Ricky Hatton’s promoter Dennis Hobson has launched a furious verbal assault on former world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan. The Clones Cyclone has repeatedly criticised Hatton over the past few months, claiming the “Hitman†only had two more fights left in him. McGuigan followed that up by saying his clash last weekend against Jose Luis Castillo…
The Italian Alessio Furlan is talking the talk ahead of his middleweight clash with John Duddy on the next Hunky Dorys Fight Night at the National Stadium, Dublin on July 14th. After 20 fights Stateside Duddy returns home for his first pro fight on Irish soil as he looks to press his claims for a…
Former World Boxing Council welterweight champion Carlos Baldomir weighed 166 1/2 pounds Thursday for his WBC-mandated weigh-in 30 days prior to meeting another ex-WBC 147-pound champ, Vernon Forrest, July 28 in Tacoma, Wash., for the WBC super welterweight interim title. Baldomir had to weigh no more than 169 pounds or 10 percent over the 154-pound…
Golden Boy Enterprises, LLC, an entity controlled by Oscar de la Hoya and holder of approximately 4.9% of the outstanding stock of Everlast Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ NM, EVST), announced today it is watching with interest the developments surrounding its investment in Everlast. On June 1, 2007 Everlast announced that it had entered into an agreement…
Four excellent fighters with a combined record of 98-1 with 69 knockouts will be featured in a sensational world championship doubleheader on Saturday, July 7, on Showtime, 9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast. In a battle of unbeatens in the Showtime Championship Boxing main event, local favorite “Tremendous†Travis Simms (25-0, 19 KOs)…
This October, after almost eight years of splintered titles and heated debates, boxing will witness the crowning of a unified Heavyweight Champion of the World, as Sultan Ibragimov will put his WBO crown on the line against Ruslan Chagev’s WBA belt in a bout pitting Champion against Champion in a quest for heavyweight supremacy.
The continuation of a slugfest and “Fight of the Year†candidate which was halted prematurely last March 3 takes place Saturday, Aug. 4, when Rafael Marquez defends his World Boxing Council (WBC) super bantamweight title against former WBC 122-pound titleholder Israel Vazquez in “Vengeance!†at the Dodge Arena in Hidalgo, Texas. This is the highly…
Former street enforcer and street thug, Ronnie “The Rottweiler†Kerner, a music and movie producer turned smoker circuit king who compiled a 17-1 record with 17 knockouts, will soon be promoting his own shows under the banner Rottweiler Promotions Inc. Aside from being a heavy handed fighter, Kerner earned himself a major name in the…
IBA and WBC Continental Americas middleweight champion Duddy (20-0, 15 KOs), now living and fighting out of Queens (NY), is a native of Derry City, Northern Ireland. Duddy’s first pro fight in Ireland will headline “The Homecoming†in a 10-round bout against Alessio Furlan (19-8-5, 8 KOs), of Italy. Furlan, former IBF Mediterraneo light middleweight…
Finnish heavyweight Sami “The Bull†Elovaara (17-3, 11 KOs) has had what could be called an “up-and-down-careerâ€, highlighted by a spirited challenge for the WBF title in 2003 against Richel Hersisia (L12), but later plagued by a couple of freak-incident losses, injuries and inactivity. Since losing on a cut injury to American Sedrick Fields in…
Ticket sales are surging, with eager fight fans crowding the box office lines for this summer’s match-up between two of boxing’s most venerable pugilists, Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins and Winky Wright, in “Coming to Fight” for Hopkins’ Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight title, July 21st at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada….
Carl Johanneson is looking for revenge on July 13 when he steps into the ring with Leva Kirakosyan, who inflicted Johanneson’s only loss in a British ring. Johanneson first stepped up against the formidable Armenian in December 2004 and history shows Kirakosyan, 25-4 (16), gained one of his 16 stoppages by knocking Johanneson out in…