One of the best lighter weight fighters to lace up the gloves in the last thirty years, Jeff Fenech, finds himself in a tight spot after being arrested in the resort town of Broadbeach on Australia's Gold Coast and charged with allegedly shoplifting three watches with an alleged accomplice. Today the hall of famer pleaded not guilty in a local courtroom while an associate of his, Francis Grech, admitted taking the jewelry store merchandise and was duly fined by the authorities. Fenech vigorously denies the local police allegation that there was an arrangement between himself and Mr. Grech to acquire the watches without paying for them. No word yet on whether Fenech intends to pursue that matter in court.
Hot bantamweight prospect Raul "The Cobra" Martinez heads back to Chicago next Friday night as he is featured in the co-main event of ShoBox "The New Generation" an action packed evening of professional boxing presented by Dominic Pesoli's 8 Count Productions,' home of the best in Chicago boxing, Kathy Duva's Main Events Inc. along with Miller Lite and TCF Bank.
The two time national amateur champion sporting a perfect 12-0 record with 9 knockouts, six of which have come in the first round, will take on Colombian Andres "Andy Boy" Ledesma, 13-1 (8KO's) in a scheduled eight round bout. More...
Danny Williams will tame the Bedford Bear Matt Skelton before he goes on the hunt for the Beast from the East Nicolay Valuev.
Williams takes on Skelton for the Commonwealth Heavyweight title on February 25 at the ExCeL London and the winner could meet man-mountain Valuev, the new WBA World Champion, next.
The Brixton banger famously hired a 'safari bus' to go in search of Skelton in Bedford to bring him out of hiding after he refused to fight him following the collapse of their fight in July when Williams pulled out at the last minute citing flu. More...
There is old saying that goes, “It is not what happens to you that counts, it is how you react to it!" It seems that Acelino Freitas’s negative mental reaction to his loss to Diego Corrales last August has created far more damage then the mere loss of a fight regardless how brutal that loss might have been. After winning almost all the rounds against Corrales up until the eighth and ninth frames, Freitas ran out of the gas and got knocked down twice before the quitting. The majority of the boxing public scorned him for quitting while a few of us were saying that quitting in circumstances when a fighter knows that he cannot turn the fight around is a wise decision as it allows him to come back and fight another day.
Well, the boxing public is still waiting for Freitas to come and fight another day. After having couple of bouts with opponents ranked below the top hundred, Freitas seems to be drifting away further and further from the boxing limelight. I wonder how can a single loss destroy fighter’s confidence so much? The answer to that lies solely in psychology and not so much in boxing. Freitas was treated in his native Brazil like a demigod. What Naseem Hamed was to his fans in Sheffield, England, Acelino was to millions of his fans in Brazil. More...
If you can't perform like a champion at least act like one.
I have been a detractor of John Ruiz since his first bout with Evander Holyfield. He was an undeserving opponent who in all reality was considered a safe opponent for the aging Holyfield. Up until that time, Ruiz's most notable fight was a knockout loss to David Tua. Luck was on Ruiz's side the night he faced Evander, however and he left with the WBA belt strapped around his waist. Though he lost and regained the belt again in what was one of the worst trilogies in boxing history, he was still the champion and with Evander out of the way, it seemed as though Ruiz was ready to make his mark in heavyweight history, or so he claimed.
The reign of Ruiz became short lived after Roy Jones entered the picture and dominated the WBA king, taking his title and most of his heart in a unanimous decision victory. Later that evening when leaving the arena with tears in his eyes, Ruiz cried wrongdoing on his behalf and felt cheated. This was not the action of a world champion but that was the beginning of a long series of complaints, which seem to become somewhat of a Ruiz trademark. More...
With only New Year's Eve left to celebrate, British and Commonwealth Lightweight Champion Graham Earl is chomping at the bit for January 27th to come around so he can celebrate his holidays all in one go, roughly a month too late. And the Luton man is steaming about having to reschedule the time with his family.
