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Cold War II: Matthew Griego Successful in Pro Debut at Buffalo Thunder A sold out crowd of 2,170 packed the Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino ballroom on Saturday night. Those in attendance for the Holmes Boxing Promotion’s “Cold War II” card voiced their pleasure, and distaste in the two fights involving the promoter’s, Patrick Holmes’ sons. The main event was controversy ...

IBF Featherweight Champ Jennifer Han wins 2015 SWFight.com Boxer of the Year Award In 2015, Jennifer Han claimed two titles; first the IBF Inter-Continental Featherweight strap in April against Kenya’s Fatuma Zarika, a fight that was put together in two weeks after Ghana’s Helen Joseph was unable to obtain a visa in time for a scheduled IBF Featherweight world title fight versus Han. ...

Bob Foster 14-time world champion was part of inaugural 1990 International Boxing Hall of Fame class Sunday morning’s Albuquerque Journal’s obituaries detailed funeral services for the late-boxing-great Bobby Wayne Foster. Foster will lay in state on Tuesday December 1, 2015 from 11am-8pm at Strong Throne Funeral Home located at 1100 Coal Ave. SE in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Foster, the former 14-time light ...

Bob Foster Defended Light Heavyweight Title 14-Times, Fought Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier at Heavyweight According to multiple Albuquerque media reports, former light heavyweight world champion Bob Foster has died at the age of 76. (Note: we had incorrectly reported Foster being 77 in our original posting. H/T Albuquerque Journal for the correction). A native of Lubbock, Texas, Foster and his mother moved ...

Where does Holly Holm’s KO of Ronda Rousey rank on our list of greatest Burqueño championship bout knockouts? Burqueños have been holding their heads up high and have been thinking they’re allll baaaad since the devastating head kick knockout blow that Albuquerque’s Holly Holm (10-0) delivered to the previously undefeated Ronda Rousey (12-1) en route to claiming the UFC Bantamweight ...

Albuquerque’s Holly Holm big underdog against Ronda Rousey tonight at UFC 193 This evening at UFC 193 in Melbourne, Australia, Albuquerque’s Holly Holm will look to be just the second native New Mexican to hold UFC gold. The sportsbooks, many of which have her around a 10-to-1 underdog, as well as New Mexico mixed martial arts fight history will not ...

Holly Holm a Big Underdog Jan. 2 Against Ronda Rousey Earlier today on Good Morning America, UFC Bantamweight Ronda Rousey announced that she will be facing Holly Holm at UFC 195 Jan. 2 at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Within a couple of hours of the announcement several sportsbooks posted odds to the contest. As expected, the ...

Ronda Rousey set to face Holly Holm at UFC 195 Early Friday morning, UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey announced on Good Morning America that she will be fighting Albuquerque’s Holly Holm Jan. 2 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The news was later made official on UFC’s social media networks and website. The bout comes as a surprise ...

Questionable Split Draw in Valdez vs. Mendoza Bout Duke City Throwdown Full Results There’s no doubt about it, Española’s Tony Valdez always makes for entertaining fights but after his rematch Saturday at the Albuquerque Convention Center against Gilberto Mendoza, he found himself in the middle of a very controversial decision. Early on in the contest, Valdez (8-4-6, 7KOs) set the tone ...

Valdez Faces Mendoza Saturday Night at the Albuquerque Convention Center An extremely dry year for New Mexico boxing gets a much needed ounce of precipitation when Española’s Tony Valdez rematches Gilberto Mendoza at the Albuquerque Convention Center in the main event of Legacy Promotions’ fight card Duke City Throwdown.  Their first fight, this past May, by all accounts was a ...