Two big, fiery punchers -- 'Mighty Mike' Arnaoutis, rated #1, and Ricardo Torres, rated #2 -- will battle for the vacant World Boxing Organization (WBO) Jr. Welterweight Championship on the Pacquiao vs. Morales III 'Grand Finale' championship boxing event at the Thomas and Mack Center on Saturday, Nov. 18.
Aranaoutis, 17-0-1 with nine knockouts, is from Athens, Greece. He now lives and trains in Atlantic City, N.J. Torres, who was in that wild knockout war with Miguel Cotto, is 29-1, 27 KOs. He is from Barranquilla, Colombia. More...
Carlos Baldomir, who despite not having lost a fight in more than nine years, came out of virtual obscurity last January to register upset victories over Zab Judah and Arturo Gatti, takes on boxing’s pound-for-pound champion Floyd Mayweather for Baldomir’s welterweight championship. “PRETTY RISKY”— Mayweather vs. Baldomir for the World Boxing Council welterweight championship takes place Saturday, November 4, at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas and broadcast live on HBO Pay-Per-View.
Baldomir, who’s promoted by Sycuan Ringside Promotions, tipped the scales at 153 ½ pounds at his WBC mandatory seven-day weigh-in. The following quotes are from the weigh in: More...
The first world heavyweight championship ever staged in the state of Arizona is shaping up as a day and night--sun and stars--event with the retractable roof open at Chase Field in Phoenix for the entire card on Saturday, Nov. 4.
The co-featured main events are WBO heavyweight champion Sergei "White Wolf" Liakhovich defending against Shannon "The Cannon" Briggs and WBA lightweight champion Juan "Baby Bull" Diaz defending against Fernando "La Fiera" Angulo. More...
British Super Featherweight Champion Carl Johanneson is not one to overlook an opponent and has dismissed all talk not relating to his upcoming defence against undefeated Bradford based fighter Femi Fehintola.
When Johanneson, 24-2 (17), silenced a York Hall crowd with an emphatic fourth round stoppage over local favourite Billy Corcoran to claim the title in July, he sent out a message to the super feathers of Britain that he meant business. More...
As training camp draws to a close, IBF World Champion, Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero, feels he is ready for war, as he prepares for his epic battle with Orlando Salido, who by most boxing insiders, is considered one of the toughest and most dangerous opponents in the 126 lbs division. More...
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 been a consistent producer of boxing history. As of right now, our commission is one of the best in the business, our fans base is among the strongest and the local scene is one of the most active in the world.
While we here in Philadelphia hold all of these outstanding credentials, something is missing and that is the fact that we have no world champion to call our own.
With that being said, there is a long list of young talent coming through the ranks, all of whom either hail from the City of Brotherly Love or earned their stripes in the fight game boxing at venues such as the Blue Horizon, New Alhambra or the National Guard Armory. More...
Everybody, whether 8 or 80, seems to remember a time when there was only one champion per division and all of the champions took on the toughest challengers all the time, even though such times never existed. More...
Options can be dangerous in a place where there aren't many. Ask Shannon Briggs. He was born amid circumstances where there is only survival. Briggs was good at that, good enough to fight his way into a position that lets him make choices. More...
Spanish Harlem star Edgar "El Chamaco" Santana (19-2, 12 KO's) will take center stage in the main event on Wednesday night, November 15th, when DiBella Entertainment's Broadway Boxing Presented by StubHub returns to the Grand Ballroom at Manhattan Center in New York City. More...
Hanley boxer Chris Edwards will top the bill at the Kings Hall on November 24th when he faces Huddersfield’s former Commonwealth champion Dale Robinson. An application has been made to the British Boxing Board of Control for the ten round bout which has been made at the 8st flyweight limit to be made an English title clash. The Board will discuss the application at its next meeting on 8th November. Should the application be successful Edwards will become the third boxer from the Burslem camp of Impact Boxing to challenge for English honours since June; Scott Lawton lifted the English lightweight title in June and Gary Reid contests the English light-welterweight title in Glasgow on 4th November. More...
Two Native American promotional entities, Sycuan Ringside Promotions of California and Seminole Warriors Boxing of Florida, considered by many to be sleeping giants of the boxing industry, may prove in the immediate future they are just that--giants.
