Former heavyweight boxer Jimmy Young, who beat George Foreman and fought Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton in the 1970s, has died. He was 56. Young died Sunday at Hahnemann University Hospital, a spokeswoman told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The Philadelphia Daily News reported that he died of heart disease after a six-day hospitalization. The…
David Barnes has withdrawn from his British Welterweight title defence against Bradley Pryce on March 4 at the Kingsway Leisure Centre in Widnes due to a bout of influenza. An explosive fight was anticipated as Barnes and Pryce engaged in a heated war of words that has now been put on hold. Even now, the…
It’s fight week in the Big Apple. Seven New York City products and a standout Olympian from Winter Haven, Forida, will be in action on 2005’s third installment of DiBella Entertainment’s Broadway Boxing Presented by Mohegan Sun slated for this Thursday night, February 24 at the Grand Ballroom at the Manhattan Center on 34th Street…
© Hennessysports.com Howard Eastman says there is no chance that he will retire from boxing for some time to come. The thirty-four year old “Battersea Bomber” might have lost a decision to Bernard Hopkins for the undisputed middleweight crown last Saturday, but Eastman is undeterred. Even Hopkins stated that Eastman deserves a rematch and the…
It is thought that Top Rank chief Bob Arum is willing to take a gamble on promoting Mike Tyson if the former heavyweight champion retains his fitness and returns to the ring. Arum was set to bid for Tyson’s signature for a multi-million dollar deal last year, but the move collapsed when Tyson was knocked…
Next Saturday former WBO light heavyweight world champion Dariusz Michalczewski returns to the ring on a big event promoted by Universum Box-Promotion: A championship triple header at the huge Color Line Arena of Hamburg. “This event has been a major subject for many months. We present three world title fights on the same evening and…
Ringside at the middleweight championship contest between Bernard Hopkins and Howard Eastman last night was none other than former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. Still recuperating from the knee injury he sustained while fighting Danny Williams last year, Tyson spoke of returning to the ring around May of this year for three “easy fights.” Admittedly, there…
Despite knowing he will not be able to resume his boxing career as soon as he would like due to a broken hand, Junior Witter has plenty to celebrate. The source of Witter’s celebrations lay in the fact that he has been signed up for a three fight deal with fighter/promoter Oscar de la Hoya’s…
Pound for pound king Hopkins told Eastman’s promoter Mick Hennessy that his man deserved a second showdown following his outstanding effort. For the Londoner, it can’t come soon enough. “I would like to thank Bernard Hopkins for this opportunity,†Eastman said. “I hope he will give me another one. He doesn’t have to move up…
Bernard Hopkins got the number he wanted in making his 20th title defense. Now he’s looking ahead, to making money and history as a middleweight champion approaching middle age. Hopkins had barely finished beating Howard Eastman on Saturday night when he laid out his immediate future. There wasn’t much sense looking too far ahead, though,…
Showing why he is rated by most as the world’s top pound-for-pound fighter, Bernard Hopkins retained his middleweight championship tonight for a record twentieth time against a game challenger in Howard Eastman. The challenger was aggressive and powerful early on and managed to land some good shots that hurt the champion throughout the fight but…
Two more fight results from the Staples Center in Los Angeles to inform you of tonight before the main event. Highly-touted middleweight prospect Jermain Taylor decimated the previously undefeated contender Daniel Edouard in three rounds in the event’s chief support bout. Edouard had no answer for Taylor’s fast, hard-hitting style, but had plenty of verbal…