Boxing News
Responding to barrage of e-mails, phone calls and media coverage, SHOWTIME will replay the “Shobox: The New Generation†card of Arnaoutis vs. Gallardo and the dramatic Elder vs. Burton. The excellent news for boxing fans is that the “ShoBox’’ doubleheader can be seen three times in the next three days. The first replay will air…
The Regional Court (Landgericht) of Hamburg ruled in a decision announced today that Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko are no longer under contract with Universum Box Promotion. Universum Box Promotion had argued that their contract with Wladimir Klitschko was valid until Feb. 22, 2005, and that their contract with Vitali Klitschko was good until May 20,…
JOHNSON SPLIT DECISIONS TARVER!! Former IBF light heavyweight champion of the world Glencoffe “Road Warrior” Johnson returned from his knockout of Roy Jones Jr. with a split decision win over former WBC light heavyweight champion and fellow Jones conqueror Antonio Tarver. In a back and forth fight that saw both men have their moments of…
Two time WBC super middleweight champion Markus Beyer successfully marked his second reign as the champion with a win over Yoshinori Nishizawa. The fight took place in the Oberfrankenhalle in Bayreuth in Beyer’s native Germany. Beyer had to survive a knockdown in the early rounds but came back to post an impressive enough result on…
Glen Johnson is a soft-spoken man without the typical boxing bravado of, say, Antonio Tarver. So Johnson smiled when asked about the man he’s about to fight. “Talk is talk. Anyone with a mouth can talk,” Johnson said. “Not just Antonio Tarver, but any guy who talks too much – they’re not just trying to…
With the recent announcement that former world champion “Sugar†Shane Mosley will return to the welterweight division, on the heels of Oscar De La Hoya saying he’s coming back to the 147-pound class, World Boxing Association welterweight champion “El Gallo†Jose Antonio Rivera (37-3-1, 24 KOs) believes that in 2005 the welterweight division will be…
Ebo “The Extreme Machine†Elder fought courageously, with both eyes nearly closed due to swelling, to knockout Courtney “Killer†Burton to retain his North American Boxing Association Lightweight belt Friday on “ShoBox: The New Generation.†In the junior welterweight co-feature from Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, Calif., “Mighty†Mike Arnaoutis registered a third-round knockout…
In the battle for the WBO NABO lightweight championship tonight at the Chumash Casino, Santa Ynez, California, USA, Ebo “X-treme Machine” Elder stopped Courtney Burton in the twelfth and final round. Elder, from Atlanta, Georgia was docked a point early in the fight but went on to put Burton down twice in the final round…
Greek light welterweight prospect “Mighty” Mike Arnaoutis grabbed another eye-catching win tonight at the Chumash Casino, Santa Ynez, California, USA by stopping Jauquin Gallardo in three rounds. Gallardo hit the canvas twice before referee Raul Caiz was forced to halt the action merely seconds before the end of the round. Arnaoutis made waves the last…
Quebec middleweight contender Joachim Alcine took another step forward in his career tonight at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada by disposing of former Canadian champion Stephane Ouellet impressively before the end of the first round. Alcine needed less than a minute to stop Ouellet who appeared to be in tears as the final punches…
Irish super flyweight Damaen Kelly of Belfast dominated England’s Jason Booth on Friday night at the Huddersfield Leisure Centre in England. Kelly, once the IBO flyweight champion now becomes the IBO super flyweight champion with the twelve round decision. One of Booth’s two losses came in an IBF title bid against then champion Irene Pacheco,…
On the eve of their light heavyweight fight to be held atthe Staples Center in Los Angeles tomorrow night, Antonio Tarver and Glencoffe Johnson weighed in along with Olympic gold medalist Andre Ward who is making his debut on the card against Christopher Molina. David Telesco will fight former WBO light heavyweight champion Julio Gonzalez…