Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing is proud to announce the hiring of Brad Jacobs as its new Senior Vice-President of Operations and Development. Jacobs comes to Star Boxing after a successful six year stint as the senior advisor to future Hall of Fame boxer Roy Jones Jr. and Jones’ promotional company Square Ring Inc. Star Boxing…
DiBella Entertainment will bring boxing fans a star-studded evening of New York’s premier pugilists as Broadway Boxing Presented by Turning Stone Resort and Casino returns to the Grand Ballroom at Manhattan Center on Friday night, May 19th. The stellar card is headlined by Spanish Harlem’s Edgar “El Chamaco†Santana (17-2, 12 KO’s), who squares off…
Big John Poore, of Boothwyn, PA, goes for his 18th victory in 19 pro fights when he boxes Demetrice King, of Flint, MI, in the scheduled eight-round heavyweight semifinal Friday evening, June 16, at the New Alhambra, Swanson & Ritner Streets next to Forman Mills, in South Philadelphia. First of seven fights at 7.30 p.m….
Northeast Promotions in association with El Paso Professional Baseball LP presents ESPN 2 “Friday Night Fights†live from Cohen Stadium in El Paso, Texas on May 26, 2006. Headlining the bout in a 12 round USBA Welterweight title fight, will be Delvin Rodriguez (18 – 1 – 1 10 KO’s) Danbury, CT vs. Luis Hernandez…
The countdown is on and the premier light heavyweight in the world, Antonio “Magic Man’ Tarver is now a little over a month away from one of the biggest fight of his career on June 10th at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey against middleweight legend Bernard Hopkins. A little over a month, or…
Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero, 16-1-1 (9), got some good work in today with Bobby Pacquiao, brother of Filipino star Manny Pacquiao and IBF Super Bantamweight Champion Israel Vasqez. “Everything went well today,” said Guerrero. “I worked on my body attack and did some adjustments on my footwork. The rest of this camp is going to…
Professional boxing will return to Daytona Beach for the first time in more than a decade as the Daytona Cubs, in conjunction with the Manolo Corporation, have officially announced “Fight Night at the Jack.†The event is set for Saturday, May 27, 2006, at 7:00 P.M. at Jackie Robinson Ballpark..
Ring rust? What ring rust? In his first fight in 20 months, “The Golden Boy’, Oscar De La Hoya showed that he was better than ever, impressively stopping Ricardo Mayorga in six dominating rounds to win the WBC junior middleweight championship at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The end came at…
Exciting World Title Bouts Will Be Replayed First Time On SHO Extreme Monday, May 8, At 11 PM ET/PT Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing This time, Jose Antonio Rivera left no doubt. Fighting for the first time since disappointing the hometown fans and losing his World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight…
Ricky Hatton landed at Boston’s Logan airport at 1:00 P.M. today. At 5:00 P.M. he was at Suffolk Downs, New Englands’s only thoroughbred racetrack, where a race was named in his honor on Derby Day. The tenth and final race of the day, a six-furlong allowance race, was named the “Ricky Hitman Hatton Classic.â€
Both Bouts to Be Replayed on SHO EXTREME Monday, May 8, at 8 PM ET/PT SHOWTIME kicked off its Cinco de Mayo celebration with two action- packed fights Friday on “ShoBox.†In the main event, late substitute Glenn Donaire captured the North American Boxing Association (NABA)/North American Boxing Organization (NABO) flyweight title with a 12-round…
Click for larger image© Jane WarburtonSaddo Boxing Ricky Hatton’s trainer Billy Graham heads to America fully confident of victory going into The Hitman’s WBA Welterweight title challenge of Champion Luis Collazo on a joint Fight Academy/Banner Promotions venture at Boston’s TD Banknorth Garden on Saturday, May 13. Having previously trained World, European, Commonwealth and British…