Fight Previews
Former WBO junior featherweight champion Agapito “El Ciclón” Sanchez will take on top contender and most recent IBF title challenger Artyom Simonyan. This will be the co-feature of a Banner Promotions event featuring an IBF title eliminator bout between junior middleweights Teddy Reid and the “Kassim Ouma victim†Verno Phillips, as announced earlier today. The…
Joe Calzaghe travels to Germany to defend his title against his previous one round KO victim. Their first fight was in April 2001, when Joe was arguably at his peak, coming off knockouts against Omar Sheika and Richie Woodhall. Since then he has defended seven more times with Charles Brewer and Byron Mitchell his only…
This match-up oozes with “Fight of the Year†potential. Barely two months since his emphatic victory over Julio Diaz, Castillo braces for the defining fight of his career, personifying the fierce pride and work ethic that sets both he and Corrales apart from the pack. Further to the accolades separating these two fighters from their…
When Felix “Tito’ Trinidad climbs through the ropes on May 14 at the MGM Grand, it will be his first proper outing for the best part of four years. He got in a few rounds against Hassine Cherifi, but realistically, Cherifi was never going to offer much resistance. Ricardo Mayorga on the other hand was…
“I’m looking forward to this fight and I’m okay that it takes away the comfort zone of me staying in Wales by having to go out to Germany. The adversity will help me get pumped up to knock out Mario Veit once again.‖Joe Calzaghe. British-based world champions don’t travel all that much when defending their…
Jose Luis Castillo will enter the ring this Saturday against WBO champion, Diego Corrales, one of the most feared knockout artists in all of the lightweight division. Making a mark in the featherweight division, Castillo’s talent for boxing and determination could be sensed early on. His 2000 majority decision win over Stevie Johnston caused some…
“I’m very lucky that since a young age I knew what I wanted. I wanted to be world champion and I’m going to get my dream.â€-Yuri Foreman. Time to Show the Boxing Public if He Has “It.” There was a time about two-and-a-half years ago that, whenever anyone would talk about solid looking prospects, the…
We begin our preview of this week’s world boxing action on Thursday in the idyllic sounding setting of Palm Springs. Whether conditions in the ring prove quite as agreeable remains to be seen as former world light heavyweight champions Julio Gonzalez and Montell Griffin face off. Roy Jones Jr., Glen Johnson, Antonio Tarver, Dariusz Michalczewski…
Translated from Spanish to English by Sergio Martinez. On May 6, 2005, live from the Ft. McDowell Casino in Fountain Hill, Arizona, the main event, which will be televised on Telefutura’s “Solo Boxeo” series, will feature perennial welterweight contender Manuel “Shotgun” Gomez (27-10-1 with 19 KOs). Gomez was originally slated to face the come backing…
A rather unlikely pairing contests the WBA heavyweight championship of the world this weekend. Despite achieving world titles in three weights thus far, one would have to say that James Toney resembles a fighter somewhat out of his depth amongst the heavyweights. In contrast, John Ruiz, a decidedly dubious two-time world champion is a natural…
Tonight, April 29, 2005, live from the Laredo Entertainment Center in Laredo, Texas, and televised on Telefutura, Oscar de la Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotion presents “Night of the Olympians.†Three of De La Hoya’s charges: Daniel Ponce De Leon, Abner Mares, and Vicente Escobedo, all former Olympians, are to feature on the card along with…
At least eighty-percent of boxing fans would love to see John Ruiz get schooled, again, only this time by James Toney not Roy Jones Jr. Because of his fighting style, Ruiz has to be one of the least liked heavyweight champions of all time. Actually he is probably one of the least liked boxers pound-for-pound…