Photo ©Gianluca “Rio” Di Caro With details of his mandatory defense of the IBF Cruiserweight crown announced last week, Philadelphia’s own Steve ‘USS’ Cunningham came face to face with his Polish born opponent, Tomasz ‘Polish Warrior’ Adamek, for the first time at the annual Pulaski Day parade in New York City. Cunningham, 21-1 (11), an…
It’s just talk, but there’s been plenty of it leading up to Saturday’s WBC Heavyweight Championship between Samuel Peter, 30-1 (23), and Vitali Klitschko, 35-2 (34). With just five days remaining till the bout, here is a sampling of what top fighters, promoters and analysts are saying about the Showtime Championship Boxing fight, which will…
Top heavyweight prospects Manuel Quezada, 24-4 (15), and Teke Oruh, 14-1-1 (6), meet once and for all when the two warriors battle in a ten round main event set to take place at the Tachi Palace Casino on October 23, 2008. Quezada, riding a thirteen fight winning streak, puts his WBC CABOFE title on the…
Photos © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing It was a grey and wet afternoon – but it was all smiles at Impact Boxing’s new base in Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent, England, this Saturday. Former English Lightweight Champion Scott Lawton and team officially opened the new Impact Boxing Gym and had invited press, friends, family and the public…
World ranked junior middleweight Deandre “The Bull†Latimore will return to his home town of St. Louis, Missouri on Friday, November 7 at the Family Arena to take on veteran Sammy Sparkman in a ten round bout, it was announced today by his manager Jerry Giuliano of Sandman Boxing Management. The ten round main event…
Promethean Press today announced the launch of its new classic boxing book series. The series makes available many classic boxing texts from the late 19th to early 20th century that were long out of print and exceedingly hard to find. According to R. T. Van Pelt, assistant editor at Promethean Press, each re-released book is…
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing On Friday night, Mickey Steeds and Rob Norton fought it out for the vacant British Cruiserweight title at the Meadowside Leisure Centre in Burton-on-Trent, England. Former heavyweight Steeds didn’t look the same man who stepped in to the ring against Scott Gammer two years ago for the…
© Tom Hogan / Golden Boy Promotions While Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. spend time sending verbal jabs across the aisle in preparation for their November showdown, Manny Pacquiao and Oscar De La Hoya spent most of their time playing to their bases in San Francisco on Saturday at their afternoon press conference. The…
After a long career, first at light welter before dropping down a weight class, Jon Thaxton won the vacant European Lightweight title with a third round knockout of Spain’s Juan Carlos Diaz Melero last night at The Showground in Norwich, England. Despite Melero having been a European Champ previously, Thaxton had fought the better competition…
The Gamboa mania continues! In his second appearance on HBO’s Boxing After Dark, Yuriorkis Gamboa once more thrilled the audience with a spectacular knockout victory over previously unbeaten Marcos Ramirez, now 25-1 (16). “El Ciclon de Guantanamo†was knocked down by an elbow shot in the first round. Gamboa recovered quickly and came back to…
Undefeated junior middleweight Alfredo “Perro” Angulo scored his tenth consecutive knockout victory tonight, recording a 10th round TKO over Andrey Tsurkan in a battle of top 10 contenders. The fight was the star attraction of “Night of the Rising Stars II,” the tripleheader broadcast live from Pechanga Resort & Casino on HBO Boxing After Dark.
Undefeated former WBC Light Heavyweight Champion “Bad” Chad Dawson is ready to dig for gold when he challenges IBF/IBO Light Heavyweight Champion Antonio Tarver next Saturday in Las Vegas “Drill baby, drill! That’s what I’m going to do to Anphonyo Tarver when I finally get that 14-carat chump into the ring,” said Dawson from his…