Boxing Previews

We are so close now to the world heavyweight title fight between Vitali Klitschko and Danny Williams. Among the many factors that will determine the winner of the WBC championship fight on Saturday night in Las Vegas, what follows is a detailed look at the vital statistics of both fighters. …

LOS ANGELES, December 2nd – As Golden Boy Promotions wraps up its second year of presenting world-class boxing on HBO Latino’s “Oscar De La Hoya Presents Boxeo De Oro”, the company has decided that there was no better way to give back to the people that have supported the series …

The following is the complete transcript of Danny Williams’ nationally conducted conference call with a special guest appearance from former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis. Opening Comments: Williams: I said weeks ago that I had surpassed the fitness I was for the title fight. I am in tremendous shape. This has …

England’s Jane “Fleetwood Assassin” Couch has pulled out of her rematch Friday night against former title-holder Jaime “The Hurricane” Clampitt. Couch, who has been stripped of her IWBF junior welterweight title, has been replaced on “Bragging Rights” by four-time world title challenger Eliza Olson against Clampitt for the now vacant …

U.S. Olympian Jason “Big Six” Estrada makes his pro debut Friday night in a four-round special heavyweight attraction on “Bragging Rights,” the holiday pro boxing show at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut. World Boxing Council youth middleweight champion “Bad” Chad Dawson (15-0, 10 KOs), of New Haven (CT), fights …

Manny Pacquiao, the thrilla from Manila returns to his native country this weekend to fight Thailand’s Fahsan 3K Battery in a battle of southpaws that is thought to be no more than a workout for Pacquiao ahead of his rematch with Juan Manuel Marquez in the New Year. Fahsan will …

Australian flyweight Hussein Hussein looks set to get a title shot against reigning and defending champion Omar Narvaez of Argentina early in the new year. Hussein has already lost one fight in title competition to Pongsaklek Wonjongkam for the WBC flyweight championship of the world. Trained by Jeff Fenech, Hussein …

Jeff “Left Hook” Lacy is one of boxing’s most promising fighters and will be looking to build on that reputation as he defends his IBF super middleweight belt tomorrow night in Las Vegas against the ever-dangerous Omar Sheika. Lacy has only seventeen professional fights on his resume, and although the …

Click for larger image © Tom Casino Jose Luis Castillo prevailed over Juan Lazcano in the struggle for the vacant WBC lightweight championship earlier this year, the complete opposite of the fortune spectrum from his challenger on Saturday. Joel Casamayor suffered his second career defeat to Diego Corrales, no shame …

Age, experience and wear and tear, merely some of the things that drastically separate Jermain Taylor from William Joppy. Success of late is another being that Taylor is the undefeated and rising former Olympian thought to be the successor to Bernard Hopkins’ middleweight legacy. Joppy however has not fared so …

Jeff Lacy stopped Syd Vanderpool to become the IBF super middleweight champion. One might think that for such a young man and at such a tender stage of his career, turning from being the hunter to the hunted might be a daunting proposition for the young Floridian. However, Lacy shows …

WBC lightweight championship. JOSE LUIS CASTILLO (50-6-1, 45 KOs), First weight: one ounce over, second weight: 134.4-pounds. JOEL CASAMAYOR (31-2, 19 KOs) First weight: one ounce over, second weight: 135-pounds. IBF super middleweight championship. JEFF LACY (17-0, 14 KOs) Weight: 168 -pounds. OMAR SHEIKA (26-6, 17 KOs). Weight: 166 pounds. …