USBA and NABF heavyweight champion and undefeated contender Samuel “The Nigerian Nightmare” Peter is seeking to get himself in the big title picture later this year. With the current status of Vitali Klitschko’s WBC title defense this September still a mystery, Peter wants to leave no doubt whatsoever that he is ready to stand before…
Golden Boy Promotions, in a continuing effort to bring the best boxers from around the world to fight fans on a consistent basis, is pleased to announce the signing of highly regarded super bantamweight prospect Jonathan Oquendo to a promotional contract. Oquendo, 4-0 with 2 knockouts, becomes the first signee of Golden Boy Promotions to…
Undefeated, hard-hitting heavyweight Samuel “The Nigerian Nightmare” Peter kicked off the Fourth of July weekend with a bang as he impressively tamed “The Bull,” knocking out Taurus Sykes at 2:07 of the second round Saturday on SHOWTIME. The bout at the Reno Events Center was promoted by Duva Boxing and aired at 9 p.m. ET/PT…
Detroit fighter and boxing legend Thomas “The Hitman” Hearns insists that he is not finished with boxing and he intends to be back in the ring fighting once again this year. Hearns is set to make yet another comeback, this time against a fighter named John Long, who once lost to former WBU middleweight champion…
In the absence of the WBO world light heavyweight title fight that was cancelled at the last minute, it was up to former co-main eventers Andreas Sido and Alexander Dimitrenko to steal the show. WBO light heavyweight champion Zsolt Erdei pulled out of his defense against Mehdi Sahnoune due to the flu, but Dimitrenko stepped…
Ahead of their clash happening tonight at the Events Center in Reno, heavyweight contenders Samuel Peter and Taurus Sykes weighed in. Peter, coming off a third round technical knockout of Gilbert Martinez scaled 243-pounds while Sykes, whose last fight was a twelve round decision win over Friday Ahunanya weighed 235-pounds. It will be a confrontation…
Hennessy Sports would like to make it clear that, despite rumours circulating yesterday, Matthew Barney has not withdrawn from his mandatory challenge to British and Commonwealth super middleweight champion Carl Froch on the “Trailblazers’ event at the Nottingham Arena on Saturday July 9th. The 31-year-old from Southampton – who last time out lost a highly…
Zsolt Erdei canceled the defense of his WBO light heavyweight title scheduled for tonight at Color Line Arena of Hamburg against Frenchman Mehdi Sahnoune because of a gastroenteric influenza. The event without the Erdei fight will go on as scheduled. The new main event will be the WBO and IBF intercontinental heavyweight championship between Alexander…
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 an opponent to be announced in the eight-round junior middleweight co-feature Friday, July 22, 2005, on “ShoBox: The New Generation.” In the main event, California State Junior Welterweight…
This weekend there are two major European promoters having activity, German giant UNIVERSUM BOX-PROMOTION in Hamburg and BOXE LORENI with two promotions in Italy, firstly on friday 1st in Palermo, Sicily, and secondly on sunday 3rd in Brescia, northern Italy. FRIDAY, July 1st 2005 Palermo, ITALY – RAI Sat Promoter: BOXE LORENI (Mario Loreni) Welterweight…
WBO light heavyweight champion Zsolt Erdei and IBF heavyweight youth champion Alexander Dimitrenko will headline a big event of Universum Box-Promotion at the huge Color Line Arena of Hamburg, Germany, this Saturday, July 2. Erdei will make the forth defense of his crown against Frenchman and former WBA champion Mehdi Sahnoune, 31-1 (27). “I respect…
Undisputed world welterweight champion Zab “Super†Judah has been nominated for an ESPY Award in the category of Best Boxer. Judah earned this nomination after scoring a ninth-round technical knockout over Cory “The Next Generation†Spinks on Feb. 5 at the Savvis Center in St. Louis before the largest crowd to witness a boxing match…