Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero will hold an open workout for fans and media on Tuesday, April 20 at San Jose Boxing and Fitness 3469 McKee Road, San Jose, CA 95127 at 11:00 A.M PT Guerrero will prepare for his battle against Roberto Arrieta on the return of TeleFutura’s “Sólo Boxeo Tecate” boxing series scheduled for…
Ahead of their IBF super middle title clash tonight at Montreal’s Bell Centre, Lucian Bute and Edison Miranda hit the scales yesterday. IBF super middleweight championship, 12 rounds Lucian Bute:167.2 lb Edison Miranda: 167 lb
Former Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel, who now works as a TV host for Danish pay-per-view giant Viasat, admitted he is impressed by Carl Froch´s fitness level ahead of the WBC Champion´s meeting with Danish hero Mikkel Kessler on April 24. Schmeichel paid a visit to the Cobra´s home base in Nottingham last weekend to…
Undefeated middleweight prospect and hometown favorite Fernando Guerrero weighed in at 160 pounds and Chicago’s Michael Walker tipped the scales at 161 during Thursday’s weigh in at the Wicomico Youth and Civic Center in Salisbury, Md. Guerrero (17-0, 14 KOs) will put his undefeated record on the line against Walker (19-3, 12 KOs) in a…
A scheduled April 24 bout which has fans of heavyweight boxing buzzing for months will now have added significance with the unfortunate tragedy which befell the home country of one of its competitors. Poland’s Tomasz “Goral†Adamek, who will be defending his IBF International Heavyweight Title against the heavy-handed, top-rated contender and local hero Cristobal…
Boxing superstar and six-time World Champion Floyd Mayweather Jr and welterweight mega-star, five-time World Champion and current WBA Welterweight Champion Shane Mosley, are set to meet on Saturday, May 1 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Floyd Mayweather Jr: “I think Shane is acting out of character. Why would someone wait until they were 38…
Kalle Sauerland has confirmed that the Super Six World Boxing Classic Clash between WBC Super-Middleweight Champion Carl Froch and Danish hero Mikkel Kessler on April 24 will go ahead as planned despite multiple airspace closures throughout Europe. The “Cobra†was scheduled to fly from Great Britain to Denmark tomorrow, but with most of the European…
Tickets to the “Stadium Slugfest,†Yankee Stadium’s inaugural brawl featuring the world championship rumble between three-time world titlist Miguel Cotto and undefeated WBA super welterweight champion Yuri Foreman go on sale today. Foreman (28-0, 8 KOs), a 29-year-old from Brooklyn, NY, became the first orthodox Jew to win a world championship in nearly seventy years….
Many of New England’s top prospects will be in action May 7 on the “Spring Fever†card, presented by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment and Sports, Inc. (CES), at Twin River Event Center in Lincoln, R.I. New Bedford (MA) welterweight Jason “School Boy†Pires (22-3-1, 9 KOs), the former USBA super bantamweight champion and active New…
A war of words that has erupted over the internet will finally be resolved in the boxing ring in Limerick next month when rivals Michael “The Storm†Sweeney and Ian Tims clash for the Irish Cruiserweight title on the Yanjing Fight Night at the University Sports Arena. The May 15th clash is part of an…
Former world title challenger and John Duddy conqueror Billy Lyell (21-8, 4 KO’s) makes his return to the ring on an NES Sports TV PPV on Friday May 7, live from Morgantown, West Virginia. Lyell, a frequent sparring partner of middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik and junior middleweight contender Harry Joe Yorgey, gained notoriety in 2009…
Boxing is not a sport that readily lends itself to statistics, but one set of numbers is as elemental as a left-right combination: a fighter’s wins, losses and draws. We often overvalue a good record and misinterpret a mediocre one; there are dozens of 10-loss veterans who are better than young fighters with only one…