DiBella Entertainment’s Ike “Bazooka” Quartey has arrived in the United States from his native Accra, Ghana, to complete his training camp and make final preparations for his fight against Verno Phillips which will be televised live on HBO on Saturday, June 18, from the FedEx Forum in Memphis, TN. Quartey (35-2-1, 30 KO’s) squares off…
It’s rare when every bout on a major a pay-per-view broadcast brings interest and excitement on its own, but the undercard of the highly-anticipated undisputed middleweight championship clash between Bernard Hopkins and Jermain Taylor does just that. The July 16th telecast will feature two world championship matches and the return of a former undisputed welterweight…
Rodney Toney, Boston, MA WKO5 (1:27) Jameel Wilson, Philadelphia, PA. SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHTS – Jose Medina, Tilton, NH WDEC6 (60-54, 59-55, 59-55) James Shedrick, Philadelphia, PA; John Paul Keane, Dorchester, MA WDEC4 (40-36, 40-36, 40-36) Tito Berrocales, Manchester, NH. SUPER WELTERWEIGHTS — Luis Hernandez, Ibarra, Ecuador WDEC6 (60-54, 59-55, 59-55) Darien Ford, New Orleans, LA; Mike…
In the first of back-to-back world title fight nights on SHOWTIME, World Boxing Organization (WBO) featherweight champion Scott Harrison successfully defended his title for the fifth-straight time by knocking Michael Brodie out in the fourth round Friday. In the “ShoBox: The New Generation†co-feature, unbeaten Michael Jennings stopped Gavin Down in the ninth. The doubleheader,…
IBF light welterweight champion Kostya Tszyu was hit by the less than ideal circumstance of having to shed weight today ahead of his clash with Ricky Hatton in the early hours of Sunday morning in England. Tszyu, a Russian born and naturalized Australian was a full three ounces above the contracted weight limit and was…
British fight promoter Frank Warren, at the head of this weekend’s huge light welterweight fight in Manchester between his man Ricky Hatton and champion Kostya Tszyu, revealed his feelings to the media that the fight is the biggest one he has been associated with in Britain in twenty-five years of promoting the sport. Warren, the…
Ahead of his IBF light welterweight title challenge to champion Kostya Tszyu, undefeated Manchester fighter Ricky Hatton admitted recently that he is experiencing nerves as never before. And with good reason. Tszyu is one of boxing’s most lethal punchers and perhaps the most dominant light welterweight champion of the past twenty years in the sport….
It is rumored that in the wake of the Javier Castillejo-Fernando Vargas-WBC mix-up, Castillejo’s former title will be contested by former welterweight world champion Ricardo Mayorga and unheralded Italian Michele Piccirillo. No official word is available but the assignment would seem a curious one being that Mayorga’s last fight was an eighth round stoppage loss…
Don King is planning yet another blockbuster card to be held at Chicago’s United Center, the site of his most recent fight card of which the main event saw Lamon brewster defend his WBO heavyweight championship against Andrew Golota. On that card, undisputed welterweight champion of the world Zab Judah took out game but outmatched…
Both main event participants for tonight’s headliner at the MEN arena in Manchester, England made weight for the contest without too many problems. WBO featherweight champion Scott Harrison of Glasgow, Scotland made the 126-pound limit comfortably while challenger Michael Brodie of Manchester had to shed his clothing to properly register at the designated weight limit….
Polish heavyweight Andrew Golota’s reward for being knocked out in less than a minute by Lamon Brewster last month is to fight a WBA title eliminator against Russian giant Nicolai Valuev. “The Best from the East” Valuev’s record stands at forty-one wins without a loss and his last five fights include wins over such notable…
Undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr. will be among the celebrity judges when King of the Cage (www.kingofthecage.com/ring-girls), the world wide recognized mixed martial arts competition spearheaded by owner Terry Trebilcock and agent Steve Karel, will move into the forum of adult-branded pay per view for the first time when it presents KOTC’s Cage Girls…