MGM Grand will host closed circuit viewing in conjunction with the upcoming “Dream Match” between the “Golden Boy” Oscar de la Hoya and Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao. The championship card, scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 6 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, will be distributed by HBO-Pay-Per-View and the live telecast will begin at 6 p.m. PST.
Leading British light middleweight title contender Thomas McDonagh will headline the first professional boxing show to be staged in Leigh, England for more than 60 years. The former WBU champion will face Doncaster’s former central title holder Jason Rushton, 18-5, in six rounder at the Indoor Sports Centre on Sunday, October 12.
It’s the type of epic match-up that fight fans dream about, but this is not a dream, this fight is real. “The Dream Match” is on! Two of boxing’s biggest attractions, Olympic gold medalist and 10-time world champion “The Golden Boy” Oscar De La Hoya and current Ring Magazine No. 1-ranked pound for pound champion…
© Sauerland Event IBF middleweight champion “King†Arthur Abraham, 27-0 (22), and mandatory challenger Raul “El Diamente†Marquez, 41-3 (29), voiced their respect for each other at today´s press conference in Bamberg, Germany.
2000 Dominican Republic Olympian Giovanni “El Chico Malo†Lorenzo, 26-1 (18), soon embarks on a mission to prove that, coming off of his first pro loss in June, he still remains a clear and present danger in the middleweight division. Lorenzo lost a voluntary IBF title eliminator fight to former world champion Raul “El Diamente 
© Gianluca “Rio” Di Caro The ever likable Philadelphia middleweight, Jamaal ‘Da Truth’ Davis 7-4 (6), announced that sponsorship from Diamond Boxing has been secured for his fight against against fellow Philly boy, Chris Hall 3-4-1 (2), at the National Guard Armory, Philadelphia on Saturday, October 4.
Bernard Hopkins is back in Miami, surrounded by the beach and the punishing heat, preparing for his October 18th battle against Kelly Pavlik. He has returned to a place where he has trained for over 10 bouts, holding every training camp but four (Wright, Taylor II, Tarver, and Calzaghe) there since 2001 when he prepared…
© Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing On Friday night at Wolverhampton, England, I was lucky enough to meet Paddy Monaghan – Bare Knuckle Boxing Champion of the World. Paddy was in the area to promote his autobiography ‘Street-Fighting Man’. Having heard of the rough and tough bare knuckle contests he’d won over the years, I…
Heavyweight “Big” David Howe has signed a three year contract with Frank Maloney and will make his London debut under the FTM banner on the undercard of Ian Napa’s European Bantamweight title challenge of Carmelo Ballone on Friday, October 17, 2008 at the famous York Hall, Bethnal Green, the home of British Boxing on a…
Jon Thaxton is confident that sparring with former world champion Junior Witter will ensure he is crowned European lightweight champion on Saturday. Thaxton goes for glory at the Norfolk Showground which will be televised live on ITV4 “Big Fight Live†show as part of a new deal with Hennessy Sports.
Alex Bunema was born in Kinshasa, Zaire, nine months after the city hosted the legendary “Rumble in the Jungle,†Muhammad Ali’s stunning upset knockout of George Foreman in October, 1974. Before and long after the fight, an unprecedented boxing buzz engulfed Zaire and Alex was immediately drawn to the Sweet Science.
By Per Ake Persson Cuban heavy Odlanier Solis face American Chauncy Welliver for the vacant WBC Int´l title October 11 in Berlin in a supporting bout to Klitschko vs Peter. The show is interestingly enough supervised by the BDB and not the GBO, who previously handled K 2´s shows in Germany. Also on for the…