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…
Last night, at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California, British female boxer Lyndsey Scragg challenged Peruvian born Kina Malpartida of California for the WBA Female Super Featherweight title. But it was Champion Malpartida who dominated with long-reaching shots to the head of the Wednesbury boxer. Continually driving forward – taller, rangey Malpartida kept…
By Per Ake Persson WBA Intercontinental junior middle champ Zauerbek Baysangurov will defend the title December 19 in Zaporozhye. The opponent is no other than Frank Shabani, who I believe is the last fighter in the Sauerland stable below middleweight. Shabani is a nice looking 18-1 but failed to win the European Union title and…
Tomasz ‘Goral’ Adamek (37-1, 27 KO), the lineal and Ring Magazine cruiserweight champion, after knocking down powerful, four- time world heavyweight championship contender, Andrew Golota twice in Poland, continues his quest to further his heavyweight career. On February 6 at Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, Adamek will take on Jason “Big Six†Estrada (16-2, 4…
One of the best fights of the year on American soil took place last night at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ as Paul Williams eeked out a majority decision over Sergio Martinez at middleweight. The fur started to fly in the very first round as each man scored a knockdown in this battle of…
At the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle, England last night, WBA light welter titlist Amir Khan made short work of mandatory challenger Dmitriy Salita. Making the first defense of his world title belt, Khan was facing an undefeated yet untested challenger in the form of Salita and that gulf in experience proved to be the…
Cruiserweight Marco Huck made a succsssful first defense of his WBO title with a 12 round unanimous decision against Ola Afolabi last night at the Arena in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Afolabi puts his boxing skills to good use early on, picking off the oncoming Huck on the way inside and generally winning the first few rounds….
Two big names in the great white north were in action last night as light middle Joachim Alcine and cruiserweight Troy Ross were victorious at The Casino in Montreal. Alcine, 32-1 (19), is in the midst of a comeback after losing his WBA title to Daniel Santos last year, and faced experienced Frenchman Christophe Canclaux….