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Canelo Alvarez brings it home to unify titles
It's one thing to talk. The great ones back it up. In avenging his brother's loss and letting his fists fly against a respected, defense-based, unbeaten world champion, Mexico's Saul "Canelo" Alvarez unified the super-welterweight division Saturday...
Tags: Boxing, Mexico, Welterweight, Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Las Vegas: Treasure Island to host lightweight boxing match April 12
This post has been updated. See note below for details.The match is still on for April 12 at Treasure Island Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Angelo "La Cobra" Santana will take on Bahodir Mamadjonov (12-1, 8 KOs) from Uzbekistan. [Updated, 1:58 p.m. April 8: An earlier version of this post said Angelo "La...Tags: Boxing
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HBO drops involvement with Golden Boy fighters
After watching an exodus of fighters that included Floyd Mayweather Jr., Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Amir Khan to rival network Showtime, HBO announced this week it will stop broadcasting fights involving boxers promoted by Los Angeles’...
Tags: Media Industry, Human Interest, Boxing, Barack Obama, Indiana Pacers
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East L.A.'s Frankie Gomez ready to start campaign toward title shot
Oscar De La Hoya said he has ordered his matchmaker to start intensifying the opposition for East Los Angeles boxing prospect Frankie Gomez. “Without blowing smoke, he is the real deal and I want to start moving him faster than we have,”...
Tags: Boxing, Chris Culliver, Manny Pacquiao, Bantamweight, Joseph Diaz, Jr.
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Boxer Hector 'Macho' Camacho dies days after being shot in head
Hector “Macho” Camacho, a former three-division boxing champion who had 88 professional fights against a who’s who of legendary opponents stretching from Ray Mancini (whom he defeated in 1989) to Oscar De La Hoya (who beat him by...
Tags: Boxing, Trinidad and Tobago, Theft, Middleweight Boxing, Sugar Ray Leonard
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Hector Camacho's condition worsens; could be taken off life support
A friend of boxer Hector “Macho” Camacho says the former world champion's condition has worsened and he could be taken off life support. Camacho was shot in the face Tuesday in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. A friend with him was killed. Doctors...
Tags: Boxing, Oscar De La Hoya
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Hector 'Macho' Camacho shot in Puerto Rico
Hector "Macho" Camacho, a former three-division champion, was shot and seriously wounded in his native Puerto Rico on Tuesday, leaving the boxing showman fighting for his life, according to police and media reports. Reports from the scene said Camacho...
Tags: Boxing, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya, Shootings
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Don Chargin recalls glory days of boxing at Olympic Auditorium
Boxing keeps turning up the volume on the hype. Apparently, if you sell it loudly, fewer will notice if it is lousy. Oscar De La Hoya, never lousy in the ring, was presenting a card of boxers at a media gathering the other day for a Saturday night show...
Tags: Japan, Services and Shopping, Mexico, Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Dodger Stadium
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Enrique Bolanos dies at 87; boxer lost lightweight title 3 times in L.A.
Enrique Bolanos, a Mexican boxer who three times fought for and lost the world lightweight title in Los Angeles in the late 1940s, died Monday. He was 87.
Bolanos died of heart failure at a convalescent facility near his Pasadena home, said his wife of...Tags: Boxing, Mexico, Wrigley Field, Oscar De La Hoya
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Brandon Rios of Oxnard has WBA lightwight belt stripped [Updated]
The Fabulous ForumOxnard's world lightweight champion Brandon Rios had his World Boxing Assn. belt stripped Friday when he failed to make the 135-pound weight limit. Rios weighed in at 135.6 pounds twice, then went to a hot room to "sweat out" more...... -
Lamont Peterson chooses Amir Khan rematch and Vegas over L.A.
Sports NowLamont Peterson chooses Amir Khan rematch and Vegas over L.A.... -
Boxer Patricia Manuel pulls out of Olympic trials with injury
Sports NowLong Beach boxer Patricia Manuel's dream of fighting in the first women's Olympic boxing tournament ended Tuesday in an Eastern Washington hotel room when she pulled out of the U.S. trials after one fight because of a shoulder injury....
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