Evander Holyfield broke camp Monday in Houston, heading toward New York and an uncertain future. Holyfield fights Saturday night at Madison Square Garden for the forty-eighth time in a professional career that began twenty years ago almost to the day. His opponent is the undistinguished Larry Donald, though the name is of little concern to…
LAS VEGAS – A federal jury on Monday convicted a boxing promoter and his fighter of conspiring to fix a series of nationwide bouts over a five-year period. Robert Mitchell, forty-two, of Irmo, S.C., and boxer Thomas Williams, thirty-five, of Landover, Md., were each convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit sports bribery and…
Francis Barrett and Billy Corcoran have particular reason to look forward to the Hennessy Sports “Born To Do It’ promotion at the Wembley Conference Centre on Friday November 12th. Both will be boxing in front of a raucous hometown crowd; Corcoran for the first time ever, Barrett for the first time with a title on…
Iranian born Mahyar Monshipour retained his WBA super bantamweight title in France tonight by stopping Thailand’s Yoddamrong Sithyodthong in six rounds. Monshipour is twenty-nine years old and this latest win brings his professional record to 26-2-2 with seventeen stoppages to his credit. A former European champion, Monshipour has now retained his world championship for the…
Middleweight contender Troy Rowland vs. WBO number thirteen middleweight contender Epifanio Mendoza. And……. Undefeated welterweight contender Anthony Mora vs. undefeated welterweight contender Shamone Alvarez. Friday, Nov. 19, 2004, At 11 PM ET/PT* From Michigan State Fairgrounds, Detroit, Michigan. NEW YORK (Nov. 8, 2004) – The talented Troy Rowland will take his next step toward a…
The World Boxing Council has officially installed Scott “The Sandman’ Pemberton as its number one contender. Pemberton, (29-3-1) is the reigning NABC, NABF and IBU super middleweight champion. He must wait for the winner of the Markus Beyer (WBC champion)-Danny Green (WBC interim champion) fight in 2005. “We want to fight the mandatory as soon…
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (November 7, 2004) – “I’m going to school Ricky Hatton like I did Vivian Harris,†promises “Sucra’ Ray Oliveira. Hatton (37-0, 27 KOs) defends his WBU light welterweight title for the fifteenth time December 11 in London against cagey Oliveira in what Hatton has termed as a “tune-up fight†for his IBF…
IBF light welterweight champion Kostya Tszyu deceived all expectations that he would be ring rusty after almost two years out of the ring by thoroughly dominating his closest rival in the light welterweight division. Despite being extremely active and carrying a great deal of momentum into the match, Sharmba Mitchell could not make a dent…
After a terribly confusing turn of events which saw original opponent Marcos Licona taken out of his spot on the fight card, WBO super bantamweight champion Joan Guzman defeated late subsitute Joe Morales over ten rounds as the main undercard bout of the Tszyu-Mitchell light welterweight attraction. After it was revealed that Guzman never agreed…
Germany’s interim WBO super middleweight champion Mario Veit celebrated his forty-fifth win tonight with a ninth round knockout of former IBF super middleweight champion Charles ‘The Hatchet’ Brewer. Both Brewer and Veit are former victims of current reigning WBO champion Joe Calzaghe who recently struggled to defend his title against unheralded challenger Kabary Salem. Brewer…
Brockton, Ma- Cappiello promotions announced today that junior middleweight contender Ian ‘The Cobra’ Gardner, 17-1, (7KO), will be stepping up and taking on fellow once beaten Tokunbo Olajide, 20-1. (17KO). The fight, which is not expected to make the HBO telecast, will be on the under-card of the undisputed title fight between Shane Mosley and…
“Johnny, let’s tell the truth!” I’m amazed at the article I’ve recently read on WBO cruiserweight champion Johnny Nelson, entitled “Nelson Warns on Boxing’s Future.” Without being disrespectful to Johnny, I have to take him to pieces for his comments concerning my fighter Scott Harrison’s fight last week. Johnny is very clever to be wise…