Israel Vazquez Boxing News

LOS ANGELES, May 25 – The Classics are back on “Sólo Boxeo Tecate” this Friday, May 27, as Golden Boy Promotions has teamed up with TeleFutura to kick off the 2011 Memorial Day weekend with two memorable battles Golden Boy’s boxing archives.

By Jim Dower: Former IBF/WBC super bantamweight champion Israel Vazquez (44-5, 32 KO’s) reportedly will be returning to the ring in April against a still to be determined opponent, according to fightnews.com. Vazquez, 33, hasn’t fought since being stopped in the 3rd round by Rafael Marquez last year in May in a failed attempt to [...]

By Jose Sulaiman: How sad was I to see the demolition of that former sensational Knock Out king, Israel Vázquez, when he had nothing left to continue his magnificent career in the sport where he was for long a king. My many years in boxing have given me a sixth-sense to feel that secret and [...]

By Jim Dower: Promoters Oscar De La Hoya and Gary Shaw are reportedly not interested in putting together a 5th bout between Rafael Marquez and Israel Vazquez, according to Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports. It’s pretty easy to see why. Vazquez, with all the scar tissue around both of his eyes, was easily cut by [...]

Photo credit – Carlos Baeza – By Peter Wells: There was always a risk in last nights fight, sometimes it’s best to stop when everything’s going right. That goes for Israel Vazquez-Rafael Marquez IV. The trilogy was great, it was exciting and dramatic; why not leave it at that, but the 4th battle was not [...]

Photo credit – Carlos Baeza – By Jason Kim: Former IBF bantamweight champion Rafael Marquez (39-5, 25 KO’s) was too much for Israel Vazquez (44-5, 32 KO’s) tonight, taking him out in the 3rd round of a scheduled 12 round non-title bout at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. With Vazquez cut over both [...]

LOS ANGELES (May 22, 2010) – One of the greatest rivalries in the history of boxing ended at two victories apiece after Rafael Marquez (39-5, 35 KOs) of Mexico City decisively stopped a bloodied Israel “El Magnifico” Vazquez (44-5, 33 KOs) of Huntington Park, Calif., by way of Mexico City, at 1:33 in the third [...]

Photo credit – Carlos Baeza – By Sam Gregory: In the main event on tonight’s Showtime Championship Boxing from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Ca WBC super bantamweight title holder Israel Vazquez 44-4 with 32 KO’s defends his title for the fourth time against Rafael Marquez 38-5 with 34 KO’s in a scheduled 12 [...]

By Jim Dower: As expected, Rafael Marquez had too much left in the tank compared to the badly depleted Israel Vazquez, taking him out in the 3rd round on Saturday night at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. Marquez cut the slow moving Vazquez in the opening round over both eyes with slashing punches, [...]

By Jim Dower: Tonight at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Israel Vazquez (44-4, 32 KO’s) and Rafael Marquez (38-5, 34 KO’s) will be for the 4th time in the past three years in a fight that will likely leave both fighters bloodied and battered by the end of it. Rarely nowadays do you have [...]

By Eric Thomas: In an article at Boxingtalk.com, trainer Nacho Beristain says that his fighter Juan Manuel Marquez received an offer from Manny Pacquiao’s promotional team Top Rank, but says it was a “miserable deal,” one that he didn’t want to take. He pointed out that it wasn’t an official offer, but he wasn’t willing [...]

By Jim Dower: Israel Vazquez (44-4, 32 KO’s) will be coming into this Saturday’s fight against Rafael Martinez with a right eye that has been operated on three times since 2008 for a series of detached retinas. Vazquez, 32, originally suffered an initial detached retina in his third fight with Marquez in March 2008. Although [...]

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (May 19, 2010) – Tecate, con carácter, is excited to support the fourth encounter and test of character between Mexican boxers Rafael Marquez (38-5-0, 34 KOs) and Israel Vazquez (44-4-0, 32 KOs) at Los Angeles’ Staples Center on May 22. The event will be broadcast live on Showtime at 9 p.m. ET/PT. [...]

By Chris Williams: Israel Vazquez (44-4, 32 KO’s) and Rafael Marquez (38-5, 34 KO’s) meet for the 4th time in their career this Saturday night at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. The fight is more like an old timer’s fight rather than a fight between two relevant contenders, unfortunately. Vazquez and Marquez, due [...]

LOS ANGELES (May 18, 2010) — Three-time World boxing Champion Israel Vazquez, Two-division World Champion Rafael Marquez and top-rated contender Abner Mares participated at a Media Workout Tuesday at Fortune Gym in Hollywood, Calif.

