Tired of the continuous taunting and excessive calls to fight, World Boxing Council Junior Featherweight Champion and “Pound for Pound†candidate Israel Vazquez has agreed to former world champion Jorge Arce’s demands to fight. “It’s getting ridiculous, at first when he started calling me out I didn’t take him seriously but this has been going…
Danny Williams will be joint top of an explosive bill that promises fireworks when he collides with Albert Sosnowski in an international heavyweight bout at the York Hall in Bethnal Green on Saturday, November 8th 2008. Williams is part of the second show from Hennessy Sports that will be screened by ITV Sport following the…
The World Boxing Council’s 46th annual convention opened this morning at the Jinjiang Hotel in downtown Chengdu, the capital of the Sichuan province in southwestern China. With a population of 11 million, Chengdu is one of the most important economic and transportation centers in the area, which is the native habitat of the Giant Panda,…
Cestus Management’s new Junior-Welterweight enforcer Robert “Nightawk†Luna Jr. is in full preparation for his November 8th, 2008, professional debut against New Orleans veteran Dwayne Jones. The bout is slated to be on a fight card promoted by Jessie Ravelo of Class Act Promotions and will take place in Round Rock, Texas.
Confounding the predictions of the vast majority of media experts, Australia’s Vic Darchinyan dominated sharp boxing Cristian Mijares before knocking out the southpaw stylist in the ninth round to add the WBC and WBA titles to his own IBF belt at super flyweight. After having seen off dangerous fellow Mexican Jorge Arce with ease last…
Nonito Donaire retained his position as the top flyweight in the world with a sixth round cuts stoppage against South African challenger Mortui Mthalane to keep the IBF and IBO titles at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV. Donaire, 20-1 (13), won his 19th straight contest but it wasn’t easy as opponent Mthalane came to…
On a big night at the fights at Koenig Pilsener Arena in Oberhausen last evening, Felix Sturm and Segiy Dzinziruk handled dangerous opponents and retained world titles. Sturm, 36-0 (22), proved the superiority of his skills as he kept challenger Sebastian Sylvester at arm’s length with the jab over the second half of the bout…
There were three good cards over the weekend with the biggest show on Saturday at the Orient Theatre in East London, South Africa where domestic Light Flyweight Champ Mfundo Gwayana, 10-3 (5), kept his title with a fifth round TKO of Welkom man Motswaki Moseslesele, 5-1 (2), who suffers his first loss since turning professional…
A pretty busy weekend in the Land of Silver and this recap of events starts last night at the Asociacion Athletica Quimsa in the northern city of Santiago Del Estero, which has the distinction of being the earliest Spanish established town in the country. The evening’s entertainment was headlined by a barnburner at light welter…
Wasn’t too terribly bad a weekend Down Under with the big action taking place on Friday night but there was a good rumble on Saturday as well. We kick things off on Friday at Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre in Shoalhaven Heads in New South Wales where two of the biggest names on the domestic scene were…
Standing 8 productions’ “Explosion Over The Midlands” was an elite night of boxing with two championship bouts Saturday night in Columbia, SC. The co-main event of Josh Green vs. Shawn Hawk was anticipated to be an exciting contest as both fighters came in with unblemished records. The fight began with both men feeling each other…
From Montreal, Olivier Lontchi is a fighter on the rise. He currently holds the NABA Super Bantamweight title and is defending the belt tonight against Ruben Estanislao, 18-10-3 (3) Lontchi came to Canada from Cameroon. He was a Bronze Medallist in the featherweight division when the 2001 Francophone Games were held in Quebec. His professional…