HBO World Championship Boxing

If you were to ever see Juan Manuel Lopez in between fights, you could see a major difference in his walk around weight from his fighting weight. After struggles to make 122, he moved up to 126. Seemingly again, he was poised to move up in weight to the 130 lb. division. When ThaBoxingVoice.com spoke [...]

Undefeated lightweight contender Darley Perez (28-0, 19 KOs) has signed on to fight explosive Cuban superstar Yuriorkis Gamboa(22-0, 16 KOs) in the co-feature of an HBO telecast taking place on June 8th, live from the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. The main event that evening will be a light heavyweight title tilt between Chad Dawson andAdonis Stevenson.  Perez vs. Gamboa [...]

HBO Sports lights up Memorial Day weekend with an action-packed day-night doubleheader of world-class prizefighting when WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: JEAN PASCAL VS. LUCIAN BUTE AND CARL FROCH VS. MIKKEL KESSLER II is presented SATURDAY, MAY 25 (6:15 p.m. ET/3:15 p.m. PT, live from London; 10:00 p.m. live from Montreal ET/tape-delayed PT) from the O2 Arena [...]

Martin Murray played the role of road warrior for the second time in his career on April 27th traveling to Argentina to face the lineal middleweight king Sergio "Maravilla" Martinez. [...]

  HEAVYWEIGHTS BERMANE STIVERNE – 247 lbs. & CHRIS ARREOLA – 248 lbs. SUPER WELTERWEIGHTS OSCAR MOLINA -  152 lbs.  & JOSE MARTELL -151.6 lbs HEAVYWEIGHTS TONY GRANO -  230 lbs. & ERIC MOLINA – 235 lbs. SUPER FEATHERWEIGHTS CHARLES HUERTA – 127.6 lbs. & JONATHAN ALCANTARA – 127.4 lb FEATHERWEIGHTS JUAN FUNEZ- 125.6 lbs. & [...]

Defending WBC Middleweight Champion Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez (50-2-2, 28KO’s) and the U.K.’s undefeated WBA interim championMartin Murray (25-0-1, 11KO’s) both weighed-in earlier today, with the champion tipping the scales at 159.4 lbs. while the challenger Murray weighed-in at 159.6 lbs. Luis Carlos Abregu (34-1, 28KO’s) and Antonin Decarie (27-1, 8KO’s) both were also on weight for their vacant WBC Silver welterweight [...]

This Saturday, boxing fans could be in for what could be looked at as the best overall boxing weekend of the year thus far. [...]

 Earlier this afternoon, WBC Middleweight Champion “Maravilla” Martinez (50-2-2, 28KO’s) and the U.K.’s undefeated WBA interim champion Martin Murray (25-0-1, 11KO’s) held the final media conference call ahead of their World Championship bout that will air live on HBO from Buenos Aires, Argentina this Saturday evening. The card, which will be televised live beginning at [...]

Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum announced today that the World Boxing Council (WBC) No.1-rated welterweight contender CARLOS “El Potro” ABREGU had signed an exclusive contract with Top Rank.  Abregu, one of the division’s most exciting fighters, will make his Top Rank and his 2013 debut Next Saturday!  April 27.  He’ll be facing Top-Five contender Antonin Decarie, in Buenos Aires, in a 12-round [...]

When hard-hitting veteran Luis Carlos Abregu (34-1, 28 KOs) was matched up against the young Thomas Dulorme of Puerto Rico last fall, it was supposed to be a coming out party for the up and coming prospect, not a come back party for the Argentine. Prior to their October encounter, Dulorme insisted that he would “dictate [...]