WBC Super Middleweight Champ Carl Froch has issued a missing persons appeal on behalf of former world middleweight champ, and the current mandatory challenger for his title, Jermain Taylor. Froch believes that Taylor has gone into hiding as he looks for a way out of fighting “The Cobra”, who was crowned WBC Champ after a…
WBC Super Middleweight king Carl Froch seems to be ruffling a few feathers as he looks to put American boxing fans on notice about his intentions to clean up the super middleweight division starting with Jermain Taylor. A tabloid U.S. boxing website published a factually incorrect report on Saturday 10th January that the Cobra would…
WBC World Super Middleweight Champion Carl “The Cobra†Froch has directed his venom at Jermain Taylor and his team after a boxing website suggested that Froch was sidelined until June with a rib injury. Froch believes it’s just another in a long line of tactics for Taylor and his promoter Lou DiBella to avoid facing…
Good weekend in the states with former middleweight world champion Jermain Taylor making a comeback from a pair of Kelly Pavlik losses to outpoint ex-IBF titlist Jeff Lacy at super middle to headline a big show last night at Vanderbilt University Memorial Gymnasium in Memphis, TN. Taylor, 28-2-1 (17), controlled the action early but Lacy…
Tonight at Vanderbilt University Memorial Gymnasium in Memphis, TN, former world champions Jermain Taylor and Jeff Lacy clash over twelve scheduled rounds in a WBC Super Middleweight title eliminator. Taylor, the former world middleweight champion and ex-IBF 168 pound champ Lacy are both trying to rebuild their careers after shattering losses in title fights that…
With less than two weeks to go before the fight that could determine the entire direction of his boxing future, Jermain Taylor is both calm, cool, confident and anxious to get in the ring. Taylor has less than one week left in his Miami-based training camp before shifting to Nashville, Tennessee, site of his 12-round…
The fight that could define his career in the super middleweight division is less than month away, and news from Jermain Taylor’s camp in Miami, Florida?is very good. It’s good, that is, unless you ask Jeff Lacy, Jermain Taylor’s opponent for the November 15th fight “All Or Nothing”. HBO World Championship Boxing will televise the…
One year ago, Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik transformed himself from the No. 1 middleweight contender into world middleweight champion and boxing folk hero. It was on Saturday, September 29, 2007, in Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall, that Pavlik pulled himself off the canvas after a second round knockdown, served up by undefeated defending champion Jermain Taylor,…
Is “Pantera” the John Mugabi of our era? There is nothing more appealing than a knockout if you are a fight fan. In fact, 99.9% of the time, that’s what the average fan tuning in is hoping to see. I am a firm believer that only the dedicated fan appreciates a good tactician in the…
Daniel Santos became a world champion for the third time by defeating previously undefeated WBA super welterweight champion Joachim Alcine in Montreal on Friday night at the beautiful outdoor Uniprix Stadium. The energetic crowd of nearly 10,000 in Alcine’s adopted hometown could not prevent Santos, who was making his 12th world championship appearance, from exerting…
Carl Froch has now got his hard-earned shot at the vacant WBC Super Middleweight title against Jermain Taylor later this year but hopes his co-challenger doesn’t bottle out of it. Undefeated British Champion Froch has been elected to fight the American, Taylor, a former undisputed middleweight champion, for the prestigious WBC title after Joe Calzaghe…