Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank had two major announcements at the Pacquiao-De La Hoya post-fight news conference. WBA welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (37-5, 27 KOs) defends his title against Sugar Shane Mosley (45-5, 38 KOs) on Jan. 24 at Staples Center on HBO. Vic Darchinyan ...

They say a good big man beats a good little man in prizefighting. Boxing history is littered with smaller fighters stepping up to face large fighters and getting beaten into the canvas. Anybody who has ever watched ESPN Classic has seen light-heavyweight Billy Conn giving heavyweight ...

The era of big-money boxing matches isn’t over yet. Saturday night’s card at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas will be shown live on HBO pay-per-view, and it features one of the biggest attractions ever to set foot in the squared circle: Oscar De La Hoya. His 2007 fight against Floyd Mayweather drew a ...

Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao When: Saturday, 6 p.m. Where: MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas TV: HBO PPV ($54.95) Outlook: De La Hoya, who has won world titles at 130, 135, 140, 147, 154 and 160 pounds, takes on Pacquiao, who has won world titles at 112, 122, 130 and 135 ...

The days of promoting boxing on those old-school posters or with a sign out front of an armory are over. The promotion for this Saturday's Oscar De La Hoya/Manny Pacquiao superfight has ramped up with the HBO 24/7 series, Twitter feeds from HBO PPV Sports and now, a Facebook application called ...

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Pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao takes a look at his custom Team Pacquiao bus, which is heading to Las Vegas for his welterweight rumble against Oscar De La Hoya on Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on HBO PPV. Photo courtesy of Chris Farina /Top Rank

LOS ANGELES - Pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao opened up his training camp to the media on Nov. 17 at Wild Card Gym where “Pac-Man” is preparing for his showdown against Oscar De La Hoya on Dec. 6 in Las Vegas on HBO PPV. Pacquiao said he weighed 151 pounds and he feels ...

Oscar De La Hoya held a conference call on Nov. 17 to discuss his showdown against Manny Pacquiao on Dec. 6 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas on HBO PPV. Here is what the “Golden Boy” had to say:; Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer: Welcome to today’s conference call to discuss the ...

Pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao held a conference call on Nov. 24 to discuss his showdown against Oscar De La Hoya on Dec. 6 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas on HBO PPV. Here is what Pac-Man and his promoter, Bob Arum, had to say: Top Rank publicist Lee Samuels: We’re talking about ...

Manny Pacquiao’s trainer, Freddie Roach , and Oscar De La Hoya’s trainer, Nacho Beristain , held a conference call to discuss the Pacquiao-De La Hoya fight on Dec. 6 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on HBO PPV. Here is what Nacho and Freddie had to say: Top Rank president Bob ...

Found this link on Figure Four Weekly/Wrestling Observer last night from Saturday's HBO Boxing After Dark card. It's a much-discussed heavyweight match between Chris Arreola (26-0, 23 ko's) vs. Travis Walker(28-2-1, 22 ko's) that was pretty decent. I don't think it was a Fight of the Year ...

ONTARIO - Chris Arreola and Travis Walker engaged in one of the best heavyweight fights of the year on Saturday night at Citizens Business Bank Arena on HBO’s “Boxing After Dark.” Arreola got up from a knockdown in the second to drop Walker twice in the second before ...

ONTARIO - Riverside’s Chris Arreola might have come in over his target weight, but he provided plenty of excitement with his three-round war against Travis Walker in their IBF heavyweight eliminator on Saturday night at Citizens Business Bank Arena on HBO’s “Boxing After ...

That’s right this is D.C., the boxing blogger back to take you through another boxing card as seen through my eyes. I couldn’t make it to Ontario for the Paul Williams and Chris Arreola headlined-card at the Citizens Business Bank Arena, so I’m posted in my room in the mean streets of ...