Don King’s top featherweight, Elio “The Kid†Rojas, scored a convincing unanimous-decision win today in Tokyo to take the WBC championship held by Takahiro Aoh. Rojas (21-1,13 KOs), from the Dominican Republic now fighting out of Brooklyn, N.Y., was No. 1 ranked by the WBC as well as mandatory challenger to the champion. He ventured…
© Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing As fans of boxing, we all gravitate towards certain fighters for different reasons. Some like a fighter because of their resume of talent faced, others like the knockout artist, while perhaps it’s the fast pace a particular boxer keeps or maybe it’s just because there is a fighter who…
© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Britain’s only reigning World Champion, Carl Froch, believes he can cement his boxing legacy by winning the inaugural “Super Six World Boxing Classic”. The “Cobra†is one of six world renowned fighters that have been selected for a groundbreaking new series which will begin later this year and culminate…
With wins in 21 out of 22 fights and a well-deserved reputation as one of boxing’s rising stars, Nestor Rocha has steadily built an impressive resume since turning pro in 2000. On Tuesday, July 14th, the 26-year-old bantamweight gets his long-awaited opportunity to graduate from contender to champion when he takes on Hozumi Hasegawa for…
© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Showtime Sports and six of the best super middleweight boxers in the world converged in New York City on Monday to announce an unprecedented new boxing tournament to be presented by Showtime in the United States and throughout the world on various television networks. The inaugural “Super Six World…
World ranked junior middleweight Anthony Thompson will now face Grady Brewer, winner of The Contender, Season Two, for the IBO Junior Middleweight title on Saturday August 22nd at “TKO World Championship Boxing at the Pala Casinoâ€. Brewer was originally scheduled to face former European Champion Zaurebek Baysangurov.
© Gianluca (Rio) Di Caro Irish boxing coach and manager John Rooney Jnr. has recruited Terry Edwards MBE, as Director of Coaching and Boxing Development, for his new London based boxing and fitness facility – Rooney’s Boxing Gym – close to the famous landmarks Tower Bridge and HMS Belfast.
On July 16th, two of Joe DeGuardia’s brightest stars, “The New” Ray Robinson (10-0, 4KO) and Yathomas Riley (5-0, 3KO) will look to stay unbeaten as they battle it out against two tough veterans on the Star Boxing promoted show at the beautiful Hilton Rye Town Hotel in Rye Brook, NY.
British super bantamweight Marianne ‘Golden Girl’ Marston’s American visa woes, which prevented her pro debut in South Philadelphia in May, have been well documented over the past few months, however the plucky blonde hasn’t been sitting back and sulking instead she has been training for six hours a day at Rooney’s Boxing Gym in London.
Headlined by the sensational pro debuts of outstanding Russian amateurs stars Dmitry and Fedor Chudinov, TKO Boxing prospects shined on Friday night at the Reno Events on the undercard of an outstanding evening of professional boxing which featured the ten round decision win by Yerington’s Jesse Brinkley over Mike Paschall of Baltimore, MD.
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing There was some great support action at the Seaburn Centre in Sunderland, England on the Frank Maloney promotion headlined by Lee Haskins’ British super flyweight title defense against Ross Burkinshaw on Friday. On the undercard, local man Trevor Crewe faced Bulgarian-born Danny Dontchev in a four round…
In a year wracked by countless deaths of public figures, boxing has tragically lost one of it’s all-time warriors as former two-weight world champion Arturo Gatti has died in Brazil. Authorities found the body of 37 year old New Jersey resident Gatti in a vacation apartment he shared with his 23 year old wife, Amanda…