It could have been the biggest super middleweight fight of 2008, a pitched battle between a former world champion and perhaps the most exciting warrior in the game today. But despite offers to hold the bout in a neutral location and significant offers from both HBO and Showtime for the television rights to the bout,…
Boxing promoter Don King made a surprise announcement on Wednesday that he will no longer represent undefeated unified lightweight world champion Juan “Baby Bull†Diaz after his match on Saturday with Nate “Galaxxy Warrior†Campbell in Cancun, Mexico. King has represented Diaz since September 2006, and it is highly unusual for the world’s greatest promoter…
Andre Berto, 21-0 (18), is a strong, fast, up and coming welterweight who in the past few years has made his way into the spotlight, showing more of the immense depth that this division has to offer. The 24 year old from Winter Haven, FL holds impressive wins thus far, giving a glimpse on what…
In perhaps the most significant cruiserweight unification title bout in years, world champions Enzo Maccarinelli (World Boxing Organization) and David Haye (World Boxing Council/World Boxing Association) will collide this Saturday, March 8, live on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING at 9 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the west coast). Question: Enzo and David, can you give us your…
Showtime will re-air the instant classic Vazquez-Marquez III Showtime Championship Boxing telecast in its entirety tonight, Wednesday, March 5 on Showtime at 11 p.m. ET/PT. Subscribers can also catch the scintillating match anytime at Showtime On Demand (where available). Last Saturday, March 1, Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez completed one of the most thrilling trilogies…
With all the excitement generated by the two title fights happening at the 02 Arena in London on Saturday, Rendall Munroe’s challenge for the European super bantamweight championship taking place this Friday at Harvey Hadden Leisure Centre in Nottingham has come to the fore with the arrival in England of hard hitting Spanish Bull and…
© Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing Now that IBF titlist Wladimir Klitschko cruised by the highly touted yet mediocre Sultan Ibragimov, lifting the WBO strap, he’s got an open dance card and a few people who’d be likely opponents in his next match. Alexander Povetkin won the IBF eliminator last month and is the current…
Could it be déjà vu all over again? It appears that the scales of justice may be unbalanced for the upcoming World Boxing Council (WBC) super lightweight title elimination bout between undefeated No. 1 contender TIMOTHY “Desert Storm” BRADLEY and No. 2 rated JOSE LUIS CASTILLO, the former two-time WBC lightweight champion. Bradley (21-0, 11…
By Per Ake Persson Arena Box Promotion won today´s purse bids at the EBU office in Rome for the right to stage the fight for the vacant European Heavyweight title between Sinan Samil Sam and Matt Skelton with an offer for 147,250 Euro. Sports Network put in 143,500 Euro. Date and site is to be…
Six world class fighters, with a combined record of 155-10-4 (81 KOs), and a winning percentage of 92%, in three compelling rumbles, highlight the highly anticipated pay-per-view card headlined by the Juan Manuel Marquez-Manny Pacquiao world title rematch.
Two-time WBA heavyweight champion John “The Quietman†Ruiz (42-7-1, 29 KOs), rated No. 3 by the WBA and No. 5 by the WBC, fights veteran Jameel “Big Time†McCline this Saturday night on the Oleg Maskaev-Samuel Peter card in Cancun, Mexico. Ruiz, who broke Las Vegas-based training camp Sunday and flew to Cancun with his…
Aldo Valtierra, of Mexico City, Mexico, who thought he lost a razor-thin 12-round split decision to Rogers Mtagwa, of Philadelphia, PA, for the vacant NABF featherweight title last summer, gets a rematch over 10 rounds Friday evening, March 7, at the New Alhambra in South Philadelphia.