This week’s ESPN2 “Wednesday Night Fights,” took place at the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio, TX. The card, which was promoted by Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing, featured Delvin Rodriguez taking on hometown fan favorite Oscar Diaz for the USBA welterweight championship, a belt Rodriguez had once held, and as he stated prior to the fight,…
IBF Cruiserweight World Champion Steve USS Cunningham will be an interested party this Friday night as he watches his mandatory title challenger, Tomasz Adamek, square off in the main event of ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights against Gary “The Pitbull†Gomez from the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago.
Tickets are now on sale for “Hard Eight”, an outstanding evening of world class professional boxing, headlined by the IBF Light Heavyweight title eliminator clash between undefeated contender Tavoris Cloud and former world champion Julio Gonzalez set for Friday, August 8 at the Aragon Ballroom to be broadcast on ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights.
Terrance “The Heat” Cauthen, 32-4 (9), looks to get back on track and put himself back into world title contention when he takes on the dangerous up and coming knockout artist Alexis Camacho, 16-0 (15), on July 16 from the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio, TX. The Cauthen v Camacho fight will be the ESPN2’s…
World ranked and undefeated cruiserweight BJ Flores wanted to set the record straight regarding media reports that he rejected an offer to fight CES promoted Matt Godfrey next month on ESPN2. Speaking after a training session with former heavyweight world champion Hasim Rahman in Phoenix, Arizona, Flores said, “Let me set the record straight. CES…
Two weeks ago, St. Louis native Deandre “The Bull†Latimore scored the biggest win of his career as he stopped #1 IBF Junior Middleweight Sechew Powell in the seventh round at the Hard Rock Café in New York City. The bout, broadcast on ESPN2’s Wednesday Night Fights, is being called an early contender for upset…
“The Polish Princeâ€, Andrzej Fonfara will battle crosstown rival Derrick “Superman†Findley as the featured co-main event at “The Return Of The Polish Warrior”, an outstanding evening of world class professional boxing set for Friday, July 11 at the historic Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, it was announced today by Main Events CEO Kathy Duva and…
Classic Entertainment and Sports, Inc. (CES) president Jimmy Burchfield has expressed his disappointed that USBA cruiserweight champion BJ Flores, 21-0-1 (12) has rejected an offer to fight NABF cruiserweight title-holder Matt “Too Smooth†Godfrey, 16-1 (9), in an ESPN2 main event next month.
Julio Diaz and David Torres completed Tuesday’s weigh in at the Sportsmen’s Lodge Hotel in Studio City, CA The main event fighters square off Wednesday at the world famous Playboy Mansion on ESPN2 at 11:00 p.m. ET/8:00 p.m. PT.
Former USBA Welterweight Champion Delvin Rodriguez, 22-2-1 (13), looks to extend his most recent winning streak and also reclaim his belt, when he takes on tough and exciting Oscar Diaz, 26-2 (12), for the vacant USBA Welterweight Championship. The fight, which will take place on July 16, 2008 at the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio,…
Former IBO Middleweight Champion of the world Raymond Joval, 37-4 (16), will face off against rising prospect James “Buddy” McGirt Jr., 18-1 (9), on July 25 at the City Center in Saratoga Springs, NY in the 10-round main event. The fight which will be aired on ESPN2’s “Friday Night Fights,” will also mark the opening…
Junior middleweight James Moore, 15-1 (10), a native of County Wicklow, Ireland, who fights out of Queens, New York, incurred his first defeat at the Aviator Sports Complex in Brooklyn, New York, on June 4. Gabriel Rosado, 10-2 (6 ), of Philadelphia , won a unanimous eight round decision by scores of 77-74, 78-73 and…