Coming into his fight against the IBF Welterweight Champion Kermit Cintron (29-1, 27KO’s), Saturday night at the Staples’ Center, Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing promoted, Jesse “El Rayo” Feliciano (15-6-3, 9KO’s) understood that many saw him not only as a huge underdog to take Cintron’s title, but that he would be lucky to even last six…
International Boxing Federation light welterweight champion Paulie “The Magic Man†Malignaggi, rated No. 2 by The Ring, believes stylish boxing skills like his are far less appreciated in today’s knockout-crazed world of boxing than it’s ever been. “Pure boxers today aren’t as highly valued as they should be,†the outspoken Brooklyn pugilist said from his…
Headliners have been announced for the massive nine bout Solo Boxeo televised “December Fury” event set for Friday, December 14 at Cicero Stadium, chicago.
Aside from the Ricardo Mayorga vs. Fernando Vargas bout in Los Angeles, there was a good bit of action across the globe last night and we start in the land Down Under. At the Croatian Club in the Sydney suburb of Punchbowl, the Australian middleweight title was defended by reigning champion Junior Talipeau, 9-0 (2),…
Legendary promoter Don King packed quite a punch during a special visit to troops in Germany and Iraq as part of a USO/MNC-I expeditionary entertainment tour during this Thanksgiving weekend. King later surprised U.S. forces in Iraq with an unannounced visit and special viewing of the Don King Productions and Main Events co-promoted match featuring…
Kim Poulsen, 5-1 (1), will take on almost legendary English journeyman, and former Midlands Area super featherweight champion, Peter â€The Professor“ Buckley on Wednesday, November 28, at the Cafe Royal in London. While the Danish prospect has only six bouts under his belt, Buckley has been in a professional ring no less than 289 times,…
Union Boxing Team in Donetsk, Ukraine, stage another big show December 15. The main bouts shape up as follows: Vyacheslav Senchenko vs Riad Menasria for the EE-EU and WBA Intercontinental welterweight titles, Andrei Kudriatsev vs Aram Ramazyan for the vacant EE-EU lightweight title, Yuri Voronin vs Oleg Yefimovich for the WBO International featherweight title, Vladimir…
Commonwealth bantamweight champion Tshifhiwa “The Atomic Spider” Munyai returns to action on Friday, November 30 as chief support to the Ian Napa vs. Martin Power British bantamweight title rematch at London’s Newham Leisure Centre.
Legendary promoter Don King celebrated Thanksgiving by making a special visit to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany where he signed autographs for wounded Iraq and Afganistan campaign veterans, and ate Turkey with the troops.
The storied middleweight division has been rife with legendary rivalries. In the ‘40s Rocky Graziano had Tony Zale, in the ‘50s Sugar Ray Robinson, Carmen Basilio, and Gene Fullmer had each other and in the ‘60s Nino Benvenuti had Emile Griffith. However, for the past 40 years the middleweight division has endured a void —…
Hard-hitting WBC No. 11 154-pound contender James Kirkland (20-0, 17 KOs) hopes to continue his ascension to the top of the junior middleweight division when he takes on the dangerous Allen Conyers (11-2, nine KOs) Friday, Nov. 30, 2007, on ShoBox: The New Generation, live on Showtime at 11 p.m. ET/PT delayed on the west…
After coming back from the 45th annual WBC Convention that was held in Manila, Philippines, a group of reporters stayed up late and spent the night in Narita, Japan. From there, they were able to interview champions Jorge Linares and Edwin Valero, who belong to the same boxing group, Teiken Promotions, led by famous promoter…