Three years ago, the little known and lightly regarded German Middleweight Champion Felix Sturm took the world by surprise with an evenly matched effort against Oscar De La Hoya for the young fighter’s WBO Middleweight title. Even though Sturm, born Adnan Catic of Leverkusen, Germany, lost the title in a hotly contested decision, he had…
When the “The Pride of Providence” Peter Manfredo, Jr. enters the ring Wednesday night to headline the “Cha-Ching In The Ring” show, it’ll mark his third fight within a 74-day period, an unheard of schedule today for a top 15 contender. Manfredo (27-4, 13 KOs), rated No. 14 by the IBF, lost by controversial stoppage…
Chicago’s 8 Count Productions has signed bantamweight prospect Francisco Rodriguez to an exclusive promotional contract, it was announced today by Dominic Pesoli, President of 8 Count Productions. The 23 year old Rodriguez, born and raised in Chicago, sports a record of 8-1 with six knockouts. His illustrious amateur career includes a first place finish at…
Our President, Jose Sulaiman, as of last Sunday June 10th 2007, is one of the distinguished members of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, site into which he was inducted because of his unquestionable merits in an uninterrupted work of over 50 years, always looking for the best to our sport. We do not want…
“Due to unforeseen circumstances, we have, unfortunately, been forced to cancel our June 23 boxing event at The Roxy in Boston,” stated Promoter Rich Cappiello. “The good news is that Cappiello Promotions returns to Boston at The Castle on July 18th with ESPN2 Wednesday Night Fights! “We will be issuing a release with further information…
By Per Ake Persson Russian heavy Alexander Povetkin will now face experienced and tricky American Larry Donald June 30 in Moscow. Donald comes in instead of Monte Barrett. Larry has been inactive since coming oh-so-close to beat future WBA heavy champ Nikolai Valuev in 2005 but has kept busy and was sparring with European ruler…
Danish super featherweight prospect Kim “Golden Boy†Poulsen (4-1, 1 KO) rounds off the season on July 6, when he fights an opponent yet to be determined at the Mehrzweckhalle in Berlin, Germany on a show promoted by Fight Night Events. This was announced today by manager Henrik Risum, who is happy that Poulsen will…
Just slightly over one year ago, Paul Malignaggi made his first attempt at a world title; one year and six days to be exact. In that attempt, he was battered, beaten, put on the canvas and had his jaw broken. That first run at world championship gold came against the reigning WBO 140 lb champion…
Ajose Olusegun claimed his first title by unanimously out pointing Gary Reid to win the vacant Commonwealth light welterweight crown at Crystal Palace in London on Friday night. The Nigerian born 27 year old was heavily favoured to defeat Reid, a Jamaican born Stoke on Trent resident, but was forced to raise his game to…
Photo Gallery ©Karl Stubbs/Impact Boxing When Gary Reid left the Potteries for London to meet Nigerian Ajose Olusegun it was more in hope than in expectation. The boxing intelligentsia expected Gary to last between 4 and 6 rounds in last night’s Commonwealth light-welterweight title clash. He confounded the experts however and was still on his…
Dominic Pesoli’s 8 Count Productions has announced details of “Summer Sizzle”, their next world class, action packed evening of professional boxing set for Friday, July 13 at the newly remodeled, fully air conditioned Congress Theater in downtown Chicago. Headlining the evening is a super featherweight ten round bout between undefeated Oxnard, California native Jose Aguiniga…
Cestus Management’s undefeated super middleweight dynamo Donovan George needed just seventy-four seconds to discard Cory Phelps. The fight took place this past Thursday night on the undercard of the Hasim Rahman-Tauras Sykes contest from Rochester, New York and was promoted by Top Rank, who is the promoter of Donovan George. “Da’Bomb†went into the ring…