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It's Bold Picks From Caesars

Caesars Palace is back with the big show in its’ outdoor Amphitheatre Saturday Apr.23 and nothing could be better than seeing big bombers like Antonio Margarito or Kermit Cintron live up to their bold predictions of a kayo victory.

Shelly Finkel Looks Ahead in Ring Reflection

Shelly Finkel probably didn’t know it at the time when he was book-deep at N .Y.U. in marketing. However, the scholarly senior’s career in “ booking” would take two turns, first to a boxing arena for the annual Golden Gloves he followed growing u...

Morales Too Much For Pacquiao

Erik Morales, impossible to deny, took warrior-hood to a new echelon that left southpaw Manny Pacquiao valiantly in his wake while dramatically winning a close 12-round decision Saturday in the MGM Grand Garden. It was another spellbinder that had...

Pacquiao-Morales, Fight of The Year?

With the public split over the superb skills of Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales, it is hard to go wrong when they meet Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas. Both former world champions promise to contribute their share of all-action that...

IBF Champ Doesn't Rush For Early KOs

Jeff Lacy, as one of boxing’s most awesome knockout punchers, has left promoters across the land opening earlier than ever to accommodate the heavy box office crunch. Perhaps the most unique aspect about the undefeated IBF super middleweight champ...

Welsh: Castillo and Lacy Handle Business

Jose Luis Castillo deftly proved his point as arguably the world’s best 135-pounder with unrelenting pressure and punishing power, wearing down Julio Diaz to retain his WBC crown on a 10th round TKO Saturday at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

Castillo, Lacy are Mandalay Choices

Jose Luis Castillo and Jeff Lacy are world champs in different weight classes, but what they will have in common Saturday at Mandalay Bay is the kind of kayo power that triggers sellouts. Showtime will televise both 12-round title bouts on what th...

Jack Welsh: Hopkins May Go For Another "20"

Bernard Hopkins, boxing’s ultimate innovator, didn’t waste much time showing Howard Eastman a full package, smashing his way into history at 40, as an undisputed world middleweight champion with 20 title defenses Saturday in Los Angeles.

Jack Welsh; Philly Sends Hopkins West For 20

We’re not certain who documented the axiom, “Life Begins At 40”, but it wouldn’t be a major surprise if the recipient was a traveling Philadelphian named Bernard Hopkins. Hopkins is a hard-core easterner who boxing buffs dubbed “The Executioner’ m...

Winky Not Blinky Over $4 Million Dollars

Ronald “Winky” Wright may not be such an astute handle for a business man, but like being the super welterweight champion, when it comes to high finance he is second to none. The clever 32-year-old boxer-puncher from St. Petersburg, Fla., had figh...

Combination of Power and Speed KO's Spinks

Zab Judah, rarely short on bold predictions, made this one stick as he parlayed superior power, speed and strategy to become undisputed world welterweight champion when he TKO’d Cory Spinks in the ninth round Saturday in the latter’s home town of St....

Welsh: Judah, Spinks Say it's All-Out War

Cory Spinks and Zab Judah have shown each other extreme respect in recent weeks, but some analysts feel it is just a camouflage for what they have in mind for Saturday’s showdown in St. Louis.

Mayweather Assures Miami Heat

Floyd Mayweather, Jr., after only three fights in three years, will expand his work ethic to prove being the pound-for-pound star is more than one man’s opinion. And the revision starts Saturday when the 27-year-old former WBC super featherweight...

Fixer Mittleman Gets Suspended Minus Cash

Fight fixer Richard Mittlemen proved aptly named when it comes to money, plus having his boxing seconds license suspended indefinitely by the American Association of Boxing Commissioners. Now that was a penalty Mittleman didn’t need considering hi...

Welsh: Johnson Puts Tarver Away

It’s rare when world champions are willing to shed titles to get purses they desire, but nobody had to look twice when Glen Johnson laid it on the line with taller Antonio Tarver Saturday in winning a split light-heavyweight decision at Staples Cente...