“Quicksilver” struck again as 42 year old Virgil Hill managed to turn back the clock against Russian tourist Valery Brudov Friday night at the Tropicana Casino in Atlantic City to take a well deserved unanimous decision and the vacant WBA Cruiserweight title. On a shared Silverhawk/Guilty/Star Boxing Promotion, Hill started off keeping his distance behind…
In the sequel to their highly competitive clash last year, super featherweights Manny Pacquiao and Erik Morales again put up a tear up of epic proportions last night at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas with the Filipino hero reversing the results of the initial contest. Early on it was Morales that pressed…
Tons of Boxing Photos Greg Robinson’s Power Promotions put on an explosive card Friday night at The National Guard Armory in Philadelphia and those in attendance were treated to an amazing five consecutive first round stoppages that kicked off the evening. In the final analysis, only one of seven fights lasted the distance with previously…
Click for larger image © Stefan Christou Heated heavyweight rivals Danny Williams and Matt Skelton came face to face on Monday, sharing a Sports Network press conference at the swanky Park Lane Hotel in the Picadilly section of London. The room was packed with press and photographers as Frank Warren confirmed the much awaited clash…
One of the best lighter weight fighters to lace up the gloves in the last thirty years, Jeff Fenech, finds himself in a tight spot after being arrested in the resort town of Broadbeach on Australia’s Gold Coast and charged with allegedly shoplifting three watches with an alleged accomplice. Today the hall of famer pleaded…
© Curtis McCormick With only New Year’s Eve left to celebrate, British and Commonwealth Lightweight Champion Graham Earl is chomping at the bit for January 27th to come around so he can celebrate his holidays all in one go, roughly a month too late. And the Luton man is steaming about having to reschedule the…
With the announcement that in the spring of next year former multi belt champions Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones would be participating in a sequel to their bout that occured twelve years ago, many fans rejoiced in the realization that these two modern day greats would finally be sharing a ring in anger once again….
WBC Light Welter titlist Floyd Mayweather has reportedly signed a deal to challenge Welterweight supremo Zab Judah during the Spring of 2006 but with only the New York southpaw’s WBC title at risk among his three world championship belts. Regardless of which organization’s trophies are on offer, should this pairing come off it would pit…
After having been awarded several controversial decision victories during title fights, WBA Heavyweight Champion John Ruiz found himself on the losing end last night at Max Schmeling Halle in Berlin after seven foot tall Russian challenger Nikolay Valuev walked off with a split decision win. It was like many Ruiz fights, all clinching and mauling,…
It’s always been clear that London area cruiserweight David Haye has had bags of potential but in his big step up fight over a year ago, the hammer fisted power puncher failed to knock out IBO Champion Carl Thompson and paid the price for suspect conditioning as “The Cat” roared back and stopped Haye in…
Winky Wright got a much tougher fight that almost anyone outside of Australia expected as the man from Down Under, Sam “King” Soliman, tried to smother the former light middle kingpin with a high volume attack that saw him average over one hundred punches a round. Soliman’s output dwarfed that of Wright’s but the Florida…
Despite coming into his bout with top American based Nigerian middleweight Kingsley “Sharp Knuckle” Ikeke as the underdog, Arthur Abraham proved his critics wrong by delivering a thorough beating to the remarkably tall African. The Armenian strongman from Germany had promised to close distance and take the fight to the long armed Ikeke and true…