Promoter Don King has continued his 46-year tradition of giving away turkeys to families during the holiday season with 15,000 birds distributed to those in need during his annual “Turkey Tour†that made stops this year in Cleveland, South Florida, New Jersey and New York.
Promoter Steve Wood of VIP Boxing informs us that tonight’s Boxing at Wigan, England is regretfully cancelled. Snow across the U.K. is causing havoc on the roads and unsafe conditions have led to many cancellations across the region. Saddoboxing.com will publish the new date for the show when that information becomes available.
Towering Irish/British heavyweight prospect Tyson Fury will make his highly anticipated North American debut on Saturday, December 18th against New York City based Puerto Rican giant Israel “King Kong†Garcia in an eight round bout. Fury has just completed a three week training camp in Austria with heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and his new trainer…
In a major upset, Ayi Bruce of Accra, Ghana, fighting out of Albany, New York, won the vacant International Boxing Association Welterweight Championship with a majority decision over world ranked Shamone Alvarez, fighting in his hometown of Atlantic City, New Jersey. The bout was the main event of an eight bout card promoted by Joe…
Click the above Image for more Photos Last night, at the Aston Wood Golf Club in Little Aston, Sutton Coldfield, England, Promoter and former Featherweight/Super-Featherweight Champion – Pat Cowdell, hosted a Dinner Show which featured three contests. Dean Anderson (Dudley) v Adam Hutchinson (Darlington) 6 x 2 Featherweight Contest Debutants Anderson and Hutchinson came to…
Stoke Promoter – Paul Dykes, will host a Dinner Show next Thursday (11th November) at the Moat House Hotel, in Stoke-on-Trent, England. The event will showcase three contests and headlines the British Masters Welterweight Title bout between Rob Hunt of Stafford and Ben Lawler of Skegness. After a successful Martial Arts career which earned him…
The title of the fight is Dynasty because as Yvon Michel, Jean Pascal’s promoter and President of Groupe Yvon Michel said: “This is about creating a new one [dynasty] for Jean Pascal or continuing one for Bernard Hopkins. Once in a while, there’s a fight that comes along that captures our imagination. These fights usually…
A rib injury has ruled Kiko Martinez out of his European title showdown with Willie “Big Bang†Casey on the Hunky Dorys Fight Night at the University Arena in Limerick on Saturday, November 6th. However Martinez’s loss is Paul Hyland’s gain with the Dubliner now stepping in to meet Casey for the vacant European title…
Irish boxing’s Young Gun’s are set to fire in Ireland’s West this November when the Hunky Dorys Fight Night comes to the Breaffy House Resort in Castlebar on November 20th. Headlining the event which will be live on RTÉ will be Cavan star, Andy Murray who is tied with European Light Welterweight Champion Paul McCloskey…
King Arthur Abraham´s first face-to-face meeting with Carl “The Cobra†Froch on neutral territory was certainly one to remember as they wasted no time to exchange pleasantries during today´s kick-off press conference in Helsinki, Finland. In Group Stage 3 of the Super Six World Boxing Classic, the two superstars will lock horns at the famous…
With an enthusiastic crowd backing two of the Beltway Area’s gutsiest pugilists, longtime rivals Jesse Nicklow and Julius Kennedy fought to a thrilling ten round majority draw in the main event of “Baltimore Bad Boys†last Friday evening at the Du Burns Arena. In what many ringsiders declared as Maryland’s Fight of the Year, both…
One of the most discussed questions at Pearl Theatre at The Palms Casino Resorts in Las Vegas after Yuriorkis Gamboa’s impressive unanimous decision win over Mexico’s Orlando Salido had nothing to do with the scoring of the judges (116-109, 115-109, 114-109) but with Gamboa’s style. Fans and experts argued whether they had seen a “new…