Click for larger image © Don King Productions Five-time world champion Felix “Tito” Trinidad and eight-time world champion Roy Jones Jr. spent all day at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Conn., on Tuesday promoting their upcoming match dubbed “Bring on the Titans” set for Jan. 19 at Madison Square Garden and on HBO Pay-Per-View,
Undefeated former IBF lightweight champion Paul Spadafora was issued his license and Federal ID by the state of Pennsylvania today and announced that he will return to the ring next week, ending an eight-month hiatus.
Innovative media giant ClearChannel Radio, in conjunction with Goossen Tutor Promotions, has come up with a creative vehicle designed to promote the Simply Beautiful Island of St. Lucia and its very first world class professional boxing event tomorrow night.
This Friday night’s Solo Boxeo card, “Latin Thunder” received an upgrade in the main event as David “The Destroyer†Lopez of Nogales, Mexico will now be taking on Dominican spoiler David Toribio in a ten round middleweight bout at Cicero Stadium, it was announced Wednesday evening by Dominic Pesoli, President of 8 Count Productions.
Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing, announced today the exciting light heavyweight match up between dangerous Philadelphian, Eric “Magic 2000” Harding, 23-4-1 (7) and Brooklyn, NY’s, Shaun George, 15- 2-2 (7) on Thursday, December 6, 2007 at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark, NJ.
Spanish veteran Javier Castillejo knocked out Mariano Carrera in last night’s WBA middleweight eliminator in Goppingen, Germany. This will probably make Felix Sturm vs Castillejo III and remove “El Lince” as mandatory challenger for the European title – which should pave the way for Finn Amin Asikainen and a third fight against Sebastian Sylvester.
Championship pro boxing returns to Hartford on Saturday night, November 24, as CES presents “Pinnacle FiteNite: The Heat’s On In Hartfordâ€, featuring NABF cruiserweight champion Matt “Too Smooth†Godfrey defending his title belt against former WBO heavyweight title challenger Jeremy “Half-Man, Half-Amazing†Williams, at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford.
Click for larger image © Teddy B. Blackburn / Golden Boy Promotions After nearly one year of inactivity, WBO junior lightweight champion Joan Guzman (27-0, 17 KOs) makes his highly anticipated return to the ring when he battles the veteran Humberto Soto (43-5-2, 27 KOs) on Saturday, Nov. 17 at the Borgata Hotel Casino &…
Carl Froch has been given a final eliminator for the WBC super-middleweight title against Denis Inkin after being confirmed by the world governing body he is number one in their ratings. The unbeaten British champion, who won his 22nd fight by forcing former world champion Robin Reid into retirement on Friday, will face Inkin (31-0,…
The 2007 WBC Convention in Manila continues the meet with great success and today all the ratings in each weight class were discussed with open discourse for all promoters and managers. During the afternoon session, the mandatory defenses and final elimination bouts were voted by the WBC Board of Governors.
Castries, St. Lucia (November 14, 2007) – There were two common themes conveyed by the bevy of boxers seated at the dais at today’s final press conference leading up to Friday night’s debut of world class professional boxing on the SIMPLY beautiful Caribbean Island of St. Lucia: All of the fighters expressed their gratitude to…
NYSAC votes to retract six-month term and place promoter on probation. Promoter Dino Duva of Duva Boxing is happy to announce that after a hearing on the matter, the suspension he received in October has been retracted by the New York State Athletic Commission.