Heavyweight Hasim “Rock†Rahman has completed his first week of training at the new ROC Boxing & Fat itness Center 524 Atlantic Ave. in Rochester, NY. Rahman’s camp is training daily at the ROC between 1:00 and 3:00 pm these are closed sessions no media and no spectators. Open training sessions are scheduled for Friday February 17 and Saturday February 18 from 1:00-3:00pm at the ROC Boxing & Fitness Center. (Open to Public and Media)
By Per Ake Persson WBC champion emeritius Mikkel Kessler has parted ways with manager and adviser Simon Lundt Hansen. The official reason is that Kessler, sidelined with a long term eye injury, doesn’t feels he needs a manager during this time. A couple of weeks ago Kessler told Danish media how he had wasted a…
Spotlight Boxing is starting into the year 2006 with a show at Universum-Gym of Hamburg, tomorrow on January 24. Boxinglive.TV will broadcast the first six fights live on the internet starting at 18:00 (CET). The last three contests will be broadcast by Eurosport live at 21:00.
Langdon Flynn Communications today announced an agreement with Justice Entertainment Group (JEG). The two companies will combine their forces to promote and publicize sporting and entertainment events in Las Vegas and beyond. “Justice Entertainment Group is at the forefront of the sports and entertainment industries in Las Vegas and we are thrilled to announce this…
Undefeated Hungarian light heavyweight Zsolt Erdei will defend his WBO light heavyweight championship this week. Erdei, who defeated Julio Gonzalez for the title has made three defenses of the belt, two of which came agains Hugo Hernan Garay. Sahnoune of France has thirty-one wins against a single loss, which came against Silvio Branco in defense…
For many years, young southpaw Chad Dawson was known as “Bad†Chad . On Feb. 3, 2007, “Bad†Chad became “Awesome†Dawson . On that night, Dawson captured his first world title, the World Boxing Council (WBC) light heavyweight crown, with a brilliant and decisive 12-round decision over fellow unbeaten defending champion Tomasz Adamek of…
Ticket for Saturday’s “Johnson vs. Gonzalez” Fight Night for Climate Change at the Lake Charles Civic Center in Lake Charles, Louisiana, are selling quickly, as anticipation builds for the all-action light heavyweight shootout.