Click for larger image © Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro When Jersey City’s Polish ex-pat Tomasz ‘Goral’ Adamek defends his IBF Cruiserweight title on February 27, 2009, against Detroit’s Johnathon Banks at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey he will have an unexpected supporter cheering him on ringside, former cruiserweight king, Steve ‘USS’ Cunningham. On…
© Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro Former cruiserweight king Steve ‘USS’ Cunningham is close to securing Guyana’s Wayne ‘Big Truck’ Braithwaite as a comeback opponent in his quest to regain the IBF crown he lost to Tomasz ‘Goral’ Adamek last December.
World ranked cruiserweight BJ Flores is preparing for a busy 2009 as he looks toward battles against either world champion Tomasz Adamek or former champion Wayne Braithwaite. “Right now we’re in the negotiating stage for two possible fights,” said Flores. “Either I go straight to fighting the newly crowned champion Tomasz Adamek for an optional…
There was a good show at the Sparkassen Arena in Kiel last night with IBF Middleweight Champion Arthur Abraham putting in a dramatic finish to knockout big-hearted American visitor Elvin Ayala in the twelfth and final round to retain his title for the seventh time. Ayala showed good boxing skills in the early going but…