Fight Previews
Click for larger image © Rhun Leeding / Saddo Boxing With a week to go until Pembroke Dock’s Scott Gammer makes his first defence of the British Heavyweight Championship against East London’s Micky Steeds, everyone is predicting a close fight. Steed, 8-1, hailing from the Isle of Dogs, goes into this match-up at the Afan…
After damning and vilifying Jose Luis Castillo for coming five pounds overweight for their aborted third contest, Diego Corrales has just done the same thing as Castillo while weighing in for his third bout with Joel Casamayor! For his first attempt, Corrales weighted in at 140 lb, a full five pounds about the weight limit…
Click for larger image © Mark DeSisto / Saddo Boxing The Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada held the press conference for this Saturday’s big fight between archrivals Diego Corrales and Joel Casamayor, who face each other for the third time, a contest that Showtime will broadcast. WBC Lightweight Champion Corrales was…
Rosemont’s All State Arena plays host this Saturday to the 2nd defence of Nikolai Valuev’s WBA World Heavyweight Championship. In the opposite corner on the Don King promotion will be fringe contender Monte Barrett. Much has been made of Valuev’s size and he has unfairly in the past been looked on as a figure of…
Will Audley Finally Step Up? Reports have surfaced concerning former Olympic Gold Medal hero Audley Harrison facing Commonwealth Heavyweight Champion Matt Skelton on 9 December in London, England. While the bout has yet to be officially declared, that is expected to come at a press conference tomorrow in the British capital, it’s a matchup that…
Two Forces Collide! This weekend’s clash between British Light Middleweight Champion Jamie Moore and challenger Matthew Macklin is probably the most anticipated domestic showdown in the UK for the last decade. Reason being as it’s a true 50/50 contest that could go either way. For me, as a fan of boxing, and many others, that…
Click for larger image © Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing Wladimir Klitschko Promises To Win November Bout with Calvin Brock, Pledges $250,000 To UNESCO Charity IBF Heavyweight Champion Dr. Wladimir “Steelhammer†Klitschko, 46-3 (41), will make his first title defense against undefeated Calvin “The Boxing Banker†Brock, 29-0 (22), at Madison Square Garden in New…
Light welterweight Ted Bami aims to echo the feats of countrymen Ricky Hatton and Junior Witter this Friday when he meets travel-hardened Italian Giuseppe Lauri for the vacant EBU title on a Sky Sports televised bill at London’s famed York Hall. Bami, 28, is reeling off seven straight victories – four inside the distance –…
In a rematch of their closely contested bout in May, Marco Antonio Barrera and Rocky Juarez renew hostilities for the WBC Super Featherweight Championship this Saturday at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada on a Golden Boy Promotion with HBO televising the card as a live action PPV broadcast. In a professional career spanning…
In a bout good enough to be a main event in its own right Jorge Barrios defends his WBO Super Featherweight crown against Joan Guzman on the same bill as Barrera v. Juarez II this Saturday. This is a fight that only true boxing fans can appreciate; a trade fight, if you will. We all…
Click for larger image © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Corley = 139.25 pounds – Witter = 139.5 pounds The sun shone yesterday at Alexandra Palace, London, England for the weigh-in of Junior “Hitter’” Witter of Bradford and DeMarcus “Chop Chop” Corley of Washington D.C. for the vacant WBC Light Welterweight Title which takes place…
Click for larger image © Mark DeSisto / Saddo Boxing Boxing promoter Top Rank has put together a nice fight card to take place in Las Vegas at The Orleans Arena on Thursday night. The bouts will be shown on The Outdoor Life Network (OLN), a channel found in most basic cable television packages. In…