**With Slideshow** © Robert Brizel / Saddo Boxing Dmitry Salita made a successful comeback by winning an eight round unanimous decision over southpaw Franklin Gonzalez on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at Oceana Hall in Brooklyn, New York. Salita, now 31-1-1 (16), was fighting for the first time since his loss to WBA champion Amir Khan…
© Robert Brizel / Saddo Boxing Saturday, August 28 at Atlantic City’s Trump Taj Mahal Hotel and Casino, Chazz Witherspoon, nephew of former world heavyweight champion Tim Witherspoon, outlasted a game but poorly conditioned Livin ‘La Maquina’ Castillo by stopping him in the seventh round of a scheduled ten rounder. This was the first ever…
© Robert Brizel / Saddo Boxing In a cautious cat and mouse war on Saturday, August 21, 2010 at The Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, Tomasz Adamek retained the IBF International and WBO NABO Heavyweight titles with a twelve round unanimous decision over challenger Michael Grant. A capacity crowd of 12,972 mostly Polish flag…
© Robert Brizel / Saddo Boxing Havoc Promotions hosted a night of boxing at the Aviator Arena on August 7, 2010 in Brooklyn, New York. Super middleweights Lennox Allen of Guyana and Darnell Boone of Atlanta, Georgia, waged a fantastic old-fashioned war for eight hard fought rounds, ending in an eight round majority draw. The…
On July 28, 2010 at BB King Blues Club in New York City Argenis Mendez, a Dominican fighter out of Brooklyn, and Shamir Reyes, a Brooklyn southpaw, fought an war of egos that went the eight round distance. Mendez dropped Reyes near the end of round one with a straight right, and won every round…
Last Friday in the main event of a seven bout fight card at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, Zab Judah of Brooklyn, New York, scored a third round stoppage of Jose Armando Santa Cruz of Michoacan, Mexico. The card was co-promoted by Kathy Duva’s Main Events and Super Judah. Judah, fighting at light…
In the main event at The Theatre at New York’s Madison Square Garden, Ivan Calderon of Puerto Rico, improved to 34-0-1 (6), with a unanimous decision to retain his WBO Flyweight Title over challenger Jesus Iribe of Mexico, who fell to 17-7-4 (10). Calderon waged a highly technical war in a bout which appeared difficult…
© Robert Brizel / Saddo Boxing All-Italian East Coast Light Heavyweight War in Atlantic City! Last Friday at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, Diane Lee Fischer’s Dee Lee Productions hosted an exciting “Italian†fight card. In the main event, Chuck ‘The Professor’ Mussachio of Wildwood, New Jersey, won an exciting ten round…
Chicago welterweight contender David Estrada is coming off an impressive victory over Orlando Lora of Mexico. In an exclusive interview with Saddoboxing, Estrada talked about how he won, and his stablemate Angel Hernandez’ plans for the future, with manager Wasfi Tolaymat, trainer ‘Fearless’ Fernando Fernandez, and Boxing 360 Promoter Dr. Mario Yacobi. Saddoboxing: “How long…
© Robert Brizel / Saddo Boxing In the main event of a seven bout card promoted by Peltz Boxing Promotions at Bally’s Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City on Saturday night, Jose Angel Beranza waged a brutal twelve round toe-to-toe war with USBA Super Bantamweight Champion Teon Kennedy. Kennedy emerged with his right eye swollen…
Russian prospect Ruslan Provodnikov rose to 16-0 (11) with a ninth round stoppage at of Emmanuel ‘The Drunken Master’ Augustus on a televised ESPN2 card broadcast live from Laredo, Texas. Augustus, making his 31st, and perhaps final, appearance as an ESPN opponent, took the bout on four days notice after Frankie Figueroa pulled out with…
© Robert Brizel / Saddo Boxing Golden Boy Productions and Star Boxing put on an exciting six fight card at the Paradise Theater in the Bronx last Friday which yielded mixed results. Michael Perez and Adrien Broner from the Golden Boy stable of fighters were the big winners of the co-main events in a series…