Fight Results
Reigning British and Commonwealth Super Middleweight Champion Carl Froch defended the latter title last night on a Hennessy Sports bill against an older, smaller but very willful Australian, Dale Westerman, at London’s historic York Hall. But the brash Nottingham native was shocked by the hard Melbourne man for the first half of the contest as…
Click for larger image© Jane WarburtonSaddo Boxing The GH Carnall Centre in Manchester was host to a great boxing on Sunday when Steve Woods and Maloney Promotions teamed up to produce a cracking fight card headlined by one of Britain’s rising stars, undefeated welterweight Ali Nuumbembe. Not only was the promotion a first class affair…
**Report updated with tons of Boxing Photos** Promoter Veronca Michaels and matchmaker Don Elbaum opened the gates to The Legendary Blue Horizon for the first time in the 2006 season and SaddoBoxing.com was firmly planted ringside at Philly’s top boxing venue. There were bigger names on the card, but it was up and coming prospect…
By Keith McMenamin and Jeff Imbrogno Philly Fighters Win “War” Shuler Boxing was back at the First District Plaza in Philadelphia for a night dubbed the “War at the District” featuring local fighters against out of state competition. The war turned into a massacre for the Percy Custas stable as Simon “One Punch” Carr, Jamaal…
After a snowstorm induced postponement of one night, the New England megafight between super middles Peter Manfredo and Scott Pemberton took place tonight on a CES Promotion at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island. Pemberton, at age 39, represented the old guard of New England boxing while Manfredo, at 25, was the fresh…
Chicago brawler Luciano “El Mohicano” Perez, 12-3-1 (11KO?s) will face St. Louis native Steve Vincent, 8-4 (7KO?s), in an eight round welterweight bout in the co-main event of this Friday night?s Solo Boxeo event at Cicero Stadium, it was announced today by Dominic Pesoli, President of 8 Count Productions, Home of the Best in Chicago…
Boxing Photo Gallery by Mike Taylor & Matthew Voyle Commonwealth Middleweight Title Fight From Plymouth Pavilions, Plymouth, UK Click for larger image© Matthew VoyleSaddo Boxing Not a lot happens In the old barracks town of Plymouth, but when British Middleweight Champion Scott Dann is in the ring everyone knows about it and “The Pride of…
Mercurial lightweight and super-journeyman Emanuel Augustus got back on track Friday night at Foxwoods Resort and Casino in Connecticut by stopping Colombian banger Jaime Rangel in the tenth and final frame of what had been a very close bout. It was the big punching of the Colombian that made the contest close but the cagey…
Ex-WBC Lightweight Champion Cesar Bazan nearly paid dearly for his slow starting style as the towering Mexican banger pulled a split decision out of the fire against hard luck light welter journeyman Marteze Logan Friday night at San Antonio’s Roseland Ballroom. Logan, who makes a habit of taking last minute bouts as a replacement opponent,…
**With Boxing Images** Guilty Boxing started off 2006 with an action-packed event over the weekend at The Orleans Hotel & Casino in boxing’s top fight town, Las Vegas, Nevada. After the recent Manny Pacquiao show here in town, if you hadn’t gotten your fix of Freddy Roach trained Filipino southpaws, this was the fight card…
“Superbrawl 1”, New England Ringside Promotions’ first major boxing event, drew a sellout crowd to the Park Plaza Castle in Boston on Saturday night. The event started slow and threatened to become a series of one round knockouts between rising stars and sacrificial lambs. Fortunately, the headline fight saved the evening. For the only bout…
Last night on an HBO televised Top Rank card from the Don Haskins Center In El Paso, Texas, the world’s premier lightweight, Jose Luis Castillo, saw action against Oxnard, California’s Rolando Reyes. Round one: the fight starts with Reyes, a replacement for Diego Corrales, pawing at Castillo with the jab in the center of the…