It’s unanimous, Jean Pascal defeated Adrian Diaconu to retain the WBC title on Friday at the Bell Centre in Montreal. Pascal, 27, was facing Diaconu, 30, in a rematch bout for the WBC light-heavyweight title. The fight hinged on Pascal using his lightning quick hands to land repeated combinations, yet in between those salvos, Diaconu…
Last Friday in the main event of a nice combined boxing and mixed martial arts card promoted by Marshall Kauffman the Sovereign Center in Reading, Pennsylvania, Julio Cesar Matthews won the biggest fight of his career by defeating Harvey ‘Candy Man’ Jolly. Matthews, 9-0 (5), a southpaw from Reading, Pennsylvania, stalked Jolly, 10-12-1 (5), of…
**With Slideshow** © Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing hosted a live fight card televised on the Versus Network last night at the Manhattan Center’s Grand Ballroom in New York City. Headlining the event was “Mighty†Mike Arnaoutis who lost a controversial twelve-round split decision against Tim Coleman for the vacant USBA…
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing There was a great Sunday afternoon atmosphere yesterday at the Colne Municipal Hall in Colne, England, when Steve Wood of VIP Promotions and vipboxing.tv hosted a four-fight bill of local boxers. Trevor Crewe (Sunderland) v Manoocha Salari (Worksop) 4 x 3 Light Middleweight Contest Popular ‘Wrecking’ Crewe…
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Last night at the Brentwood Leisure Centre in Essex, England, Hennessy Sports hosted a fightnight billed as ‘Winner Takes It All’. Headlining was to have been the vacant British Middleweight title clash between Darren Barker and ‘Mad Dog’ Wayne Elcock – but a late change of opponent…
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Last night at the Robin Park Arena in Wigan, England, Hatton Promotions hosted a fightnight billed as ‘Wigan Warriors’ in which Anthony Small successfully defend his British and Commonwealth Light Middleweight titles against Thomas McDonagh. Supremely confident Small spent much of his time ‘showboating’ in the early…
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing There was some great undercard action on Friday night at the Harvey Hadden Sports Complex, Nottingham. Dale Miles (Alfreton) v Janis Chernouskis (Latvia) 6 Round Welterweight Contest Miles gets off to a fast start and Chernouskis spends much of his time covering up. Within seconds – the…
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Last night the Harvey Hadden Sports Complex in Nottingham, England, promoter Frank Maloney hosted a fight night headlined by ‘Boxing Binman’ Rendall Munroe’s fifth defence of his European Super Bantamweight title. Facing Italy’s Simone ‘Boom Boom’ Maludrottu, this could be Munroe’s toughest test, but winning this contest…
**With Massive Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing On Friday night at the Fenton Manor Sports Complex in Stoke on Trent, England, Hatton Promotions hosted a fightnight which would see Mathew Hatton face South African born Champion Lovemore N’Dou for the first defence of the IBO Welterweight Title which N’Dou won in July this…
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Saturday night at the Sutton Leisure Centre in St. Helens, England, Promoter Oliver Harrison presented a fight card billed as ‘Blast Zone’ which featured nine contests. As an added attraction, six boxers of note were introduced into the ring including undefeated middleweight prospect Martin Murray, ex-British welter…
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Friday night at the Heritage Hotel in Derby, England, Clifton Mitchell hosted a Boxing dinner event which would see three contests. The hotel suite was packed with guests enjoying a meal. An auction of boxing memorabilia followed and a comedian preceded the boxing. Results as follows: Andrew…
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Friday night at the Bolton Arena in Bolton, England, Frank Maloney promoted a fight night headlined by three title bouts, billed as ‘War of the Roses’. Salford boxer Jamie Moore faced Ryan Rhodes of Sheffield for the European light middleweight title, St.Helens boxer Gary Davies made the…