On Saturday, January 24, former two-time Featherweight World Champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero will travel south from his hometown of Gilroy, California to make his junior lightweight debut at Staples Center in Los Angeles against seasoned veteran Edel Ruiz. Guerrero’s return to the ring against Ruiz is the featured undercard attraction on the first major…
WBC Super Middleweight king Carl Froch seems to be ruffling a few feathers as he looks to put American boxing fans on notice about his intentions to clean up the super middleweight division starting with Jermain Taylor. A tabloid U.S. boxing website published a factually incorrect report on Saturday 10th January that the Cobra would…
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing On Friday, January 23, 2009, at the Fenton Manor Sports Complex in Stoke-On-Trent, England, Frank Maloney and Impact Boxing will be staging an exciting fight night for the Stoke fans which sees local-man Chris Edwards topping the bill. Entitled ‘Stoking the Fire’ – it will be a…
Before fan favorite Vic Darchinyan, 31-1-1 (25) puts his IBF, WBC and WBA super flyweight titles on the line against the popular, crowd pleasing Jorge Arce, 51-4-1 (39), on February 7, 2009, boxing fans will feast on a spectacular co-feature that will no doubt whet their appetite for the main event later that evening. No….
US Olympian Gary Russell, Jr.’s dream of competing in the Olympic Games last August ended without him throwing a punch, but he promises that won’t be the case this Friday night as he makes his pro debut in what is now a tripleheader on ShoBox: The New Generation on Showtime at 11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed…
Miguel Cotto: I don’t know anything about my opponent. I have not watched any tapes of him. Right now I feel good, but I miss the gym and the fights. I am hungry to get back. I have walked around at about 176 or 178. The people in Puerto Rico have made me feel real…
WBC Cabofe heavyweight champion, Manuel “El Toro” Quezada, 25-4 (15), returns to the ring February 6, 2009 at the Tachi Palace Casino in Lemoore, CA. In an eight round bout, Eric Boose, 14-3-1 (18), of Puyallup, WA will attempt to put an end to Quezada’s 15-fight winning streak.
WBC World Super Middleweight Champion Carl “The Cobra†Froch has directed his venom at Jermain Taylor and his team after a boxing website suggested that Froch was sidelined until June with a rib injury. Froch believes it’s just another in a long line of tactics for Taylor and his promoter Lou DiBella to avoid facing…
It will be a tale of two cities when two-division world champion Miguel Cotto returns to the “Mecca of Boxing,†Madison Square Garden and World Middleweight Champion Kelly “The Ghost†Pavlik makes his world title defense a real homecoming at the Chevrolet Centre in Youngstown, Ohio. Cotto and Pavlik headline an exciting night of championship…
The past year has seen Henry Castle rip his way up the lightweight ranks in Britain, knocking off one seasoned rival after another until he now stands at the brink of gaining his first professional championship. Castle will challenge English lightweight title holder Scott Lawton on Friday, January 23 at Fenton Manor in Stoke, England,…
John Murray is getting ready to make Lee McAllister pay for calling him a ‘cry baby’ when they fight for the Hennessy Sports boxer’s British Lightweight title on Saturday, January 17. Murray, of Manchester, will make the first defence of his title at the Robin Park Arena in Wigan and ITV4 will show the action…
Old-time boxing returns Friday might, February 6 as Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment and Sports, Inc. (CES) presents “February Frenzy,†featuring many of New England’s most promising prospects, at Twin River Event Center in Lincoln, Rhode Island.