Immediately after Taylor-Hopkins II, Lou DiBella, promoter of Jermain “Bad Intentions” Taylor, states “Taylor’s next fight will be in Little Rock (Ark) against a bum.” That scenario doesn’t play out, instead Taylor fights Winky Wright. Immediately after that fight, DiBella upgrades his previous “bum” statement by telling the world his fighter really had bad intentions…
Ireland’s John Duddy has been sidelined by heat prostration and dehydration, and will be unable to appear on the August 10 fight card at the Orleans in Las Vegas, it was announced today by Irish Ropes. Due to the hot temperatures in New York during the past few weeks, Duddy’s training regimen has been severely…
Open Letter From Ex-WBA 140 lb Titlist Vivian Harris “I have to take my hat off, first of all, to former champ Stevie Johnston. The warrior came to fight me Saturday night on HBO from the beautiful Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, Calif. I expected no less from a great former champion. I worked so…
In addition to the clash of former world champions Ike “Bazooka†Quartey and Vernon “The Viper†Forrest in the main event, and the co-feature pitting Sechew Powell vs. Kassim Ouma, the exciting “Now or Never” presented by StubHub card at the Theater at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, August 5th includes top bouts featuring…
World-class welterweights and junior welterweights do battle when HBO Boxing After Dark: Vivian Harris vs. Stevie Johnsyon and Joshua Clottey vs. Richard Gutierrez is seen tonightat 10:30 p.m. (live ET/tape-delayed PT) from Chumash Casino & Resort in Santa Ynez, Cal., exclusively on HBO. The HBO Boxing After Dark team of Fran Charles, Max Kellerman and…
The ring action will be as hot as the temperature in New York these days – sizzling – when DiBella Entertainment’s undefeated Dmitriy “Star of David†Salita headlines against Shad Howard on the latest (July 20th) edition of Broadway Boxing from the Grand Ballroom at Manhattan Center in New York City. The first broadcast will…
In recent weeks, there has been a hearty dose of bluster from the camp of WBO welterweight champion Antonio Margarito, claiming that he is the “most feared fighter in boxing’, and that no one is willing to fight him. Golden Boy Promotions has the solution to Mr. Margarito’s problem in securing an opponent for a…
All good things must come to an end so the saying goes. It’s time for one good thing to end and another good thing to begin. Saturday night at the Qwest Arena in Boise, ID it’s time for Prince Badi Ajamu to overthrow former pound for pound boxing king Roy Jones, Jr. who challenges for…
Featherweights Rogers Mtagwa, of Philadelphia, and Alvin Brown, of Kansas City, will go through their final workouts this weekend in preparation for their scheduled 12-round USBA title fight next Wednesday, Aug. 2, at the New Alhambra in South Philadelphia. ESPN 2 will televise beginning 9 pm est. While beating Brown is Mtagwa’s main concern, there…
DiBella Entertainment’s hotly anticipated light middleweight war between ex-welterweight world champions Ike Quartey and Vernon Forrest will reach a boiling point next week when the two heavy hitters participate in a series of open workouts in a midtown boxing gym before they clash at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, August 5. Also scheduled to appear…
The eyes of the boxing and business worlds will be on Silverhawk Entertainment Group, formerly Silverhawk Boxing Promotions (www.silverhawkboxing.com), as it celebrates its restructuring, reorganization and coming-out party as a publicly traded corporation in grand fashion by having two of its fighters headlining major nationally and internationally televised fights in two cities on Saturday night….
It goes without saying that whenever boxing superstar Marco Antonio Barrera steps into the ring, it’s a big event for fight fans. But add a hungry challenger looking for redemption in a rematch to the mix, along with two more highly anticipated championship bouts, and you’ve got a night that will go down in history…