What makes boxing a pure sport goes beyond the direct physical contact between the two fighters. It is a metamorphosed natural sport. There are no weak team players to avoid, nor strong team players to rely on. It is every man/woman for him/herself. When these fighters are doing their thing, bring in some tropical trees…
On Saturday October 4, Andrey Tsurkan, 26- 3 (17), will go to battle against undefeated prospect Alfredo Angulo, 13-0 (10). The Tsurkan vs. Angulo bout is scheduled for 10 rounds in the junior middleweight division and will be part of that evenings HBO Boxing After Dark’s special edition triple header.
I was wrong and I apologize. There is no one else to blame for me not making the lightweight division weight limit of 135 pounds for my WBO, WBA and IBF title bout against Nate Campbell this past weekend. No trainer is to blame. No nutritionist is to blame. No manager is to blame. No…
WBA #7 heavyweight Kevin “Kingpin” Johnson, 20-0-1 (7), fresh off his fifth round destruction of former heavyweight champion of the world Bruce Seldon, 38-7 (34), was left speechless, a very uncommon occurrence for the colorful Johnson, upon hearing that fellow top 10 heavyweight contender David Haye, 21- 1 (20), was still looking for an opponent…
Peter Quillin: 161.5 lb Sam Hill: 159 lb. Ronald Hearns: 154 lb Alexander Pacheo Quiroz: 155.5 lb Danny O’Connor: 143 lb Joe Guerrido: 142 lb
By Per Ake Persson Universum have announced that heavyweights Luan Krasniqi and Aleksander Dimitrenko will fight on November 15 at the Burg-Waechter Castello in Düsseldorf making it a “Golden November” with Felix Sturm vs Sebastian Sylvester scheduled for November 1 in Oberhausen and Hugo Hernan Garay vs Jurgen Brahmer set for November 22 in Rostock.
From WBC President Jose Sulaiman: Timothy Bradley Jr., the World Boxing Council super lightweight champion of the world, successfully defended the title with a unanimous decision over challenger Edner Cherry, and Elio Rojas defeated Hector Velázquez by unanimous decision in a WBC elimination bout on a fight card held in Biloxi, Mississippi, on October 13.
Undefeated super welterweight Top-10 contender Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., IBF flyweight champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash†Donaire and Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum will host a news conference luncheon on Monday, September 22, announcing their pay-per-view fistival.
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Sunday at the Robin Park Arena in Wigan , England, Steve Wood of VIP Promotions hosted another great afternoon of boxing. Billed as “Matt Attack” – the event headlined “Bolton’s One Man Riot” – Alex Matvienko, as he faced Lee “Brown Sugar” Edwards of Sheffield for the…
Same old, same old… I can only draw one conclusion from watching Audley Harrison’s ‘career’; the man likes upsetting us. Ever since striking gold in 2000, Harrison has subjected the boxing watching public to what can only be described as a fistic cure for insomnia. The latest instalment in the lowlight that is Harrison’s career…
As Amir Khan just crushingly found out, there is truth to the old boxing adage: ‘You can’t put muscles on chins’. It seems the ability to absorb a punch is something a boxer must be born with. Training can improve a fighter’s skills, power, fitness and ability to recover when hurt; but no amount of…
Earlier today the World Boxing Association issued a response to a press release recently distributed by Team Ruiz. Team Ruiz responds below in bold type, point-by-point to the WBA’s five-point statement. After learning that serious allegations were made by Team Ruiz after his defeat against Nicolay Valuev last August 30 in Berlin, Germany, the World…