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Raise your hand if you know Caleb Truax. Don’t worry my hand is down as well. I watch a lot of boxing, but even I knew little to nothing about Truax. I did a little research before the Jermain Taylor fight and the only relevant information I could find was that he was about the [...]

It has become clear as day that negotiations for the much anticipated superfight between WBO Welterweight champion and Ring magazine’s #1 pound for pound boxer Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2 with 38 KO’s) and WBC Welterweight champion and Ring magazine’s #2 pound for pound boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0 with 26 KO’s) have once again fallen apart. [...]

I can recall that many UFC fans told me ten years ago that it would be run so much more smoothly than boxing. Having one promoter and a numbered amount of regulated fight cards, it would even feature fewer divisions, and talent would be built up locally, then regionally, and nationally… rather than based on fame and [...]

It’s really hard to not be impressed with the forty seven year old WBC Light Heavyweight Champion Bernard Hopkins. They say records are made to be broken, but Hopkins’ record of being the oldest champion in boxing history will be very hard to break, and it looks like it will be secure for years to [...]

Riddick “Big Daddy” Bowe (43-1, 33 KOs) still has some fight left in him and is preparing to launch a comeback to the sport that made him famous. “Well, you know, I’ve been training, and I decided to make a comeback. So, I’m in the process of gettin’ myself on weight,” said Bowe this past [...]

Undefeated 2008 U.S. Olympian Demetrius “Boo Boo” Andrade believes his February 10th main-event fight against former USBA junior middleweight champion Derek “Pooh” Ennis, for the vacant North American Boxing Organization (“NABO”) junior middleweight title, is a continuation of a well designed plan, eventually landing him a world title fight later this year or in early [...]

At first, 2012 was shaping up to be an entertaining year. Fight fans have been waiting for years to see some dream matchups – and it looked like they were about ready to make them happen. Then, the matchmakers started disappointing. Some of the matchmaking being conducted behind the scenes already has many boxing fans [...]

Jake “The Snake” Smith of Baltimore Boxing Promotions and Scott Wagner’s Ballroom Boxing will present the area’s top amateur fighters to battle the Naval Academy’s best boxers on Thursday, January 26 at Michael’s Eighth Avenue in Glen Burnie, MD. Smith is a close friend of Navy Coach Jim McNally, a man who has been developing [...]

Rope A Dope Radio’s own Samaarah Choubak recently sat down with the former IBF Super Featherweight Champion and former two-time IBF Featherweight Champion of the world Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero. Among the topics that were discussed was the much talked about rumored potential showdown with Floyd Mayweather Jr. Here’s what “The Ghost” had to say: [...]