Fight Results
There wasn’t a great deal of action last night across the globe but fans in attendance at the River Rock Casino in the Canadian city of Richmond saw what could have been the final nail driven into the career coffin of heavyweight Dominic Guinn. The 32 year old Texan was soundly defeated by journeyman spoiler…
Whether it’s freezing cold or nice and tropically warm where you are right now, there wasn’t a whole lot of boxing happening last weekend with the holiday season in full swing but there a few things to look forward to this week. Tomorrow on Christmas day, 39 year old Pramuansak “The Machine Gun” Posuwan, 40-1-1-…
In a major Continental upset, Belorussian super feather Sergey Gulyakevich outpointed the heavy handed reigning European Champion Leva Kirakosyan over twelve rounds at Datch Forum in Milan, Italy last night. 26 year old Gulyakevich outboxed the favored Kirakosyan, an Armenian residing in Spain, and managed to avoid the champion’s massive punching power while annexing the…
Not a whole lot went on last night but there were a few notable bouts to cover and we start at the Salle du Bouvy in La Louviere, Belgium where hometown hero Carmelo Ballone, 20-2-1 (9), stopped Romania’s Eugen Sorin Tanasie, 14-1-1 (6), in the eighth to annex the vacant European Bantamweight title. The belt…
It wasn’t the busiest of weekends in the world of boxing, but there were some good fightcards out there and on this occasion, we’re going to work backwards through time. We start off on Sunday at Challenge Stadium in Perth, Australia, where hometown sensation Danny Green finally managed to cage a full fledged world title…
One-round finish for the Olympic medallist in Bolton In the biggest challenge of his career so far, Khan silenced doubters and cheered supporters with an emphatic first round KO of former world-title challenger Graham Earl. In front of a packed Bolton Arena, which included 1,000 Earl fans who followed the Luton man to Bolton, Khan…
Aside from the bouts already covered here on SaddoBoxing, it was a real busy weekend around the global fisticuff scene, with most of the action taking place on Friday but the more important action was on Saturday. We’ll cover it all, right here and now, with a little bit of Sunday thrown in for good…
Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Three of boxing’s biggest and most important players notched impressive victories on the final Showtime Championship Boxing telecast of 2007. Antonio “Magic Man†Tarver, Vernon “The Viper†Forrest and “The Filipino Flash†Nonito Donaire each scored TKO victories before an enthusiastic crowd Saturday at the…
Last night, at the Newham Leisure Centre in London, Ian Napa outboxed and outfoxed a hardworking Martin Power to retain his British Bantamweight title. Despite being six inches shorter than his opponent, and having a four inch reach deficit, “Dappa” Napa used a style practiced to negate Power’s advantage, forcing Power to lunge in rather…
Click for larger image © Dwight McCann Two fights. Five knockdowns. Four minutes and 15 seconds of heart-pounding action. In arguably the most thrilling telecast in the six-year history of “ShoBox,†James Kirkland and Alfredo Angulo each scored first-round TKOs in separate bouts Friday on SHOWTIME.
Father time finally caught up with heavily decorated two weight world champion Virgil Hill as the 43 year old was outperformed by challenger Firat Arslan, losing the WBA Cruiserweight title by a wide points verdict at Freiberger Arena in Dresden, Germany. 37 year old Arslan, a former longtime sparring partner of ex-European Champion Luan Krasniqi,…
Last night in Veracruz, Mexico, WBA Light Flyweight Champion Edgar Sosa retained his crown with a fourth round stoppage over challenger Roberto Carlos Leyva at Estadio Beto Avila. The bout started off slow but by the second frame, Sosa had finished studying and began fighting Leyva, pushing the faded former IBF Minimumweight titlist back with…