Boxing Fans From Around the Globe Encouraged to “Vote for Joe!” Voting has opened for the BBC Wales Sports Personality 2007 and World Super-Middleweight Champion Joe Calzaghe is a hot favourite to win the award for a third time on Sunday 2nd December. Calzaghe, who won the award last year and in 2001, is also…
NY Press Conference: Showtime Closes the Season with a Triple-Header **With Slideshow** Click for larger image © Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing Yesterday at the famous Gallagher’s Steakhouse in New York City, Gary Shaw Productions and Showtime held a final press conference to promote their triple-header to close out the 2007 season on Showtime Championship…
Veteran trainer Don Turner believes WBO No. 2 rated middleweight contender “Ireland’s†John Duddy (22-0, 17 KOs) will become his 21st world champion. First, though, Duddy has to get past former European champion and 2-time world title challenger Howard “The Battersea Bomber†Eastman (42-5, 35 KOs) on December 8 in the 10-round main event at…
Former IBA champion and world ranked Cruiserweight Bobby Gunn 18-3 {15 KO’s} is hoping for a fight with former WBC Light Heavyweight and current IBO Cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek. Gunn was recently mentioned for a fight with Antonio Tarver, but was passed by for Danny Santiago. “I watched the fight of the Antonio Tarver and…
November 30 in Drummondville will mark the first ever Feminine North American title fight in the history of Quebec. Fighting in her eleventh pro fight, Danielle Bouchard, 8-1-1 (1), originally from Jonquiere, will try to capture her first belt, the WBC International Super Bantamweight title, against Maria Nunez Anchorena, 7-3 (5).
Click for larger image © David Martin-Warr / DKP Two of the greatest boxers in history, Felix “Tito†Trinidad and Roy Jones Jr., will face each other in a battle boxing fans have been waiting for years to see at New York’s famed Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008, and will be produced…
World rated light heavyweight contender Danny Green has entered the most crucial phase of training camp in preparation to his title challenge of WBA Champion Stipe Drews at Challenge Stadium in Green’s hometown of Perth, Australia on December 16, 2007.
Donna Brooks has no doubts in her mind about the skill level of Shaun George. “I’ve seen it since day one when we signed him,” said Brooks, president of Hall of Fame Promotions. When Shaun George enters the ring on December 6 in Newark, NJ’s Robert Treat Hotel, the rest of the world will see…
Hard-hitting eleventh ranked WBC 154-pound contender James Kirkland (20-0, 17 KOs) hopes to continue his ascension to the top of the junior middleweight division when he takes on the dangerous Allen Conyers (11-2, nine KOs) Friday, Nov. 30, 2007, on ShoBox: The New Generation, live on Showtime at 11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West…
Coming into his fight against the IBF Welterweight Champion Kermit Cintron (29-1, 27KO’s), Saturday night at the Staples’ Center, Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing promoted, Jesse “El Rayo” Feliciano (15-6-3, 9KO’s) understood that many saw him not only as a huge underdog to take Cintron’s title, but that he would be lucky to even last six…
Some of the Big Apple’s best and brightest boxing prospects will showcase their talents December 13 on the “Holiday Hits†pro boxing show, co-promoted by Ring Promotions and Cedric Kushner’s Gotham Boxing, at The Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan.
**With Boxing Slideshow** Click for larger image © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing It was a packed house at ‘The Muni’, otherwise known as Municipal Hall, in Colne, Lancashire, England yesterday for another VIP Promotion by Steve Wood. There were four contests followed by ‘entertainment for the boys’ as part of the ‘JollyBoys Tour’. Young…