Golden Boy Promotions is proud to announce that one of boxing’s hottest prospects, “Vicious” Victor Ortiz, has been added to its extensive roster of fighters. Ortiz signed with Golden Boy today and is slated to make his Golden Boy Promotions debut on the Casamayor-Marquez “The Challenge” undercard on September 13 at the MGM Grand Garden…
The highly anticipated IBF Super Middleweight title showdown featuring Lucian Bute, 22-0-0 (18) vs. Librado Andrade, 27-1-0 (21), will be available to 14 million households throughout the United States. InterBox has reached an agreement with the prestigious Showtime Network for it to broadcast the Bute vs. Andrade world title fight live from the Montreal Bell…
Arthur Pelullo’s Banner Promotions and Rodney Berman’s Golden Gloves will present a sensational world championship fight card on Saturday, September 13, 2008, at Emperors Palace in Kempton Park, South Africa. Featured fights will be televised live on Supersport.
By Per Ake Persson It´s official: WBA Light Heavy Champ Hugo Hernan Garay defends the title against #1 challenger Jurgen Brahmer on October 18 in Dresden. However, German media writes today that Brahmer is in the middle of another investigation for assault. This time a man in Schwerin claims that Brahmer – on parole until…
Making his way back to the ring is highly publicized undefeated junior welterweight prospect Danny Garcia, 6-0 (5). Promoted by Golden Boy, Garcia, whose opponent is yet to be announced, will showcase his skills in a six round bout on the undercard of Joel Casamayor vs Juan Manuel Marquez, set to take place September 13,…
Friday night at Harvey Hadden LC in Nottingham, England sees a massive boxing bill from Frank Maloney with hot prospects John Fewkes and Scott Haywood looking to stamp their names into the upper echelons of the UK fight scene in support of Rendall Munroe’s European super bantam title defense against mandatory challenger Arsen Martirosian. 23…
© Ginamarie Russo / Saddo Boxing The visit to my hand doctor turned out to be more than just a follow up. I had the pleasure of meeting a fellow patient of Dr. Melone’s, light welterweight Joel “Joelo” Torres. Hailing from Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, this young fighter was only in town for a night to…
The new WBC Super Lightweight Champion, Timothy “Desert Storm†Bradley, will defend his title for the first time against Edner “Cherry Bomb†Cherry on Saturday, Sept. 13, in the co-feature of the Showtime Championship Boxing telecast, which begins live at 9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast. The main event of the world championship…
Sergio “The Latin Snake” Mora, WBC Super Welterweight Champion opens his training camp to media later this week as he finishes preparations for his September 13 rematch with former two weight world champion Vernon Forrest. First gaining notoriety on “The Contender” TV series, Mora wasn’t taken seriously by the boxing establishment and the media build…
“Mighty” Mike Arnaoutis, 19-2-2, the Pride of Greece, and Star Boxing’s world rated junior welterweight contender, will be back in action in Atlantic City this Friday, September 5 when he takes on power punching Nasser Athumani, 20-6-2, in a ten round junior welterweight contest that will be broadcast live on GoFightLive.TV. The always entertaining, fan…
Philadelphia’s ageless warrior Bernard Hopkins gets one more chance to show the world of boxing that in his case age is just a number when he meets undefeated middleweight world champion Kelly Pavlik at a catchweight in a non-title bout in Atlantic City on October 18. The 43 year old former longtime middleweight champion has…
With just two weeks to go, Panamanian Rafael Concepcion is full of confidence for his first title defence against Jorge Arce in Mexico City on September 15. The interim WBA Super Flyweight title fight takes place on the Eve of Mexico’s Independence Day and will be a major highlight of this year’s fiesta.