Shane Mosley heads our weekend review as the 35 year old looked ten years younger in largely shutting out Luis Collazo last night at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Mosley, 44-4 (37), had a rough start as Collazo’s left hand found range a few times in the early going but starting in the third…
Heavyweight “Fast” Eddie Chambers lived up to his nickname last night on an ESPN Friday Night Fights bill at the Suffolk County Community College on Long Island, NY and belted fellow undefeated prospect Derric Rossy to the point of referee stoppage in the seventh round. The experience and greater skill of Chambers, 28-0 (16), became…
N’dou Wins Right To Challenge IBF Champion Ricky Hatton Lovemore “The Black Panther” N’dou wore down slick punching switch hitter Naoufel Ben Rabah in a thriller last night at the State Sports Center in the Sydney suburb of Homebush Bay, Australia to win an official eliminator for the IBF Light Welterweight title, currently held by…
Massive WBA Heavyweight Champion Nickolai Valuev of Russia retained his belt last night at St. Jakob Halle in Basel, Switzerland, engaging challenger Jameel McCline for three rounds until the American collapsed, suffering from torn ligaments in a knee. After a feeling out period in the first, Valuev was starting to get his rhythm in the…
Both Anthony Hanshaw and Jean Paul Mendy have battled through two opponents during a super middleweight tournament that has it’s climactic finish tonight as the two men square off at the Desoto Civic Center in Southaven, MS, televised by Showtime on it’s Shobox program. Both fighters have near identical records and given the competition they’ve…
The ongoing soap opera stirred up by former two weight world champion Manny Pacquiao’s habit of signing lots of contracts may have come to a conclusion this past Thursday when “Pacman” held a press conference in Manila. The super featherweight declared that Bob Arum’s Top Rank was his promoter of record, ending the Filipino’s brief…
Last night at the Chungmu Art Hall in Seoul, Korea, In Ji Chi regained the WBC Featherweight belt during a furious twelve round battle with reigning champion Rodolfo Lopez of Mexico. Lopez had taken the title off Japan’s Takashi Koshimoto, who had defeated Chi earlier in the year, just five months ago and was making…
Last night at York Hall in London, England, middleweights Howard “The Battersea Bomber” Eastman and Richard “The Secret” Williams went at it for an eventful twelve rounds for the vacant British title and with less than a minute remaining in the bout, Eastman knocked out Williams with a crisp right hand that “The Secret” never…
After waiting 13 years to contend for a world title, WBC Heavyweight Champion Oleg Maskaev is in no hurry to lose his belt and the 37 year old Russian took no chances in selecting Japan based Ugandan Peter Okhello as his most recent opponent. The two squared off at the Olympiysky Sports Arena in Moscow…
Upsets Aplenty In London Last night at the ExCel Arena in London, former Olympic Gold Medallist Audley Harrison resuscitated a career that many in the media had already declared doomed by battering, bloodying and then stopping late replacement opponent and ex-British and Commonwealth Champion Danny Williams within three rounds.
In a classic defensive performance, former undisputed light middleweight kingpin Ronald “Winky” Wright stifled the comeback hopes of Ike Quartey last night in Tampa, Florida. Fighting in front of a hometown audience for the first time since 1992, Wright proved just too sharp for the ex-welterweight world champion, competing in his fifth bout since sitting…
Last night on the undercard of Wright – Quartey, former IBF Super Middleweight Champion Jeff Lacy returned to the ring for the first time since taking a sustained one sided beating at the hands of Joe Calzaghe nine months ago, posting a controversial win over ex-European titlist Vitali Tsypko in a rematch. Lacy started off…