Spence – Bundu quotes for 8/21 fight

08/05/2016 Premier Boxing

Lou DiBella
Thank you very much everyone joining us. This is indeed the conference call for Errol Spence against Leonard Bundu which is an IBF welterweight world title eliminator. The winner will be the mandatory contender for the title currently held by Kell Brook.

So it’s a very significant fight for boxing purposes. This is PBC on NBC. It’ll be at 5:00 pm Eastern Time, 2:00 pm Pacific Time. The doors of the first about will begin at 2:30 pm from the Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island Boardwalk on Sunday, August 21st.

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George Foreman on what would have happened had he fought Mike Tyson

08/05/2016 James Slater

“What f*****g excitement!” a well known boxing promoter speaking in 1990 on the possibility of a Mike Tyson-George Foreman super-fight

It remains one of the most talked about “dream fights,” or super-fights that never took place. It is the biggest of all heavyweight collisions: George Foreman Vs. Mike Tyson. The fight came close to happening in the early 1990s, but, as living legend Foreman recently explained when speaking on the CBS Sports radio show Brown and Scoop, for some reason the fight didn’t happen: “I couldn’t get him, I just don’t know why,” Foreman said. “I tried.”

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Chazz Witherspoon: is there still time for “The Gentleman” to come good?

08/05/2016 James Slater

34-year-old heavyweight Chazz Witherspoon, last seen in a ring in a August of last year when he scored a TKO win over an 11-2 Nick Guivas, returns to action tomorrow, against a relatively “safe-looking” foe in the five times beaten Mike Marrone. The big Philadelphian looked for a time like a top prospect/contender, back in 2008, until he ran into Chris Arreola and lost his unbeaten record. There have been other setbacks for the cousin of former two-time heavyweight titlist Tim Witherspoon, such as his stoppage loss to the cagey Tony Thompson and, in a far less acceptable defeat in a fight he was winning, a stoppage loss to Seth Mitchell.

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Audley Harrison: “I was definitely good enough to win a world title”

08/05/2016 James Slater

The Olympics have arrived again and boxing fans will be looking for the next potential superstar of the sport. Back in 2000, one man who seemingly ticked all the boxes as far as going onto become a star and a world champion, was Britain’s gifted southpaw Audley Harrison. Indeed, all these years later, “A-Force” remains one of the most well known boxers, or retired boxers, in the world. This is despite the fact that Harrison’s pro career proved to be a hugely disappointing letdown; arguably one of the biggest in recent memory.

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Errol Spence – Leonard Bundu on BoxNation

08/05/2016 Premier Boxing

Boxing’s hottest young star Errol Spence Jr will be back in action exclusively live on BoxNation when he challenges the tough Leonard Bundu in a welterweight world title eliminator on August 21.

The undefeated Texan has captivated the boxing world since turning professional following a decorated amateur career which culminated in his appearance at the Olympics in London 2012.

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Hykso is About to Revolutionize Boxing with their Wearable Sensor Technology

08/05/201608/05/2016 James Stillerman

The California based wearable tech company, Hykso wants to invent technology that creates the next generation of super humans in combat sports and with their newly released sensor, that is one of the most advanced training tools around, that might just happen.

Hykso’s small, lightweight, yet very durable and extremely powerful wearable sensor fits comfortably underneath a fighter’s hand wraps as it automatically tracks each punch thrown, calculates the speed, recognizes the specific punch type, determines the striking intensity (how many punches are thrown and hard each shot is), and the average time between attacks (average amount of time that elapses between each consecutive attack).

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Andre Ward – Alexander Brand final quotes for Saturday’s fight on HBO

08/05/201608/04/2016 Roc Nation Sports

Ward vs Brand – On Thursday, August 4, Roc Nation Sports hosted the final press conference for Two-Time World Champion and top-rated pound-for-pound fighter Andre Ward (29-0, 15 KOs) and power-punching Colombian Alexander Brand (25-1, 19 KOs) at Lake Merritt Amphitheater in Oakland, California in advance of their August 6 fight at Oracle Arena in Oakland. Ward and Brand will meet in 12-round WBO Intercontinental title fight televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing® beginning at 10:35 p.m. ET/PT.

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David Lemieux-Curtis Stevens match-up/explosion possible for October, November

08/05/201608/04/2016 James Slater

Whenever boxing throws up a can’t miss explosion of a fight, fans get hyped up and excited at the prospect of seeing another Hagler-Hearns or another Foreman-Lyle-type fight; these two classics being the benchmark when it comes to frenzied action fight slugfests. And, according to a news piece up on RingTV.com, one of these mouth-watering match-ups is a possibility for either October or November in Montreal, Canada.

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Abel Sanchez says Eubank Jr or James DeGale will be next for GGG

08/05/201608/04/2016 James Slater

Though undefeated star Gennady Golovkin insists he is in no way looking past his “biggest test” of a fight with Kell Brook, it is understandable how his team are looking at what may come next for the middleweight ruler. Tom Loeffler, GGG’s manager, has said how the plan, all being well, is for Golovkin to box again in November or December of this year. That would be just two or three months on from the defence against IBF welterweight champ Brook, but who might the opponent be?

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Eubank Jr still calling out Golovkin!

08/04/2016 James Slater

He lost out on a September 10 date with middleweight king Gennady Golovkin, reportedly because he failed to sign the contract in time, but that doesn’t mean Chris Eubank Junior is in any mood to be quiet. Eubank Jr says he “never saw a contract” and he wasted no time in rubbishing the GGG-Kell Brook fight. And Eubank Jr has again called out Golovkin.

Via his official Twitter page, Eubank Jr, the reigning British middleweight champ, again belittled the September 10 fight and challenged Triple-G to a “real fight.”

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