Tag Archives: MMA

Last Friday in the inaugural boxing card of Chicago Fight Club Promotion, held at Hanging Garden Banquets in River Grove, Illinois, led by the manager and promoter team of Wasfi and Cynthia Tolaymat, Osumanu Adama won the vacant U.S.B.A. and IBO Inter-Continental Middleweight titles with a mean looking fourth round …

When one door closes, another opens, and after lightweight contender Vicente Escobedo was forced to withdraw from his bout against Raymundo Beltran due to viral infection, unbeaten Cuban standout Erislandy Lara eagerly agreed to step up to the plate at Denver’s indoor Softball Country Pavilion on Friday, July 9 to …

The relationship between mixed martial arts and boxing has had an intriguing evolution in the past decade. The boxing establishment has viewed MMA with equal parts ambivalence, hostility, envy and sometimes grudging respect. The MMA world has sometimes seen boxing as a kindly old uncle that you respect for its …

A week and a half ago, I finally got a chance to see “King” Arthur Abraham fight in front of his loyal subjects in Germany. It was a fun and exhilarating experience, but I realized while watching King Arthur beat a better than advertised Mahir Oral that the venue is …