Wayne Elcock held his long awaited coming out party at the Skydome Arena in Coventry, England on Friday night as the Birmingham middleweight outboxed the highly decorated Howard Eastman in an entertaining scrap to annex the British title. Elcock came into the clash as the clear underdog, having failed in a previous British title bid…
Over the last two years Olympic silver medallist Amir Khan has performed his own form of alchemy by turning his runners-up medal into gold. By signing professional terms with Frank Warren and by becoming the darling of the media Khan has already become financially secure. The Bolton fighter has won all 13 of his professional…
After a long wait and much speculation, Ronnie “The Rottweiler†Kerner is set to conquer the boxing world as the new “King of Four Roundersâ€. Kerner is set to be the co-feature with his close friend Bobby Gunn Saturday, November 17th at the ABC Sports Complex in Springfield, Virginia. Click for larger image He will…
Danish super featherweight prospect Kim “Golden Boy†Poulsen improved his record to 5-1 (1) with a shutout unanimous decision-victory via scores of 40-36 on all three cards over previously undefeated Polish hope Tomasz Kwiecien, (1-0), last night in Soumagne, Belgium. Poulsen delivered probably his best performance to date, in what was his first televised fight….
Escobedo wins NABO Featherweight belt! In just over a month since defeating Rey Bautista in the Second Annual Golden Boy Promotions Boxing World Cup, WBO and IBA Junior Featherweight Champion Daniel Ponce de Leon, 33-1 (30), needed just five rounds to take out the rugged Columbian Reynaldo Lopez, 27-6-2 (19), at the Morongo Casino in…
Photo ©Jane Warburton/SaddoBoxing Haye to hold October 3rd press conference ahead of Mormeck title fight Former European cruiserweight champion David “The Hayemaker’ Haye will hold a one-off press conference on Wednesday, October 3 at Club 24, 24 Kingley Street London W1 at 11.30am for 12.00 noon to formally announce his impending WBC and WBA world…
Photo ©Will Hart/HBO Courtesy HBO.com Nearly 500 hundred chanting fans turned out tonight at Caesars Palace to witness the official weigh-in and final stamp on the pre-fight lead up to the Jermain Taylor/Kelly Pavlik title fight tomorrow night. To get a view of the fighters as they took the scale, you had to either have…
In preparation for their big showdown tonight at the Arco Arena in Sacramento, CA as part of Showtime’s Free Preview Weekend, light heavyweights Chad Dawson and Epifanio Mendoza both made weight yesterday for their contest over Dawson’s WBC title. Dawson came in at a very light 172.75 lb while Mendoza tipped the scales at the…
By Per Ake Persson Former European middleweight champ Amin Asikainen returned with a drab workout win over four rounds against brave Frenchman Sylvain Touzet in the headliner of EMA-Telstar´s show at the Royal Tennishall. Asikainen won on scores of 40-37, 40-36 and 39-37 but failed to impress. Swedish welter Isam Khalil won a unanimous decision…
Newly crowned WBC interim heavyweight champion Samuel Peter, 28-1, (22), will be interviewed on this Saturday’s Showtime Championship Boxing telecast, live at 10 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast. Peter was to challenge current WBC heavyweight champion Oleg Maskaev on Oct. 6 at Madison Square Garden until a back injury forced Maskaev to pull…
Photo ©Jim Everett/SaddoBoxing In lieu of any last minute cancellations due to injuries, a problem that boxing has been plagued with since the beginning of September this Saturday should be “A Perfect Matchup†between Middleweight Champion Jermain Taylor, 27-0-1 (17), and Kelly Pavlik, 31-0 (28), from Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ. Both fighters are…
This Saturday night on a Fight Academy Promotion at Hallam FM Arena in Sheffield, England, IBF Light Heavyweight Champion Clinton Woods attempts to improve his first victory over Julio Gonzalez when they meet in the ring. In a career spanning 13 years, the 35 year old Woods, 40-3-1 (24), still clamours for the big money…