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Evander Holyfield called into the Hatton Health and Fitness gym 2 days ago on the 14th August to enlist Ricky Hatton for the Merseyside Anti Gun Campaign.

The two champs shared a few stories and seemed to hit it off.

Holyfield talked about challenging one of the Klitcskos if he can get the opportunity and Ricky looks very close to his fighting weight.

The following article is on a subject I hold very dear to my heart. 10 years ago I was contacted by Harry Wiley Jr, the very proud son of Harry Wiley Sr, who trained the man that most experts call the greatest fighter to ever to grace the ring; Sugar Ray Robinson.

Harry Jr is 51, not in great health and has no family line to pass on the thousands of stories he knows about his father so they might sadly never get told.

Harry Jr has only ever truly wanted one thing in life and that is for his father to get the recognition that is so rightly deserved.

To that end, Harry Jr has campaigned for many years to get Harry Sr inducted to the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) in Canastoda, NY, an effort which has included an article I ran in 2001 when this website was just starting out, called "The Forgotten Trainer"

It is sadly very hard to put any article together about Harry Wiley Sr as there is very little info about this amazing man's life, but with the help of Harry Jr and a lot of searching through old news reports, books and youtube clips, I now have the following appeal that I will be submitting to the IBHOF in a bid to get Harry Wiley Sr's place in boxing history cemented.

Harry Wiley Sr was born in New York, NY on October 23,1907. At the age of 16, he decided to take up boxing and instantly fell in love with the noble art.

He soon found that he was quite good in the ring and managed to rack up 11 wins before one fatal day in Manhattan when he was crossing the street and was struck by a taxi cab.

The incident left Harry with a badly broken leg, thus ending his short lived career as a boxer. But boxing was now in his blood and he loved the sport so much that he carried on hanging out at the gym to help the development of the young fighters that trained there. More...

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SaddoBoxing would like to take this Christmas day to wish its readers across the world a safe and happy holiday season!

Carl Froch is used to turning people’s lights out in the ring but last night he was in Nottingham’s Old Market Square to turn the Christmas lights on in the city. More...

WBC Super Middleweight Champion Carl “The Cobra” Froch will be on FA Cup duty this Sunday when he makes the draw for the second round of British football’s most treasured competition live on ITV1 from 3:35pm. More...

With a little over one week remaining before the highly anticipated showdown between 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist Andre Ward and hard-hitting Edison Miranda, the two talented fighters participated in a media conference call along with promoter Dan Goossen.

In the featured bout, the undefeated and No. 2 ranked Ward will fulfill his dream of staging a pro fight in his hometown when he takes a big step up in class to face Miranda, a Colombian knockout artist who has fought top-notch competition throughout his career, on Saturday, May 16 at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, CA.

The 12-round fight for Ward’s NABO and NABF super middleweight titles will be the featured bout on a special Saturday primetime edition of ShoBox: The New Generation, live on Showtime at 9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast.

Ward, a highly touted and talented 25-year-old, is 18-0 (12) and was the only boxer from the United States to capture a gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece and remains the last American to win gold. Miranda is 32-3 with 28 knockouts. More...

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Here at saddoboxing.com we never stop working to improve the site and as an added Christmas gift to you, we have added a new download section to the site.

This section will search all the download sites from around the internet RapidShare, MegaUpload etc. So you can now find whatever fight or boxers download you are looking for...

http://www.saddoboxing.com/downloads/

Merry Christmas and a Happy and safe New Year to all the Readers and Members of saddoboxing.com.

From all the Writers, Editors, Mods and Me

The King of Amangwane, Inkosi Mzondeni Hlongwane and the All Africa Cultural Organisation honoured the WBC International Bantamweight Vusi Malinga for his outstanding victory against Veeraphol Sahaprom and the resulting achievement of becoming the mandatory challenger for WBC World Champion Hozumi Hasegawa of Japan.

The event formed part of the Ntombi Nto Project (Reed Dance), which his majesty organised last weekend. More...

All the Staff at Saddo Boxing would like to wish all our Readers a Very Merry Christmas and a Great New Year.

Lets hope 2008 will be as great a year for the boxing fans as 2007 has been

Here is our little gift to you all....

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Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all the staff at Saddo Boxing.

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Promoter Dino Duva of Duva Boxing and his hall-of-fame father, Lou Duva, wish to send their sincerest congratulations to former multiple world champion Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker upon the announcement of his induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York. More...

Adeyinka Makinde, author of 'Dick Tiger-The Life and Times of a Boxing Immortal' interviewed by Cheryl Robinson on 'Just About Books,' Harambee Radio.

Cheryl Robinson: Hello, you are listening to Cheryl Robinson on the 'Just About Books' Talk Show, a worldwide Internet show on authors, book reviews, bookclubs and literary events for African-American book lovers. And today is our black history programme; we will talk to Ade Makinde, the author of 'Dick Tiger-The Life and Times of a Boxing Immortal.' I'm so excited

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to have him on the show. He is calling us from London and this will prove to be a great evening. Welcome to the show.

Adeyinka Makinde: Thank you very much Cheryl.

CR: You're welcome. It's my pleasure. Now I read the book. It was a very interesting book. His name was Richard and you want to help me with his last name? More...

Twinbill Will Be Replayed First Time On SHO Extreme On Monday, Feb. 6, At 11 PM ET/PT

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Styles do indeed make fights and -- for 36 minutes -- Rolando Reyes’s counter-punching style totally frustrated Jose Luis Castillo. At the finish, however, it was the former two-time World Boxing Council (WBC) lightweight champion who came away with a lopsided 12-round decision Saturday on SHOWTIME.

In an exciting, extremely close SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING co-feature at the Don Haskins Center on the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP) campus, Jose Armando Santa Cruz successfully defended his North American Boxing Federation (NABF) 135-pound title with a hard-fought, unanimous 12-round decision over Edner Cherry. A doubleheader co-promoted by Bob Arum’s Top Rank, Inc. and Gary Shaw Productions, LLC, aired at 9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast). More...

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