Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Guerrero Takes IBF Feather Belt From Aiken On Undercard James Toney’s improbable run at heavyweight finally ran out of steam tonight at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA as Samuel Peter successfully leveraged his strength and youth advantages to …
Read More »M’baye Wins Vacant WBA Light Welter Boxing Crown
Click for larger image © Mike Cleary / BoxingPhotographs.com Frenchman Souleymane M’baye lead the way on the undercard of Woods – Johnson III in Bolton, England tonight with a WBA Light Welter title winning effort against ex-lightweight world champ Raul Balbi of Argentina. M’baye, 35-1 (20), peppered Balbi, 54-8-1 (37), …
Read More »Boxing Result: Allan Green Gets Past Linton In Tulsa
Emanuel Augustus Gets Even Against Courtney Burton On Undercard Super middle hotshot Allan Green got a good test tonight in the form of veteran southpaw Emmett Linton, who pushed the hometown hero hard over the course of their ten round bout at the Osage Million Dollar Elm Casino in Tulsa, …
Read More »Mitchell Brothers, Nolan Claim Victory On Silverhawk Boxing Bill
In the sunny climes of Pompano Beach, Silverhawk Boxing put on a show featuring the middleweight Mitchell brothers of Philadelphia at Club Cinema. Aaron Mitchell, 25-1-1 (2), won the IBO Intercontinental belt with a sixth round stoppage over Christopher Holt, 12-7 (8). Holt, of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, went to war …
Read More »Boxing Result: Maussa Schooled In Miami
The massive left hook that Ricky Hatton gunned down Carlos Maussa with last November in Sheffield seems to have taken any world class skills that the rangy, wild swinging Colombian may have had as the ex-WBA Light Welter Champ lost to unheralded Mexican Manuel Garnica at the Miccosukee Resort in …
Read More »Former Contender Boxing Contestants Victorious
Sergio Mora, Ishe Smith and Alfonso Gomez all came up with wins on two separate fight cards last night in America. Mora, 19-0 (4), had the toughest assignment in the form of towering middleweight Eric Regan, 26-3 (17), but “The Latin Snake” used his natural athleticism to keep away from …
Read More »Worldwide Weekend Boxing Roundup
Aside from the Paul Williams – Sharmba Mitchell card and Evander Holyfield comeback already covered on SaddoBoxing, there were many good contests held over the weekend across the globe. Starting with Friday, we first hit America where in Houston, Texas Giovanni Segura, 15-0 (12), secured the vacant IBA Flyweight belt …
Read More »Boxing Result: Williams Guns Down Mitchell In Reno
Aside from a few brief moments, Sharmba Mitchell played the part of stepladder last night at the Events Center in Reno, Nevada with rising welterweight contender Paul “The Punisher” Williams battering the aging former light welter world champion from pillar to post for four painful rounds. Absolutely towering over the …
Read More »Holyfield Gives Bates Boxing Lesson
43 year old Evander Holyfield was well-matched last night in Dallas, Texas as the former multiweight world champion gave journeyman Jeremy Bates a boxing, or better yet – a battering lesson – as “The Real Deal” hammered his opponent into submission during two ones sided rounds. Holyfield, 39-8-2 (26), picked …
Read More »“Maskaev pounds The Rock, and raises his stock”
By Mike Casile Philaboxingreport.com The steady sound you heard last night in the Thomas Mack arena in Las Vegas, was not the clock ticking closer to midnight, for the 37 year old Cinderella man ,Oleg Maskaev (33 – 5, 26 KO’s), but rather the beautifully placed left hooks, he seemed …
Read More »Saturday Night Boxing Roundup
Last night saw some decent action around the globe, the most important of which occurred on the Maskaev – Rahman undercard in Las Vegas. That bill saw two important contests, chiefly a WBC Lightweight eliminator between Jose Armando Santa Cruz and David Diaz. Santa Cruz led the whole way, pitching …
Read More »Red Tide: Maskaev Guns Down Rahman To Take WBC Heavy Boxing Crown!
It was a heavyweight shootout of Cold War proportions last night at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas as Russian born Oleg Maskaev turned back the clock and once again stopped defending WBC Champion Hasim Rahman. The two combatants met almost seven years ago and Maskaev knocked Rahman …
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