The “Golden Boy” meets “El Matador” this weekend at the MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada! Twenty months after his last ring outing, Oscar De La Hoya once again laces up the gloves and challenges Nicaraguan Ricardo Mayorga for his WBC Light Middleweight crown. De La Hoya, now 33, has done it all in the…
This Saturday in Mannheim, Germany Chris Byrd makes the fifth defence of the IBF World Heavyweight Title against a man he knows very well, Wladimir Klitschsko.For Byrd, now 35 years of age, this could be the toughest test of his three and a half year reign which began in December 2002 when he outpointed veteran…
In a fight widely ignored here in good old blighty, Olympic Gold Medallist Audley Harrison is back in action this coming Friday against Dominick Guinn on a Goosen – Tutor card from the Agua Caliente Casino in Rancho Mirage, California. For Harrison, this is crunch time. After suffering his first professional defeat last December against…
In a year when super fights still go ahead even after a loss for one of the participants, we now see another one as Zab Judah takes on Floyd Mayweather Jnr for the IBF Welterweight title this coming Saturday at the cavernous Thomas and Mack Centre in Las Vegas. Mayweather, a 1996 Olympian is unbeaten…
Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Only Three Weeks To Go To The Big Sports Network Bill From Manchester In a fight originally scheduled for November 5, unbeaten super middleweight champions Joe Calzaghe and Jeff Lacy put their perfect records on the line during the early morning hours (2AM British time)…
Well, its moving ever closer to the big Joe Calzaghe- Jeff Lacy bill from Manchester on Saturday night, and from a British perspective, I’m glad that our television network has given this event the star billing that it deserves. In addition to the main event, which is scheduled to commence at 2am to accommodate our…
Who Will Carry The Torch Passed From Vitali? Three weeks from this Saturday we see the first world heavyweight title fight of 2006 when WBC champion Hasim Rahman defends his newly won title against the enigmatic James Toney. Its certainly an interesting match which hopefully will pave the way for exciting times in the division…
Question – What do Nelson Mandela, The Tokyo Dome, A 42-1 longshot and the baddest man on the planet all have in common? Answer – They were all part of one of the most amazing weekends in world and sports history. On the weekend that Nelson Mandela was finally freed from incarceration after twenty seven…
On the same night as the eagerly awaited British Heavyweight showdown between Danny Williams and Matt Skelton, another big fight takes place on the other side of the pond. In an eliminator for the 154 pound crown, Shane Mosley meets Fernando Vargas in a battle between two men who many claim have seen better days,…
Finally The Two Best Big Men In The Country Go Head To Head In a fight postponed twice already, Danny Williams and Matt Skelton meet at the London Excel Arena on February 25th on yet another exciting Sports Network promotion. Danny currently is on a high. In December in a disappointing bout he disposed of…
It was 1976. World events that year included the election of the 39th President of The United States Of America Jimmy Carter and the Montreal Olympic Games. At those Montreal Olympic Games, Cuban Teofilio Stephenson won his second heavyweight gold medal. A young light welterweight by the name of Sugar Ray Leonard won gold before…
Two weeks from this Saturday night two of boxing’s pound for pound best clash in an eagerly awaited rematch of their hotly fought encounter last year. In one corner we have Erik Morales, Mexico’s warrior, one of the few fighters in today’s era that puts his money where his mouth is. A fighter that even…