Fighter of the Year: Manny Pacquiao While it was another entertaining year of boxing, there wasn’t one fighter that truly stood out after Carlos Baldomir took the loss against Floyd. But if I had to pick one, I am going with the PacMan who basically ended the career of legendary yet fading Erik Morales over…
Click for larger image © Mike McGuigan / Saddo Boxing Little known Aaron Lyons came to Philadelphia PA from Gulfport, MS and extinguished the flame of red hot heavyweight prospect Joey Abell, scoring a shocking knockout at 1:07 of the first round at the Blue Horizon, this past Friday night. It was supposed to be…
Harry Yorgey suffers three knock downs and a broken nose but Jeremy Yelton is the one who leaves in an ambulance! Click for larger image © Keith McMenamin / Saddo Boxing In the record books it will say that on November 30, 2006 light middleweight Harry Yorgey defeated Jeremy Yelton by unanimous decision. That stat…
This past October 14th, Fingerspoon Promotions made their promotional debut with a card titled “Redemption†featuring some of the best fighters in Philadelphia. In the co-main event, Max Alexander, 12-0-1, was scheduled to face off against Marty Lindquist, 12-4, in a fight that most thought would be a showcase of Alexander’s skills. That was not…
Over the years, Philadelphia has produced many men that have made great contributions to the sport of boxing both inside and out of the ring. From Bernard Hopkins and his improbable title run, to George Benton molding champion after champion, to Russell Peltz setting the bar on how to promote a show, this city has…
Click for larger image © Jeff Bera Two separate cards went down in Philly this past weekend and a lot of the unexpected happened. Don Elbaum put together a card at the Blue Horizon but on the next night Fingerspoon Promotions, co-owned by former heavyweight champion of the world, “Terrible” Tim Witherspoon, made their promotional…
On the undercard of the Sam Peter vs. James Toney bout, Eric Aiken, 16-4 (12), is set to make the first defense of his newly acquired IBF Featherweight title against Roberto Guerrero, 18-1-1 (11). Back in May, Aiken pulled off a highly unlikely upset victory over Valdemir Pereira to win the strap. While this accomplishment…
When Mark Burnett came up with idea of bringing 16 professional boxers to a national audience, they sold the package as an inside look at the lives of potential world champions. The suits at NBC bought into it and before long, a product that was a cross between a boxing telecast and reality TV quickly…
What Difference A Week Makes Just last week, J. Russell Peltz, promoter of former Light Middleweight Champion Kassim Ouma, came out blazing to the boxing press about how his man can’t get a big money fight and how the business is in shambles because of how everyone in boxing is working on the old buddy…
Click for larger image © Jay McGuigan / Saddo Boxing The Blue Horizon was open for bloody business once again, this time featuring young hopefuls on a card consisting of five – four rounders and a six round main event. Joey Abell was promoted to headliner and was ready to give hell again. This time…
Click for larger image © Natasha Chornesky / Saddo Boxing I have to give HBO credit for trying something new so I will let them slide for the boring segment of Boxing after Dark this weekend. Getting undefeated prospects to fight each other is virtually impossible these days and they managed to get two fights…
The much anticipated season two of ESPN’s The Contender is set to begin on Tuesday, July 18th and the names of the combatants have finally been released. This season, 16 hopefuls in the Welterweight Division will square off in elimination style battle with the winner moving closer to the grand prize of $1,000,000. The season…