Ex-Premiership footballer Curtis Woodhouse made a promising start to his much publicized boxing career last night, impressively outpointing Dean Marcantonio over four two-minute rounds at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Mayfair, London. Making his professional debut live on ITV4 as part of promoter Frank Warren’s annual charity dinner show, Woodhouse, 26, looked nervy early on…
Heavyweight contender James ‘Light’s Out’ Toney was robbed of victory last weekend in his WBC heavyweight elimination bout with Samuel ‘The Nigerian Nightmare’ Peter, claims his opinionated promoter Dan Goosen. After swapping blows for 12 brisk rounds this past Saturday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, it appeared to most observers that Toney,…
The salmon can only leap over the bear so many times before it is finally caught. Before those great big teeth chomp down and devour. Once upon a time, not so terribly long ago, a courageous fighter by the name of Chris Byrd glided effortlessly over some of the grouchiest grizzlies in the land just…
When a man wakes up in the morning, looks in the mirror and slaps on gasoline rather than aftershave, lighting a match around him is about as imprudent as leaning through the bars to feed a gnarling, half-starved tiger. Someone should have told heavyweight contender Samuel Peter beforehand that he was about to share a…
Shannon Briggs is not a hard man to find. Whether trying to spot him in a crowd or tag him inside a boxing ring, it’s safe to say that the six-foot-four heavyweight contender is rather difficult to miss. A walking bundle of bone, muscle and golden locks, the 34-year-old fighter/part-time actor has been around the…
The bout’s signed, it’s a done deal, and the almost mythical Antonio Margarito has just grown another three feet. It’s official, the peerless Floyd Mayweather Jr. will square off against rugged WBC welterweight kingpin Carlos Baldomir on Saturday, November 4 against a glittering Las Vegas backdrop. Pay Per View blockbuster, they say. Millions to be…
courtesy www.frankmaloney.com He didn’t know HBO commentator Jim Lampley well enough to be sitting on his lap, but was thankful for the cushy landing nonetheless. In the consistently mercurial career of two-time heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman, there tends to be almost as many highs and lows in the space of a year as one would…
Courtesy www.frankmaloney.com There he was, the dancing master, shuffling up the steps as though battling through an invisible blizzard, his clasp on the flickering torch heartbreakingly compromised by hands that shook uncontrollably. For over two decades, from his professional debut in 1960 as a scrawny teenager to that profoundly sad wintry night in 1981 when…
Courtesy www.frankmaloney.com Roy Jones Jr., and always has been a conundrum. A man with a paradoxical capacity not only for heart-warming kindness but also unconscionable cruelty, he can flash an unassuming, seemingly genuine modesty whilst, usually with a bit more vocal inflection, be equally inclined to launch into an egotistical, cringe-inducing tirade in which he…
Courtesy www.frankmaloney.com As sure as the sun rises and sets, there invariably comes a night in every prospects respective career when the spoon feeding ceases all the questions that cloak him must finally be answered. For the undefeated Sechew ‘Iron Horse’ Powell, that night has not only arrived but is rapping loudly on his door….
**Massive Ringside Boxing Galley** Click for larger image © Stefan Christou / Saddo Boxing Making the first defence of his EBU Cruiserweight crown, Bermondsey’s David Haye delighted a capacity crowd inside the atmospheric York Hall with a gruelling eighth round stoppage of amateur rival Lasse Johansen. Headlining the Maloney Promotions bill, Haye saw his early…
A war was promised, and on Saturday night at the ExCel arena in London, a war is exactly what we got. Brixton’s Danny Williams is the man of the moment, narrowly out pointing Bedford born bruiser Matt Skelton over twelve punishing rounds live on ITV1 to retain his Commonwealth crown and solidify, once and for…