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After being voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year and unifying the super-middleweight division, Joe Calzaghe’s year could get even better as hopes rise that he can finally nail down a fight against Bernard Hopkins. Frank Warren and Golden Boy Promotions, Hopkins handlers, are in on-going talks about staging the …

In the tradition of the classic baseball movie, Field of Dreams, which states, “Build it, and they will come,” fans have responded to the February 23rd world heavyweight title unification bout between IBF champion Wladimir Klitschko and WBO champion Sultan Ibragimov by snapping up tickets for the bout – which …

HBO Sports has begun production on “Joe Louis: America’s Hero…Betrayed”, a documentary on the legendary boxer and his tremendous impact on segregated America, it was announced by Ross Greenburg, president, HBO Sports. The special will reveal how the grandson of slaves became one of the greatest heavyweights of all time, …

Former amateur standout and Chicago fan favorite Frankie Tafoya will return to the professional boxing ring this Friday night, December 14 at “December Fury” another evening of world class professional boxing presented by Dominic Pesoli’s 8 Count Productions. The 24 year old Tafoya, 5-0 with three knockouts, returns after a …

After the biggest year of his young career, highly-touted middleweight prospect “Mean” Joe Greene will look to finish up 2007 with another victory when he takes on veteran Patrick Thompson at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City on Thursday night. “Joe has been spectacular in 2007, and I think …

**With Slideshow** © Curtis McCormick / Saddo Boxing The only title fight to go all twelve rounds this past Saturday on Frank Maloney and Steve Wood’s promotion in Wigan, England was also the most bitterly contested scrap at the Robin Park Centre. The battle featured two reigning English titlists, flyweight …

**With Slideshow** © Curtis McCormick / Saddo Boxing One of the four title fights on the Frank Maloney/Steve Wood shared promotion on Saturday at the Robin Park Centre in Wigan, England featured welterweight Ali Nuumbembe putting his Commonwealth crown on the line against hard punching Manchester southpaw Craig Watson. Watson …

**With Slideshow** © Curtis McCormick / Saddo Boxing Bantamweights Jason Booth and Matthew Edmonds appeared on Saturday’s Maloney/Wood promotion at Wigan, England’s Robin Park Centre to argue the Commonwealth Bantamweight title that the undefeated South African Tshifhiwa Munyai recently vacated. Booth came into the bout the far more experienced campaigner, …

Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing presented the seventh installment of the popular “Punchin At The Paradise” series at The Utopia Paradise Theatre in the Bronx, NY last night and in what has become a tradition of the Paradise shows, those in attendance were treated to a memorable night of boxing.

You only have one chance to make a first impression, and Jean Pascal did not impress Edison Miranda this past Friday night during his 10 round bout with Brian Norman at the Bell Center in Montreal. “I came all the way from the sunny weather of San Juan to the …

As the dust settles on Chris Edwards’ historic victory, the first boxer from Stoke to win a British title for 85 years took time out to thank the team at Impact Boxing who had assisted him in his quest to capture the inaugural super-flyweight Lonsdale Belt. “I couldn’t have achieved …

**With Slideshow** © Curtis McCormick / Saddo Boxing Frank Maloney and Steve Wood put on a big show at Robin Park Centre in Wigan, England last night, with two British and two Commonwealth title fights on tap along with a host of undercard bouts. There was a lot of action …