Chris Robinson catches up with WBO female bantamweight champion Kaliesha West in Southgate, California on Sunday, Feb. 24th. West speaks on her journey in boxing, her early professional days, her bouts with Ava Knight, sparring at the Wild Card with Ana Julaton, fighting the stereotype that comes with women’s boxing, and more
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Chris Robinson catches up w/ former lightweight champ Brandon Rios, as he takes some shots at WBC champion Adrien Broner. Rios calls Broner a ‘b*tch’ and claims that he’s scared to fight…
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Ishe Smith, left, attacking Cornelius Bundrage this past weekend in Detroit, Michigan during his title-winning victory…
By Chris Robinson
This past weekend in Detroit, Michigan, Las Vegas native Ishe Smith finally realized his full potential in wrestling the IBF junior middleweight title away from Cornelius ‘K9’ Bundrage after twelve rounds of action.
Despite the scorecards ending up with a split-decision verdict, Smith clearly was the victor, as evidenced by his grit, fortitude, and better work rate over the second half of the fight.
One man who was certainly a curious spectator was junior middleweight contender Gabriel Rosado.
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[Left to right: Badou Jack, Luis Arias, Floyd Mayweather, J’Leon Love, Ishe Smith, and Leonard Ellerbe in Detroit, Michigan this past weekend]
By Chris Robinson – www.HustleBoss.com
Saturday night, February 23rd, will forever go down as a special one for Luis ‘Cuba’ Arias.
Fighting inside of the Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan, the 23-year old Arias improved to 3-0 with 2 knockouts after halting an overmatched Edgar Perez inside of a single round.
Having seen his professional career momentarily sidetracked last year, Arias has now reeled off a pair of stoppage victories within three weeks of one another as he continues to ride the momentum that comes from being aligned with Floyd Mayweather’s promotional outfit.
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Our friend and super middleweight prospect Badou Jack shared an exclusive, behind the scenes video of Floyd Mayweather celebrating his 36th birthday with his crew. Mayweather also gives shutouts to his Mawyeather Promotions fighters, including newly-crowned IBF junior middleweight prospect Badou Jack
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Chris Robinson catches up with IBF bantamweight champion Leo Santa Cruz, as he speaks on a match with Anselmo Moreno, Abner Mares moving up in weight, the Nonito Donaire-Guillermo Rigondeaux match, how manager Al Haymon helped his career, and more…
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Chris Robinson catches up with 2011 and 2012 Trainer of the Year Robert Garcia in Southgate, California, as he speaks on his fighter Nonito Donaire’s upcoming April clash with fellow junior featherweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux…
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Chris Robinson catches up with undefeated WBO featherweight champion Mikey Garcia, as he speaks on his title-winning victory over Orlando Salido, his desire to face former champ Yuriorkis Gamboa, and his thoughts on Nonito Donaire vs. Guillermo Rigondeaux…
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By Chris Robinson
On Sunday, Feb. 24, former lightweight champion Brandon ‘Bam Bam’ Rios hosted fans for a personal “meet and greet” at the Magnifico Boxing Gym in Southgate, California for a Momentum 4 Life charity event
Notables in the building included former champions Steven Luevano and Israel Vazquez, WBO featherweight champion Mikey Garcia, IBF bantamweight champion Leo Santa Cruz, Two-time trainer of the Year Robert Garcia, and former WBO female bantamweight champion Kaliesha West.
Rios faces Mike Alvarado on March 31st inside of the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas in a rematch to one of 2012’s best action fights that saw Brandon emerge with a 7th round TKO.
Photo credits: Chris Robinson – www.HustleBoss.com
The beat continued for Luis ‘Cuba’ Arias on Saturday night, as the undefeated middleweight prospect improved to 3-0 (2 KO’s) with his first round knockout over Edgar Perez in Detroit, Michigan.
On Saturday night, 13-year verteran Ishe Smith came through with his biggest victory as a professional, winning a 12-round split-decision victory over former champion Cornelius ‘K9’ Bundrage.
With the victory, Smith claims the IBF junior middleweight crown while raising his record to 25-5 (11 KO’s).
Throughout his career, Smith has endured quite the emotional ride, from spells of frustrating inactivity to some tough losses, but tonight was his finest moment.
On Saturday night in Detroit, Michigan, super middleweight prospect Badou Jack improved his record to 13-0 with 9 knockouts following his victory over Don Mouton.
After eight heats, Jack won all scorecards, 78-74.
Following nine months of inactivity, Jack has now produced two straight victories in a span of three weeks during his time under the Mayweather Promotions umbrella.
