It was the end of an era last night at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City as ex-two weight world champion Arturo Gatti was beaten over seven rounds by former Contender star Alfonso Gomez at welterweight. Also on the bill, Kermit Cintron defended his IBF Welterweight title by belting out Argentine puncher Walter Dario Matthysse within…
It was a big night at the fights last evening at the Auditorio Centario in Gomez Palacio, Mexico with one world title fight and two world title eliminators taking place. Headlining the show was hometown hero and WBC Super Fly Champion Cristian Mijares, who battled Japanese visitor Teppei Kikui in a scheduled twelve round title…
Two aging warriors put their boxing futures at risk in a do or die slugfest in front of 6,000 fans last night at the Don Haskins Center in El Paso, TX, and after ten rounds, Evander Holyfield stood in the winner’s circle for the 42nd time over the course of a 22 year career. Opponent…
44 year old former heavyweight and cruiserweight champion Evander Holyfield continues his quest to regain a world title when he steps into the ring tonight at the Don Haskins Center in El Paso, Texas, to face 41 year old Houston based veteran Lou Savarese. There are a few similarities here as both combatants are participating…
Last night in front of 10,000 fans at the Bell Centre in Montreal, undefeated super middle southpaw Lucian Bute kept his perfect record by winning an IBF Eliminator with a tough twelve round decision over the rugged Sakio Bika. Bika came to fight, having already tangled with the likes of world champions Joe Calzaghe, Markus…
There was some good action on the Miguel Cotto – Zab Judah undercard from Madison Square Garden on Saturday night with several high level contests taking place. In a battle between light middleweight contenders, undefeated prospect Yuri Foreman, 23-0 (8), took a close split decision over fellow divisional aspirant Anthony Thompson, 23-2 (17), over ten…
Saturday night at a packed Madison Square Garden in New York, WBA Welterweight Champion Miguel Cotto tangled with former 140 and 147 lb champion Zab Judah and held onto his title with a hard fought 11th round stoppage victory. It was unquestionably the hardest fight of Cotto’s career and there were several times where the…
There was some good action on the undercard of the sleepy Sultan Ibragimov – Shannon Briggs WBO Heavyweight title contest at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on Saturday with 30 year old local welterweight southpaw Shamone “The Truth” Alvarez, 18-0 (11), clearly outpointing California’s Jose Luis Cruz, 32-3-2 (26), to win the vacant WBO NABO…
In a virtual repeat of his WBO title winning effort against Serguei Lyakhovich last November, Shannon Briggs barely showed a pulse in the ring but this time there was no last second hail mary punch to pull out the fight as Sultan Ibragimov won a unanimous decision to annex the WBO belt Saturday at Boardwalk…
Click for larger image © Natasha Chornesky / Saddo Boxing On Friday night at the Orleans in Las Vegas, “Amazing” Layla McCarter banged out a hard fought six round decision over tough Texan Angelica Martinez at welterweight. McCarter, 24-13-5 (5), was coming off a loss just a month ago in a rematch against Melissa Hernandez…
James Toney looked every inch a shot 38 year old fighter last night at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, CA as the former multi-weight world champion posted a boring split decision victory over journeyman Danny Batchelder at heavyweight. Coming in at 229 lb, the lightest for Toney since 2004, “Lights Out” looked sluggish the…
Last night at the Fedex Arena in Memphis, middleweight contenders Kelly Pavlik and Edison Miranda gave the fans in attendance and watching on HBO everything they could ever want in a boxing match. The two top rated WBC fighters went at it from the opening bell with the towering six foot two inch Pavlik immediately…