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One of the most famous movie scenes in the past quarter century took place in the movie Coming to America when Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall played many different characters in a barbershop and began arguing who the greatest heavyweight amongst Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano.

By Per Ake Persson Belgian “Sugar” Jackson Osei Bonsu continues his way back to the top February 20 with a fight against the ever dangerous to be announced. Then April 1 in Gent the former European welter champ will take on Sweden-based Karlo Tabaghua. Jackson is looking to be back …

Every year’s end is reserved for holiday celebrations that promote peace, good tidings, and tributes according to the religious belief’s one follows. The New Year that ensues shortly afterwards begins with reflections of the years past and hopes for better ones to arrive in the future. This time of year …

Earlier today at the Global Boxing Gym in North Bergen, NJ, Tomasz Adamek (42-1, 27KO’s) and Vinny Maddalone (33-6, 24KO’s) met face to face for the final press conference before their upcoming heavyweight title fight this Thursday at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ. Adamek-Maddalone is promoted by Main Events …

Angel McKenzie is set for the sternest tests of her career to date. The entertaining former Big Brother star, who earlier today left her London home to travel to Dombasle-sur-Meurthe in France, is set to face female boxing’s number one pound for pound fighter Anne Sophie Mathis this coming Saturday.

Commonwealth flyweight champion Chris Edwards has been added to Hatton Promotions Christmas spectacular on Saturday night (dec 4) Edwards will face Middlesbrough boxer Francis Croes on the dinner show taking place at Manchester’s Palace Hotel.

Click the above Image for more Photos by Jane Warburton Saturday night, at the atmospheric Olympia in Liverpool, England, Stephen Vaughan promoted a fight-card of five contests featuring local boxers. Billed as ‘Back with a Bang!’ – the fight-card headlined local man Michael ‘Rocky’ Fielding. Michael ‘Rocky’ Fielding (Liverpool) v …

Ryan Rhodes has dismissed threats from Yassine El Maachi telling the unknown boxer: “You shouldn’t be mentioned in the same breath as me.” Rhodes, 34, is world title bound and keeps busy with an eight rounder against unbeaten Rocky Junior on Hatton Promotions gala dinner show at Manchester’s Palace Hotel …

Fighting in his native country for the first time, Miami-based prospect Michael “The Brazilian Rocky” Oliveira had a memorable homecoming, knocking-out Junior “Dangerous” Ramos in tonight’s main event, headlining “A Gala Night of Boxing” pro-am boxing card at Espaco das Americas in Sao Paulo, Brazil. “A Gala Night of Boxing, …

Michael Acri Boxing Promotions, in association with Budweiser, present the 26th Annual Erie Boxing Classic, Wednesday November 24, beginning at 8 p.m., at the Avalon Hotel. Headlining the card is Pittsburgh’s Rod Salka (12-0, 3 KOs) vs. Guillermo Sanchez (11-2, 5 KOs), of Buffalo, NY, in an eight-round lightweight battle.

Former WBF Super Featherweight Champion Carl Greaves will be featuring local fighters at his upcoming ‘The Boyz Are Back In Town’ event at the Grove Leisure Centre in Newark, Notts on Saturday 20th November. Headlining the show will be former International Masters Light Middleweight Champion Kevin Hammond, who will be …

Former Heavyweight Boxing Champion Larry Holmes, will be the honored guest during an anti-bullying campaign fund-raiser designed to ‘Knockout Bullying’, that is being held at one of New Jerseys’ historic pieces of landscape, the Linwood Country Club on August 26th, 2010. Rocky Marciano Jr.,will host the event that will be …