The big names from sports, television and entertainment will join boxing trainer and ESPN/2 Friday Night Fights television analyst Teddy Atlas to help the needy in New York at the 10th annual Dr. Theodore Atlas Dinner on Thursday night, November 16, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Staten Island, New York.
Tickets go on sale this Monday, Nov. 6, 2006 Popular Great Falls, VA middleweight JIMMY LANGE (27-3-1, 19 KOs) will battle Puerto Rican native FONTAINE CABELL (22-6-1, 17 KOs) of Alamonte Spring, FL in the ten-round Main Event of Major League Boxing’s six-bout card scheduled for Saturday, December 9, 2006 at the Patriot Center. Tickets…
Is Floyd Jr. The Best Pound For Pound Fighter Of All Time? Floyd Mayweather, Jr is considered to be the best pound for pound fighter in boxing right now. In fact, if you ask him, he is the best pound for pound fighter in the history of the sport. So, what does that mean exactly?…
This past Thursday night Cestus Management’s 160-prospect Donovan George scored an impressive fifth-round technical knockout victory against tough Haitian fighter Julio Jean. The fight took place on the under-card of the Top Rank promoted card which featured Kelly Pavlik.
Click for larger image © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Maloney Promotions and Fight Academy put on the official British Super Feather Championship weigh-in yesterday at Elland Road Stadium in Leeds, England with beltholder Carl Johanneson and challenger Femi Fehintola looking fit and ready to go tonight for their scheduled clash at the Barnsley Metrodome….
Come Saturday evening, we will know the answer to the question of whether or not Carlos Baldomir’s 15 minutes of fame is coming to an end or not . The match between the Argentine WBC Champion and four weight former world champion Floyd Mayweather has been highly anticipated by boxing public, and in my view,…
This past October 14th, Fingerspoon Promotions made their promotional debut with a card titled “Redemption†featuring some of the best fighters in Philadelphia. In the co-main event, Max Alexander, 12-0-1, was scheduled to face off against Marty Lindquist, 12-4, in a fight that most thought would be a showcase of Alexander’s skills. That was not…
By Simon Jackson Come On, Everyone Knows This Any horse trainer will tell you the best form is recent form. It doesn’t matter what his stable star did last year, the key is how he’s doing today. Boxing trainers are the same and know a fighter who has won his last five of ten is…
In the Heavyweight division, a fighter is always just one punch away from glory. When you’re a three-time holder of the sport’s most prestigious crown, your odds are even better, so with boxing’s glamour division wide open and in need of a spark of life, Michael Moorer has returned to provide that spark, beginning with…
In a crossroads fight, Duva Boxing will pit two of the brightest young super lightweights when Kendall Holt (20-1, 12 KO’s) squares off against unbeaten Isaac Hlatshwayo (25-0, 1 NC, nine KOs) for the vacant North American Boxing Organization (NABO) 140-pound crown Friday, Nov. 3, on “ShoBox: The New Generation.†In the co-feature from Bally’s Casino…
Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Swinging For The Fences: Shannon Briggs, promoter Don King and Sergei Liakhovich get into the swing of things as they pose at home plate after Thursday’s heavyweight weigh-in at Chase Field in Phoenix. Briggs weighed 268 pounds, 30 more than Liakhovich, who tipped scales at…
The dream year of Argentinean Carlos Baldomir continues this Saturday evening at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas when he defends his WBC Welterweight Championship against pound for pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. Cast your mind back to January. In what was seen by many as a routine defence by Zab Judah before an April…