The object of Earl's anger on that
date will be world class Belarussian lightweight Yuri Romanov and the double champion knows that he cannot flinch in this clash with the dangerous Brit killer. Neither fighter can afford a loss on the Maloney Promotions card at the Goresbrook Leisure Centre in Dagenham, England as the winner of this genuine scrap will go onto meaningful world class fights while the loser will have no where to go. More...
“I’m starting to become the king of the two week notice fights.”
So proclaims unbeaten welterweight contender James “Spider” Webb, as he prepares for his last-minute offer to challenge Mark Suarez on January 7 at Madison Square Garden. The winner will be declared the IBF welterweight mandatory challenger, and will also get a good look at the champion; Zab Judah defends his undisputed welterweight crown against Carlos Baldomir in the main event on Showtime. More...
Dominic Pesoli’s 8 Count Productions, home of the best in Chicago boxing, along with Kathy Duva’s Main events and Miller Lite and TCF Bank present the first professional card of the new year as Showbox, “The New Generation” visits Chicago for the first time on Friday, January 6th at Cicero Stadium. Headlining the evening is a ten round welterweight showdown between boxing’shottest prospect, unbeaten Joel Julio of Monteria, Columbia and Ugandan native Roberto “The Doctor” Kamya. Julio, turning 21 years old the day before the fight, is 25-0 with 22 knockouts, twelve of which have come in the first two rounds. Kamya, now fighting out of West Palm Beach, Florida is 15-5 with four knockouts. More...
Stevie Johnston & Prince Badi "Collision Course, A Night of Champions" Jan. 27 PPV from The Tropicana in Atlantic City
Silverhawk Boxing kicks-off the New Year with a knockout evening of pay-per-view entertainment, "Collision Course, A Night of Champions," featuring three world title fights and two other championship matches, January 27 at the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey. More...
America’s No. 1 Boxing Network Will Show Hard-Hitting Highlights and Take a Look Back At Greatest Year in History of Showtime Championship Boxing and “ShoBox: The New Generation”
Highlights from the most compelling and unforgettable fights of a spectacular year of televising world-class prizefights will be shown when SHOWTIME proudly presents “SHOWTIME BOXING: Best Of 2005” on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2005, at 2:15 p.m. ET/PT. More...
Don Jose Sulaiman, Sang Kwon Park and the WBC Female Championship Committee
are very pleased to announce two championship matches:
Heavyweight: Pamela London vs, Kim Quashie
Middleweight: Teresa Perozzi vs. Scroller Carrington
These matches are to take place in Trinidad & Tobago in late January (date to be confirmed), and are being promoted by Boxu Potts .They are the first women's heavyweight and women's middleweight title championship fights for the WBC Green Belt.
With the announcement that in the spring of next year former multi belt champions Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones would be participating in a sequel to their bout that occured twelve years ago, many fans rejoiced in the realization that these two modern day greats would finally be sharing a ring in anger once again. But is this a pairing that would have been better off left for the barstool theorist to ponder what would have happened if Jones and Hopkins ever had a rematch?
Simply put, Jones seems spent as a legitimate world class fighter, at least against light heavyweights, and Hopkins seems to have slipped a little bit himself, which is actually an amazing statement as he approaches his forty first birthday. More...
WBC Light Welter titlist Floyd Mayweather has reportedly signed a deal to challenge Welterweight supremo Zab Judah during the Spring of 2006 but with only the New York southpaw's WBC title at risk among his three world championship belts. Regardless of which organization's trophies are on offer, should this pairing come off it would pit two of the sport's most highly skilled boxers in a bout that many never expected to materialize. There is a catch however and that is that Judah must turn back the challenge of Carlos Baldomir, who has won nineteen straight fights going back seven years, in Madison Square Garden on January 7th or the whole thing will be called off. But unless "Super" Judah is seriously distracted at the prospect of facing Mayweather, he should sweep the thirty four year old Argentine aside to pave the way for this serious showdown.
The major question that surrounds what is shaping up to be a bad blood grudge match between Judah and Mayweather is can the naturally smaller "Pretty Boy" step up to yet another weight class and impose his will on the bigger man? It's true that the fantastically skilled Michigan native successfully navigated previous excursions to lightweight and light welter but for the first time in his career, Mayweather may not hold an overwhelming edge in raw talent over an opponent. More...
