WBO Welterweight Champion Antonio Margarito puts his crown up for grabs tonight at the Aladdin Casino in Las Vegas, facing seasoned Mexican slugger Manuel “Shotgun” Gomez on Top Rank Promotions’ exciting three title fight card. The undercard features such lighterweight luminaries as WBC Light Fly kingpin Brian “The Hawaiian Punch” Viloria, hoping to retain against…
Tonight on a Sports Network card at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland, flashy British, Commonwealth and European Super Featherweight Champion Alex Arthur risks all against the highly accurate boxer and fellow Scotsman Ricky Burns. The heavy handed, charismatic Arthur is calling this his British swan song as he has big post-fight world class plans…
Reigning British and Commonwealth Super Middleweight Champion Carl Froch defended the latter title last night on a Hennessy Sports bill against an older, smaller but very willful Australian, Dale Westerman, at London’s historic York Hall. But the brash Nottingham native was shocked by the hard Melbourne man for the first half of the contest as…
Mercurial lightweight and super-journeyman Emanuel Augustus got back on track Friday night at Foxwoods Resort and Casino in Connecticut by stopping Colombian banger Jaime Rangel in the tenth and final frame of what had been a very close bout. It was the big punching of the Colombian that made the contest close but the cagey…
Ex-WBC Lightweight Champion Cesar Bazan nearly paid dearly for his slow starting style as the towering Mexican banger pulled a split decision out of the fire against hard luck light welter journeyman Marteze Logan Friday night at San Antonio’s Roseland Ballroom. Logan, who makes a habit of taking last minute bouts as a replacement opponent,…
Big hitting light middleweight Marco Antonio Rubio completed his comeback from a disastrous loss a year and a half ago by outlasting hardened Philadelphia based Russian Aslanbek Kodzoev on an 8 Count/Golden Boy Promotion at Cicero Stadium in suburban Chicago on Friday night. The first two rounds were tentative for both men but the action…
Speculation abounded that Arturo Gatti was finished as a top fighter after Floyd Mayweather forcibly lifted the New Jersey based Canadian’s WBC Light Welterweight crown last June but the thrilling fan favorite returned in force this evening, gracing the stage at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall, host of the thirty three year old’s last seven previous…
Sports Network hosted yet another thrilling card tonight but it was bittersweet for the promotional powerhouse as the London firm saw one of it’s leading lights, Michael Jennings, go down in defeat in the same ring in which their teenaged domestic mega star Amir Khan enjoyed the greatest victory yet of his burgeoning career. At…
Markus Beyer successfully retained his WBC Super Middleweight title tonight in Berlin, Germany for the eighth time, strafing challenger Alberto Colajanni for the entirety of their twelve round skirmish before belting out the Italian for good in the final stanza. The 32 year old Colajanni came into the affair unblemished in eighteen outings but was…
Former British and WBU Super Featherweight Champion Michael Gomez was once one of the most pound for pound feared men in a British ring but after now losing two consecutive bouts by way of stoppage the Manchester based Irishman is facing a career crisis. Earlier tonight on a Brian Peters promotion in Dublin, Galway born…
British and Commonwealth Lightweight Champion Graham Earl pulled off a striking upset Friday night on a Maloney Promotions fight card in the London suburb of Dagenham, England when the hard nosed Luton boxer simply refused to back down from Belasrussian Brit killer Yuri “The Czar” Romanov over the course of twelve magnificent rounds. Whereas quality…
Friday night on a Golden Boy promotion at the Desert Diamond Casino in Tuscon, Arizona, ex-IBF Light Middle Champion Kassim Ouma took another step in his comeback as the Florida based Ugandan native gunned down the far more experienced Argentine campaigner Francisco Antonio Mora after eight one sided rounds. Determined volume punching southpaw Ouma gains…