Earlier this year, Andre Berto won the WBC Welterweight Championship. On Saturday, September 27, at The Home Depot Center in Carson, California, he will begin his reign as champion by facing his toughest challenge of his career when he faces the tough and never stopped former World Champion Steve Forbes.
Before hometown heroes Juan Diaz and Rocky Juarez take to the HBO airwaves on “Houston Super Fight Night” set for Saturday, September 6 for pivotal showdowns against Michael Katsidis and Jorge Barrios respectively, fans at Houston’s Toyota Center will be treated to an even bigger array of Texas’ finest, as former World Champion Jesus “El…
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, September 25, 2008 at Sycuan Resort and Casino in San Diego, CA.
© Giancarlo “Rio” Di Caro Former German Super Middleweight Champion, Juergen ‘The Rock’ Hartenstein, 11-13-1, is back in action this coming Saturday against Puerto Rico’s number 1 rated Carlos ‘Baby Sugar’ De Leon Jr., 20-2-2, at the Zeferino Entertainment promoted fight night at the Prairie Band Casino and Resort in Mayetta, Kansas.
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…