Team Puerto Rico: Working to be Champions Inside and Outside Ring
Team Puerto Rico: Working to be Champions Inside and Outside Ring This week’s visit to former world champion Wilfred Benitez’s home was not the only charitable work Team Puerto Rico has been up to lately. Taking their roles seriously as the new ambassadors of Puerto Rican boxing, the members of Team Puerto Rico […]
ANDRE WARD JOINS SHOWTIME ANNOUNCE TEAM FOR SUPER SIX WORLD BOXING CLASSIC SEMIFINAL TELECAST
Super Six Finalist Gets Behind the Microphone for Froch vs. Johnson LIVE on SHOWTIME® Saturday, June 4, at 9 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast) NEW YORK (June 2, 2011) – Andre Ward will join the SHOWTIME® broadcast team for the live telecast this Saturday, June 4 (9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) that features a Super Six […]
Anthony Robles added to Gold Medal Camp staff
2011 NCAA Champion and three-time NCAA All-American Anthony Robles will be joining USA Olympian Ken Chertow’s Gold Medal Training Camp staff this summer. The nation’s largest camp system will conduct camp in over 20 different locations across the country. Coach Chertow’s annual Gold Medal Training Camp summer tour is already underway. Chertow is a three-time NCAA All-American […]
‘Mantequilla’ Gonzalez to Face Richard Gutierrez for Two Titles
PHOTO: CARLOS BAEZA / THOMPSON BOXING On June 11 at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City, undefeated super welterweight, Jonathan “Mantequilla” Gonzalez (13-0, 13 KOs) of Barrio Obrero, Puerto Rico, will face experienced Colombian veteran Richard Gutierrez (24-6 -1, 16 KOs) in a 10-round battle for the WBA-NABA and WBO Latino Youth Middleweight Championships. […]
Ricky Burns Interview – Ricky talks about Nicky Cook, Roman Martinez, Mzonke Fana and more
By Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro Last Friday I was lucky enough to sit down and have a chat with the highly likable WBO Super Featherweight Champion of the World Ricky Burns, who is set to defend his title for the third time against Nicky Cook at the Echo Arena in Liverpool on the 16th July. […]
Philadelphia Daily News: Champs Manuel, Hopkins Form Mutual Admiration Society
Champs Manuel, Hopkins form mutual admiration society By Marcus Hayes Daily News Sports Columnist POSTED: May 26, 2011 NORTH PHILADELPHIA and western Virginia might be more than 300 miles apart, but, apparently, distance is no factor in matters of character. “We’ve got the same DNA!” exclaimed Bernard Hopkins, Germantown product, about spiritual brother Charlie […]
FUEL TV EXPANDS SHARK FIGHTS PARTNERSHIP
Network Adds Six More 2011Events LOS ANGELES, CA and AMARILLO, TX – FUEL TV (www.fuel.tv), Fox Sports Media Group’s dynamic entertainment and sports network for young males, and Texas-based mixed martial arts promotion company Shark Fights announces an expanded television agreement that adds six upcoming Shark Fights events in 2011, starting with Shark Fights 15 […]
Benitez to be Named Honorary Captain of Team Puerto Rico
Benitez to be Named Honorary Captain of Team Puerto Rico Team Puerto Rico Boxing is proud to announce that three-time world champion and Puerto Rican boxing great Wilfred Benitez will be named honorary captain of their team at a short ceremony next week. Benitez was the youngest world champion in boxing history. At […]
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