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…
Michael Gomez steps into the last-chance saloon at the Doncaster Dome on October 19 when he challenges Carl Johanneson for the British super-featherweight title. This is a fight that has really grabbed the boxing public’s imagination and while there are three British fighters challenging for world titles before the end of the year this fight…
Photo ©Tom Casino/Showtime It’s boxing with a bang as Showtime includes a thrilling fight card at the Arco Arena in Sacramento, CA as part of Free Preview Weekend. Highly talented WBC Light Heavyweight Champion Chad Dawson has promised a great performance when he faces hammer fisted Colombian KO artist Epifanio Mendoza live on Showtime Championship…
The 11th Annual Art Under the Bridge Festival takes place September 28-30, 2007, in DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York. DUMBO Arts Center, the Festival’s producer, is anticipating over 150,000 visitors again this year. Sixty new art works will be scattered throughout the neighborhood, while 158 private studios will open to the public and exhibitions will run…
From WBC President Jose Sulaiman: The WBC is naming Jameel McCline from the USA as the next challenger for the new interim heavyweight champion of the world, Samuel Peter from Nigeria, in order to take special actions to save the date of October 6 at the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York, as the…
By Per Ake Persson WBC International middleweight champ Mahir “Lion” Oral has broken his hand in sparring and cannot defend the title as planned against Italian Domenico Spada on October 19 in Berlin. Oral has agreed to relinquish the title to give stablemate Alpaslan Aguzum, who made his debut at 160 September 21 in Luebeck,…
Unbeaten “Baby†Joe Mesi has dedicated his CES debut on October 12 to injured Buffalo Bills lineman Kevin Everett, while Shannon Miller has vowed to upset Mesi in their 10-round main event in “Clash Of The Titans,†promoted by Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment & Sports, Inc., continuing “The Budweiser Night at the Fights†series at…
From WBC President Jose Sulaiman: On September 24 in New York, United States District Judge Deborah A. Batts granted the WBC’s motion to stay the lawsuit brought on behalf of Oleg Maskaev and Dennis Rappaport Productions, Ltd. against the WBC and other parties, relating to the purse split for the Maskaev vs. Samuel Peter fight…
Heavyweight contender Jameel “Big Time†McCline (38-7-3, 23 KOs) will face newly crowned World Boxing Council interim heavyweight champion Samuel “The Nigerian Nightmare†Peter (28-1, 22 KOs) at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Oct. 6. McCline was supposed to meet Vitali Klitschko on Sept. 22 in Munich, Germany, but Klitschko pulled out less than two…