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MANAGUA, Nicaragua. Former welterweight boxing champion Ricardo Mayorga was found innocent of rape after a closed-door trial that lasted into the early hours of Tuesday. Judge Julio Cesar Areas cleared Mayorga after a seventeen-hour hearing. A twenty-two-year-old woman, who was not identified, had accused Mayorga of sexually abusing her at a Managua hotel in September….
Commonwealth games gold medallist Darren Barker has vowed to follow his Hennessy Sports team mates Howard Eastman, Junior Witter and Carl Froch along the traditional title path. “These guys are creating the blueprint for British boxers to follow,†began Barker. “They haven’t been tempted by the easy route, they have turned away from bogus titles…
When I was eleven, the best movie ever came out. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960) showed in the theaters and was a great Walt Disney first. Having my mother reading us to sleep, one of our favorite stories continued night after night the Mark Twain classic. We all loved Big Jim in the book,…
Erik Morales walked down the steps from the ring to the arena floor of the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and saw the Mexican banners waving fervently in the crowd. Scant consolation lay in the knowledge that history will forever remember the greatest featherweight fighters of this era, each steeped in the proud colors of…
December 19, 1997 – Prince Naseem Hamed v Kevin Kelley. Click for larger image Madison Square Garden the weekend before Christmas was the venue and time chosen for Prince Naseem Hamed’s long awaited American debut. Kevin Kelley was chosen for Hamed’s stateside debut. He was seen as the perfect opponent for Hamed to showcase his…
Tonight in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, Jermain “Bad Intentions” Taylor displayed great patience and an abundance of boxing skill and power in a great performance to score a complete wipeout over former three time WBA middleweight world champion William Joppy. Joppy, whose only other losses came against Felix Trinidad, Bernard Hopkins and Julio Cesar Green…
Jeff “Left Hook” Lacy is one of boxing’s most promising fighters and will be looking to build on that reputation as he defends his IBF super middleweight belt tomorrow night in Las Vegas against the ever-dangerous Omar Sheika. Lacy has only seventeen professional fights on his resume, and although the last seven have been against…
Click for larger image © Tom Casino Jose Luis Castillo prevailed over Juan Lazcano in the struggle for the vacant WBC lightweight championship earlier this year, the complete opposite of the fortune spectrum from his challenger on Saturday. Joel Casamayor suffered his second career defeat to Diego Corrales, no shame except that no loss is…
Age, experience and wear and tear, merely some of the things that drastically separate Jermain Taylor from William Joppy. Success of late is another being that Taylor is the undefeated and rising former Olympian thought to be the successor to Bernard Hopkins’ middleweight legacy. Joppy however has not fared so well in the last few…
Jeff Lacy stopped Syd Vanderpool to become the IBF super middleweight champion. One might think that for such a young man and at such a tender stage of his career, turning from being the hunter to the hunted might be a daunting proposition for the young Floridian. However, Lacy shows no signs of being intimidated…
Heavyweight prospect Dominick Guinn suffered another disastrous loss tonight in Bally’s Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, USA when he lost a decision to fellow contender Serguei Lyakhovich. Trainer Ronnie Shields is not having the best of times these days as he has experienced high profile losses with Evander Holyfield and now Guinn in successive…
Return of The King – Barrera Defeats Morales in Climax of Their Historic Trilogy; Larios Retains Crown with Win Over Hussein. It was a night to remember last Saturday at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas as Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales concluded their historic trilogy before a packed house that cheered wildly with…