Fight Results
Last night in front of 6,000 fans at the Palais des Sport in Marseille, WBA Bantamweight Champion Wladimir Sidorenko retained his belt for the fifth consecutive time with a seventh round knockout of French titlist Jerome Arnould. From the start Arnould was outclassed and couldn’t cope with the experience and high energy style of Sidorenko,…
WBA super middleweight world champion- Mundine Anthony “The Man’ Mundine has defended his World Boxing Association (WBA) super middleweight world title with a unanimous point’s decision victory over Argentine Pablo Daniel Zamora Nievas at the Gold Coast Convention Centre. Mundine entered the stadium being carried as a king on his throne complete with crown, and…
In 1998, Norway’s top fighter Reidar Walstad defeated European Super Bantam Champion Bernard Dunne in the amateurs but last night found the tables turned at the 8,000 seat Dublin venue The Point in front of a screaming pro Dunne audience. Walstad pressed the action from the start as he tried to turn a height disadvantage…
In a rematch to their riveting first fight a year ago, middleweights Amin Asikainen and Sebastian “Hurrikan” Sylvester went at it hammer and tongs last night at the Stadhalle in Zwickau and by the eleventh round, Sylvester had won back the European title. Last year in Hanover, the previously undefeated Finn Asikainen broke open a…
Last night at the Convention Centre in Townsville, Queensland, Australian Super Middleweight Champion Les Sherrington ruthlessly gunned down challenger Shaun Quagliotto in the first round. The crowd was split between supporters of both local men and the action got off to a bang when Sherrington rocked his rival with a stiff jab. The 25 year…
Just slightly over one year ago, Paul Malignaggi made his first attempt at a world title; one year and six days to be exact. In that attempt, he was battered, beaten, put on the canvas and had his jaw broken. That first run at world championship gold came against the reigning WBO 140 lb champion…
Ajose Olusegun claimed his first title by unanimously out pointing Gary Reid to win the vacant Commonwealth light welterweight crown at Crystal Palace in London on Friday night. The Nigerian born 27 year old was heavily favoured to defeat Reid, a Jamaican born Stoke on Trent resident, but was forced to raise his game to…
By Ben Lettman Victories For Africa’s Finest It was a great night for African boxing at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in London. Along with Ajose Olusegun becoming the new Commonwealth Light Welterweight Champion, there were points victories for fellow Nigerian Tony Salam and South African Tshifwa Munyai, respectively. Munyai, fighting at featherweight instead…
Last night on a Frank Maloney promotion at the Crystal Palace in South London, flashy southpaw Ajose Olusegun took on Impact Boxing’s seasoned body punching hardman Gary Reid and came away with the vacant Commonwealth Light Welter crown with a unanimous points win. Olusegun started off the bout with his trademark gunslinging style, levelling full…
Last night in front of 10,000 fans at the Bell Centre in Montreal, undefeated super middle southpaw Lucian Bute kept his perfect record by winning an IBF Eliminator with a tough twelve round decision over the rugged Sakio Bika. Bika came to fight, having already tangled with the likes of world champions Joe Calzaghe, Markus…
Saturday night at The Spodek in Katowice, Poland, former WBC Light Heavyweight Champion Tomasz Adamek and four time former world heavyweight title challenger Andrew Golota both won comeback fights in front of a roaring packed house. Adamek put on 23 pounds and won the IBO Cruiserweight title with a sharp punching effort over Panama’s Luis…
At the Convention Center in Hartford on Saturday, two of the top light heavies in the world were in action. Ex-WBC,WBA and IBF Champion Antonio Tarver had his hands full with a fired up Elvir Muriqi enroute to a twelve round majority decision to take the vacant IBO belt while current reigning WBC Champion Chad…