Last night, at the Newham Leisure Centre in London, Ian Napa outboxed and outfoxed a hardworking Martin Power to retain his British Bantamweight title. Despite being six inches shorter than his opponent, and having a four inch reach deficit, “Dappa” Napa used a style practiced to negate Power’s advantage, forcing Power to lunge in rather…
Click for larger image © Dwight McCann Two fights. Five knockdowns. Four minutes and 15 seconds of heart-pounding action. In arguably the most thrilling telecast in the six-year history of “ShoBox,†James Kirkland and Alfredo Angulo each scored first-round TKOs in separate bouts Friday on SHOWTIME.
Click for larger image © Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Santiago 174 – Frank Burnette – Tarver 175.jpg – Danny Satiago 174 and Antonio Tarver 175 pose with Tarver’s IBO light heavyweight belt, Vernon Forrest 153 flexes on the scale as his challenger, Michele Piccirillo 152 looks on. Nonito Donaire 111 and his mandatory challenger…
By Per Ake Persson European welter champ Jackon Osei Bonsu, one most exciting fighters in Europe right now, defends the title against Frenchman Brice Faradji January 12 at the Lotto Arena in Antwerp. Purse bids for European middle champ Sebastian Sylvester´s mandatory defence against WBA # 1 challenger Javier Castillejo will now not take place…
One of America’s longest running and most successful Boxing Series the “ Battle at the Boat†will have their last show of 2007 on Saturday, December 1, 2007 and the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma , Washington . The series is promoted by Brian Halquist Productions and is the ninth show this year.
It is just over a week until Stoke’s Chris Edwards steps between the ropes at Wigan’s Robin Park Centre in his bid to become Britain’ first super-flyweight champion and according to Impact Boxing Edwards’ preparations have gone well.
Click for larger image © Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing Everyone has something they wish they could do over in their life. For me, growing up I wish I would have been more interested in learning my mother’s native language of Tagalog. I can speak a few words of the dialect from the Philippines, but…
Click for larger image © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Ricky Hatton is poised to endure his biggest training test tomorrow when he faces trainer Billy Graham for 15 Rounds of the body belt. After a week of training which included sparring with Rock Allen and Karl Dargan, Hatton will pound away at the huge…
The British invasion of Las Vegas begins on Friday (December 7) when Hennessy Sports duo John Murray and Lee Meager feature on a Golden Boy promotion at the MGM Grand Conference Center. “BRITISH INVASION – THE U.K. VS. THE WORLD†is a night of world-class professional boxing presented by Golden Boy Promotions. Telefutura’s Solo Boxeo…
One of the UK’s top prospects, Akaash “Kash” Bhatia, 8-0 (2), fights on tonight’s Frank Maloney promoted Ian Napa vs. Martin Power 2 card at the Newham Leisure Centre in London but was able to take some time out from his busy schedule to speak exclusively with SaddoBoxing. SaddoBoxing: How do you see this fight?…
SaddoBoxing caught up with fast rising British light middleweight Gary Woolcombe of Welling, England. The 25 year old London area box-fighter, 24-1 (9), makes an appearance on Frank Maloney’s promotion tonight from the Newham Lesiure Centre, headlined by the British Bantamweight title rematch between Ian Napa and Martin Power. SaddoBoxing: Do you have an opponent…
© Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Moderator: Kelly Swanson KELLY SWANSON: Thank you operator, and thank you everybody for joining us today for Ricky Hatton’s conference call, his last call before the big fight December 8th. And now without further ado, I’d like to turn the call over to Oscar de la Hoya, President of…