Former world heavyweight title challenger Charles Shufford plans to get his career untracked and him back into the heavyweight mix with an upset of 2004 U.S. Olympian Jason “Big Six†Estrada in their 10-round, co-main event headlining the “Champions of Tomorrow†pro boxing show, January 25 at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut.
Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing in association with Mohegan Sun presents an exciting night of fights televised live on ESPN2, from the Mohegan Sun Arena. Headlining the card is Danbury, CT. resident welterweight sensation Delvin Rodriguez (21- 2-1, 13KO’s) against undefeated New Jersey native Troy Browning (20-0-1, 8KO’s) in a ten round welterweight bout.
Teen sensation and famed Hollywood actor Corbin Bleu, best known for his starring roles in High School Musical (2006), High School Musical 2 (2007), and Jump In! (2007), has been tapped to sing the national anthem at the highly anticipated boxing showdown between Felix “Tito†Trinidad and Roy Jones Jr. on Saturday night at Madison…
Hot on the heels of a magnificent 2007 for British boxing, Frank Maloney Promotions returns in force with a bad blood grudge match that is likely to be an early candidate for Fight of the Year honors. Sworn enemies at light heavyweight, Tony Oakey and Peter Haymer, will reprise their initial clash of June 2005…
Q: What did you see in Jones that you picked him as a comeback fight? Papa Trinidad: “A long time ago, we had been thinking that this would be a good fight for Tito. And now that Tito had a willingness to return, and Tito could make the weight, we saw that it was convenient…
The fists will be flying once again in New York as Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing kicks off the New Year with a bang with the 8th installment of the phenomenal boxing series “Punchin’ at the Paradise” on Thursday, January 31st 7:30pm at the Utopia Paradise Theatre in the Bronx, NY. Star Boxing has made a…
Rogers Mtagwa, of Philadelphia, PA, makes the first defense of his NABF featherweight title when he faces Roger Gonzalez, of Fontana, CA, the scheduled 12-round main event Friday evening, March 7, at the New Alhambra in South Philadelphia.
From the office of WBC President Jose Sulaiman: Results of yesterday’s WBC Purse Offers: Heavyweight: Vladimir Virchis vs. Juan Carlos Gomez, final elimination. Universum Box Promotion won the bid with an offer of $411,980.00, outbidding Arena Promotions’ offer of $400,000. Light heavyweight: Chad Dawson vs. Adrian Diaconu, mandatory defense.
Strengthened by his devastating knockout of James Northey last October, 2004 U.S. Olympian Jason “Big Six†Estrada (10-1, 2 KOs) plans to knock his next opponent, former world heavyweight title contender Charles Shufford, into retirement after their January 25th 10-round, co-main event on “Champions of Tomorrow†at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut.
Yusaf Mack, former super middleweight, is ready to replace Jeff Lacy, who pulled out of the scheduled April 12 clash clash with current IBO champion, Antonio Tarver at the St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, Florida
The purse bid ceremony scheduled today to determine the promoter of the WBC Light Heavyweight title bout between Adrian “The Shark” Diaconu and Chad Dawson has been postponed. American Promoter Don King Productions contacted the WBC to inform them that it was still considering to promote the Diaconu/Dawson fight.
By Per Ake Persson European junior welter champ Colin Lynes will defend the title against Juho Tolppola from Finland on January 25 in Dagenham, England. Russian heavy Alexander Povetkin is sparring with Larry Donald and Michael Sprott in Berlin. German middle Mahir Oral is out of the IBF eliminator against Fulgencio Zuniga due to a…