Undefeated middleweight prospect and hometown favorite Fernando Guerrero weighed in at 160 pounds and Chicago’s Michael Walker tipped the scales at 161 during Thursday’s weigh in at the Wicomico Youth and Civic Center in Salisbury, Md. Guerrero (17-0, 14 KOs) will put his undefeated record on the line against Walker (19-3, 12 KOs) in a…
A scheduled April 24 bout which has fans of heavyweight boxing buzzing for months will now have added significance with the unfortunate tragedy which befell the home country of one of its competitors. Poland’s Tomasz “Goral†Adamek, who will be defending his IBF International Heavyweight Title against the heavy-handed, top-rated contender and local hero Cristobal…
Boxing superstar and six-time World Champion Floyd Mayweather Jr and welterweight mega-star, five-time World Champion and current WBA Welterweight Champion Shane Mosley, are set to meet on Saturday, May 1 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Floyd Mayweather Jr: “I think Shane is acting out of character. Why would someone wait until they were 38…
Kalle Sauerland has confirmed that the Super Six World Boxing Classic Clash between WBC Super-Middleweight Champion Carl Froch and Danish hero Mikkel Kessler on April 24 will go ahead as planned despite multiple airspace closures throughout Europe. The “Cobra†was scheduled to fly from Great Britain to Denmark tomorrow, but with most of the European…
Tickets to the “Stadium Slugfest,†Yankee Stadium’s inaugural brawl featuring the world championship rumble between three-time world titlist Miguel Cotto and undefeated WBA super welterweight champion Yuri Foreman go on sale today. Foreman (28-0, 8 KOs), a 29-year-old from Brooklyn, NY, became the first orthodox Jew to win a world championship in nearly seventy years….
This Friday evening sees a few good nights at the fights across the globe and we kick things off at Palais de Sports in Sainte-Quentin, France. Ex-European featherweight champ and world title challenger Cyril Thomas, 36-3-4 (10), headlines the event as the local man meets undefeated Justin Savi, 23-0 (15), of Benin. Savi previously held…
Many of New England’s top prospects will be in action May 7 on the “Spring Fever†card, presented by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment and Sports, Inc. (CES), at Twin River Event Center in Lincoln, R.I. New Bedford (MA) welterweight Jason “School Boy†Pires (22-3-1, 9 KOs), the former USBA super bantamweight champion and active New…
A war of words that has erupted over the internet will finally be resolved in the boxing ring in Limerick next month when rivals Michael “The Storm†Sweeney and Ian Tims clash for the Irish Cruiserweight title on the Yanjing Fight Night at the University Sports Arena. The May 15th clash is part of an…
Former world title challenger and John Duddy conqueror Billy Lyell (21-8, 4 KO’s) makes his return to the ring on an NES Sports TV PPV on Friday May 7, live from Morgantown, West Virginia. Lyell, a frequent sparring partner of middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik and junior middleweight contender Harry Joe Yorgey, gained notoriety in 2009…
Boxing is not a sport that readily lends itself to statistics, but one set of numbers is as elemental as a left-right combination: a fighter’s wins, losses and draws. We often overvalue a good record and misinterpret a mediocre one; there are dozens of 10-loss veterans who are better than young fighters with only one…
Before Floyd “Money” Mayweather and Sugar Shane Mosley heat up the Las Vegas night in their Saturday, May 1 mega-fight, some of the top contenders in boxing today will enter the ring at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nev. and warm up fans in attendance and those watching at home on the…
“It’s hard to change the style you used during your whole career in nine short months. When you’re in an intense situation you quickly turn back to your old habits,” states Lucian Bute (25-0-0, 20 K.-O.) about his opponent Edison Miranda (33-4-0, 29 K.-O.), who switched trainers and is now with the renowned Joe Goossen….