Ringside Boxing

Photos copyright Jane Warburton Saddo Boxing Inside a sweltering Altrincham Leisure centre, WBC number one ranked Cruiserweight contender David Haye successfully defended his European Title via a unanimous twelve rounds points decision over Belgium’s Ismail Abdoul on a Maloney Promtion last Friday night.The fight was extremely dull and disappointing though, …

Massive Photo Gallery copyright Jane Warburton Saddo Boxing.com In the fight of the night on the Maloney Promotions bill at the Altrincham leisure centre last Friday night, British light middleweight champion Jamie Moore tuned up in very impressive fashion for his September bout with Matthew Macklin. Going up against fellow …

The speed of Shane Mosley was simply too much for Fernando Vargas on Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mosley was just waiting for an opening in the sixth round before planting a lightning left hook square on the chin of “El Feroz” , who fell …

Click for larger image © Jay McGuigan / Saddo Boxing The Blue Horizon was open for bloody business once again, this time featuring young hopefuls on a card consisting of five – four rounders and a six round main event. Joey Abell was promoted to headliner and was ready to …

At Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales last night, 39 year old Matt Skelton beat Commonwealth Heavyweight Champion Danny Williams to avenge his February defeat, and to pave the way for a title challenge against Russian giant and WBA Champion Nikolay Valuev. Skelton, 20-1, chose to focus his training on developing …

Click for larger image © Matthew Voyle / Saddo Boxing Undefeated Welsh heavyweight Scott Gammer claimed the BBBofC Heavyweight Title on Friday night with an exciting nine-round stoppage over Yorkshire’s Mark Krence. ‘The Hammer’ improved to 16-0-1 with the victory, and called out Britain’s best afterwards, with Audley Harrison, Danny …

Click for larger image © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Everton Park Sports Centre (Liverpool) played host to some exciting boxing last night organised by Matchroom Sport. The main events being the “Commonwealth Flyweight Championship’ and “Vacant English Super-Middleweight Championship“. Jackson Asiko (Coventry/Uganda) vs. Jamie McKeever (Birkenhead) 12 x 3 …

Click for larger image © Mike McGuigan / Saddo Boxing It was one of the most anticipated fights in the past 10 years of boxing and all the ballers made the trip to Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City this past Saturday. Vince Carter, Edgerrine James, Javon Kearse, Floyd Mayweather, A.I, …

Click for larger image © Jay McGuigan / Saddo Boxing On the eve of New York’s massive Puerto Rican Day Parade, Puerto Rican sensation Miguel Cotto was back in Madison Square Garden on a Top Rank and DiBella shared promotion. A crowd of 14,369 showed up to see Cotto defend …

Duva Boxing and ESPN collaborated for Friday Night Fights at the Tropicana Casino in Atlantic City, NJ, last Friday night in what turned out to be a real snoozer. Headlining the card was undefeated heavyweight Brian Minto, who went on to take a ten round decision from Danny Batchelder. While …

Click for larger image © Jay McGuigan / Saddo Boxing Last Wednesday, The Borgata Hotel and Casino played host to ESPN2’s Wednesday Night Fights as part of a huge week of boxing in Atlantic City; a week that will feature two fighters named Hopkins as the main event on different …

There was no shortage of impressive action this past Saturday on the undercard of Miguel Cotto’s WBO Light Welter title defense against Paulie Malignaggi at Madison Square Garden. With boxing icon Angelo Dundee in his corner, Notre Dame football star Tommy Zbikowski, 1-0 (1), made an impressive pro debut, going …