Like many great fights that leave blood thirsty boxing fans clamoring for more, this incredible weekend of pugilism will feature three great re-matches that are sure to exceed, or at least match, fight-fan expectation...or will they?
The Associated Press reports today that a civil trial over the multimillion-dollar estate of late boxing champion Arturo Gatti will proceed next Tuesday.
Gomez was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, but his parents subsequently moved to the cities of Los Angeles and (later) Tustin, California, partly so as to enable Gomez to go to college and continue boxing. Gomez started boxing age 10…
With the talk surrounding the Rios/Antillon fight falling just short of fight of the year candidacy, here is a look at my top ten greatest fights since the turn of the century.
The third fight was, like Gatti-Ward I, chosen Fight of the Year by Ring Magazine. I also think it was the fight that best showed what a great boxer Gatti was. Gatti looked a little more like a tactical, well-conditioned…
Micky Ward is a retired Irish-American junior welterweight and a former WBU champion. He is widely known as the protagonist in the 2010 feature film The Fighter based on his career and for his trilogy of fights with Arturo Gatti.Ward…
The sold-out crowd of 12,675 – nearly all Gatti supporters – watched as Mayweather destroyed their hero. Mayweather won virtually every second of the fight to take Gatti's junior welterweight title.Mayweather (34-0, 23 KOs) is now a three-division champion, having…
Angel Manfredy was a popular late 1990s fighter. He lost two out of his first five fights, but then won an impressive 23 in a row. He beat former champions like Calvin Grove, and Jorge Paez, and top contenders such…