Undefeated cruiserweight sensation BJ Flores will be the in-studio guest on Friday Night Fights this week. Airing on ESPN 2 with host Brian Kenny this Friday night, April 4, Flores will offer analysis, insight and perspective on the televised portion of the card including the main event featuring heavyweight prospect …
Read More »Return Of Ex-Boxing Champ Spadafora Postponed Until April 25
Michael Acri Promotions’ has postponed the April 6 professional boxing card at The Avalon Hotel in Erie, PA, headlined by the 2008 debut undefeated former IBF lightweight champion “The Pittsburgh Kid” Paul Spadafora.
Read More »Raul Marquez – Bronco McKart
Former world junior middleweight champion Raul Marquez continued his middleweight resurrection last Saturday at the Soaring Eagle Casino in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, scoring a ten round win over Bronco McKart.
Read More »Frank Maloney Presents Spring 2008 Boxing Schedule
The first bill takes place on Friday, April 18 with Gary Woolcombe defending his British light middleweight title at London’s famed York Hall with chief support featuring heavyweights John McDermott and Pele Reid clashing for the vacant English crown. Also on the card will be undefeated Commonwealth light welterweight champion …
Read More »Boxing Perspective: Paul McCloskey
Saturday, March 29. For the first time in his career Paul McCloskey was taking charge of a ship, one which belonged to a fleet of Brian Peters’ promoted boxing events taking place in recent weeks. McCloskey was calm in the build up. One assumed that with his first big occasion …
Read More »An Education In Olympic Boxing
As Professional Boxing enjoys a long overdue resurgence and our current champions finally receive the exposure they deserve, there are other men who anonymously prepare to become champions themselves. These men are the less famed and less credited amateur boxers who toil at their trade without payment or recognition. As …
Read More »Heavenly Art: The Wonder Of Nicolino Locche
Some time back, when the secretive lair was finally penetrated and the crown jewels sparkled in the sudden sunlight, I realised with a sense of wonder that every great thing ever said about Nicolino Locche was true. There he was, moving casually and almost contemptuously around the ring, an imperious …
Read More »Boxing Veteran Jaffa Ballogou Set For Ring Return
Former WBC Super Middleweight International Champion and WBA title challenger Jaffa “The African Assassin” Ballogou, 45-6 (39), has announced he will to return to the ring in the near future. Ballogou, who had been sidelined by promotional issues since his last fight in June 2006, is close to inking with …
Read More »Hennessy Boxing: Thaxton Rates Romanov Better Than Khan’s Opponent
British lightweight champion Thaxton (Norwich) challenges European lightweight champion Yuri Romanov (Belarus) at the York Hall in Bethnal Green on a Hennessy Sports show on Friday, April 4th. Sky Sports 1 televise the action live from 9.30pm. Thaxton rates Romanov a far more difficult opponent than Martin Kristjansen (Denmark), who …
Read More »Ringside Boxing Report: Undercard Of Andy Bell vs. Chris Edwards
**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Frank Maloney Promotions put on a competitive undercard to support the British Super Featherweight title fight between Andy Bell and Chirs Edwards on Friday night at the Metrodome in Barnsley, England. Chief support came from a short lived encounter between Danny Reynolds …
Read More »Former British Boxing Champ Michael Gomez Picks Up Win In Glasgow
© Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Last night at the Scottish Exhibition Centre in Glasgow, Scotland, former British Champion Michael Gomez successfully defeated Baz Carey in a six round super featherweight contest. Gomez’s trainer Bobby Rimmer told SaddoBoxing this morning that “Michael boxed really well – he did great”.
Read More »Boxing In Germany: Abraham KO’s Ayala In Final Round To Retain IBF Title
There was a good show at the Sparkassen Arena in Kiel last night with IBF Middleweight Champion Arthur Abraham putting in a dramatic finish to knockout big-hearted American visitor Elvin Ayala in the twelfth and final round to retain his title for the seventh time. Ayala showed good boxing skills …
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