The vacant IBF Welterweight title was up for grabs last night at The Palms in Las Vegas, Nevada between determined combatants Zab Judah, a former owner of the belt, and Joshua Clottey. Clottey came into the scrap the far less experienced man but had only lost to world champions Antonio Margarito and Carlos Baldomir over…
There was a lot of action this weekend below the Rio Grande and we kick off the proceedings with the return of former WBC Super Bantam Champion Oscar Larios, 62-6-1 (39), who rocked the house on Saturday with a seventh round KO of Nicaragua’s Marlon Aguilar to retain the Interim WBC Featherweight crown at Auditorio…
It was a pretty good week for Australian boxing, but most of the action happened of a Wednesday night show at the Entertainment Centre in Newcastle, NSW, headlined by Anthony Mundine and supported by super prospect Billy Dib. Mundine, who recently gave up the WBA Super Middleweight belt rather than to face Mikkel Kessler again,…
Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing “The Raging Bull†Vic Darchinyan promised a highlight reel knockout and delivered one bone-crunching left hand after another. The Armenian-born Australian stopped Russia’s Dimitri Kirilov in the fifth round to earn the IBF Junior Bantamweight championship, his second career world title, Saturday on Showtime at…
Boxing returns to Aviator Sports at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday, August 6 with ESPN2 will carrying the event on their Wednesday Night Fights series. “This is some fight card,” said promoter Sal Musumeci of Final Forum Boxing. “We have heavyweights, light welterweights, a little something for every fight fan!â€
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Last night at the Watford Colosseum in Watford, England, World Sports Organisation promoter Jon Feld presented a night of boxing which would be memorable in more ways than one! Although not the main event, home-boy Ojay Abrahams faced Jamie Ambler of Aberystwyth in a four round super…
Tonight at The Palms in Las Vegas, ex-two weight world champion Zab Judah will attempt to recapture one of his former title belts but must overcome one of the most avoided fighters in the welterweight division, Johsua Clottey, in order to do so. While Judah, 36-5 (25), is coming off victories over lesser known veteran…
Middleweight Sebastien Demers was scheduled to be on his way to a return match with IBF Champion Arthur Abraham later this year but last night at the Gare Windsor Salle des Pas Perdus in Montreal, Colombian slugger Dionisio Miranda altered those plans with a shocking split decision upset of the hometown hero. Late replacement Miranda…
In an action packed night of fights on ShoBox: The New Generation, junior middleweight Ishe “Sugar Shay†Smith of Las Vegas overwhelmed Poland’s Pawel “Raging Bull†Wolak en route to a 10 round unanimous decision victory from the Aviator Arena in Brooklyn, New York.
Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Dimitri Kirilov weighed in at 114.5 pounds and challenger Vic Darchinyan tipped the scales at 114 pounds during Friday’s weigh in at the Fife Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department in Fife, Washington. Andre Dirrell measured 168 pounds while Mike Paschall weighed in at 166.5…
World boxing champions Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero and Carina “La Reina” Moreno join forces with Captain Richard Calderon and the San Jose Police Department for the 25th annual “National Night Out”, a unique crime/drug prevention event sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch.
Junior middleweight prospects Latif Mundy, of Philadelphia, PA, and Rudy Cisneros, of Chicago, IL, collide in an eight round fight on Friday evening, August 29 at the New Alhambra in South Philadelphia. Topping the card is a 10 round contest for the vacant NABA Welterweight title between Mike Jones, of Philadelphia, PA, against Juliano Ramos,…