Aside from the Ricardo Mayorga vs. Fernando Vargas bout in Los Angeles, there was a good bit of action across the globe last night and we start in the land Down Under. At the Croatian Club in the Sydney suburb of Punchbowl, the Australian middleweight title was defended by reigning champion Junior Talipeau, 9-0 (2),…
WBA Middleweight Champion Felix Sturm had a close call last night at Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle, Germany as challenger Randy Griffin pushed the popular Hamburg man hard for twelve rounds. Griffin had Sturm on the defensive for much of the bout but in general could not get past the champion’s jab to mount any…
Berlin’s Estrel Convention Centre was the site of a major European boxing card last night with former world cruiserweight champion turned heavyweight Juan Carlos Gomez handling ex-WBC Heavyweight champ Oliver McCall over twelve rounds in the main event. The pair had met two years before in a contest that German based Cuban Gomez had won…
Brian Peters puts on a superb bill tonight at National Stadium in Dublin with two middleweights possibly heading for a massive showdown leading the way. Continuing his triumphant return home after a solid career start in America, John Duddy, 21-0 (16), faces a towering 19 year old, 6 foot 3 inch middleweight from Droylesden, England…
Last night at Herrmann Gieseler Hall in Magdeburg, former IBF Super Middle title challenger Robert Stieglitz took a big step back towards elite status with a clear ten round points victory over South African Champion William Gare. Stieglitz made his second appearance since suffering a brutal third round stoppage at the hands of Colombian slugger…
In what is surely his last chance at a world title belt, the amazing Evander Holyfield, 42-8-2 (27), will be in action tonight at the Khodynka Ice Palace in Moscow, Russia mounting a challenge to WBO Heavyweight Champion Sultan Ibragimov, 21-0-1 (17). Six days shy of his 45th birthday, Holyfield brings along a mountain of…
Last night at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, super featherweight Marco Antonio Barrera fought to overcome nemesis Manny Pacquiao in a rematch, but the 33 year old Mexican also found himself contending with the withering effects of an eighteen year career and dropped a unanimous decision to the celebrated Filipino southpaw. In the early…
In front of 4,000 fans last night at the Ewe Arena in Oldenberg, Germany former WBA Heavyweight titlist Nikolay Valuev resumed his career after suffering his first professional loss and world title to Ruslan Chagaev back in April. The seven foot “Russian Giant” squared off with six foot five inch Canadian southpaw, Jean-Francois Bergeron of…
New Jersey based light welter contender Kendall Holt finally gets his shot at the big time tonight but he has to go to Barranquilla, Colombia to do it as he faces hometown man and WBO Light Welter Champion Ricardo Torres at Coliseo Universidad del Norte. A pro since 2001, Holt, 22-1 (12), had his 15…
It was a night of hot and heavy action last evening at the Mall of Asia in Pasig City, Philippines as OPBF Lightweight Champion Randy Suico led the way with a dominating eighth round KO over Osaka, Japan’s Koji Samejima. The hammer fisted Suico, 27-3 (23), of Mandaue City, Philippines, never gave the Japanese import…
Earlier today at the City Sogo Gym in the Kobe suburb of Takasago, local hero and domestic bantamweight titlist Masayuki Mitani made an unsuccessful bid to unseat reigning OPBF Champ Rolly Matsushita, suffering a dramatic stoppage at 2:09 of the 12th and final round. Mitani, 20-2 (10), came into the bout riding a ten fight…
Ex-WBO Light Middle titlist Bronko McKart won his third bout on the bounce last night at the New Alhambra in Philadelphia, PA, scoring a close split decision victory over La Habra, CA based Enrique Ornelas to win the vacant NABF Middleweight belt. 36 year old southpaw McKart, 51-7 (31), dropped Ornelas, 25-4 (15), in the…