Archive for September 2009

Y! Sports staff scorescard of Saturday night’s title fight. News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story HERE .

Vitali Klitschko retained his title against Cris Arreola after 10 rounds Saturday night. News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story HERE .

Local star Jean Pascal stopped Italy's Silvio Branco in the 10th round to retain the WBC light heavyweight title Friday night. Pascal (24-1), from Laval, knocked down the 43-year-old Branco (59-10-2) once in seventh and twice more in the 10th before the Italian's corner threw in the towel to put an end to the one-sided [...]

Vitali Klitschko kept the memory of his last fight at Staples Center in his mind throughout the six years it took him to get back there against Chris Arreola on Saturday night. Klitschko led Lennox Lewis on every scorecard of that bout in June 2003, but a cut over his eye forced the fight's stoppage [...]

Chuck Mindenhall, UFC – Eric Schafer, like many in his native Wisconsin, is two things—a cheesehead, and a hater of all things Chicago. He loves his Packers and Brewers, hates ursine animals (Cubs, Bears), and can’t stand wind. He doesn’t make any qualms about this. But when he was growing up he wasn’t as enamored [...]

Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s return to the ring was an unexpected pay-per-view success. News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story HERE .

Chris Arreola had no problem shedding a few extra pounds for this fight. Arreola weighed in at a surprisingly slim 251 pounds Thursday for his WBC heavyweight championship bout against Vitali Klitschko, but only after briefly fooling the crowd gathered in anticipation of his first title shot. Arreola (27-0, 24 KOs) poked fun at his [...]

On Vitali Klitschko's days away from training for his next heavyweight title fight, he takes his wife and three children to the Beverly Center mall or down to the Malibu coast. He also ends up fairly often at Disneyland, even though he's too big to ride the Matterhorn. Whether he's toiling away in a cramped [...]

Floyd Mayweather Jr. is back on top by the slimmest of margins. News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story HERE .

Thomas Gerbasi, UFC – You could call Dan Hardy mixed martial arts’ first true viral marketer. How else do you explain his ability to take a bout that was intriguing, but without title implications in the welterweight division, and turn it into a fight that may have stolen the thunder from the main event at [...]

Floyd Mayweather Jr. was once boxing's pound-for-pound champion, and now he's evolving into its pay-per-view king as well. Mayweather's victory over Juan Manuel Marquez last weekend generated an impressive 1 million pay-per-view buys, HBO Sports announced Friday. The robust result confirms Mayweather's once-debatable superstar status in a sport that thrives on big names in big… [...]

Floyd Mayweather’s PPV buys started a war of words between rival promoters. News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story HERE .

Vitali Klitschko is healthy, happy, and hungry again, and that could be bad news for upstart Cris Arreola News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story HERE .

While Chris Arreola sweated through his new workout regimen at a sweltering gym in a grimy corner of the San Fernando Valley, it finally dawned on him: He had become the top American heavyweight prospect in spite of himself. Jogging? Nutrition? Any serious exercise at all, beyond beating the stuffing out of heavy bags and [...]

With a personality as big as his appetite, Cris Arreola has the makings of a boxing superstar. News Source: Yahoo Sports. Read full story HERE .