© Tom Hogan /Golden Boy Promotions Golden Boy and Dibella Entertainment in association with 8 Count Productions put on a fight card tonight at UIC Pavilion in Chicago, IL. NABO junior welter championship, 12 rounds Juan Diaz: 138.4 lb Paulie Malignaggi: 138.6 lb
Vitali Klitschko (38-2, 37KO) and Kevin “Kingpin” Johnson (22-0-1, 9KO) both weighed in yesterday. The pair square off tonight in Bern, Switzerland, for Vitali’s WBC Heavyweight Championship. The bout will be broadcast live on Germany’s RTL television and shown tape delayed in the U.S. on HBO. WBC heavyweight championship, 12 rounds Vitali Klitschko: 246.9 lb…
WBO junior welterweight champion Timothy Bradley Jr, WBO interim junior welterweight champion Lamont Peterson, WBC / WBA super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan and WBC interim super flyweight champion Tomas Rojas rumble at Agua Caliente Casino in Rancho Mirage, Calif., in a world championship doubleheader fight Saturday. This quartet made weight yesterday. WBO junior welterweight title,…
Tonight there will be a huge boxing gala taking place in Montreal. As the main event scheduled tonight, the much anticipated rematch between Jean Pascal and Adrian Diaconu will take place. Some of the other fights included in the card will be the return of Eric Lucas and the WBC Youth Inter-Continental championship fight between…
Former three-time Lightweight World Champion Juan Diaz and former Junior Welterweight World Champion Paulie Malignaggi will face off for their December 12, 2009 fight at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago which will be televised live on HBO’s Boxing After Dark. Top rated contender Victor Ortiz and former world title challenger Antonio Diaz also face off…
In a battle of unbeatens, Timothy Bradley (24-0-1 NC, 11 KOs), of Palm Springs, Calif., will defend his WBO Junior Welterweight title against interim champ Lamont Peterson (27-0, 13 KOs) of Washington, D.C., this Saturday, Dec. 12 live on Showtime at 9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast.
Observing Paulie Malignaggi’s and Juan Diaz’s first fight together this past August, I took heavy notice of the clash of their styles. Malignaggi is faster, he reminds me of a spider cricket; hard to catch. Diaz packs a heavier punch. Malignaggi is punching twice the rate, thus could be equivalent to a power punch or…
Former WBC heavyweight Champion Oleg Maskaev will be risking a title eliminator for a shot at titleholder Vitali Klitschko when he takes on Dominican native Nagy Aguilera Saturday morning in Moscow, Russia.
© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing All four fighters on this Saturday’s Showtime world championship doubleheader appeared at the site of their upcoming showdowns, the Agua Caliente Casino for a final press conference on Wednesday to discuss this weekend’s fights. In an excellent battle of unbeatens, Timothy Bradley (24-0-1 NC, 11 KOs), of Palm Springs,…
HBO Plus’ exciting “Next Boxing Generation” series returns to Mexico for its final episode of 2009 on Saturday, December 12, for an action-packed night of professional boxing at the Auditorio Miguel Barragan in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. In the main event, highly regarded Nicaraguan contender Rene “Super Chirizo” Gonzalez takes on one of Mexico’s hometown…
Jamie Arthur is just one win away from a shot at the British featherweight champion Martin Lindsay. The Cwmbran slugger faces Mickey Coveney at Newport Leisure Centre on Friday (11/12) and if victorious will challenge Lindsay at the same venue on February 5.
Although cruiserweight Ola Afolabi had his five-fight win streak snapped at the hands of Marco Huck in their 12-round WBO title tilt on Saturday in Germany, both Afolabi and his promoter Dino Duva believe the British-born fighter illustrated that he belongs with the elite of the division.