Year: 2007

Photo ©Tom Casino/Showtime On Saturday, June 9, on Showtime Championship Boxing, 10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast, Antonio Tarver (24-4, 18 KOs), of Tampa, Fla., takes on the New York-based Elvir Muriqi (34-3, 21 KOs) for the vacant IBO 175-pound belt. Muriqi has won 21 of his last 23. In the Showtime co-feature,…

Outspoken boxer Paulie “The Magic Man” Malignaggi has been relatively quiet, at least for him, as he prepares for his June 16th title challenge against IBF junior welterweight champion Lovemore “Black Panther” Ndou on HBO BAD at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. Malignaggi (23-1, 5 KOs) recently returned home to New York City, working…

The personable and talented World Boxing Council (WBC) Light Heavyweight champion “Awesome” Chad Dawson will appear as an in-studio guest June 8 on ESPN’s “Friday Night Fights” (8 p.m. ET/PT on ESPN2). The next evening, June 9, the undefeated Dawson (23-0, 1 NC, 15 KOs) will make the first defense of his crown when he…

MSG, a world class sports and entertainment network, has acquired the exclusive television rights to air the International Boxing Organization Cruiserweight Championship bout between the former World Boxing Council light heavyweight champion Tomaz “Goral” Adamek and World Boxing Council Association Fedelatin champion Luis “El Lenador” Pineda. The match is one of the largest fight cards…

Is Mississippi burning? The Gulf Coast region, still bouncing back from the utter devastation of Hurricane Katrina, is having its typical hot and humid summer weather. But what’s on fire in the area is the box office for the Roy Jones-Anthony Hanshaw PPV boxing show, which will take place on July 14 at the Mississippi…

The World Boxing Association announced today that they will present their longtime lightweight champion Juan “Baby Bull” Diaz with a Super Champion belt at the Boxing Writers Association of America’s 82nd Annual Awards Dinner at the Copacabana in New York on Friday. BWAA President Tim Graham also plans to have Diaz present an award at…

The final news conference and the official weigh-in for “X-Plosive!” the world championship boxing extravaganza headlined by undefeated welterweight champion Miguel Cotto defending his title against two-division world champion Zab Judah will be streamed live worldwide via Yahoo! Sports, one of the most-trafficked sports sites. Promoted by Top Rank, in association with Prize Fight Boxing…

The Northwest Boxing Association Heavyweight Championship is on the line when Vili “The Tongan Warrior” Bloomfield, who is an Everett, WA native and weighs in around 225 lbs. will face Eric “Night Train” Boose, who hails from Puyallup, WA with a ten win one loss record. The 27 year old Boose, will come in around…

It may not be for the vacant state welterweight title, but the two hottest 147-pounders in Pennsylvania collide when Mike Jones takes on Doel Carrasquillo over eight rounds, or less, on Friday evening, July 20, at the New Alhambra, Swanson & Ritner Streets, next to Forman Mills, in South Philadelphia. First of seven fights at…

Risum Boxing’s Danish fighters, Fawaz Nasir (11-1, 6 KOs) and Kim Poulsen (4-1, 1 KO) were originally supposed to start their summer break after their last bouts on May 12 in Oranienburg, Germany, where both recorded easy victories. But both have now expressed a desire to have one more fight before laying back a little,…

Bobby Bostick is the president/CEO of Bobby Bostick Promotions (BBP) a new face in the world of professional boxing promotions. Yet one that has made major in-roads as a company in a very short period of time. Bobby Bostick has determined that it is now time to set the record straight regarding reports that Kermit…