The famed Morris Park Boxing Gym in the Bronx has been a fixture in the athletic community for over four decades. Early Tuesday morning, just before Christmas Eve 2009 it burned to the ground. The cause of the fire remained unknown, but it started inside the first floor gym. The gym, which is home to…
This has been a turbulent year for boxing in so many ways. We’ve seen the return of Floyd Mayweather Jr, the end of Roy Jones as a possible serious contender, the fall of old champions and the rise of new. This year we were dazzled by Manny Pacquiao, who disposed of not only Ricky Hatton…
The mega-fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao is now in jeopardy after Golden Boy Promotions, on behalf of Mayweather Promotions, learned today that Manny Pacquiao is refusing to comply with Olympic style drug testing as outlined and mandated by the United States Anti Doping Agency (USADA) and as requested by Mayweather’s management to ensure…
© Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro Ghana’s two time Commonwealth Super Middleweight Champion Charles ‘The Crusader’ Adamu celebrated his victory over Liverpool’s Carl ‘Dynamite’ Dilks on Friday night by calling out current WBC Super Middleweight Champion Carl ‘The Cobra’ Froch.
By Per Ake Persson French bantam Malik Bouziane has relinquished the European title to concentrate on a possible shot at WBA king Anselmo Moreno during 2010. There was to have been purse bids for Bouziane vs Jerome Arnould today in Rome in what would have been a dangerous mandatory defence.
Women’s boxing champion, Carina “La Reina” Moreno, received a special award from the WBC at their WBC Cares Christmas Toy Drive event ,which took place this past Sunday in Los Angeles.
Middleweight king Kelly Pavlik retained his WBC and WBO crowns last night at the Beeghly Center in his home of Youngstown, OH. Pavlik staved off the challenge posed by Los Angeles native Miguel Espino, who brought an 11 bout wins streak to the bout. Espino had previously suffered close losses to Peter Manfredo and Daniel…
IBF featherweight king Cristobal Cruz had his homecoming title defense against Ricardo Castillo short circuited last night at Palenque de Gallos in Tuxtla Gutierrez after just three rounds of action. A close contest was called off as a technical draw in the third when an accidental head clash left Cruz unable to carry on with…
Defending his WBO light heavyweight title for the very first time, Juergen Braehmer turned aside the aspirations of Dmitry Sukhotsky at the Sport and Congress Center in Schwerin. A year removed from a failed bid to unseat WBA kingpin Hugo Hernan Garay, southpaw Braehmer started off the fight with Sukhotsky strong, backing up the Russian…
Boxing superstar Edwin Valero was in rude form last night at Polideportivo Jose Maria Vargas in La Guaira, Venezuela, rocking the house during his first defense of the WBC lightweight crown. Mexican veteran Hector Velazquez came into the bout sporting an iron chin and long experience against some of the best lighter weight men of…
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Last night, at the York Hall in Bethnal Green, London, England, Barry Hearn of Matchroom Sports promoted a fightnight which headlined two title bouts. Surrey-based Polish boxer Albert Sosnowski won the European Heavyweight title by a unanimous points decision, defeating Italy’s Paolo Vidoz. The 30 year old…
This past Thursday, Olympic gold medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux of Cuba showcased the main event of Dibella’s Broadway boxing card at BB King’s in New York City. The former Olympic champion won gold in 2000 and 2004 before defecting to the United States to pursue his professional boxing career. Rigondeaux won an easy eight round unanimous…