Team Ruiz believes a potential WBA title fight title between champion Nicolai Valuev and David Haye is nothing more than a matter of wishful arrogance. Team Ruiz has already contacted the WBA inform the organization’s Championship Committee that their mandatory challenger, 2-time WBA heavyweight champion John “The Quietman†Ruiz (43-8-1, 29 KOs), will not stand…
Amid a flurry of fight week media activities, two-time heavyweight world title challenger Fres Oquendo has wrapped up training in his hometown of Chicago just days away from his showdown against former world champion Bruce Seldon set for this Friday night, July 24th at Chicago’s UIC Pavilion. The Oquendo/Seldon ten round main event for the…
Carney Bowman, the Fighting Pride of Central Pennsylvania, will battle hard hitting Dominican Delvin Placencia in the main event of TKO Boxing Promotions’ bill on Saturday, August 1st at the Sovereign Bank Stadium. The 26 year old Bowman, born and raised in York, brings a record of 13-0-0 with five knockouts into the eight round…
Reports out of Mexico City, where five-time World Champion Juan Manuel Marquez is back in training for his scheduled September 19 bout at MGM Grand in Las Vegas and televised live on HBO Pay-Per-View against Floyd Mayweather, confirm that Marquez is bigger, stronger and punching to the body harder than ever as he pushes his…
Last week, I previewed Showtime’s “Super Six World Boxing Classic” and gave my predictions for the first round of fights. When I sat down to write that article, I still felt as though this whole thing wasn’t real. In the back of my mind, I thought that Ken Hershman of Showtime was just playing a…
Former undisputed world cruiserweight champion David ‘The Hayemaker’ Haye has signed a contract to meet current WBA heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev on November 7, at a location yet to be decided. Expected to take place in Germany, The Hayemaker’s scheduled 12-rounder with ‘The Beast From The East’ will pair the world’s most exciting heavyweight commodity…
WBC Super Middleweight Champion Carl Froch has laughed off any suggestions that unbeaten American star Andre Dirrell has got under his skin ahead of their opening round Super Six clash in Nottingham on October 17th. Dirrell boasted yesterday that Froch would be his “easiest fight†in the groundbreaking new series which also includes WBA champ…
Newly crowned WBC featherweight champion Elio “The Kid” Rojas (21-1, 13 KOs) arrived at Don King’s office in South Florida today to receive his belt that had been rush-delivered by the WBC from Mexico.
On July 24, 2009, the Don Haskins Convention Center in El Paso, Texas, will host an exciting night of boxing that will be televised live on ESPN’s Friday Night Fights boxing series. The event is promoted by Golden Boy Promotions and will feature super bantamweight sensation Antonio Escalante taking on veteran southpaw puncher Cornelius Lock…
Packed from top to bottom with boxing’s best young talent, Friday night’s “Blaze of Glory” card at UTEP’s Don Haskins Center in El Paso, Texas, is shaping up to be the hottest event of the summer. “Blaze of Glory” is headlined by the 10-round featherweight showdown between local El Paso hero Antonio Escalante (19-2, 13…
This Saturday, Baltimore’s James “Keep em Sleepin†Stevenson will step into the ring again with an ever so confident Ken Dunham. Dunham, who came away short handed in their first fight, will enter the squared circle with momentum on his side as his last two victories came via knockout of a previously unbeaten hometown fighter….
In only his ninth professional fight, unbeaten light heavyweight sensation Beibut Shumenov will challenge current champion Gabriel “Chico Guapo†Campillo, making the first defense of his newly won WBA title belt, August 15 in Kazakhstan. 2004 Kazakhstan Olympian Shumenov (8-0, 6 KOs), 2008 WBC Asian Boxing Council Organization’s Boxer of the Year and reigning International…