(SportsNetwork.com) – There are times when it’s really easy to hate boxing. Case in point was Saturday night and the immediate aftermath, in which some tossed up roadblocks to the idea that Timothy Bradley and Manny Pacquiao shouldn’t automatically be […]
Las Vegas, NV (SportsNetwork.com) – Timothy Bradley defeated Juan Manuel Marquez by split decision Saturday to retain his WBO welterweight title and remain undefeated. Two judges scored the bout in favor of Bradley, 116-112 and 115-113, while the other had […]
(SportsNetwork.com) – All the signs of October are here. My football team has teetered on the brink of irrelevance through five games played. My baseball team made this year’s renewal of what’s become an annual postseason flameout. My hockey team […]
Moscow, Russia (Sports Network) – WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko recorded a 12-round unanimous decision over previously unbeaten Alexander Povetkin on Saturday night. Klitschko (61-3, 51 KOs) dropped Povetkin (26-1, 18 KOs) once in round two and […]
Montreal, Quebec (Sports Network) – Adonis Stevenson registered a lopsided seventh round TKO over Tavoris Cloud to retain the WBC light heavyweight belt. Stevenson (22-1) cruised from the opening bell, picking apart Cloud (24-2) and dominating each round. The fight […]
Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) – Ken Norton Sr., a former heavyweight boxing champion, passed away Wednesday at an Arizona hospital, according to the Los Angeles Times. He was 70 years old. Norton, who suffered a stroke last year, apparently […]
Las Vegas, NV (Sports Network) – Boxing judge C.J. Ross will refrain from working fights in the near future following her controversial scoring in Saturday’s light middleweight title bout between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, according to a […]
(Sports Network) – In the aftermath of the controversial scoring decision Saturday night in Las Vegas, journalistic response has included calls to hunt down judge C.J. Ross, examine the outfit that gave her license to judge fights in the first […]
Las Vegas, NV (Sports Network) – Floyd Mayweather, Jr. remained undefeated with a majority decision over the previously unbeaten Saul Alvarez at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Saturday. Mayweather won 117-111 and 116-112 on two scorecards while a […]
(Sports Network) – After a multi-month promotional build-up that included a 10-city tour, a four-part documentary and countless heady estimates of potential pay-per-view revenue, the anticipated fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and young pound-for-pound challenger Saul Alvarez is hours away. […]