Sycuan Ringside Promotions and Seminole Warriors Boxing have announced they are pledging their considerable resources to better establish themselves as more influential and important participants in the sport. More...
This Saturday (October 28), trainer James "Buddy" McGirt returns to the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, CT, for the first time since May 18, 2002, when he worked the corner of Arturo "Thunder" Gatti in his epic slug-fest with "Irish" Micky Ward. Believed by many to have been one of the greatest fights of all time, the brutal ten-round affair was the first of three memorable bouts between the two warriors. "It'll be great being back at Mohegan Sun Casino," McGirt states. "The fans there are great there, and it's a great casino! It's always exciting working a corner, but that fight started a great trilogy." More...
Undefeated Mike Oliver, 16-0 (7), enters Mohegan Sun Arena on Saturday, October 28th to battle Adam Carrera, 18-1 (8), in a 12-round bout for the vacant USBA Junior Featherweight Championship. The undercard features a group of young talented Massachusetts fighters including Joe McCreedy (5-0, 4 KO’s) from Lowell, Tony LaMonica (2-0, 1 KO) from South Boston, Chris McInerny (5-0-1, 4 KO’s) from Stoughton, Enrigue Palan (5-0, 4 KO’s) and Edwin Rosado (1-1, 1 KO) both from Worcester. More...
Ray Hatton, father and manager of the fighting Hatton brothers, Ricky and Matthew, was shocked last Friday when his younger son was disqualified from a British Welterweight title eliminator against Alan Bosworth with just two minutes remaining at the Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield, England. More...
A tremendous supporting cast has been added to the Wladimir Klitschko vs. Calvin Brock World Heavyweight Championship card at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, November 11.
“We now have two World Title fights, an IBF eliminator, and two NY State Championships,” announced Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions.
Undefeated Laila Ali (22-0, 19 KO's) makes her Madison Square Garden debut as she squares off against #3 rated Shelley Burton (8-2-1, 2 KO's), in a Super Middleweight Championship Bout. Ali will be defending her WBC and WIBA titles. More...
New York's Fordham University plays host to "An Evening With Barry McGuigan And Friends" today as part of their exhibit "Fighting Irishman: A Celebration Of The Celtic Warrior". The former WBA Featherweight Champion McGuigan and hot middleweight prospect John Duddy will reflect on their respective careers, Irish boxers and other topics of interest before engaging in a question and answer session with the audience at the university's Pope Auditorium. More...
As part of it's ongoing World Boxing Cares program, the WBC paid a visit yesterday to ailing kids at the Arnold Palmer Hospital For Children and Women in Orlando, Florida. The organization was represented by Ariel Aburto, who was joined by former Women's boxing champion Christy Martin, her husband Jim along with Rowland Bryant and Derrick Bryant, two boxers managed by the Martins. Child Life Manager for the facility, Shari A. Mosley, escorted the visitors around the premises. More...
Carlos Baldomir held a conference call October 24th and members of the media asked him various questions regarding his upcoming fight with Floyd Mayweather. A week earlier his trainer Amilcar Brusa also answered questions. Here, then, follows a transcript of both of these calls. All questions posed to Carlos Baldomir were translated by Gabe Ruelas, a part of Goossen Tutor Promotions.
OPERATOR: Good afternoon my name is Mary and I will be your conference operator today. At this time I’d like to welcome everyone to the Univision Baldomir/Mayweather conference call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. Thank you. It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to your host Kelly Swanson. Ma’am you may begin your conference. More...
SaddoBoxing was invited to photograph WBO Heavyweight Champion Sergei Liakhovich as he engaged in some heavy duty sparring in preparation to his much anticipated showdown with knockout artist and former world title challenger Shannon "The Cannon" Briggs on a Don King promotion to be televised by Showtime on November 4 at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona.
As can be seen from the laceration under the eye, Liakhovich is training at full throttle for his upcoming clash with the hammer fisted Briggs, who has knocked out 41 of 47 victims and stopped his last eleven opponents.
Briggs has promised to knock out the WBO Champion as well but Liakhovich is clearly preparing to do the same to his veteran rival in what is turning out to be a must-see bad blood grudge match. More...
