Undefeated WBC Continental Americas Light Heavyweight Champion, Cedric Agnew, 8-0 (4), of Chicago Heights, IL has been added to the undercard of the August 8 edition of ESPN2’s “Friday Night Fights” which will be broadcast from Chicago’s Aragon Entertainment Center. More...
Boxing is a sport full of emotion; it can provide athletes and fans alike the opportunity to experience the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. Unfortunately, on last week’s edition of ESPN Wednesday Night Fights, that’s exactly what happened when Delvin Rodriguez won the USBA Welterweight title and opponent Oscar Diaz collapsed in the ring from a subdural hematoma.
The scheduled twelve round bout took place at the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio, Texas, the hometown of Diaz. His fans came out to support him in the anticipated match, which was expected to be an action packed fight.
The fight did not disappoint the fans as the action traded back and forth between the fighters. Diaz tried to work his way in from the outside and was successful in the fourth round, landing a strong right over the jab, wobbling Rodriguez.
Rodriguez covered up and began to fight his way back by the end of the round.
During the next several rounds, Rodriguez took over the fight, keeping Diaz on the outside with his jab and straight right. In the ninth round, Diaz’s right eye was swollen shut from the hard snapping punches of Rodriguez.
Although Rodriguez won a lop-sided tenth round, it did not appear that Diaz was in any serious trouble. Before the eleventh round, the referee asked Diaz how many fingers he was holding up. Diaz appeared to answer as he rose to his feet, and then the referee asked him if he wanted to continue, to which Diaz let out a scream, pushing the referee’s arm away and turning towards the ropes as his legs went out from under him.
Now laying in the corner and quickly attended to by EMTs, Diaz was provided medical attention and put onto a stretcher where he was taken to the San Antonio University Medical Center for emergency surgery to reduce the swelling of his brain.
As the EMTs attended to Diaz, Rodriguez was looking on, trying to get an indication of what was happening. He later took the microphone to address the crowd, saying “I’m praying for Oscar and his family and will continue to pray for him throughout the night. I ask everyone else to pray for him.”
The most recent reports on Oscar Diaz are that he is in a coma and listed in critical but stable condition. The doctor that performed the emergency surgery has stated that he expects that Diaz should survive the injury and recover.
SaddoBoxing had the opportunity to speak with Delvin Rodriguez in an exclusive phone interview to find out what the experience has been like for him. More...
With a combined knockout percentage of 85% in their 53 pro bouts, it is easy to see why Joel Julio and ‘Mean’ Joe Greene are considered two of the most powerful punchers in boxing today.
On Wednesday, August 13, at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida, these “Heavy Hitters” will look to add two more names to their victims list as they co-headline ESPN2’s Wednesday Night Fights. More...
WBC/IBF #4 ranked junior middleweight contender Joel Julio will headline an August 13, 2008, fight card from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, it was announced today by Main Events CEO Kathy Duva.
Julio will battle Nicaraguan veteran Jose Varela in a 10 round junior middleweight contest. Both the Julio-Varela bout and the co-feature contest between "Mean" Joe Greene and Jose Miguel Torres will be broadcast live on ESPN2 "Friday Night Fights," beginning at 9:00 pm ET. More...
This week's ESPN2 "Wednesday Night Fights," took place at the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio, TX. The card, which was promoted by Joe DeGuardia's Star Boxing, featured Delvin Rodriguez taking on hometown fan favorite Oscar Diaz for the USBA welterweight championship, a belt Rodriguez had once held, and as he stated prior to the fight, was extremely determined to get back. More...
IBF Cruiserweight World Champion Steve USS Cunningham will be an interested party this Friday night as he watches his mandatory title challenger, Tomasz Adamek, square off in the main event of ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights against Gary “The Pitbull” Gomez from the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. More...
Tickets are now on sale for "Hard Eight", an outstanding evening of world class professional boxing, headlined by the IBF Light Heavyweight title eliminator clash between undefeated contender Tavoris Cloud and former world champion Julio Gonzalez set for Friday, August 8 at the Aragon Ballroom to be broadcast on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights. More...
Terrance "The Heat" Cauthen, 32-4 (9), looks to get back on track and put himself back into world title contention when he takes on the dangerous up and coming knockout artist Alexis Camacho, 16-0 (15), on July 16 from the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio, TX.
The Cauthen v Camacho fight will be the ESPN2's "Wednesday Night Fights" 10-round co- feature to the Delvin Rodriguez v Oscar Diaz fight for the vacant USBA Welterweight Championship. More...
