IBF cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek handled the challenge of opponent Bobby Gunn with little difficulty last night at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ, as expected. 35 year old former light middleweight Gunn had no shortage of heart going into the bout but had only ever competed against lower level competition aside from a first…
© Vedat Alyaz / ARENA In a true ring battle Selcuk “Mini-Tyson” Aydin stopped “Sugar†Jackson Bonsu in the ninth to become the new European welterweight champion and mandatory challenger for WBC world champion Andre Berto.
Star Boxing’s Curtis “Showtime” Stevens (21-2, 15) showed why he is one of the most feared super middleweights in the world, with a sensational third round TKO over previously unbeaten Piotr Wilczewski (22-1, 7KO). Stevens came out in the first round firing, eventually dropping Wilczewski hard with a right uppercut. Luckily for Wilczewski, the end…
IBF featherweight titlist Cristobal Cruz squares off with challenger Jorge Solis tonight at Palenque de Gallos in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico. The resurgent Cruz, 38-11-1 (23), has won four straight since losing to Zahir Raheem two years ago and during that time picked up the IBF crown against Orlando Salido as well as defending the…
Tonight at Nuerburgring race track, in Nuerburg, Germany, WBA middleweight champ Felix Sturm puts his belt at risk for the 7th time when he meets former IBF title challenger Khoren Gevor. Sturm, 32-2-1 (14), is coming off a seventh round stoppage over Japan’s Koji Sato in April and this contest against Gevor fits the reoccurring…
The European welterweight championship and WBC final elimination bout between WBC #2 “Mini-Tyson†Selcuk Aydin and #3 “Sugar†Jackson Bonsu will be streamed live on the internet!
© Vedat Alyaz / ARENA WBC President Don José Sulaiman has honoured Turkish welterweight star “Mini-Tyson†Selcuk Aydin and former European champion “Sugar†Jackson Osei Bonsu by coming all the way from Mexico to Istanbul for their combined European and WBC international championship that is also a WBC elimination bout today at Besiktas Cola Turka…
Tickets for Houston’s upcoming showdown between four of boxing’s best at Toyota Center are on sale now. On Saturday, August 22nd, Houston’s own and former Undisputed Lightweight Champion Juan Diaz will square off against former Junior Welterweight Champion Paulie Malignaggi in the main event while Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero will challenge for a world title…
© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Ahead of the big Don King boxing show tonight at BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, FL, the principal boxers all weighed in yesterday. IBF Bantamweight Championship Joseph Agbeko: 116.5 lb Vic Darchinyan: 117.5 lb
TV2 Sport will air three reruns of Fightnight Horsens during the coming week. The groundbreaking show held at Sonderbro Kulturhus in Horsens, Denmark on June 19 featured lightweights Kim Poulsen and Sam Rukundo along with light middle Fawaz Nasir.
“Renaissance†would be the wrong term to describe what’s happening in the super middleweight division right now. That implies a “rebirth,†but never before has the division seen this depth of talent, and more importantly, a group of talent who actually show interest in fighting one another. Remember the Roy Jones Jr./Frankie Liles/Steve Little days?…
© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Two of the pound-for-pound hardest hitting boxers in the world could barely contain themselves and had to be separated during Thursday’s press conference at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla.