**With Massive Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing On Friday night at the Harvey Hadden Leisure Centre in Nottingham, England, Rendall Munroe – the Boxing Binman from Leicester – faced champion Kiko Martinez of Alicante, Spain for the European Super Bantamweight title on a Frank Maloney Promotions show billed as “The Matador Versus The…
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Last night at the Harvey Hadden Leisure Centre, Nottingham, England – promoter Frank Maloney staged an exciting night of 11 contests. The main event was Rendall Munroe challenging Spanish Kiko Martinez for the European Super Bantamweight title, billed as “The Matador Versus The Bull.” The other main…
© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing In the third and possibly final bout of their now legendary rivalry, Israel Vazquez, 43-4 (32), held on to the WBC Super Bantamweight title through a grueling twelve round split decision over Rafael Marquez, 37-5 (33). The back and fourth action saw the greatest bout of the trilogy and…
**With Slideshow** © Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing Gotham Boxing and Bash Boxing hosted a night of action packed fights at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City on Thursday night under the moniker “The Russians Are Coming!†The Russians that they are speaking of are IBF Super Flyweight Champion Dimitri Kirilov and undefeated welterweight…
Click for larger image © Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing Saturday night in New York City at Madison Square Garden, Wladimir Klitschko, 50-3 (44), unified the IBF, IBO and WBO Heavyweight titles by defeating formerly unbeaten Sultan Ibragimov, 22-1-1 (17), in front of a very vocal group of 14,011 fans by scores of 119-110, 118-110…
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing There was a great atmosphere inside the famous Blackpool Tower, in Blackpool, England, on Saturday night night as Steve Wood’s VIP Boxing promoted a seven-fight card billed as ’Power at the Tower’. At the foot of the Tower the Circus Arena is a stunning venue with tiered…
Click for larger image © Mike Worden / Saddo Boxing In front of a standing room only crowd last night in the Grand Ballroom of the Pachanga Casino in Temecula, California, Carlos Quintana, 25-1 (19), wrestled away the WBO Welterweight title from Paul Williams, 33-1 (24), by a hard fought 12 round unanimous decision. From…
Friday night at The Palace at Auburn Hills in suburban Detroit was an easy paycheck for undefeated light welterweight Leonardo Tyner. After bouncing a left hook off Victorio Abadia’s temple, followed by a combination that ended with Abadia impaled on a right hook body shot, Tyner, 19-0 (11), finished the job with an uppercut to…
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Friday night from the characterful York Hall in Bethnall Green, London, it was second-time-around for Champion Tony Oakey and Peter Haymer as they faced each other for the British Ligh -Heavyweight Title in a Frank Maloney fight night billed as ‘The Return’. The two met in 2005,…
**With Slideshow** © Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing The Paradise Theater was filled with boxing action last night with a triple co-feature promoted by Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing. This marked the eighth installment of “Punchin’ at the Paradise†in the Bronx, NY. Elvir “The Kosovo Kid†Muriqi 35-4 (22) executed the better of the hard-hitting…
© Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing I sat on the train on my way to Madison Square Garden on Saturday night looking forward to an evening of boxing. Although they are passed their primes, I looked forward to seeing two legends of the ring face each other in the main event. My expectation was either…
Click for larger image © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Friday night saw a cracking start to the New Year as Esham Pickering faced Sean Hughes in a Hennessy Promoted fight night for the British Super Bantamweight title, billed as “The Re-Matchâ€, at the Meadowside Leisure Centre in Burton-on-Trent, England. Just 10 weeks ago, Sean…