World ranked and undefeated cruiserweight BJ Flores wanted to set the record straight regarding media reports that he rejected an offer to fight CES promoted Matt Godfrey next month on ESPN2.
Speaking after a training session with former heavyweight world champion Hasim Rahman in Phoenix, Arizona, Flores said, “Let me set the record straight. CES has Aaron Williams and Matt Godfrey. Williams had wanted to fight me after my win over Darnell Wilson in February. I was fine with that at the time, but I was okay with waiting until after his fight with Jose Luis Herrera. More...
Two weeks ago, St. Louis native Deandre “The Bull” Latimore scored the biggest win of his career as he stopped #1 IBF Junior Middleweight Sechew Powell in the seventh round at the Hard Rock Café in New York City. The bout, broadcast on ESPN2’s Wednesday Night Fights, is being called an early contender for upset of the year. More...
“The Polish Prince”, Andrzej Fonfara will battle crosstown rival Derrick “Superman” Findley as the featured co-main event at "The Return Of The Polish Warrior", an outstanding evening of world class professional boxing set for Friday, July 11 at the historic Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, it was announced today by Main Events CEO Kathy Duva and Dominic Pesoli, President of 8 Count Productions. More...
Classic Entertainment and Sports, Inc. (CES) president Jimmy Burchfield has expressed his disappointed that USBA cruiserweight champion BJ Flores, 21-0-1 (12) has rejected an offer to fight NABF cruiserweight title-holder Matt “Too Smooth” Godfrey, 16-1 (9), in an ESPN2 main event next month. More...
Julio Diaz and David Torres completed Tuesday’s weigh in at the Sportsmen’s Lodge Hotel in Studio City, CA The main event fighters square off Wednesday at the world famous Playboy Mansion on ESPN2 at 11:00 p.m. ET/8:00 p.m. PT. More...
Former USBA Welterweight Champion Delvin Rodriguez, 22-2-1 (13), looks to extend his most recent winning streak and also reclaim his belt, when he takes on tough and exciting Oscar Diaz, 26-2 (12), for the vacant USBA Welterweight Championship.
The fight, which will take place on July 16, 2008 at the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio, TX, will be the main event for that evening's ESPN2's "Wednesday Night Fights" broadcast. More...
Former IBO Middleweight Champion of the world Raymond Joval, 37-4 (16), will face off against rising prospect James "Buddy" McGirt Jr., 18-1 (9), on July 25 at the City Center in Saratoga Springs, NY in the 10-round main event.
The fight which will be aired on ESPN2's "Friday Night Fights," will also mark the opening week of the 2008 Saratoga Race Track Season. This will be the fourth annual, "Night of Future Champions," card held in Saratoga Springs. More...
Junior middleweight James Moore, 15-1 (10), a native of County Wicklow, Ireland, who fights out of Queens, New York, incurred his first defeat at the Aviator Sports Complex in Brooklyn, New York, on June 4.
Gabriel Rosado, 10-2 (6 ), of Philadelphia , won a unanimous eight round decision by scores of 77-74, 78-73 and 76-74. More...
The highly anticipated showdown between unbeaten light heavyweight Tavoris Cloud and former world champion Julio Gonzalez will take place on Friday, August 8 at Chicago's Aragon Ballroom and will be broadcast on ESPN2, announced Dominic Pesoli, President of 8 Count Productions, who will promote the event along with Chicago- based A Team Management.
The Cloud/Gonzalez twelve round bout is an IBF title eliminator to fight Champion Antonio Tarver. More...
The new NABA Light Heavyweight Champion Yusaf Mack returned victorious to his long time ʽhomeʼ, the legendary James Shuler Memorial Gym in West Philadelphia, to show off the belt he won on Wednesday evening having beaten Daniel Judah, of the famed Brooklyn Judah family, by unanimous decision. More...
Former lightweight world champion Julio “Kidd” Diaz, 34-4 (25) will face unbeaten David “El Torrito” Torres, 20-0 (13) in a 10 round bout on Wednesday, June 25, from the world famous Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills, CA, televised on ESPN2 at 11:00 p.m. ET/8:00 p.m. PT. More...
A native of St. Louis, 22-year old junior middleweight up and comer Deandre ‘The Bull’ Latimore made his way to the boxing capital of the world, Las Vegas, last year to take the next step in a promising pro career that has thus far produced 18 wins in 19 fights with 15 of those wins coming by knockout.
On Wednesday, June 11th, Latimore will look for victory number 19 against the top-ranked junior middleweight in the world, Sechew Powell, and he’s ready for the challenge. More...
