The Chicago Cubs, owners of the best record in Major League Baseball, will welcome WBC Champion David Diaz to throw out the first pitch this Tuesday night, June 10, prior to the opening game of their three game home series against the Atlanta Braves. Diaz will take to the mound approximately 15 minutes prior to…
Seven bouts out of a scheduled eight went off as planned on Friday night, June 6, 2008, at the sovereign Performing Arts Center, in Reading, Pennsylvania promoted by Marshall Kauffman and Top Rank. Spanish channel Telefutura provided commentary in English and Spanish. Attendance was spartan at the fight card as high school graduation was taking…
© Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing So, Floyd Mayweather has retired, again!. I’m sure I’m not the only one thinking that what he probably means is…â€I’ve retired (unless something interesting crops up!)†It seems the five-weight champion is no longer ‘happy’ to fight and retires at the height of his game with a perfect 39-0…
An IFBA World welterweight title fight between Jill Emery and Angel Martinez has been added to Thursday night’s (June 12) Fox Sports Net’s Best Damn Championship Fight Night Period card at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.
Fight Night at the Tank keeps going strong with second show of 2008 Boxing was back in a big way on Thursday night in San Jose, California as Goosen-Tutor Promotions presented the second installment of their 2008 “Fight Night at the Tankʼ season, held at the San Jose Pavilion. Heavyweights headlined the show as California…
Last night at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall, Kelly Pavlik extended his domination over the middleweight division as the lanky Ohio man stopped the challenge of Wales’ Gary Lockett in the third round to keep possession of his WBC and WBO titles. The come forward aggression of Pavik proved too much for his challenger from across…
There were a few surprises last night at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, CT as Sergio Mora graduated to the big time with a stunning upset of heavily favored Vernon Forrest to capture the WBC Light Middleweight title. Reigning champion Forrest has disregarded the challenge posed by the former Contender TV series winner Mora…
The Centro Olimpico in San Juan De Los Morros, Venezuela saw Panama’s Celestino Caballero retain his WBA Super Bantamweight title for the fourth occasion when former WBA Flyweight Champion Lorenzo Parra was pulled out in the 12th round with a broken jaw last night. At 5 foot 4 inches tall, Parra was attempting to overcome…
Friday night at the Uniprix Stadium in Montreal, local light welter Herman “Black Panther” Ngoudjo bounced back from a close loss to IBF Champion Paulie Malignaggi in January to win that organization’s official title eliminator at 140 lb by posting a hard fought unanimous decision against former WBA Champion Souleymane “The Sensation” M’baye of France….
The action on Friday night in Scotland was at Glasgow’s Kelvin Hall where Paul Appleby shed his prospect status by taking the British Featherweight title from John Simpson via a very close 12 round unanimous decision. Appleby, 12-0 (8), employed superior boxing skills to pull ahead early, dropping his fellow Scotsman Simpson in the fifth…
Aside from the high profile cards this weekend in Atlantic City and Connecticut, there were a few decent shows at small hall venues and we start out on Friday at the Sovereign Center in Reading, PA where middleweight contender Marco Antonio Rubio won his eighth bout in a row. The Mexican slugger, 42-4-1 (37), stopped…
Heavyweight sensation Odlanier Solis remained unbeaten with a unanimous decision win over 20-year-old Dutch prospect Harry Duiven, jr. in Hattersheim, Germany. “La Sombra†controlled the fight from the first bell on and outboxed his opponent over eight rounds taking his own record to 10-0-0 (6) while Duiven jr. dropped to 12-3-1 (10).