Last Friday in the main event of a nice combined boxing and mixed martial arts card promoted by Marshall Kauffman the Sovereign Center in Reading, Pennsylvania, Julio Cesar Matthews won the biggest fight of his career by defeating Harvey ‘Candy Man’ Jolly. Matthews, 9-0 (5), a southpaw from Reading, Pennsylvania, stalked Jolly, 10-12-1 (5), of…
Unbeaten middleweight prospect “Chairman of the Board†Michael Oliveira (10-0, 8 KOs), the heir apparent to revered Acelino “Popo†Freitas, is the hottest thing to come out of Brazil since super model Gisele Bundchen. There has been a noticeable void in Brazilian boxing since the wildly popular Freitas, 4-time world champion, hung-up his gloves for…
On November 27th Delvin Rodriguez took on Rafel Jackiewicz in an official welterweight IBF Title Eliminator. Going in, Rodriguez knew he would have to put on a dominating performance to win a decision, being the fight was taking place in Jackiewicz home country of Poland. Rodriguez stated prior to the fight that he was going…
Recently crowned WBA heavyweight champion David ‘The Hayemaker’ Haye will be boxing’s sole representative when he battles it out with nine other British sports stars for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award on Sunday, December 13. The 29-year-old Londoner lifted the world heavyweight title on November 14, the night he stunned 7-feet-2-inch Russian…
Unbeaten Timothy “Desert Storm†Bradley will make another defense of his WBO Jr. Welterweight title in his California desert hometown when he takes on undefeated Lamont Peterson, Saturday, Dec. 12 live on Showtime at 9p ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast. The scheduled 12-round world title fight will emanate from The Show at Agua Caliente…
The Illinois State Athletic Commission has assigned the officials who will oversee the December 12 junior welterweight battle between Houston, Texas’ Juan “Baby Bull” Diaz and Brooklyn, New York’s Paulie “Magic Man” Malignaggi at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago and televised live on HBO’s “Boxing After Dark”.
Reigning WBC Super MiddleweightChampion and Super Six stalwart Carl Froch’s achievements have been recognised following an incredible 12 months for the Nottingham man. Froch iscelebrating having won a hat trick of awards over the past week but “TheCobra†insists that 2010 will be even bigger promising fans that,“You ain’t seen nothing yet!â€.
Highly decorated amateur standout Richard Hargraves makes his welterweight pro debut against John Dunham this Friday December 11, 2009 on the undercard of the Oleg Maskaev vs Nagy Aguilera showdown, taking place at the Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, CA.
Miguel Cotto is a proven warrior. He has been more judged by his wins than his losses. He has started out as a stone statue, barely being disturbed by many impressive agile boxers. Manny Pacquaio has nicked that statue. Pacquaio gets through his fights by determination. His faith in his skill has catapulted him into…
Tony Jeffries has been left feeling a twit by Sunderland striker Darren Bent – but he doesn’t mind one bit! Olympic bronze medallist Jeffries had a £1000 charity bet with the England international over who would get the most tweets on social networking site, Twitter.
Sam Webb has stoked up his feud with British light-middleweight title champion Anthony Small telling him: “Give punters a refund after your latest performance.” Small retained his title last month outpointing Thomas McDonagh in one of the dullest British title fights in history.
© Mike Shinfield Today, European Super Bantamweight Champion Rendall Munroe, who has just earned a WBC number one ranking, donned a full Santa outfit to take part in a Charity Run at Markeaton Park in Derby, England. Rendall was one of approximately 350 ‘Santa’s’ running in the ‘Jingle Jog’ to raise money for the Butterfly…