“Fight Me Or Quit!” Junior Witter, Bradford’s newly crowned WBC light welterweight titleholder, has called on Ricky Hatton to stop making excuses, put his title’s on the table and step in the ring. Speaking on Bradford’s The Pulse radio station, Witter said: “Can I batter Ricky Hatton? Yeah. It’s a fight I want. It’s a…
After a disappointing outcome to his World Title fight versus Arthur Abraham in Wetzlar, Germany Edison Miranda speaks out. “I first want to say that I enjoyed my time in Germany. The people were very nice to me,†said Miranda. “The day after the fight the people in Germany recognized me. They came up to…
IBF Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko, who is preparing for his November 11 bout with Calvin Brock at Madison Square Garden was in New York last week to attend the 21st Annual Great Sports Legends Dinner to benefit The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis on September 19th at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The dinner raised more…
Fight Promoter University President and Founder Roy Englebrecht has added a new wrinkle to his Fight Promoter University concept, with the announcement today of an online Fight Promoter University Promoter Message Board and Forum. Now for the first time, current or aspiring fight promoters will have a place to go to ask questions of other…
By Keith Chadwick Stoke lightweight Scott Lawton looks to improve his pro ledger to 19-2-1 at Stoke’s King’s Hall on Saturday night when he takes on 32 year-old British based Mauritian Judex Meemea on the latest Impact boxing promotion. Meemea, who takes a fairly decent 5-5-3 record into the bout, out-pointed Peterborough’s Lea Handley last time out but had…
“Battles at the Ballpark” Saturday night Flores-Dydell co-feature, Mora-Hantindi in Special Attraction The starting line up will feature welterweight champions Robert “La Ameneza” Garcia and Homer “The Nature Boy” Gibbons trying to knock the ball out of the park in their 10-round main event Saturday night at the “Home of the Roadrunners,” the Edinburg Baseball…
“It’s time to get back in the gym, back on the bags, shadow boxing and all the rest. Its going to feel good to get back to work,†said WBC Interim Lightweight Champion David Diaz speaking of heading back into training on Wednesday morning. Currently ranked #7 by Ring Magazine, Diaz continued “It’s been nice…
Today Joe Goossen’s Los Angeles area gym plays host to the media workouts of WBC Lightweight Champion Diego Corrales, IBF Flyweight Champion Vic Darchinyan and NABA/NABO Flyweight titlist Glenn Donaire. The occasion is part of the continued buildup for the long awaited Corrales vs. Casamayor III card, billed as Manifist Destiny and promoted by Gary…
British Light Middleweight Champion Jamie Moore, 24-3 (17), faces his biggest challenge to date on Friday, 29 September 2006 when the hardened southpaw clashes with the massive Irish Middleweight Champion Matthew Macklin, 17-1 (13), on a Maloney Promotion at the sold out GH Carnall Centre in Davyhulme, Manchester, England.
Two boxers with a genuine disdain for each other will duke it out with bad intentions for a third time when Diego “Chico†Corrales defends his World Boxing Council (WBC) and RING lightweight titles against former world champion and longtime adversary, southpaw Joel “El Cepillo†Casamayor, on Saturday, Oct. 7, during a Free Preview Weekend…
TO:Member Commissions FROM: Tim Lueckenhoff, President RE: Boxers’ Official Records It has come to my attention that, on a number of occasions, “boxing service providers” (promoters, managers, sanctioning organizations, trainers, seconds, cutmen, or matchmakers) have suggested to boxing commissions that the record of a particular boxer is different than the official record of the boxer…
Former World Boxing Council light flyweight champion Eric Ortiz of Mexico City and highly regarded, young, undefeated heavyweight Shawn “The Sioux Warrior†Hawk of Los Angeles headline “Salute to America’s Heroes 2,†a benefit card at United States Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton (Calif.) presented by the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation Sept. 29….