Expect more coverage from Badou Jack in the near future…
Photos courtesy of Naoki Fukuda
On Saturday night, February 23rd, middleweight prospect J’Leon Love improved to 15-0 with 8 KO’s after overcoming a game challenge from Derrick Findley (20-9, 13 KO’s) inside of the Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan.
In the Showtime-televised duel, Love was just too busy and sharp with his punches despite Findley constantly pressing forward and making things interesting late.
Watching from ringside and also in Love’s corner was undefeated, pound for pound king Floyd Mayweather. WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner could also be found showing support.
(Photo credits: Naoki Fukuda)
By Chris Robinson
On Saturday night, inside of the Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan, Las Vegas native Ishe Smith captured the IBF junior middleweight title with a split-decision victory over former champion Cornelius ‘K9’ Bundrage.
After twelve rounds, two 116-111 scorecards favored Smith, with a 114-113 tally going in Bundrage’s direction.
Watching the action unfold from his fighter’s corner, trainer and former light heavyweight titlist Eddie Mustafa Muhammad seemed elated with Smith’s showing.
“I thought he gave a magnificent performance,” Muhammad stated. “He capitalized on that good jab that he has. Putting pressure, backing ‘K9’ up and taking him out of his game. That’s what we did. We beat him to the body.”
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Virgil Hunter, left, and Amir Khan in Los Angeles this past December (Photo: Chris Robinson – HustleBoss.com)
By Chris Robinson
On Friday night, inside of the DC Armory in Washington, DC, IBF junior welterweight titlist Lamont Peterson made a stirring return to the ring in halting a game but outgunned Kendall Holt inside of eight rounds.
Peterson was sidelined all of last year due to failing a pre-fight drug test ahead of his scheduled rematch this past May with Amir Khan, who he had upset in December of 2011.
After Khan saw his opportunity for revenge against Peterson go up in flames, he then turned his attention to a July encounter with Philadelphia’s Danny Garcia. In a shocker, Garcia would drop Khan three times on his way towards a 4th round TKO.
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Lamont Peterson, right, stopping Kendall Holt in Washington, DC, on Friday night (Photo: The Koncrete Jungle)
By Chris Robinson
Earlier tonight, inside of the DC Armory in Washington, DC, IBF junior welterweight champion Lamont Peterson ended a year-plus layoff by emphatically halting former titlist Kendall Holt.
Peterson hadn’t fought since his upset victory over Amir Khan in December of 2011 and it was easy to spot his rust early as Holt got off to a comfortable start while also digging in some nice lefts to the body.
Peterson would erupt in the fourth round, however, as he turned up the pressure and dropped Holt with a crushing right hand. Peterson would score another knockdown in the sixth round, as it was obvious that the end was near.
Referee Tony Weeks would wisely stop the action 1 minute and 42 seconds into the eighth round as Holt was taking punishment along the ropes.
Watching the action from his home base in Indio, California, trainer Joel Diaz seemed impressed with Peterson.
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HustleBoss.com’s Chris Robinson goes behind the scenes during MAGIC Market Week inside of the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas in February of 2013.
Once again, the three-day apparel and accessory show was packed with onlookers, fashion designers, retail buyers, media members, tourists, entrepreneurs, and people from all walks of life.
An estimated 80,000 people attended MAGIC this year, with a projected nongaming impact of $101.8 million, according to reports.
Check out the photos below and please click through if anything catches your eye.
On early Thursday morning, Feb. 21, Rihanna continued to update her millions of supporters with the latest festivities on her birthday, as she turned 25 years old yesterday.
Presently in Hawaii with family, friends, and her love interest Chris Brown, people have been beyond curious to find out what is taking place with the “Diamonds” singer. Continue reading
As evidenced by updates to her personal Instagram account over the past few days, music star Rihanna appears to be having a great time in Hawaii as she celebrates her 25th birthday.
With Rihanna at the moment is her love interest Chris Brown, as well as friends and family. Check out the photos for more… (All photos courtesy of www.Instagram.com/badgalriri)
As first reported by HustleBoss.com, welterweight prospect Joseph Elegele (13-1, 10 KO’s) will be serving as one of Floyd Mayweather’s sparring partners ahead of his May 4th bout with Robert Guerrero.
For a closer look at the Melbourne, Florida lefty, please check out a recent sparring session of his with fellow prospect Cortez Bey (8-1-1, 4 KO’s) inside of the Mayweather Boxing Club.
Elegele faces off with Javier Molina on March 9th.
