Tonight, Buenos Aires’ famed Luna Park Stadium hosts an Interim WBA light welter championship bout between Marcos Rene Maidana and DeMarcus Corley. Titlist Maidana, 28-1 (27), puts his strap at risk for the third time and the Jose Leon Suarez resident will enjoy a massive hometown advantage over the visiting American veteran. An even bigger…
Former Undisputed Welterweight and Junior Welterweight Champion Zab “Super” Judah (39-6, 27 KO’s) of Brooklyn takes the next step in his quest to regain his Junior Welterweight Crown on Saturday, October 2nd, when he takes on Michael “Cold Blood” Clark (40-5-1, 18 KO’s) of Columbus, Ohio at Newark’s spectacular Prudential Center Arena.
© Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro 2008 European Amateur Bantamweight Gold Medalist Luke Campbell’s 2012 London Olympic dream is well and truly back on track. Following his successful return to International competition last week at the WBC Night Of Champions in Cardiff, Luke is set to be back in action again this weekend at the Four…
Last Friday in the main event of a seven bout fight card at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, Zab Judah of Brooklyn, New York, scored a third round stoppage of Jose Armando Santa Cruz of Michoacan, Mexico. The card was co-promoted by Kathy Duva’s Main Events and Super Judah. Judah, fighting at light…
Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment and Golden Boy Promotions are teaming up to bring the best of major professional boxing back to Brooklyn at the Barclays Center. In an exclusive partnership with Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, Golden Boy Promotions, whose president is 10-time World Champion Oscar de la Hoya, will promote a minimum of 12 boxing…
There were a few decent fight cards in the states aside from the big Bradley vs. Abregu bill and we kick things off on Friday with the return of former two-weight world champion Zab Judah to the light welter division. 32 year old southpaw Judah, 39-6 (27), a full five years removed from his last…
The final press conference for the July 16th Zab Judah vs. Jose Armando Santa Cruz “Brick City Boxing Series” show at Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, was held at the impressive Global Boxing Gym, North Bergen, NJ. Here are quotes from the event. Kathy Duva: “Zab Judah started his boxing career with Main Events many…
Matthew Hatton admits that Yuri Nuzhnenko will be the best opponent he has ever faced. ‘Magic’ Matthew (39-4-2) makes the first defence of his European light-welterweight title against his Ukrainian mandatory challenger at Bolton Arena on July 16. Nuzhnenko (30-1-1) is a former WBA interim champion and Hatton says: “The opponents are getting better and…
Former world champion DeMarcus “Chop Chop†Corley of Washington, D.C. (36-13-1, 21 KOs) will fight Detroit southpaw Damian Fuller (30-7-1, 14 KOs) in the July 10th co-main event at the Patriot Center, replacing Baltimore’s Tim “The Pitbull†Coleman (17-1-1, 4 KOs) who suffered a laceration on his head during training last Thursday that forced him…
The Welterweight division, at the moment, looks very promising indeed with some very good fighters sitting on or around the weight and already some mouth-watering bouts lined up. Number one pound for pound fighter in the world is Manny Pacquiao, and he currently resides in this division, although he started and won his first world…
Richard Schaefer: How is training camp going, Roger? Roger Mayweather: The training camp is always the same. Isn’t anything different about training camp. Richard Schaefer:Is he going to be ready? Roger Mayweather: You don’t believe he will be? I mean everyone is saying he won’t be ready, but he can beat the best fighters out…
In anticipation of the upcoming showdown between Floyd “Money” Mayweather and Juan Manual “Dinamita” Marquez on September 19 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas and live on HBO Pay-Per-View, fans will have an unprecedented ‘first look’ opportunity to watch “Countdown to Mayweather vs. Marquez”.