Five Big Fights To Look Forward To This Year Our number one heavyweight Matt Skelton will fight for the WBA Championship on 19 January against the undefeated giant conqueror Ruslan Chagaev in Germany. Skelton is most certainly the underdog and some expect him to be made to look silly when he steps into the ring…
HBO Sports is presenting a thirty- minute special analyzing the upcoming HBO Pay-Per-View showdown fight between future Hall of Fame prizefighters Roy Jones Jr. and Felix Trinidad. The intriguing 170-pound bout between two of boxing’s most compelling superstars of the past decade is set for Saturday, Jan. 19 New York’s Madison Square Garden. The special…
John Thaxton would just like to make it clear that tomorrow’s purse bid has now been made for both the British and Commonwealth titles. John goes on to explain: “Where I’m British Champion, I’m also mandatory for Khan’s Commonwealth title, so the board and commonwealth council have been really fare and made this a 50/50…
The Northwest Boxing Association Heavyweight Championship belt is on the line for Eric “Night Train†Boose, who hails from Puyallup, WA with a twelve win two loss record. The 27 year old Boose, a former Boise State football player, will face Chauncy “Hillyard Hammer†Welliver who has 32 wins and only four losses.
During every New Years celebration, the saying goes, “Out with the old, in with the new,†as well as “The more things change, the more they stay the same.†Neither could be more true concerning the mindset of Jermain Taylor as he starts the New Year with training camp in Las Vegas for his rematch…
By Per Ake Persson Luan Krasniqi and Aleksander Dimitrenko, both Universum fighters, are likely to clash for the vacant European Heavyweight title March 8 in what is a geunine crossroads fight.
It wasn’t the busiest weekend of the new year in The Sport of Kings but there was a bit of action across the globe aside from the big fights that we’ve already covered on the site and this week, we’ll tackle the task alphabetically! In Argentina on Saturday, the top super middle in the country…
Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Brooklyn’s own charismatic and flashy world champion Paulie Malignaggi won a closely fought junior welterweight bout over Cameroon’s Herman Ngoudjo at Bally’s Atlantic City by unanimous decision. The judges scored the bout 117-111, 116-113 and 115-113.
Last night at the Million Dollar Elm Casino in Tulsa, Oklahoma, local hero Allan Green boxed his way to a ten round decision over ex-world title challenger Rubin Williams and lightweight contender Zahir Raheem scored a first round KO in his bout with Ricardo Dominquez. Green, 26-1 (18), worked behind a superb jab to win…
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…