By Mike Marley He’s a legend. It says so on his telephone voice mail. His name is Johnny Bos and he has been a cult figure around big-time boxing for about 40 years now or since he was a 15-year-old teenager from Sunset Park, Brooklyn, who wanted to meet his ring idols such as Emile…
Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing The World Boxing Council Lightweight title was only Joel Casamayor’s to win on Saturday night; and win it he did. Casamayor became a world champion for the third time by defeating Diego Corrales in a close and hard-fought split decision scored 116-111, 115-112 and 113-114….
Nikolai Valuev: “The victory wasn’t easy tonight and Monte Barrett really tried hard. I haven’t fought in the U.S. for a long time so this was a whole new thing for me. To be honest, I was a little nervous. I need to settle down more. “I knew after the fourth or fifth round I…
When the 20th anniversary celebration of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING continues on Oct. 7 at 9 p.m., ET/PT (delayed on the west coast), Diego “Chico†Corrales will face arch nemesis and former 130-pound world champion, southpaw Joel “El Cepillo†Casamayor. The fight was thought to be in jeopardy when Corrales initially weighed in at 139.5 pounds,…
Don King will allow boxing fans to see free replays of Nikolai “Russian Giant†Valuev’s third-round technical knockout over Owen “What the Heck†Beck from June 3 as well as one of the best fights of 2006, a sensational slugfest between Tomasz Adamek and Paul “Firepower†Briggs now at his web site, www.donking.com.
Last night on a Maloney Promotion at York Hall in London, England, Commonwealth Champion Tshifhiwa Munyai continued his march through the British bantamweight division with a sixth round stoppage over previously unbeaten southpaw sensation Lee Haskins on a televised Sky Sports broadcast.
Everlast® Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ: EVST), manufacturer, marketer and licensor of sporting goods, apparel, footwear, and other active lifestyle products under the Everlast brand name, is proud to announce that on Saturday October 7, 2006 heavyweight contender Monte Barrett will wear pink Everlast professional boxing gloves in support of Everlast’s Breast Cancer Awareness initiative with Click…
Undefeated Ramazan Palyani, of Northeast Philadelphia, and once-beaten Ray Narh, of Pittsburgh, PA, meet in a scheduled 12-round contest for the vacant Pennsylvania State Lightweight Championship on Friday evening, Nov. 17, at the New Alhambra, Swanson & Ritner Streets, next to Forman Mills, in South Philadelphia. First of seven fights at 7.30 p.m.
The dream boxing power manager Scott Hirsch had a year ago, of turning an inexperienced country boy into a world-class heavyweight, came closer to being realized today, as Arkansas’ JD “The Natural†Chapman has entered the WBC’s world ratings at #14.
When the 20th anniversary celebration of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING continues on Oct. 7 at 9 p.m., ET/PT (delayed on the west coast), Diego “Chico†Corrales will face arch nemesis and former 130-pound world champion, southpaw Joel “El Cepillo†Casamayor. Click for larger image© Tom Casino Showtime Boxing The rubber match of an outstanding, hard-fought series…
World light heavyweight champion Clinton Woods has vowed to help gymmate and close friend Femi Fehintola follow in his footsteps and win a British Title. Undefeated “Fire’ Fehintola, Bradford, 14-0 (1KO), challenges champion Carl Johanneson, Leeds, 24-2 (17KOs), at the Hillsborough Leisure Centre, Sheffield, on November 3.
One match-up features former roommates who used to spar together, while the other pits undefeated fighters from different sides of the globe. What all four fighters have in common, however, is a goal to reach the top of the super middleweight division. That journey will continue when SHOWTIME televises the semi-finals of the “ShoBox: The…