Thurman may be yet to defeat an elite member of the Welterweight division, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have opinions on its inhabitants. Thurman, 26, who stopped Luis Collazo in July, summed up his potential opposition to Boxing News. Would it...
by Mark Phillips (Boxing Base) | Aug 25, 2015 | Boxing News & Opinions
Everyone has an opinion of Al Haymon, arguably the most influential man in boxing right now. Is the manager-come-promoter-come-adviser bringing boxing back to the masses through (mostly) free TV network shows? Or is the camera-shy figure creating a boxing monopoly?...
by Mark Phillips (Boxing Base) | Aug 25, 2015 | Boxing News & Opinions
Did you know Santa Cruz-Mares is on this weekend? If not, it’s quite forgivable. The non-title Featherweight match-up hasn’t reached as far as the likes of Mayweather-Berto and Cotto-Canelo. But that said, the PBC headliner could turn out to be a classic...
by Mark Phillips (Boxing Base) | Aug 25, 2015 | Boxing News & Opinions
At the latest GGG-Lemieux press conference, Bernard Hopkins chimed in with his own thoughts on the TNT-loaded unification fight. The former Middleweight champ seemed unsurprisingly overwhelmed with the vast interest already generated for the October 17th bout, and...
by Mark Phillips (Boxing Base) | Aug 24, 2015 | Boxing News & Opinions
Both Gennady Golovkin and David Lemieux continue to remain humble yet astonishingly confident ahead of their October 17th showdown. The Middleweight unification fight will see two of the division’s destroyers going head to head in a hotly contested bout....
by Mark Phillips (Boxing Base) | Aug 24, 2015 | Boxing News & Opinions
Matthysse-Postol will be the first bout to partake in the WBC Clean Boxing Program. With the support of the VADA (Voluntary Anti-Doping Association), the sanctioning body hopes to encourage fighters to enroll in the program to help eliminate performance enhancing...
