Boxing News
New England Ringside (NER), on the verge of becoming the newest promoter in professional boxing, today announced the hiring of Julio Pena as its Director of Boxing Operations. “We’re delighted to have Julio Pena as a member of Team NER,†NER president Rick Brutti said. “He is well respected in boxing and has more than…
Professional boxing’s youngest world champion, Juan Diaz, will defend his WBA lightweight crown on ESPN2 Friday Night Fights Main Events Special January 21 AT 9 p.m. ET when he meets WBA #10 ranked contender Billy Irwin at Reliant Center in Houston, Texas. WBO lightweight champ Diego Corrales will be studio host Brian Kenny’s guest analyst,…
Boxing championesse Regina Halmich made a successful start into 2005 for promoter Universum. On the first boxing event of this year the twenty-eight-year-old German beat her world title challenger Maryling Hernandez by unanimous decision and successfully defended her WIBF flyweight title by scores of 100:91 and 100:92 twice. A convincing forty-sixth victory in her forty-eighth…
Undefeated Jose Luis Cruz stopped fellow American Vincent Thompson in the eighth round of their scheduled ten-round super welterweight fight Friday night at the Agua Calientes Casino. The twenty-five-year-old Cruz, 33-0-2 with 28 knockouts, ended the fight at 1:42 of the eighth round with a barrage of body shots that put Thompson to one knee…
Inside the ring, Juan Diaz is poised and polished. Just 21, he owns the WBA lightweight title, boxing’s youngest reigning world champion. But at his parent’s tidy brick home in Houston, Diaz remains a university student with a 10 p.m. curfew on school nights. “He’s a big baby,” teases younger brother Jose. “Mom still has…
Actor Jamie Foxx, the star of numerous hit films such as “Ray,” the life story of Ray Charles and American football drama “Any Given Sunday,” may return to the screen playing the lead role in a representation of the Mike Tyson story. Foxx has been known to perform very physical roles and to complete a…
Click for larger image© Mike Cleary Vitali “Dr. Ironfist” Klitschko, fresh from defending his WBC heavyweight title against Danny Williams, will step into the ring in April of this year against none other than former champion Hasim Rahman. Rahman, seemingly redidicated to the task of regaining the heavyweight championship, excited the boxing world with a…
Former heavyweight fighter Jo-El Scott has been found guilty of murder and is facing a life sentence without the possibility of parole. A jury in New York found sufficient evidence in Scott’s case in which he was charged with the rape and murder of an elderly woman. Scott’s time in the professional heavyweight ranks saw…
Fresh from knocking out previously unbeaten Art Simonyan late last month, IBF super bantamweight champion Israel Vazquez looks set to be the next opponent for current WBA/IBF featherweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez. Marquez was scheduled to fight a much anticipated rematch with Manny Pacquiao but purse demands scratched the possibility of that fight. Vazquez has…
Manchester’s boxing star Michael Gomez is the WBU super featherweight champion once again, and now he is headline news in more ways than one. Gomez has lead a turbulent life with many ups and downs in and out of the ring but things couldn’t be better for him these days as he has just been…
Unbeaten heavyweight Roman Greenberg (17-0, 12 KO’s) captures the Broadway spotlight on Friday night, January 28, when he headlines 2005’s second installment of DiBella Entertainment’s Broadway Boxing Presented by Mohegan Sun at the Grand Ballroom at the Manhattan Center. Greenberg, a native of Tel Aviv, Israel, will go toe-to-toe with Marcus McGee (12-5, 6 KO’s),…
Guilty Boxing, Inc. and Classic Entertainment & Sports, Inc. (CES) have joined forces, it was jointly announced today by Nick Rattenni, president of Guilty Boxing, and CES president Jimmy Burchfield. CES and Burchfield will run the East Coast operations of Guilty Boxing and coordinate all of the cards Guilty Boxing promotes in that area. Jimmy…