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At thirty-seven years old, former three weight world champion Johnny Tapia makes his return to the ring against thirty-three year old Nicky Bentz in Hidalgo, Texas, USA later this month. Tapia won world titles at super flyweight, bantamweight and featherweight and continues to campaign in the featherweight division. The last time Tapia was in the…
In light of the breakdown in communications between promoter Don King and light middleweight champion Ronald “Winky” Wright, the possibility of fresh opponents for Trinidad opens up as a possibility. Even in the event of Wright being offered what he deems to be a suitable amount of money to fight Trinidad, he has no desire…
WBO featherweight champion of the world Scott Harrison has expressed his desire to engage newly crowned WBC/IBF super featherweight champion Marco Antonio Barrera in a fight sometime this year. Harrison was ringside for the huge Barrera-Morales III fight in November of last year and says that it really whet his appetite to get involved in…
Serious rumors in the boxing world indicate that the proposed super fight between Puerto Rican legend Felix “Tito” Trinidad and current light middleweight champion Ronald “Winky” Wright is about to fall apart. The primary reason for this is rooted in Wright’s dismay at being offered what he considers a paltry amount of money for facing…
On February 12th at the Max Schmeling Halle in Germany, two heavyweight attractions have been added to a top night of action that already includes Rudy Markussen versus Vitali Tsypko and Danilo Haussler versus Mohammed Said. Giant Russian heavyweight Nicolai Valuev, standing over seven-feet tall and weighing over 300-pounds will face Attila Levin who is…
Fans who plan to attend Arturo Gatti’s WBC super lightweight world title defense against former world champion Jesse James Leija on Jan 29 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ had better purchase tickets soon or they will find themselves out of luck, it was announced today by Main Events CEO Kathy Duva. In a…
Kermit Cintron and Antonio Margarito, two of the world’s finest welterweights will headline the Feb 18 edition of ESPN2’s “Friday Night Fights Main Events Special†from Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ, it was announced today by Main Events CEO Kathy Duva. Welterweight bomber Kermit Cintron will defend his WBO-interim welterweight crown against veteran Steve…
At the annual Dr. Theodore Atlas Foundation fundraiser in November, boxing commentator and fight trainer Teddy Atlas went up to the microphone to tell the thousand in attendance about Jimmy Brown. A young man in his mid-twenties, Brown was paralyzed due to broken vertebrae sustained in an accident. Now, he was in need of a…
Further to our report yesterday regarding the current situation of WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe, it appears that Calzaghe’s sixteenth defense of his title may come against hard-hitting American Antwun Echols. Echols is well known for his brace of fights at middleweight with Bernard Hopkins, the second of which was an especially ill-tempered encounter….
An intriguing heavyweight attraction will play the chief support role to the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Henry Bruseles fight later this month in the American Airlines Arena in Miami, USA. Knockout artist and current heavyweight hopeful Samuel Peter will face Cuban heavyweight Yanqui Diaz (formerly Yamplier Azcuy) over twelve rounds. The last fighter to face Peter, Jeremy…
Three years after its formation, Golden Boy Promotions announced today a restructuring with includes the formation of a separate entity, Roy Englebrecht Promotions. The new company will be majority controlled by Roy Englebrecht, while Golden Boy Promotions will retain a significant equity stake. Roy Englebrecht Promotions will be located in Newport Beach, California, and be…
Don’t talk to promoter Lou DiBella about a Happy New Year. It hasn’t been a happy start for DiBella Entertainment and their prized super flyweight star Jose Navarro. Earlier today in Tokyo, Japan, Navarro squared off against Katsushige Kawashima for the WBC 115-pound title at Ariake Coliseum. Kawashima, the champion, was awarded a split decision…