Boxing Articles

Hamburg, Germany 24 January 2007 “I’ve been back in the gym for a couple of weeks and I feel great. My injuries have healed and after much hard work and with the approval of the doctors, I am cleared to continue my boxing career. “I am returning to the ring …

As One Undeserving Briton Loses His Honor, Another Deserving One Steps Up When it was revealed that former world featherweight champion “Prince” Naseem Hamed was to be stripped of his MBE award, the extremely rare action attracted massive attention in the national press. Hamed has not yet commented on the …

“…do the honorable thing and face us instead of trying to cash out against one of the Klitschkos.” “The WBC title is not for sale,” flatly states Samuel “The Nigerian Nightmare” Peter’s manager Ivaylo Gotzev to Dennis Rappaport, promoter of WBC Heavyweight Champion Oleg Maskaev.

Muhammad Ali turns 65 years old today. Wow! Where does the time go? It seems like just yesterday my father and I were jumping around the living room, screaming like lottery winners when Ali regained the heavyweight title from Leon Spinks. The so called experts had said it could not …

“Lights Out” Headed For A Repeat In History The recent WBC heavyweight eliminator to decide it’s number one challenger between James Toney and Samuel Peter was a fight that I had been looking forward to. In fact, I had been looking forward to it since about five minutes after their …

Vague Thoughts From A Fan Of Neither Fighter Very rarely do we have fights that after all the sneak peeks and interviews, in which they start to simmer, boil, and then explode at press conferences do they ever meet up to the hype. Very rarely! They often reach a fever …

With the sixth and (hopefully) final instalment of the Rocky series currently doing great business at the box office in America, I recently had the pleasure of speaking with a fighter many have called, “The closest real life similarity to the gutsy Rocky Balboa.” And certainly, New York’s Vinny Maddalone …

I’ve grown up on boxing. My grandfather got me into the sport at a young age and I’ve been engulfed in it ever since. I did not know or understand the legend of Julio Cesar Chavez, but I did know that I had to hate Oscar De La Hoya because …

I was a proponent of Sam Peter prior to his fighting James Toney. He was usually good for a KO from time-to-time with one huge punch against his opponent. But that kind of display was bound to fail when classed against a boxing PhD in James Toney and in my …

What If “The Nigerian Nightmare” Was One Of Cus D’Amato’s Catskill Creations? 2007 is rolling and just by looking at January’s schedule alone, this has the potential to be a blockbuster of a year. I have a feeling the staff here at SaddoBoxing is going to be a busy one! …

Champions are the main focus in any sport. It doesn’t matter if it is Super Bowl Champions, World Series Champions, Stanly Cup Champions or in this case, Boxing Champions. All eyes are on the holder of the title. And rightfully so; it takes a lot of hard work to become …

Bigfoot Or Boxing’s Next Superstar? The sweet science may be the sport more tethered in archaic tradition than any other currently in existence. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, as boxing’s rich history is just as important and meaningful to the sport as say, baseball’s is. So forgive …