The Boxing Truth®

We would like to let our readers know that the monthly feature Observations On Recent Events In Boxing, which discusses some of the highlights and notable stories from the previous month in the sport is currently in the works. The newest edition looking back at the month of March will be released on Thursday, April 5th. Stay tuned. “And That’s The Boxing Truth.” The Boxing Truth® is a registered trademark of Beau Denison All Rights Reserved. Follow Beau Denison on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Beau_Denison

The official weigh-in for the latest edition of the Premier Boxing Champions series taking place on Tuesday night in Nice, CA took place earlier today. The official weights for the entire card are as follows. Main Event: Jr. Lightweight – 10Rds. Leduan Barthelemy 129lbs. vs. Reynaldo Blanco 130lbs. Jr. Middleweight – 10Rds. Kyrone Davis 153 1/2lbs. vs. Mark Hernandez 153 1/2lbs. Jr. Featherweight – 4Rds. Jose Naranjo 123 1/2lbs. vs. Anthony Chavez 123lbs. Jr. Featherweight – 4Rds.* Eros Correa 122lbs. vs. Damon Simon 121lbs. (*Correa scheduled to make his pro debut in this bout.) Middleweight – 8Rds. Alejandro Torres 159 1/2lbs. vs. Malcolm McAllister 158 1/2lbs. Jr. Middleweight – 4Rds. Taif Harris 154lbs. vs. Brandyn Lynch 153 1/2lbs. PBC: Barthelemy vs. Blanco takes place tomorrow night (Tuesday, March 28th) at the Robinson Rancheria Resort and Casino in Nice, CA. The card can be seen in the United States on Fox Sports 1 beg...

There was much anticipation for Gennady Golovkin’s eighteenth defense of his Middleweight world championship against WBA number one contender Daniel Jacobs on March 18 th at Madison Square Garden in New York City, NY. This fight seemed to have all of the ingredients that make Boxing special. Two hard-hitting boxers looking to prove superiority over not just their opponent, but over the entire Middleweight division. For the champion Gennady Golovkin, the encounter with Jacobs represented not just the eighteenth title defense in a reign that has seen him gradually unify four of five Middleweight world championships, but it also represented the next step in what may ultimately become a historic reign as a World Middleweight champion. With a victory over Jacobs, it would place Golovkin two successful title defenses shy of tying the all-time Middleweight record for successful title defenses, which was set by future Hall of Famer Bernard Hopkins between 1995-2005. For Daniel Jacobs, t...

We would like to let readers know that a column looking back at the recent Gennady Golovkin-Daniel Jacobs world Middleweight championship fight that was originally scheduled for Tuesday, March 21st will now be released on Sunday, March 26th. We apologize for the delay. Stay tuned. “And That’s The Boxing Truth.” The Boxing Truth® is a registered trademark of Beau Denison All Rights Reserved. Follow Beau Denison on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Beau_Denison

Boxing as a sport is one that is constantly searching for two components. The next rising star and the sport’s next big “Mega Event.” It should be no secret to longtime readers that one such fighter’s rise that has been chronicled in recent years here at The Boxing Truth® has been the rise of undefeated unified Middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin. Golovkin has been on what some might call an unprecedented run for a fighter on the elite level of the sport. A run that this observer has called “A Path Of Destruction” through the Middleweight division. Golovkin’s path has seen him compile seventeen successful title defense and twenty-three consecutive knockouts. Along the way, Golovkin has unified four of five world championships in the Middleweight division. In his last fight in September of last year, Golovkin scored a fifth round stoppage of previously undefeated IBF Welterweight world champion Kell Brook.   In what could be described as not his most devastating p...

In October 2015 two of Boxing's most feared “Knockout Artists “ Gennady Golovkin and David Lemieux squared off in Madison Square Garden in New York City to further unify the Middleweight division. Golovkin, who entered as the undefeated WBA/IBO world champion facing the IBF world champion Lemieux in what had all the ingredients of a “Shootout!” With both fighters having knockout power in either hand and with each entertaining the fight with career knockout percentages of 91% and 86% respectively, it was certainly not hard to understand how Boxing fans anticipated an all out war between the two. What happened instead however, was more of a demonstration of a fighter showcasing his overall skill set and proving not only superiority of his opponent, but in the process showing the Boxing world that fighters who have carved a reputation as a “Knockout Artist “ can be much more as a fighter than simply one who has devastating punching power. For eight  rounds, Gennady Golovkin syst...

We would like to let our readers know that new material will be released on Tuesday, March 14th. Stay tuned. “And That’s The Boxing Truth.” The Boxing Truth® is a registered trademark of Beau Denison All Rights Reserved. Follow Beau Denison on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Beau_Denison

The official weigh-ins for the highly anticipated Heavyweight showdown between David Haye and Tony Bellew as well as the World Welterweight championship unification bout between undefeated world champions Keith Thurman and Danny Garcia took place on Friday in London, England and Brooklyn, New York respectfully. The official weights for both cards are as follows. Haye vs. Bellew: O2 Arena, London, England Main Event: Heavyweight – 12Rds. David Haye 224 1/2lbs. vs. Tony Bellew 213 1/2lbs. WBC International Welterweight championship – 12Rds. Sam Eggington (Champion) 146 1/2lbs. vs. Paul Malignaggi 146 1/4lbs. WBC Silver Jr. Welterweight championship – 12Rds. Ohara Davies (Champion) 140lbs. vs. Derry Matthews 139 1/4lbs. Jr. Middleweight – 10Rds. Jack Sellars 154 1/4lbs. vs. Ted Cheeseman 154 1/2lbs. Women’s Lightweight – 6Rds. Katie Taylor 134 1/4lbs. vs. Monica Gentili 134 1/4lbs. Jr. Lightweight – 10Rds. Lee Selby 128 1/4lbs. vs. A...

The month of February continued to build the kind of momentum of what has the ingredients to be a very successful year in 2017 for the sport of Boxing. As successful as this year appears to shaping up to be however, it has not been without it's share of setbacks. The month of February saw two such setbacks. The most notable one might argue was the scheduled February 25 th encounter between former multi-division world champion Miguel Cotto and Jr. Middleweight contender James Kirkland, a bout that was to have been the main event of an HBO Pay-Per-View card was cancelled due to an injury suffered by Kirkland while in training for the bout. What is somewhat ironic was the Cotto-Kirkland pay-per-view card was to have gone head to head with a Premier Boxing Champions card here in the United States televised by Fox headlined by undefeated WBC Heavyweight world champion Deontay Wilder’s scheduled title defense against Andrzej Wawrzyk of Poland. The scheduled Wilder-Wawrzyk fight how...