With their wins against different opponents in Perth last week, Aussie Super Middleweights Danny Green and Anthony Mundine paved the way for what will surely become the richest fight in Australian boxing history to take place early next year... The Man versus The Machine.
Fresh from his hard fought but very convincing win over Mexico's Kirino Garcia, world rated super middleweight contender Danny "The Green Machine" Greenwas kind enough to spend some time with us to discuss, among other things, his last fight, his new trainer, Anthony Mundine and getting on the wrong side of James Toney?
SB: Congratulations on your win the previous Sunday, Garcia was a tough guy and you bruised your right and. How is it feeling and how are you in general?
DG: "Yeah, no problem. The hand was pretty badly hurt. I did it in the third round, I hit him on the crown, then I did it in the seventh and again in the eighth. I hit him on top of the head and he rode the punches, he was riding the right hand pretty well. He was a pretty experienced guy mate, who we picked to give me the rounds that I needed to do. For this fight we did over 120 rounds of sparring because we knew we were up against a tough guy. In preparation for a fight all your hard work is done in the gym. I was happy to get the victory and do it a lot smarter than what I have previously. In the previous couple of years I might have just wore the guy down and thought right, lets get him out of here. This time my brain took over and I showed control and patience and I was happy with that. It was a learning thing for me, I've only had twenty three fights so I'm still learning." More...
Hennessy Sport?s Billy Corcoran has played Father Christmas by offering Bradford?s Femi Fehintola the opportunity to challenge for the English super featherweight title he won in October with a devastating third round stoppage of former British champion Roy Rutherford. "I have just heard that I can make a voluntary defence of my belt on January 20th at the York Hall," began Corcoran. "I want that to be against Fehintola. My promoters Hennessy Sports have already faxed through a formal offer for the fight to his team ? without options." More...
Power-punching middleweights Gary Lockett and Ryan Rhodes predict it will be an early night for one of them when they collide for the Vacant WBU World Middleweight title on Saturday 11 March at the Newport Sports Centre.
Welshman Lockett, 29, is regarded as the hardest puncher in the domestic 160lb division with 17 knockouts in 25 fights with 15 of them coming inside two rounds and reckons Rhodes will crack under his heavy-handed assault.
The Rocket said, "We can both whack so I don't see it going the distance," More...
SKY Sports have singled out Hennessy Sports promoted John Murray as their “Shooting Star’ for 2006. Pundit Jim Watt selected the Manchester fighter as the one to watch following a spectacular year that saw him make sensational debuts in America and Canada and, last time out on a SKY televised event, become the first ever British fighter to win a WBC World Youth Championship. More...
UNDISPUTED MIDDLEWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPION JERMAIN TAYLOR DONATES TO THE LEAVANDER FUND
***Arkansas star to be honored December 22, 2005 at Rimrockers game at Alltel Arena***
December 22, New York- It's the most wonderful time of the year and the holiday spirit is in the air. DiBella Entertainment's Undisputed Middleweight World Champion Jermain Taylor (25-0, 17 KO's) continues to show he is a champion both inside and outside of the ring. Proving once again that a more appropriate nickname for him might be "Good Intentions" rather than his ring moniker of "Bad Intentions", Taylor has generously donated proceeds received in connection with the sale of his autographed gloves on the night of his second historic victory over Bernard Hopkins on December 3, at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas to The Leavander Fund. More...
Colorful boxing manager Norman "Stoney" Stone today announced his retirement from his Massachusetts home. Stone had been two-time world heavyweight champion John "The Quietman" Ruiz' manager and cutman for the past 20 years dating back to Ruiz' amateur days.
"I'm done," Stone said. "I'm tired of boxing and last week's bad decision was the last straw (Ruiz lost a controversial 12-round majority decision to Nicolay Valuev in Berlin for the WBA title). I'm going to relax with my family and spend a lot of time with my two little grandchildren. I'll always support Johnny. Even in retirement I'll be covering his back. I'm sorry if my actions sometimes upset people, but I always had John's best interests at heart. It was a great ride." More...
