Fight Results
In front of 4,000 fans last night at the Ewe Arena in Oldenberg, Germany former WBA Heavyweight titlist Nikolay Valuev resumed his career after suffering his first professional loss and world title to Ruslan Chagaev back in April. The seven foot “Russian Giant” squared off with six foot five inch Canadian southpaw, Jean-Francois Bergeron of…
Wayne Elcock held his long awaited coming out party at the Skydome Arena in Coventry, England on Friday night as the Birmingham middleweight outboxed the highly decorated Howard Eastman in an entertaining scrap to annex the British title. Elcock came into the clash as the clear underdog, having failed in a previous British title bid…
Escobedo wins NABO Featherweight belt! In just over a month since defeating Rey Bautista in the Second Annual Golden Boy Promotions Boxing World Cup, WBO and IBA Junior Featherweight Champion Daniel Ponce de Leon, 33-1 (30), needed just five rounds to take out the rugged Columbian Reynaldo Lopez, 27-6-2 (19), at the Morongo Casino in…
On a Matchroom Promotion on Friday night at the Ice Rink in Kircaldy, Scotland, British Welterweight Champion Kevin Anderson turned back the hopes of “Fearless” Francis Jones with a dramatic 12th and final round stoppage. The challenger entered the bout on the strength of a fifth round KO of former big punching former British Champ…
It was a good weekend in South America, so let’s get to it with a round up of what went on in Argentina as WBO Flyweight Champ Omar Andres “The Huracan” Narvaes, 25-0-2 (16), retained his belt for the eleventh time with a stoppage of overmatched Nicaraguan import Marlon Marquez, 11-3 (4), on Friday at…
The Great White North saw a bit of boxing action weekend, led by Sebastien Demers’ successful campaign to win the Canadian Middleweight title last night at the Casino in Montreal. Demers, 21-1 (9), was coming off a courageous but failed bid to lift the IBF Middleweight title from Arthur Abraham this past May in Germany…
There were some big names in action last night in the states, topped off by the WBO NABO Light Welter title winning effort of Lamont Peterson, 22-0 (10), who stopped Frankie Santos, 15-4-3 (7), in the sixth round at the Hard Rock Casino in Biloxi, MS. Also on the bill was former two weight world…
On a night of scintillating southpaw sluggers on Showtime, lightweight Antonio Demarco and undefeated junior middleweight Alfredo Angulo took the next step toward a world ranking with impressive victories Friday on “ShoBox: The New Generation.†In his 10-round debut, DeMarco (16-1-1, 12 KOs), recorded a unanimous decision over game warrior Nick Casal (16-2-1, 1 NC,…
Kendall Holt nearly pulled off an upset last night at Salon Jumbo Del Country Club in Barranquilla, Colombia but the power of reigning WBO Light Welter Champion Ricardo Torres bailed out the hometown man, stopping the American challenger in the eleventh round. Things started off slow as both men probed the defenses of the other…
There were two good cards in Argentina over the weekend with Saturday’s bill in Buenos Aires leading the way where southpaw light welter sensation Cesar Rene Cuenca remained undefeated . 26 year old Cuenca improved to 30-0 (1) with a clear cut ten round decision over Centenario based journeyman Juan Alberto Godoy, 19-10-1 (7), via…
Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing In exactly the type of well-matched, hotly contested fight that exemplifies what “ShoBox: The New Generation†is all about, Fulgencio Zuniga (20-2-1, 17 KOs) registered a convincing ninth-round TKO over previously undefeated World Boxing Organization (WBO) No. 8 contender Victor Oganov (26-1, 26 KOs) in…
It was an eventful Friday night in the Sydney area boxing scene with light middle Daniel “The Rock” Dawson and cruiserweight Daniel Ammann bringing home the victories on two seperate fight cards. At the Croatian Club in Sydney, Dawson, 29-0 (20), retained his PABA title with a devastating first round KO over Sydney based Russian…