After spending several grueling months training under physical fitness guru John Schaeffer from the Winning Factor Sports Science Training Systems, located in Reading, Pennsylvania, heavyweight Carl Davis showed up in a cruiserweight body to battle for the vacant USBO Cruiserweight Championship at the UIC Pavilion, Chicago, Illinois, last Friday. Although plagued by a flu bug…
Sometimes in life you end up viewing something extraordinary—something you might have missed. That happened for me and all the fans that filled up the Mardi Gras Ballroom at the Orleans Hotel in Las Vegas this past Friday. We saw a fight of the year candidate. We were in the right place at the right…
Jeff Lampkin – IBF 22nd March 1990 – 27th July 1991 Jeff Lampkin won the IBF cruiserweight title when he stopped Glenn McCrory with a heavy left to the body in the third round when they met at the Leisure Centre in Gateshead on the 22nd March 1990. Lampkin defended his title four months later…
WBC Cabofe Heavyweight Champion, Manuel “El Toro” Quezada, 23-4 (15), will square off against Arthur Williams, 44-15 (30), in a ten round bout scheduled for August 21, 2008 at the Tachi Palace Casino in Lemoore, CA. Quezada, riding a 12 fight winning streak, is eager to get back in the ring and climb up the…
Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, North Carolina, was the host for ESPN’s “Wednesday Night Fights†weekly card and on top of the bill lightweight action ensued as Edner “Cherry Bomb†Cherry 24-5-2 (12) faced off against former lightweight champion Stevie “Lil but Bad†Johnston 42-6-1 (18) for the WBC USNBC Lightweight Title. Cherry stepping into the ring…