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Last Friday, December 5, 2008, two thousand excited fans once again packed the sold out arena at the Civic Center in the beautiful historical city of Laredo, Texas. Recon Garza Promotions in association with Los Dos Laredos Boxing Production and Cestus Management promoted the “Friday Nite Championship Boxing” event.

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing On Saturday night at a packed Trent FM Arena in Nottingham, England, Hennessy Sports promoted a fight night headlined by the vacant WBC Super Middleweight title clash between Carl ‘The Cobra’ Froch and Canadian Jean Pascal. Pascal entered the ring surrounded by …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Saturday night at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham, England, Hennessy Sports promoted a fantastic night of boxing which consisted of a superb undercard in support of the much anticipated clash between Carl Froch and Jean Pascal for the WBC Super Middleweight …

Darren Barker has been left raring to go in his Commonwealth Middleweight Title defence on Saturday after sparring with new WBC Super-Middleweight Champion Carl Froch. Undefeated Barker (Barnet, England) makes his second defence against Jason McKay (Banbridge, Northern Ireland) at the Brentwood Centre on Saturday 13thDecember 2008. Co feature on …

Training camp is over for the reigning IBF Cruiserweight Champion Steve ‘USS’ Cunningham, and he has now relocated to Newark, New Jersey for the final few days preparation for his title defense against Tomasz ‘Goral’ Adamek on Thursday, December 11 at the Prudential Center in Newark. A few days before …

Undefeated junior welterweight challenger Demetrius Hopkins, 28-0-1 (11), will step in to face WBO 140-pound champion Kendall Holt, 24-2 (13), in the main event of Saturday’s special edition of ShoBox: The New Generation, live from Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ, on Showtime at 11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the …

Boxers preparing for the IBF Championship doubleheader on Thursday at Prudential Center, the first title card in Newark, NJ in 60 years, participated in a media workout yesterday. IBF cruiserweight champion Steve “USS” Cunningham, 21-1 (11), from Philadelphia, said his Polish-born opponent Tomasz Adamek shouldn’t place too much emphasis on …

Commonwealth Middleweight Champion Darren Barker will face challenger Jason McKay while Brian Magee and Steve Maguire face off for the vacant British Super Middleweight crown on Saturday, December 13 at the International Centre in Brentwood, Essex, England.

Commonwealth bantamweight champion Jason Booth faces a tough test to his year old title reign when two-time British super bantam title challenger Sean “Short Fuse” Hughes drops down a division to challenge Booth on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at The Helix on the grounds of City University in Dublin, Ireland.

© Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Last night, at the Nottingham Trent Arena in England, on a Hennessy Sports promoted fight night – Carl ʽThe Cobraʼ Froch won the WBC Super Middleweight title by unanimous points decision, defeating Canadian Jean Pascal in what was a ʽfantasticʼ twelve rounds of boxing. …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Friday night at the Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield, England, Glyn Rhodes hosted a four-contest fight-night, headlined by a ten-round light middleweight contest between local-man Lee “Errol” Edwards and Leeds boxer Lee Murtagh. This was to be Edwards’s first defence of the …

After a long and proud career that saw title winning efforts in many weight classes, Oscar De La Hoya looked like a shadow of himself in the ring at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas last night as he was dismantled with relative ease by lightweight champion Manny Pacquiao as …