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…
DiBella Entertainment’s Ike “Bazooka” Quartey, fresh off his convincing victory over Verno Phillips in Memphis on June 11 on HBO, says he is ready to take aim at former champ Oscar De La Hoya. “I beat Oscar when I fought him the first time even though he got the decision,” says Quartey, the gunner from…
The next “CES’ Prime Time Fights” show presented by Classic Sports & Entertainment & Sports, Inc (CES), originally scheduled for August 12, has been changed to Aug. 26 in Down City Providence at the Rhode Island Convention Center, CES president Jimmy Burchfield announced today. Likely participants include new USNBC super middleweight champion Joey “KO Kid”…
By Curtis McCormick. IBF Light Welterweight Champion Ricky Hatton’s trip to America this past weekend was an unqualified success. The British hero was in Atlantic City to watch Arturo Gatti put his WBC title on the line against Floyd Mayweather and also to witness Vivian Harris’ WBA title clash against Carlos Maussa. Other highlights saw…
SAM PETER. “I am motivated for all my fights, but this guy talks so much, I am even more motivated. I will take great pleasure in closing his mouth once and for all and doing it in a good, convincing manner.” “I do not think Sykes knows what he has got himself into. But he…
Undefeated Hungarian light heavyweight Zsolt Erdei will defend his WBO light heavyweight championship this week. Erdei, who defeated Julio Gonzalez for the title has made three defenses of the belt, two of which came agains Hugo Hernan Garay. Sahnoune of France has thirty-one wins against a single loss, which came against Silvio Branco in defense…
Filipino boxing star Manny Pacquiao appears to be finally free of legal troubles now that a settlement has been reached out of court between him and now former promoter Murad Muhammad. Pacquiao alleged financial misdeeds at Muhammad who, when challenged claimed to have an unbreakable promotional contract with Pacquiao. Court proceedings unfolded a different story…
British lightweight sensation and Olympic silver medallist Amir Khan is set to make his professional boxing debut next month. July 16 is the day that Khan will set foot in a professional prize ring for the first time, and he wants his former amateur rival Mario Kindelan to join his camp as a trainer. Khan…
Barely 15 kilometers (10 miles) separate their training camps in South Florida, yet the lives – and careers – of middleweights Bernard Hopkins and Jermain Taylor have a more noticeable gap. Nearly five years after winning a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympics, Taylor try to do what 18 others have failed – dethrone Hopkins…
Fans arriving early to the “Trailblazers’ event at the Nottingham Arena on July 9th co-headlined by Carl Froch and Junior Witter will get to see an extra – guaranteed to be exciting – fight. With doors opening at 5.30pm and boxing not scheduled to start until 6.30pm, promoters Hennessy Sports have decided to fill the…
Friday night’s “Plymouth Rocks” pro boxing show, presented by NER Promotions, will be the focus of Thursday and Friday night’s New England Ringside Radio Shows. NER Promotions, a division of New England Ringside, promotes its first ESPN2 Friday Nights Fight show – Plymouth Rocks – Friday evening (July 1) in historic Plymouth (MA), headlined by…
Former British heavyweight champion Julius Francis continues to fall from the respectable position he once occupied on the domestic heavyweight scene in the United Kingdom. Francis, who once defeated Danny Williams and was Mike Tyson’s opponent on the former heavyweight champion’s U.K. tour, has now lost his last twelve fights, bringing his record to a…