There was a clash of faded former high level champions last night at National Stadium in Georgetown, Guyana as native sons Howard Eastman and Andrew Lewis came home for a fight for the Guyanese Middleweight Championship. While “Six Heads” Lewis was a world champion, it was at welterweight and that was seven years ago, so…
Less than four months after his controversial disqualification against Francisco Lorenzo, super featherweight Humberto Soto captured the vacant WBC title with a smashing effort against Gamaliel Diaz last night at Auditorio Centenario in Torreon, Mexico. Having already crushed Rocky Juarez’s unbeaten record in 2005 and chased then WBO titlist Joan Guzman all over the ring…
The packed Arena Mexico in Mexico City saw a torrent of action last night with four titles being fought over and by the time the smoke cleared, there were two new champions. Edgar Sosa, 33-5 (17), once again kept hold of his WBC Light Flyweight crown, outboxing hardened Filipino visitor Sonny Boy Jaro, 28-7-5 (17),…
Local Mexico City hero Edgar Sosa, 32-5 (17), puts his WBC Light Flyweight crown on the line tonight at Arena Mexico in the capital city and the 29 year old will be looking to make his fifth defense of the belt he won by posting a majority decision over former US Olympian Brian Viloria in…
38 year old Colombian slugger Antonio Pitalua showed a stunning return to form last night at Arena Coliseo in Monterrey as the Mexico City based veteran knocked out former WBC interim champion Jose Armando Santa Cruz to win a WBC Lightweight title eliminator. At 5 foot 10, Santa Cruz towered over Pituala but the native…
The biggest card this weekend in the Land of Silver took place last night at the Nuevo Palacio Aurinegro in Puerto Madryn where southpaw Omar Andres Narvaez continued his mastery of the WBO Flyweight title, outboxing WBC Cabofe titlist Alejandro Hernandez over twelve rounds of action. “El Huracan” put impressive skills on display and introduced…
It was an epic card last night at Ruben Rodriguez Coliseum in Bayamon as there were a full four title fights, headlined by a WBO Light Flyweight championship defense by Ivan Calderon. The 33 year old southpaw took on the man he won the WBO belt from, Mexico’s Hugo Fidel Cazares, in a rematch to…
There was a big show at The Arena in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon last night with WBC/WBA Super Flyweight Champion Cristian Mijares retaining his belts against challenger Chatchai Sasakul in dominating fashion. 26 year old southpaw Mijares, 36-3-2 (15), who hasn’t lost a bout since July, 2002 and held a twelve year advantage in youth against…
While Cuba’s Olympic boxing team continues to perform head and shoulders above everyone else at Worker’s Gymnasium, the first crack has surfaced in the seemingly invincible cadre of boxers operating out of Havana. The first loss to be suffered by the Cubans came when 2008 Pan American Featherweight Champ Idel Torriente was edged out by…
The Cuban boxing team continued their domineering ways today in Beijing’s Worker’s Gymnasium as they continue to steamroll anyone who gets in their monumental quest for Olympic Gold. Just three days after his 20th birthday, lanky light welterweight Roniel Iglesias continued to shatter the myth that the Cuban team would be hurt by defections earlier…
The Cuban boxing team has been living up to it’s reputation as the world’s top amateur team as it continues to shred it’s competition at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Today at Worker’s Gymnasium, the victory train rolled on as Middleweight Emilio Correa hammered out an 18-4 victory over Sergiy Derevyanchenko of the Ukraine, light flyweight…
There was a lot of action this weekend below the Rio Grande and we kick off the proceedings with the return of former WBC Super Bantam Champion Oscar Larios, 62-6-1 (39), who rocked the house on Saturday with a seventh round KO of Nicaragua’s Marlon Aguilar to retain the Interim WBC Featherweight crown at Auditorio…