Click for larger image © Scott Foster / Showtime Boxing Brothers Lamont and Anthony Peterson of Washington, D.C., kept their undefeated records and hopes for a world title shot in 2008 in tact with convincing victories Friday in the co-featured bouts on ShoBox: The New Generation at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.
Photo © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing The verbal sparring continued at Friday’s weigh-in from Ballys Atlantic City between two out-going and antagonistic rivals Paulie Malignaggi (139) and Herman Ngoudjo (140). Malignaggi, the Brooklyn-born IBF 140-lbs champ and Ngoudjo, the top ranked contender, went nose-to-nose before an enthusiastic crowd after making weight. They will go…
Two of the greatest boxers in history, Felix “Tito†Trinidad and Roy Jones Jr., will face each other in a battle boxing fans have been waiting for years to see at New York’s famed Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. The event has been dubbed “Bring on the Titans†and will be produced…
Names Making News And What’s On For January 2008 Happy New Year one and all, I hope everyone’s holiday was good because it’s now time to get back in the groove. Let’s start out 2008 with a few rumors, updates and fights already signed making headlines. But, before we get started, a word of condolence….
© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing On the eve of their hotly anticipated showdown on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING, from Bally’s Main Ballroom in Atlantic City, NJ, airing live on SHOWTIME, Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 8PM, (delayed on the west coast), the charismatic Paulie “The Magic Man” Malignaggi and Herman “The Black Panther” Ngoudjo held…
Thaxton ready to send out search party!!! · Thaxton vs. Khan for the prestigious British Title · Purse bids to be held Wednesday 9th January 2008 at Midday at the British Boxing Board of Control. · “5 Days to go and I’m counting†“After shooting your mouth off about me you’ve gone very quiet all…
WBO Heavyweight Champion Sultan Ibragimov will take a break from his busy training schedule tonight, January 4, to check in with host Brian Kenny on this week’s edition of ESPN2 Friday Night Fights.
Forget the cold New York winter – on Saturday, February 23rd, the action at Madison Square Garden has just gotten even hotter with the addition of three of the Big Apple’s hottest fighters to the undercard of the World Heavyweight Title Unification bout between WBO champ Sultan Ibragimov and IBF titleholder Wladimir Klitschko. Middleweight contender…
World super flyweight champions Fernando Montiel and Cristian Mijares will be defending their titles in separate 12-round bouts and junior middleweight contender Ronald Hearns will be risking his undefeated record on the pay-per-view extravaganza headlined by the 12-round rematch rumble between world middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik and former world champion Jermain Taylor in one of…
One night before Paulie “Magic Man†Malignaggi defends his IBF junior welterweight title against top-ranked Herman Ngoudjo on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING, undefeated, world-ranked Anthony and Lamont Peterson will be co-featured in 10-round bouts on ShoBox: The New Generation Friday, Jan. 4, 2008, on SHOWTIME (11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast). Lamont (23-0, 11…
AM HERE KAHN, DON’T BOTTLE IT! For The Sake Of British Boxing – Jon Thaxton · Thaxton vs. Kahn for the prestigious British Title · Purse bids to be held Wednesday 9th January 2008 at Midday at the British Boxing Board of Control. British Lightweight Champion Jon Thaxton says that after all the disrespectful and…
SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING will set the stage for another fantastic year of world-class boxing when flashy, charismatic Paulie “The Magic Man†Malignaggi defends his International Boxing Federation (IBF) junior welterweight title against mandatory challenger and IBF No. 1 contender, Herman “The Black Panther†Ngoudjo, on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008, live on SHOWTIME at 9 p.m….