By Jim Dower: Rafael Marquez (38-5, 34 KO’s) and Israel Vazquez (44-4, 32 KO’s) will fight for the 4th title this Saturday night at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. Despite the excitement of their three previous fights with one another, boxing fans have pretty much ignored this fight altogether. The fighters haven’t helped [...]

Three-time World Champion Israel Vazquez and top-rated contender Abner Mares served up a heapful of smiles and more during a free public autograph session at the famous Tacos Tombras A Tacos inside the Grand Central Market in downtown Los Angeles on Monday. In an eagerly awaited matchup, Vazquez will meet arch-rival and two-division World Champion [...]

Israel Vazquez, the former two-time world super bantamweight champion, presented the trophy for the $100,000 San Simeon Handicap, visited with the starting gate crew and stopped by the jockeys’ room to meet Rafael Bejarano (who led Santa Anita’s jockey standings for the third straight year) and have some fun on the jockeys’ horse simulator exercise [...]

By Peter Wells: After three great wars, Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez will step into the ring for the fourth time against each other, in what is promised to be the best yet. It will be a night to remember and is near enough impossible to call. Whatever happens in their other fights has nothing [...]

By Jim Dower: Former World Boxing Council super bantamweight champion Israel Vazquez (44-4, 32 KO’s) defeated 35-year-old journeyman Angel Antonio Priolo (30-8, 20 KO’s) by a 9th round stoppage on Saturday night at the Nokia Theater, in Los Angeles. Vazquez, 31, making his first appearance in 19 months following surgery to repair a detached retina [...]

By Eric Thomas: WBC/WBO middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik (35-1, 31 KO’s) is looking forward to getting back in the ring and taking on Paul Williams (37-1, 27 KO’s) on December 5th, at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

By Pedro Reyna: According to Jaime Quintana, manager of Rafael Marquez, a fourth bout between Vazquez vs Marquez in currently in the works. Both fighters are accepting the challenge, however, they are still negotiating a date for the grand event. Marquez wants to fight in October/November, while Vazquez prefers the date in January/February.

Three of the four fighters who will be featured on Saturday’s excellent doubleheader on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING participated in a workout Wednesday that was open to the media and public. It was held at the TKO Boxing Gym in Anaheim, Calif.

The World Boxing Council declares a day of mourning for the tragic passing away of our female super welterweight world champion, Jisselle Salandy of Siparia, Trinidad and Tobago. Jisselle will always live in our memory as a sweet young girl who represented boxing at the highest levels of integrity and honor inside and outside the [...]

Team McGirt has reevaluated middleweight prospect James McGirt, Jr. (19-1-1, 9 KOs) and, after considerable soul searching, has collectively decided that the 26-year-old southpaw will return to old-school training and incorporate a more aggressive attack in order to take better advantage of his hand speed, as well as to avoid his frustrating “fight to the [...]

JACK LOEW, trainer of world middleweight champion KELLY “The Ghost” PAVLIK, read with great interest the remarks made earlier this week by Gary “The Rocket” Lockett, the No. 1 contender who will be challenging Pavlik for the title in June. “I see where Lockett has become inspired by Joe Calzaghe’s victory over Bernard Hopkins in [...]

By Jim Dower: Super bantamweight champion Israel Vazquez, 42-4 with 31 KOs hopes to get his second consectuve over Rafael Marquez on Saturday night when the two meet at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California for their third bout in the past year. Each fighter has split a victory in bouts that have been [...]

By Jim Slattengren: World Boxing Council super bantamweight champion Israel Vazquez (42-4, 31 KOs) puts his title on the line when he meets up with former WBC super bantamweight champion Rafael Marquez (37-4, 33 KOs) on March 1st, at the Home Depot Center, in Carson, California. This will be the 3rd bout for both fighters, [...]

Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez produced two of the most exciting, bloody, give-and-take slugfests of 2007 which inevitably has led to one of the most highly anticipated rubber matches in history. Now they battle for the World Boxing Council (WBC) 122-pound title and super bantamweight supremacy in the third and final chapter of boxing’s best [...]

By Tony Mouton: WBC super bantamweight champion Rafael Marquez (37-3, 33 KOs) will defend his newly won title on Saturday night against knockout artist Israel Vazquez (41-4, 30 KOs), with whom he stopped in between the seventh and eighth rounds four months ago on March 3rd, when Vasquez couldn’t continue fighting due to a busted [...]