SPORTS FEATS, FACTS AND FIGURES

Team LeBron vs. Team Stephen in 67th NBA All-Star Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James will play together with Golden State Warriors stalwart Kevin Durant and former teammate Kyrie Irving of Boston in next month's NBA All-Star Game.  James, who recently became only the seventh player in NBA history to pass 30,000 points, is the captain of a strong starting line-up against Stephen Curry's team selection.   With  Durant and Irving, James will be joined by New Orleans' formidable duo of Anthony Davis and DeMarcus Cousins.   * * * The reserves are LaMarcus Aldridge (San Antonio Spurs), Bradley Beal (Washington Wizards), Kevin Love (Cleveland), Victor Oladipo (Indiana Pacers), Kristaps Porzingis (New York Knicks), John Wall    (Washington) and Russell Westbrook (Oklahoma City Thunder).  Thunder forward Paul George is replacing injured Pelicans big man DeMarcus Cousins after rupturing his left Achilles tendon on Friday. * * * Team Stephen...

Is Alvarado Pacquiao's next foe? Many are wondering if Manny Pacquiao will finally return to the ring this coming April. "I don't want to say what I shouldn't say," said Pacquiao's promoter Bob Arum as told to BoxingScene.com. "But we have no disagreements within the deal with Pacquiao and what we hope to do is have everything finalized by the weekend." Jeff Horn is scheduled to face his mandatory challenger, Terence Crawford, on April 14 at the Madison Square Garden in New York. Pacquiao is expected to be a part of the Crawford-Horn match to be shown by ESPN.  * * *  The 39-year old eight-division champion has been rumored to be facing Mike Alvarado in his next fight. Alvarado (38-4, 26 KOs), 37-years old, is a former WBO junior welterweight champion. Alvarado is now on a streak of a four fight win after suffering three defeats in a row at the hands of Ruslan Provodnikov, Juan Manuel Marquez, who went down in the ninth round, and Bran...

Wilfred Benitez, The Youngest World Champion In March 1976, Wilfred Benitez became the youngest world champion in boxing history when he seized the WBC light welterweight title from Antonio Cervantes at just 17 years of age, still six months away from turning 18. He even had his high school classmates viewing him sitting in the front row.  Benitez won his belt against an all-time great fighter in the division as Cervantes held the belt for the great part of the decade 1970s. Benitez later moved up to grab the welterweight title, which he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard. In May 1981 he defeated Maurice Hope for the light middleweight title, becoming the youngest three-division champion in boxing history.

Archie Moore Has Most Knockouts in a Career This is one record that will never be possible for present-day professional fighters to surpass. In a career that covered three decades, "The Old Mongoose" Archie Moore was a top-rated fighter from middleweight to heavyweight and won 183 professional fights, 131 by knockout.   Moore was a cunning veteran fighter who carried his power with him as he moved up in weight. He is considered by many as the greatest light heavyweight to ever live and held the title in that division for the last decade of his career, while clashing with the top fighters of the heavyweight division in some instances.  Moore has the distinction also as the only fighter to have fought both Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano.

Henry Armstrong Held Three  Titles Concurrently in Different Weight Classes Henry Armstrong achieved a feat no other boxer had ever done or will ever do again.   For a short period of time in 1938, Armstrong reigned as the undisputed world boxing champion at featherweight, lightweight and middleweight, all at the same time. It was an era when there was only one world champion per weight division, and "Hurricane Hank" Armstrong was the unquestioned king from 126 to 147 pounds.  Presently, in the time of alphabet soup titles and half weight classes, there could be 20 world champions at the same time for the same weight coverage.  In  1940, Armstrong fought to a disputed draw with middleweight champion Cerefino Garcia. A win would have made him a world champion in four weight divisions during a period when there were only eight boxing titles.