Top Rank & Caribe Promotions  Conference Call Transcript  Tuesday, April 9, 2013  Manhattan  FRED STERNBURG: This is Top Rank’s fourth great boxing event in the span of five weeks. This Saturday it’s 2012 Fighter of the Year and WBO junior featherweight champn Nonito “Filipino Flash” Donaire taking on undefeated WBA Super Bantamweight Champion and former [...]

April 8, 2013 – I am pleased to announce that according to laboratory results I am not under suspicion of having taken a banned substance in connection with my bout against Lamont Peterson. We have received an email from Dr. David Eichner, Director of the WADA accredited Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory that my results [...]

By Albert Alvarez Saturday, April 13, 2013 Radio City Music Hall, New York City. Live on HBO Nonito Donaire(31-1) vs. Guillermo Rigondeaux(11-0)-  To the naked eye, both fighters are viewed as being very similar counter punching, fast, power punching fighters.  However, I do not see them as such.  Nonito to me has more of an [...]

Carl “The Truth” Williams, best known for his two times challenging for the heavyweight championship of the world, has passed away.  He was just 53, but had been battling oesophageal cancer for a long time, finally losing his fight on April 7. It was his fight with Mike Tyson, who at the time was at [...]

A female fighter in MMA named Fallon Fox recently revealed that she was a transgender, and wished to continue her career, fighting as a woman.  Obviously, the revelation caused a lot of controversy, and debate has raged ever since.  Should a transgender woman be allowed to compete in combat sports?  Are there differences between men [...]

By John-Paul Wolfe When developing a young, ultra-talented fighter, the likes of Adrien Broner, match making is a key element which can make or break a career.  Throw a guy to wolves, and even if he makes it out unbeaten, he may not have developed championship level confidence, or had the chance to showcase his skills [...]

By Jack Sumner With a population of 1.35 billion people and the world’s fastest growing economy, China is often seen by entrepreneurial spirits as the land of opportunity. Ever since Deng Xiaoping opened China to the global market in the late seventies and pledged ‘to get rich is glorious’, the world’s most populous nation has [...]

By Jack Price @PriceyJ97. ‘Mile High’ Mike Alvarado avenged the only loss of his career the other night with a career-best performance that earned him a unanimous decision victory over the highly-rated former world champion Brandon ‘Bam Bam’ Rios. It was an emphatic and impressive victory that could have risen Alvarado’s stock massively. The 32-year [...]

This week on the Jeff Mayweather Show, Jeff, Alexz and Ashley were joined by special guest Brian Vera.  Vera just won his main event place on Friday on ESPN against Donatas Bondas by TKO in the 7th round. Each Tuesday night the Jeff Mayweather Show airs on PBI Radio.  Be sure to check it out [...]

By Nick Bellafatto Looking a bit stiff to start things off in the evenings main event, Denver, Colorado’s “Mile High” Mike Alvarado (34-1, 23 KO’s) would over the course of twelve complete rounds loosen up to by fights end garner a unanimous decision verdict over previously undefeated Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios (31-1-1, 23 KO’s) of [...]

After a couple of short comeback attempts, Riddick Bowe once again has announced he will be back in action.  This time, however, it is not a boxing ring he will be competing in. At the Palms Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on Saturday, a press conference was held to announce Bowe’s upcoming Muay Thai [...]

Check out this great video promo for the upcoming Jean Pascal vs. Lucian Bute fight coming up.  If this doesn’t get you geared up for the fight, nothing will.   This video was put together by our very own @editinking.  Be sure to follow him on Twitter and check out his other videos. For more [...]

By Ian S Palmer Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado will be slugging it out for the second time in the space of five months when they meet in a junior welterweight bout at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on Saturday March 30. Their last meeting on October 13, 2012 at the Home Depot Center in [...]

By Ian S Palmer British light heavyweight Tony Bellew will take on takes on Isaac Chilemba in Liverpool, England on Saturday March 30 for something called the WBC “silver” light heavyweight championship. The 30-year-old Bellew takes a record of 19-1 along with 12 Kos into the ring with him. While the 25-year-old Chilemba of South [...]

By Ian S Palmer WBA Middleweight Champion Gennady Golovkin of Kazakhstan meets up with veteran Nobuhiro Ishida of Japan on Saturday March 30 in Monaco. Golovkin is undefeated with a perfect record of 25-0 with 22 Kos and recently stopped Gabriel Rosado in January. Golovkin is also a former Olympic silver medalist who competed in [...]

Harold Lederman stopped by the Mayweather Boxing Club this week while he was in town for the upcoming Brandon Rios-Mike Alvarado fight.  Our Zach Cooper was able to spend a few minutes with the legendary judge and get his thoughts on a variety of topics.

By Nick Bellafatto Born in Lubbock, Texas, Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios (31-0-1, 23 KO’s) is arguably the best brawler in the game, a fact which hopefully he will not have to pay for later in life if not sooner.  And visibly one dimensional as concerns his style, that solitary dimension was enough to propel the [...]

In what was certainly not one of his brighter moments, Robert Guerrero was arrested Thursday morning at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York for attempting to board a plane bound for Las Vegas with a gun. Guerrero, 30, is scheduled to face Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 4, in the biggest fight of his [...]

By Albert Alvarez I have tried and tried to break this fight down a few different ways.  In my head, this fight can come down to the wire.  But reality then quickly enters my gut, and it is then that I begin to see the entire brawl play out before the start of the first [...]

This week, Jeff Mayweather, Alexz Yzerman and Ashley Ferrara were joined by 2016 Olympic hopeful Mikaela Mayer on the Jeff Mayweather Show.  Mikaela rose to fame through her appearance in a Dr. Pepper commercial that focused on Mikaela’s competing as a boxer, while at the same time being a model. Currently, she is preparing for [...]

By: Albert Alvarez Celebrity Fight Night first premiered in the Valley in 1994 when local celebrities donned oversized boxing gloves for a comedic fight in the ring before 400 attendees. Today, more than 1,200 guests attend the event to accompany Muhammad Ali and other A-List celebrities. Celebrity Fight Night no longer features celebrity boxing, but [...]