Tonight at at 8:00PM features part four of Gleason’s “Chamber Music and Boxing” series. World-renowned musicians with harps, cellos, violas, and a double bass will set up in one ring while the boxers will set up in another ring.
After a week of pre-fight publicity that saw them hold a press conference in Los Angeles and attend a sold out championship soccer match South of the Border, WBC featherweight champion Jorge “Nino de Oro” Linares and WBA super featherweight champion Edwin “El Aniquilador” Valero are now ready to meet their respective opponents this Saturday,…
**With Slideshow** © Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing The east coast provides a host of new professional boxers every year. New prospects hope to become contenders while others are satisfied becoming nothing more than opponents. As some of them begin to become recognized for their skill or personality there is the rare occasion a fighter…
15,670 fans piled in Madison Square Garden on December 20 1946 to watch Youngstown, Ohio’s Tommy Bell face off against Ray Robinson for the welterweight title vacated by Marty Servo in September of the same year. Those in attendance and around the world had one question that night before the start of the bout; “Was…
Frenchman Brahim Asloum won the a world title in his third attempt, moving down to light fly, where he outscored Argentinian Juan Carlos Reveco this past weekend in Le Cannet. Asloum thus became the first Frenchman to both win an Olympic Gold and a World title in the pros.
Undefeated Brooklyn middleweight Peter “Kid Chocolate†Quillin closes out a perfect year with his eighth fight of 2007 on Thursday night’s (December 13) “Holiday Hits,†against tough Minnesota import Troy “TNT†Lowry (27-7, 16 KOs) in an eight-round Special Attraction, co-promoted by Ring Promotions and Cedric Kushner’s Gotham Boxing, at The Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan.
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 fight in 2008. It would…
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 will be held at Madison…
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, served as an iconic figure…
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 two year absence to face…
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 this fight will be a…
**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 Chris Edwards and bantamweight Jamie…