Peter ‘Kid Chocolate’ Quillin Preparing for sweet fight
LOS ANGELES (August 4, 2011) – Unbeaten middleweight contender Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillinwants to make-up for lost time, yet, the multi-talented fighter has to remain patient and play the boxing game. Quillin virtually lost all of 2009 due to a series of injuries — hand surgery, hairline eye fracture, and then an emergencyappendectomy — that kept him out […]
JOSEPH AGBEKO & ABNER MARES CONFERENCE CALL HIGHLIGHTS
NEW YORK (Aug. 2, 2011) — International Boxing Federation (IBF) Bantamweight Champion Joseph King Kong Agbekoand undefeated rising star and World Boxing Council (WBC) Silver 118-pound Champion Abner Mares participated in a media conference call on Tuesday to discuss The Bantamweight Tournament Final: Winner Takes All taking place onSaturday, August 13, live on SHOWTIME (10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) from The […]
Peter ‘Kid Chocolate’ Quillin ready to hit curveball out of park
LAS VEGAS (July 21 2011) – Undefeated middleweight prospect Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin may be a prizefighter, rather than a baseball player, but never-the-less the talented Cuban-American plans to hit a curveball out of the park Saturday night in Las Vegas. Coming off of an explosive third-round destruction of former world title challenger Jesse Brinkley […]
JOSEPH KING KONG AGBEKO, ABNER MARES PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES AND PHOTOS FROM SATURDAY, AUG. 13, 2011, AT HARD ROCK HOTEL & CASINO LAS VEGAS
The Bantamweight Tournament Final: Winner Takes All LIVE ON SHOWTIME® LAS VEGAS, NEV., (July 14, 2011) – Just steps away from where all the action will take place one month from now at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Joseph King Kong Agbeko and Abner Mares took part in a spirited press conference Thursday at Muse […]
Boxing Links (6-12-11)
Kelly Pavlik to face lefty Darryl Cunningham next month: Boxing Insider Plain Dealer By Joe Maxse, The Plain Dealer AP PhotoKelly Pavlik is preparing for his fight with International Boxing Federation super middleweight champion Lucian Bute in November. Kelly Pavlik knows he will have to get through a left-handed fighter to get his… See all stories on […]
Boxing Links (7-9-11)
George Kimball, at 67; covered glory days of boxing Boston Globe By JM Lawrence Author George Kimball, a former radical hippie poet out of 1960s Kansas who became a renowned boxing writer during more than 30 years with the Boston Herald and the Boston Phoenix, died of cancer on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. … See all […]
JUNIOR MIDDLEWEIGHT CO-FEATURE FIGHTERS KERMIT CINTRON AND CARLOS MOLINA, UNBEATEN NOTRE DAME CHAMP MIKE LEE AND MIDDLEWEIGHT PROSPECT MATT KOROBOV MEDIA WORKOUT QUOTES
Thursday, July 7, Fortune Gym, Hollywood, Calif. SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP DOUBLEHEADER This Saturday, July 9, At Home Depot Center, Carson, California, Live on SHOWTIME® at 10 p.m. ET/PT HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (July 7, 2011) – Former International Boxing Federation (IBF) welterweight champion Kermit Cintron (32-3-1, 28 KOs), of Carolina, Puerto Rico, will mark his return to the SHOWITME airwaves while Carlos Molina of Chicago will make his […]
WBA LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION BRANDON RIOS, CHALLENGER URBANO ANTILLON, KERMIT CINTRON, CARLOS MOLINA, PROMOTER BOB ARUM AND MORE FINAL PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES
Wednesday, July 6, Wilshire Grand Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING Doubleheader This Saturday, July 9, At The Home Depot Center, Carson, California, Live on SHOWTIME® at 10 p.m. ET/PT LOS ANGELES (July 6, 2011) – Aside from some one-on-one, in-your-face jawing during a face-off for photographers, both Brandon “Bam Bam’’ Rios and Urbano Antillon […]
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