Promoter Joe DeGuardia talks to the media following Star Boxing’s second event at the Times Union Center, broadcast live on ESPN2′s Friday Night Fights. Joining him are NABO Jr. Welterweight Champion Karim Mayfield, challenger Tito Serrano, Jason Escalera, and Nick Brinson. Story filed with the Knick Ledger; will post when … Continue reading
My introductory post for Spike TV is up! Hey, quit harping on fights that won’t happen like the one between Josh Koscheck and BJ Penn (he already told you he was retired! Leave BJ alone!). There’s plenty of interesting stuff that IS going down this weekend, even if many of … Continue reading
Tonight is Star Boxing’s second foray into promoting boxing at the Times Union Center in Albany. As an added bonus, they’ll be broadcasting live on ESPN2 for Friday Night Fights. I’ll be providing live, round by round coverage of it over on the Mixed Marshall Arts blog, pending technological cooperation from the … Continue reading
First, from Ben Fowlkes of MMAFighting.com comes the tragic story of MMA and kickboxing legend Gary Goodridge’s recent diagnosis: “When talking to him on the phone, his speech was becoming slurred,” said Mike Mobbs, who’s counted Goodridge as his best friend since the two were nine years old, growing up … Continue reading
Yuriorkis Gamboa is jumping weight from Featherweight to Lightweight to meet former champion Brandon Rios, who had to vacate his title during his last outing after failing to make weight after three attempts and despite talk that he would be making a permanent move to Super Lightweight. From Kevin Iole … Continue reading
From Michael Rivest: It made noise a year ago, no doubt about it. But not enough, if you ask me. Troy heavyweight Shannon Miller (17-5, 9 KOs ), husband and father of two young children, and a local star already cemented in people’s minds as a tough dude with nothing … Continue reading
Tomorrow (Saturday) night is “KO at the TU,” the first boxing event in over fifteen years at Albany’s Times Union Center (formerly the Pepsi Arena and Knickerbocker Arena). I’ll be covering the event for the Knick Ledger, so keep an eye there and follow @KevinMarshall for live tweets. From the … Continue reading
As a friend of mine who e-mailed me this morning stated, it’s as if we’re taking two steps forward and one step back. The 2012 Games in London will be the introduction of women’s boxing to the Olympics, but they’ll likely have to wear skirts. The BBC reports that the … Continue reading
Disclaimer: it being a personal site I don’t really require one, but I will point out anyway that I know and train with the Millers. The Miller Brothers were triumphant and Javi Martinez improved the 3-0 on Friday night as Ares Promotions presented “Ares Fight Night VII: The Return” at … Continue reading
From our sister sport of boxing comes this amazing story from Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports: a man wrongly convicted who not only served time for a crime he didn’t commit, but refused a plea deal offered twenty-one years ago that would have made him a free man because he … Continue reading