Bad Blood Grudge Match Reaches Boiling Point In LA ***With Slideshow*** Click for larger image © Jorge Garcia Vargas And Mayorga Make Weight, Cintron vs. Feliciano on the Undercard The ten year career of Fernando Vargas will come to a close tonight in a bad blood bout that could even eclipse the raw hate on…
Legendary promoter Don King celebrated Thanksgiving by making a special visit to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany where he signed autographs for wounded Iraq and Afganistan campaign veterans, and ate Turkey with the troops.
Click for larger image © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing It was a damp, drizzly morning in Manchester today, but there were plenty of smiles as Ricky ‘Hitman’ Hatton boarded the BMI flight that would take him to Las Vegas for the fight of his life against Pretty Boy Floyd Mayweather. The Hitman along with…
The storied middleweight division has been rife with legendary rivalries. In the ‘40s Rocky Graziano had Tony Zale, in the ‘50s Sugar Ray Robinson, Carmen Basilio, and Gene Fullmer had each other and in the ‘60s Nino Benvenuti had Emile Griffith. However, for the past 40 years the middleweight division has endured a void —…
Hard-hitting WBC No. 11 154-pound contender James Kirkland (20-0, 17 KOs) hopes to continue his ascension to the top of the junior middleweight division when he takes on the dangerous Allen Conyers (11-2, nine KOs) Friday, Nov. 30, 2007, on ShoBox: The New Generation, live on Showtime at 11 p.m. ET/PT delayed on the west…
After coming back from the 45th annual WBC Convention that was held in Manila, Philippines, a group of reporters stayed up late and spent the night in Narita, Japan. From there, they were able to interview champions Jorge Linares and Edwin Valero, who belong to the same boxing group, Teiken Promotions, led by famous promoter…
WBC CABOFE champion Miguel Espino (17-2-1 6KO’s), has another opponent pull out just days before fight night. Espino, who was scheduled to fight Rosario Escalante, will now face Roberto Valenzuela (39-33-2 34KO’s) out of Guatabampo Sonora Mexico.
The WBC recently voted Carina Moreno “Female Fighter Of The Year”. This marks the second award in 2007 for the champion who received the same honor from the NABF back in July.
On Thursday night December 6th, DiBella Entertainment, Top Rank and Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing presents “VS. Fight Night Live” at the Utopia Paradise Theater in the heart of the Bronx. In the main event, it will be a 10 round junior middleweight battle of talented Eastern Europeans, as NABF Champion and Ukraine born Andrey Tsurkan…
Click for larger image © Jorge Garcia The Staples Centre in Los Angeles plays host this Friday to a bout between two former champions in Fernando Vargas and Ricardo Mayorga. The big question obviously, when you observe this matchup, is how much has either man got left? Lets start with Vargas. It’s hard to believe…
NABF Cruiserweight Champion and WBC’s number one ranked contender Matt “Too Smooth” Godfrey, 16-0 (9), was ready and set to settle any doubts that Jeremy “Half Man Half Amazing” Williams, 42-5 (35), had about his validity as a future star of the sport this coming Saturday in a bout scheduled to take place in Connecticut’s…
Click for larger image © Rick Guzman KERMIT CINTRON: “Feliciano is a tough fighter that comes to win. He doesn’t try to survive. It is a dangerous fight. He’s going to come and try and take the title away from me. He’s got heart, but in my opinion he can’t punch. We will have to…