© Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing WBC heavyweight champion Sam Peter, 30-1 (23), will defend against WBC Champion Emeritus Vitali Klitschko, 35-2 (34), in the opening half of a world championship doubleheader Saturday, Oct. 11, on Showtime Championship Boxing.
Manny Pacquiao’s next big test inside the ring will be against Oscar De La Hoya, but before he takes on boxing’s most popular figure, the four-division champion faces the challenge of co-promoting his first boxing show with Sycuan Ringside Promotions on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008 at Sycuan Resort and Casino in San Diego, Calif.
© Gianluca ‘Rio’ Di Caro NABA Light Heavyweight Champion, Yusaf Mack, 25-2-2 (15), returned to his former home gym, The James Shuler Memorial Gym, this week to undertake his final preparations with his former manager/trainer Percy ‘Buster’ Custus for this Friday’s title defense against fellow Philadelphian, Omar ‘Pit Bull’ Pittman 15-4-1 (8), at the National…
Today at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, RI, Demetrius Andrade held a press conference officially announcing the launch of his professional career in front of a standing room only audience. On hand were many of Demetrius’s family and friends, along with a strong contingent of Providence’s high-end officials and politicians, including Mayor Cicilline and…
Tickets to “The Dream Match”, the 12-round welterweight super fight between six-division world champion Oscar De La Hoya and boxing’s No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter Manny Pacquiao, are already gone just hours after going on sale today, making the almost 16,000-seat arena a complete sellout with a gross gate of almost $ 17.0 million, making it…
Banner Promotions president Arthur Pelullo and Golden Gloves president Rodney Berman will present a sensational world championship fight card on Thursday, October 23, 2008, in the Pend O’reille Pavillion at Northern Quest Casino, located at North 100 Hayford Road in Airway Heights, Washington. The main event and co-featured bouts will be televised live on the…
© Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing This evening, Bobby Rimmer informed SaddoBoxing that sadly, he and Michael Gomez have parted company. “It’s all very amicable,†Rimmer says, “and I wish Mike all the best – I really doâ€. Irish-born Gomez, a two-time British Super Featherweight Champion, has been with Rimmer for 12 months and the…
Jon Thaxton is promising to show why he can still become a genuine world title contender when he boxes Juan Carlos Diaz Melero for the vacant European Lightweight title at Norfolk Showground in Norwich on Saturday, October 4, 2008. The former British champion last fought in a European title fight and after a courageous effort…
Two-time Nigerian Olympian Eromosele “Bad Boy†Albert and Ghana-native Ossie Duran fought to a 12-round draw in their IBF Continental Africa light middleweight title bout last night headlining an abbreviated “KnockOut Poverty†pro boxing card, presented by Bob Duffy’s Ring Promotions, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan.
WBO # 10 welterweight contender and former European champion, Christian Bladt, 34-10-1 (10), will defend his WBO Intercontinental title for the first time on November 28, when he takes on Italian challenger Sven Paris, 24-3-1 (16), in Frosinone near Rome on a show promoted by Conti Cavini Boxe.
By Per Ake Persson Wiking Box Team promotes a show in Greifswald / Wusterhusen in the north of Germany on September 27. In the main event, Thomas Troelenberg squares off against Steve Klockow in a German title fight at middleweight. On the undercard, heavyweight Konstantin Airich returns after the loss to Danny Williams and faces…
Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment and Sports, Inc. (CES) has promoted eight shows this year in three different states, including four broadcast nationally on ESPN, in order to build a foundation for world and regional title runs by its fighters in 2009.