Whether it’s freezing cold or nice and tropically warm where you are right now, there wasn’t a whole lot of boxing happening last weekend with the holiday season in full swing but there a few things to look forward to this week. Tomorrow on Christmas day, 39 year old Pramuansak …
Read More »European Super Feather Title Changes Hands In Italy
In a major Continental upset, Belorussian super feather Sergey Gulyakevich outpointed the heavy handed reigning European Champion Leva Kirakosyan over twelve rounds at Datch Forum in Milan, Italy last night. 26 year old Gulyakevich outboxed the favored Kirakosyan, an Armenian residing in Spain, and managed to avoid the champion’s massive …
Read More »8 Count Boxing Kicks Off 2008 With “The Month Of Kings”
After a blockbuster year in 2007 featuring seventeen world class professional boxing events, Dominic Pesoli’s 8 Count Productions storms into the new year with “The Month Of The Kings”, an outstanding evening for Chicago fight fans set for Friday, January 25th at Cicero Stadium.
Read More »Boxing Perspective: 2007 – The Year The “O” Went
The O. It’s been what was for dinner in 2007 for boxing fans. This year has been a fond swan song for the much coveted goose egg. From the first of this year when bantamweight Jonathan Arias kayoed Jorge Lopez Palafox in Baja California in a single round to two …
Read More »Friday Night Boxing Results
Not a whole lot went on last night but there were a few notable bouts to cover and we start at the Salle du Bouvy in La Louviere, Belgium where hometown hero Carmelo Ballone, 20-2-1 (9), stopped Romania’s Eugen Sorin Tanasie, 14-1-1 (6), in the eighth to annex the vacant …
Read More »HBO To Replay The Best Of 2007 Boxing
It’s a holiday treat for HBO Boxing fans. For five consecutive nights during the holidays, HBO Sports will replay five of the most memorable, most significant, most compelling bouts of 2007 that were broadcast on the HBO service. From Taylor vs. Pavlik and De La Hoya vs. Mayweather to Calzaghe …
Read More »A Time To Remember And Say Thanks
A look at those we lost in the boxing community in 2007 The end of every year, we look back and try to remember what has transpired over the last 12 months and debate the good, dismiss the bad and hope the next year brings more fortune than not. We …
Read More »Trinidad Vs. Jones: Outside The Ring Boxing Documentary
OUTSIDE THE RING – TRINIDAD VS. JONES DOCUMENTARY TO AIR ON COX CABLE SUNDAY, DEC. 23, AT 11 P.M. ET/8 P.M. PT Boxing fans searching for an inside look at the non-stop Felix “Tito” Trinidad and Roy Jones Jr. media tour will get a treat when Cox Cable airs the …
Read More »Missy “The Fury” Fiorentino Headlines “Ultimate Showdown 2” On January 26
A female world title match featuring two-time champion Missy “The Fury” Fiorentino headlines “The Ultimate Showdown II” pro-am boxing show, presented by Peter Manfredo, Sr., in association with Bash For Cash, at the Mansfield SportsPlex in Mansfield, Massachusetts.
Read More »Star Boxing Announces Next “Punchin’ At The Paradise” Date
The fists will be flying once again in New York as Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing kicks off the New Year with a bang with the 8th installment of the phenomenal boxing series “Punchin’ at the Paradise” on Thursday, January 31st 7:30pm at the Utopia Paradise Theatre in the Bronx, NY. …
Read More »Boxing Info: Edison Miranda Vs. David Banks – Jean Pascal Vs. Omar Pittman
On Friday, January 11th, with the New Year less than two weeks old, super middleweight stars Edison Miranda and Jean Pascal will attempt to move closer to their long awaited showdown – but only if they can survive the hard-nosed battlers they will face at boxing’s “Crossroads”.
Read More »Boxing 2007: The Year That Was
They say that pressure busts pipes. They say that only the strong survive. They say that the way one deals with adversity, not prosperity, defines them as a person. I can only wonder if these are the same “they” who said boxing was dead? According to most media outlets, boxing …
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