Contrary to information circulated on the internet, undefeated WBO Junior Lightweight Champion Joan Guzman, 28-0 (17), will travel to Scotland to defend his title against interim champion Alex Arthur.
Inaccurate reports across the internet have stated that Guzman has pulled out of his title fight against Arthur, 26-1 (19), which is currently scheduled for Saturday, May 3 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The highly anticipated fight, however, will likely be rescheduled. More...
Nick Charles, who serves as host and play-by-play announcer for the critically acclaimed Showtime boxing series ShoBox: The New Generation, will receive the prestigious Sam Taub Award for excellence in broadcast journalism at the 83rd Annual Boxing Writers Association of America Awards Dinner on Thursday, May 1, 2008, in Los Angeles. More...
Double-barreled International Female Boxers Association (IFBA) world championship action heads East on Thursday, June 12 for a show airing on Fox Sports Net’s Best Damn Championship Fight Night Period from Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. More...
It was the most emphatic statement Juan Urango could have possibly made to the junior welterweight division, and after his devastating fourth round knockout of Carlos Wilfredo Vilches Wednesday night at Hard Rock Live, “Iron Twin” made it abundantly clear that he is ready to once again reign over the 140-pound weight class. More...
"I had kind of a rough childhood. I got into a lot of fights."
There are a lot of things you can say about Matt Remillard, current WBC Youth Featherweight Champion. Arrogance is not one of them as itʼs breath of fresh air to see how grounded the 21 year old Remillard is.
His progression in the sport has been steady, amassing a 13-0 record while stopping 7 men, over fifty percent of his increasingly more difficult competition, inside the distance.
He fights out of Manchester, Connecticut in the same gym that he walked into years ago, as a young, tough kid with a self admitted chip on his shoulder doing community service. Matt Remillardʼs path to boxing was a bumpy one, but it was one that led him to where he is today, a champion.
SaddoBoxing: So Matt, what got you into boxing?
Matt Remillard: "Iʼve always liked boxing. I remember watching fights with my father and grandfather. You know, the classic fights like Ali vs. Frazier. Iʼve always been a fan of the sport.
I had kind of a rough childhood. I got into a lot of fights. I used to get in fights at school and stuff. I had to do community service. I was sent to the Police Athletic League by a police officer by the name of Anthony DeJulis." More...
British super featherweight Steven Bell, 14-1 (5), has parlayed a heavily decorated stay as an amateur that saw him as Captain of Team England into a successful career as both a top level professional boxer and a burgeoning actor on some of his country's most popular current television shows and a highly acclaimed feature film.
SaddoBoxing had the good fortune to catch up with Steven as he continues his campaign to rule the 130 pound division in the British Isles and you want want to miss what the 32 year old had to say about his fascinating careers!
SaddoBoxing: How do you feel about your performance recently in beating iron-chinned light welter journeyman Baz Carey over six rounds?
Steven Bell: "Yeah, I have had two good wins now since that defeat [to Femi Fehintola] in October. I won every round against Carey without any problems and boxed the way I planned, so was happy with the performance. More...
Mention the names Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Mike Tyson, or Rocky Marciano to anyone from 18 to 80, and you will immediately garner a reaction, a positive acknowledgement of athletes that held what was once seen as the most prestigious title in all of sports – the world heavyweight championship. More...
Olympic Gold Medalist Andre Ward looks to take the next step toward a world title shot when Goossen Tutor Promotions in association with the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism presents “Cayman Knockout: Championship Boxing” from the Caribbean on Friday, June 20, 2008, live on SHOWTIME’s ShoBox: The New Generation (11 p.m. ET/PT delayed on the west coast). More...
Junior Witter believes he is in the hottest form of his career ahead of his next world title defence against Timothy Bradley at the Trent FM Arena Nottingham on May 10.
Witter, of Bradford, England, makes the third defence of his prestigious WBC light welterweight title on a Hennessy Sports show in association with GoldenPalace.com as joint main event with Nottingham man Carl Froch’s WBC super-middleweight title final eliminator against Russia's Denis Inkin. More...
Super bantamweight Rendall Munroe returns to the ring at Harver Hadden LC in Nottingham, England on Friday, May 2, 2008, after recently shocking the boxing world by clearly outpointing Spanish strongman Kiko Martinez to capture the European title in March.
"The Punching Dustman" wants to be an active champion and pleaded with promoter Frank Maloney to arrange a title defense before the the summer and Maloney delivered the mandatory European challenger, French and European Union champion, Salem Bouaita. More...
Her last match was held at Forlì, in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy, on 29 March, 2008. Simona Galassi, an Italian queen of women's boxing is trained by Valerio Nati, and in the match against reigning WBC Female Flyweight Champion, Stefania Bianchini, she showed her natural strength and her good physical condition.
At the end of the ten rounds, Simona was ahead by points, and defeated Bianchini to win the WBC crown. Both of the boxers were past champions of Thai Boxing.
Women's boxing is actually a growing standard in Italy and all over Europe. The 'boxe in pink', as it is called in Italy, is a growing phenomena that has a great number of fans. Women's amateur boxing appeared in the international scene in 1997 in Athens, when the Acropolis Cup was held.
