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HBO’s late-night boxing series heats up with an explosive doubleheader when HBO Boxing After Dark: Daniel Ponce De Leon vs. Rey Bautista and Jhonny Gonzalez vs. Gerry Penalosa is presented Saturday, August 11 at 10:00 PM (ET/PT), from the Arco Arena in Sacramento, Cal., exclusively on HBO. The HBO Sports …

On Saturday August 11 2007, more than 1,000 law enforcement personnel and their families are expected to attend the grand opening of the Jerry Ortiz Memorial Boxing & Youth Fitness Gym, located at 3557 Lexington Avenue in El Monte CA. WBC CABOFE middleweight champion, Miguel Espino will join former world …

Promoter Mick Hennessy sees Junior Witter’s WBC light-welterweight title defence against Vivian Harris as tougher than Ricky Hatton’s last fight. The Yorkshire boxer faces Guyana’s New York-based former world champion at the The Dome at Doncaster Lakeside on Friday, September 7 in a show to be screened live on Sky …

Unbeaten heavyweight “Baby” Joe Mesi has pulled out of his August 18 fight against Sherman “Tank” Williams due to a back injury he suffered this week in training camp. The eight-round cruiserweight battle between former WBO heavyweight title challenger Jeremy “Half-Man, Half-Amazing” Williams (41-5-1, 35 KOs) and Salt Lake City …

The light heavyweight division’s most avoided fighter took another step towards becoming a world title contender with a four round drubbing of Matthew Charleston at the Coeur d’Alene Casino in Worley, Idaho on Thursday. George, now 15-2 (7 KO), was in control of the fight from the opening bell, displaying …

With only five days advance notice, Francisco “The Wizard” Palacios made a decision to take a risk instead of wallow in the uncertainty of boxing politics. His gamble paid off in the most explosive of manners, as Palacios knocked out the favored Louis Azille in six rounds at the Seminole …

From the office of WBC President Jose Sulaiman: The winner of the purse offer for WBC light heavyweight world champion Chad Dawson’s mandatory title defense against Adrian Diaconu was Don King Productions with a bid of $1,385,000. The other promoters who bid were: Gary Shaw Promotions with $1,300,000, Gankor Promotions …

No Power, But No Doubt: Hopkins Clinches Clearcut Victory Click for larger image© Mike Cleary BoxingPhotographs.com From what I have read and heard, most boxing writers and fans scored the recent Bernard Hopkins versus Winky Wright bout in favor of Hopkins (a notable, but not surprising exception is HBO’s Larry …

On 6th October Scott Lawton, Stoke’s English lightweight champion, will step out of the shadows and into the national spotlight when he becomes the challenger to media golden boy Amir Khan. The contest will take place over the championship distance of 12 rounds at Nottingham Ice Area on 6th October. …

Undefeated 81-0 8th December 2007 Ticket Update There has been a lot of speculation in the press and media about the availability of tickets for this fight. The venue has still not been finalised. I have liaised with Richard Schaefer, Chief Executive Officer of Goldenboy Promotions. Richard has informed me …

CES promotes “Takin It To The River”, a great night of boxing this evening at the Twin River Event Center in Lincoln, RI headlined by an all action clash between the top ranked cruiserweight contender in the world, Matt Godfrey, facing a very dangerous opponent in former sparring partner Derrick …

World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Oleg Maskaev will make the second defense of his title against WBC No. 1-ranked mandatory challenger Samuel “The Nigerian Nightmare” Peter at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Oct. 6 in a highly anticipated championship match scheduled for 12 rounds. Click for larger image© Sumio Yamada …