Light heavyweight champ Chad Dawson and challenger Glen Johnson held a media workout in Bloomfield, CT as they prepare to face off this Saturday at the XL Center in Hartford. Chad Dawson: “I’m feeling some buzz around the city about the fight. I’ve really just been sitting in my hotel room and spending time with…
Last night, boxing champ Manny Pacquiao appeared on late-night talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live,†revealing that – despite his nickname – he does not play the video game “Pac-Man.†“Do you know what Pac-Man is? †asked host Jimmy Kimmel. “My dog,†replied a laughing Pacquiao.
© SE / Photo Wende WBA Heavyweight Champion Nikolai Valuev has promised “something special†for David Haye when they clash in the ring on Saturday night.
Title Night in Hartford just got that much better with the announcement that Saturday night’s HBO televised co-feature between “Lightning†Harry Joe Yorgey and Alfredo “Perro†Angulo has been approved for WBO interim junior middleweight world title. “It’s been 20 years since Hartford has hosted a world championship fight and now it will be hosting…
Two of Don King’s top fighters have been added to Saturday’s card headlined by WBA heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev his title opposing David Haye in Nuremberg, Germany, at Versicherung Arena. Former WBO heavyweight champion Sergei “White Wolf†Liakhovich (23-3, 14 KOs) will face dangerous veteran Jeremy “The Beast†Bates (22-16-1, 18 KOs), and undefeated cruiserweight…
While local hero Paul McCloskey will be looking to be crowned European Light Welterweight Champion at the Meadowbank Sports Arena in Magherafelt on Friday night the undercard will feature a new heavyweight hopeful taking the first steps in his professional career. At the age of 33, David “Hardway†Hanna is unlikely to be referred to…
Rendall Munroe has been told he faces the toughest night of his professional career when he faces Simone Maludrottu (30-2). The Leicester binman (19-1) will be making the fifth defence of his European super bantamweight crown when he faces the tricky Italian mandatory challenger at Nottingham’s Harvey Hadden Leisure Centre on Friday, November 20. Promote…
One day before the start of their 2009-2010 basketball campaign, Coach Jim Calhoun and the Connecticut men’s basketball team met with local resident Chad Dawson on Tuesday at the XL Center, site of the undefeated Dawson’s rematch with Glen Johnson for the WBC interim light heavyweight world title on Saturday night.
One of the hardest-hitting prospects in the lightweight division will make his main event debut on Saturday, November 28 in an NABF Championship bout in the Grand Ballroom of the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, California. Undefeated knockout artist John Molina, Jr. (18-0, 14 KO), of nearby Covina, CA, will battle Mexico’s Martin Honorio…
Undefeated Andre “S.O.G.†Ward and his trainer Virgil Hunter have declared they are on schedule and building momentum toward the November 21 Super Six Tournament meeting with WBA Super Middleweight Champion Mikkel Kessler at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, CA. The 25-year old Ward (20-0, 13 KO) who, in Athens in 2004, was the lone…
World heavyweight title challenger David ‘The Hayemaker’ Haye believes the sound of opponent Nikolai Valuev crashing to the canvas on Saturday, November 7 will surpass the noise generated by fireworks on Bonfire Night.
The Tuesday morning general assembly meeting at the WBC’s 47th annual convention saw the announcement of two major new projects of the WBC. One was two new webpages created by WBC President Dr. José Sulaimán and the other was the creation of a series of amateur and four and six-round professional boxing tournaments.