Unfortunately, women's boxing is not yet a Olympic specialty, so we will not see it included at the coming Olympic Games in Beijing.
Simona Galassi came from martial arts and kickboxing, and she won the European and the World championship in those disciplines before stepping into the boxing ring.
Simona started boxing at the World Championship at Scranton in 2001, and was named top boxer of the tournament and given the Outstanding Boxer Award. Moreover, she had an impressive win over Tammy De Laforest of Canada and she become the world champion.
Galassi went on to dominate the amateur scene with three world titles conquered by the 35 years old athlete of the team Edera Boxe. She then signed on to the stable of professional promoter OPI 2000 and now she is a good professional with a 7-0-1 (3) record and the world champ of the flyweights at 50.8 Kgs.
Former United States Olympic Gold Medallist and undefeated super middleweight Andre Ward, 15-0 (12), and former Dominican Olympian Jerson Ravelo, 18-2 (12), will take part in a New York City press conference today to promote their upcoming NABO Super Middleweight Championship bout on Friday, June 20 on ShoBox: The New Generation, live on Showtime at 11 p.m. ET/PT delayed on the west coast. More...
Carl Froch says he will produce a better performance than Joe Calzaghe did at the weekend in his WBC Super Middleweight Title Final Eliminator against Denis Inkin of Russia at the Trent FM Nottingham Arena on May 10.
British champion Froch, 22-0 (18), was not overly impressed by Calzaghe's points win over Bernard Hopkins in Las Vegas on Saturday. More...
Undefeated #9 WBA Heavyweight, Kevin "Kingpin" Johnson, 19-0-1 (6), stepped up his game on Friday night, scoring a unanimous 10 round decision, 97-93 (twice) and 96-94, over a very game and tough Terry Smith, 30-5-1 (18), telecast live on ESPN2 Friday Night Fights, from the Buffalo Run Casino in Miami, Oklahoma. More...
After a break of 14 months, Audley Harrison of London, made his return on Saturday night as he faced Jason Barnett of Florida at the Thomas and Mack Centre, Las Vegas, on the undercard of the Joe Calzaghe vs Bernard Hopkins main event.
Under promoter Frank Warren again, Harrison has something to prove, because this is really his last chance. If he fails at this one - I doubt he’ll be taken seriously by the boxing notables - or fans again.
For me, Harrison won the Olympic Gold in 2000 and, in his mind I feel, he believed that he didn’t need to prove anything else, that the British public would give him respect and honour and he no longer needed to ’earn it’. More...
It was ‘spot the celebrity’ on Saturday night as the stars came out for Joe Calzaghe and Bernard Hopkins as they battled for the Light Heavyweight Championship at the Thomas and Mack Centre in Las Vegas.
Both men fly out of their corners for the first round but after only one minute - Hopkins lands a left followed by a right punch straight through the middle, landing hard on the nose of Calzaghe and the Welsh man goes down to the canvas - for only the third time in his career.
“Super, Super Joe…..Super Joe Calzaghe…” the British fans sing. There’s a cut on the bridge of Calzaghe’s nose as he returns to his corner at the end of the first frame.
Mid-way through round two and a swinging left from Calzaghe, its impact can be heard clearly, lands on the face of Hopkins but the veteran doesn’t flinch from it! Seconds later and another solid right hand from Hopkins lands on the face of Calzaghe. More...
On Friday night, in a Frank Maloney promoted fight night at the famous York Hall, Bethnal Green, London, Gary Woolcombe made his first defence of the British Middlweight Title against Ryan Rhodes.
Taller, younger, ʽHot Stuffʼ Woolcombe of Kent faced the more experienced ʽSpice Boyʼ Rhodes of Sheffield. Ironically, Rhodes won this same title - eleven years ago.
Rhodes seems to be having trouble getting a grip on the canvas as he slips two or three times in the opening minute of the first round. But despite being the ʽolderʼ guy - Rhodes looks in fantastic physical shape.
Rhodes looks sharper, quicker and more stylish than the younger Woolcombe. More...
“Everyone was mentioned as Calzaghe’s potential next opponent but me – the true light heavy weight champion," said IBF/IBO Light Heavyweight Champion Tarver following Joe Calzaghe's defeat of Bernard Hopkins, who comprehensively beat Tarver in 2006, in Las Vegas on Saturday night. More...
On April 24, Sotheby’s and SCP Auctions will offer a fine selection of sports memorabilia and cards for auction. The April sale includes an outstanding offering of material that comes directly from Smokin’ Joe Frazier.
Born in 1944, the 11th child of sharecroppers in South Carolina , Frazier took up boxing at the age of 17, and his raw talent was soon discovered and honed by trainer Yank Durham. Frazier won the Middle Atlantic Golden Gloves heavyweight championship for three straight years. More...
The much touted Fight of the Night candidate on the June 13th “Finally” pay-per-view event, airing live (10 PM/ET-8 PM/MT) from Isleta Casino & Resort in Albuquerque, is the 10-round co-feature for the vacant International Female Boxers Association (IFBA) lightweight championship between WIBA featherweight champion Jeannine “G9” Garside (7-0-1, 3 KOs) and WIBA & IBA junior lightweight title-holder Chevelle “Fists of Steel” Hallback (26-5-2, 11 KOs). More...
