Roy Jones Jr.’s Square Ring and Goossen Tutor Promotions are pleased to congratulate Andre Ward, who was honored last weekend at the 2005 Victor Awards for his Gold Medal winning performance in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. Ward, 4-0 (2 KOs) as a professional fighting in the middleweight division, received this prestigious award last Saturday…
Undefeated NABF Featherweight Champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero (15-0-1 8KOs) will be in attendance at this week’s boxing matches in San Jose Ca. First on the list is this Thursdays “Fight Night at the Tank” at 7:30 P.M. Then “The Ghost” will be at Saturdays Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. fight at the San Jose St….
Further to the breaking news that heavyweight contender Samuel Peter was placed in a final eliminator for the WBC heavyweight championship, it has also been revealed that Peter will have the choice of the WBC and now the IBF heavyweight championship route. The IBF boxing organization have ordered that Peter take part in a box-off…
Former British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion and Mike Tyson conqueror Danny Williams is under severe fire after his last moment pull-out this past weekend. Williams was supposed to fight current British, Commonwealth and WBU heavyweight titlist Matt Skelton in a hugely significant domestic clash, but Williams cancelled his appearance right at the last moment, forcing…
The plot thickened surrounding Don King’s Global Glory pay-per-view event at the United Center on Aug. 13 after the World Boxing Council ruled Friday that the winner of the card’s main eventâ€â€Hasim “The Rock†Rahman vs. Monte “Two Gunz†Barrettâ€â€will next face Vitali Klitschko in a WBC heavyweight title match. The WBC sanctioned Rahman vs….
Promoter Don King has announced that former World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association welterweight champion Ricardo “El Matador†Maryorga will face former International Boxing Federation welterweight champion Michelle Piccirillo for the WBC super welterweight championship as part of “Global Glory†at the United Center on Aug. 13. The colorful Mayorga (27-5-1, 23 KOs), a…
World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko would like to make one thing perfectly clear: He has always wanted to fight Hasim Rahman. “I read things, but I do not believe what I am reading,†Klitschko said. “Three months ago (April 20), a press release was sent out on my behalf stating that I would…
“I am looking forward to a tough fight this Saturday and if all goes well, I will also be trying for two more fights after this one in August.” Jose also said: “Some time after this summer I would like to go up against one of my amateur rivals like Arron Garcia of whom I’ve…
It’s a special edition of WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING when HBO Sports presents the exclusive delay broadcast of the showdown for the undisputed world middleweight title: BERNARD HOPKINS VS. JERMAIN TAYLOR, airing SATURDAY, JULY 23 at 10:15 P.M. ET/PT, on HBO. The HBO Sports broadcast team, which was ringside for the live event in Las Vegas,…
Ahmed “Hollywood†Kaddour, who recently appeared on “The Contender,†will become the first contestant from the NBC reality series to return to boxing when he takes on former West Virginia State Champion Maxell Taylor in the eight-round junior middleweight co-feature Friday, July 22, 2005, on “ShoBox: The New Generation.†In the main event, California State…
On the under-card of the undisputed middleweight championship fight between Bernard Hopkins and Jermain Taylor on Saturday night, two of Golden Boy Promotion’s star prospects kept their early careers intact with wins. Vicente Escobedo improved his professional record to five wins, all by way of knockout when he dismantled Edgar Vargas before the end of…
In keeping busy before his next title defense, WBA lightweight champion Juan “Baby Bull” Diaz knocked out Arthur Cruz in five rounds in Los Angeles, USA. Diaz had already knocked Cruz out once, in four rounds some years before becoming the WBA champion. The undefeated champion now has twenty-eight wins with fourteen knockouts to his…