Popular Chicago middleweight Freddie Cuevas has retired from the squared circle after an eleven year professional career, it was announced yesterday by Dominic Pesoli, President of 8 Count Productions.
Cappiello Promotions in association with Don Chargin Productions has announced that undefeated New Haven, Connecticut super-middleweight prospect Elvin Ayala (16-0, 7 KOs) will now take on Portland, Oregon’s David Banks (11-1-1, 2 KOs) in the main event of his Friday, November 24 Telefutura fight card at The Roxy in Boston.
Against Brian Minto, Axel Schulz and all German parties involved in Saturday’s proposed fight. According to promoter Dino Duva of Duva Boxing, the fight proposed for Saturday at the Gerry Weber Stadion in Halle/Westfalen, Germany, between former heavyweight champion Axel Schulz and Brian “The Beast†Minto, as currently planned, would violate the promotional contract between…
Newly crowned IBA World middleweight title-holder “Ireland’s” John Duddy, rated No. 8 by the WBO and No. 10 by the WBA, will be presented the prestigious Rocky Marciano Award as a distinguished champion on December 3 at the Boxerama XXV awards luncheon, celebrating the 25th American Association for the Improvement of Boxing, Inc. (AAIB), in…
Click for larger image © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Fight Academy and Ricky Hatton held a press conference to officially announce that Ricky will be facing Juan Urango in Las Vegas on the 20th January. Saddo Boxing was in attendance to bring you the whole audio of the Conference where Ricky reveals his thoughts…
A Tinsel Town Affair It has all the intrigues of a Hollywood movie. The young, cocky and talented up and comer looking to make an impression on the world audience and in the other corner, the old, humble, clean cut, golden boy fighting in his last bout, hoping to notch one more win in what…
State of the Weight Diego Corrales? Finished. Jose Luis Castillo? Gone. Floyd Mayweather Jr? A distant memory, in the lightweight division at least. Depending on how you’re looking at it, the lightweight division is either in a molting phase, shucking off its most popular current names, or it’s making way for the next batch of…
Click for larger image © Natasha Chornesky / Saddo Boxing Manny Pacquiao showed Eric Morales and the rest of the boxing world that he is frighteningly fast, powerful, and right in his prime by scoring a devastating 3rd round knockout over the Mexican legend to retain his WBC International Super Featherweight Title. The opening round…
Sebastian Zbik, Vitali Tajbert and Karoly Balzsay in the Universum Gym on November 21st The next spotlight event, on Tuesday, November 21, takes place in the Universum Gym in Hamburg, the place where many World Champions were formed and trained, starting at 6:15PM. The unbeaten Eurofighters are headlined by Susi Kentikian, Vitali Tajbert, Karoly Balzsay…
Unbeaten middleweight Jason “The Hammer” Le Houllier headlines Battle Zone at The Castle on December 15 against veteran Frank Houghtaling in the eight-round main event at The Castle in downtown Boston. The Alpha Omega Entertainment Group, in association with Sprint/Nextel and NESN, is promoting Battle Zone at the Castle. The show will be taped lived…
Click for larger image © Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing DiBella Entertainment’s Broadway Boxing put on an entertaining evening of boxing on Wednesday night. The evening had a little something for every boxing fan; a strong performance, a confidence building knockout, an anticipated rematch and an early round knockout. They even had a handful of…
As I sat down to watch the concluding chapter of the Erik Morales – Manny Pacquiao saga, a palpable feeling of agitation literally swept over me. Had I been so inclined, I could have polished off half a pack of Benson & Hedges before Larry Merchant had even concluded his mercilessly unintelligible pre-match analogy. I…