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Featuring the winning submissions of Jake Shaw and Daniel McCarthy The majority of the time, a person’s profession is based on an interest that they had in something while growing up. For example, some found the laws of our nation captivating enough to attend law school. Others had an interest …

He hasn’t won a fight in over two years and yet you would be hard pressed to find a writer alive that still wouldn’t place Zab “Super” Judah, 34-5 (25), in the top ten of the welterweight division. Heck, I for one think that he is still one of the …

July is a month of boxing rehabilitation in the sense that we have a schedule packed to the top with quality bouts and if you follow the sport, then you know just what I mean. With so many high level fights on the horizon, July 21 at the Mandalay Bay …

World Boxing Council (WBC) super bantamweight champion Rafael Marquez and former WBC and International Boxing Federation (IBF) 122-lb. champ Israel Vazquez were all business at Thursday’s press conference at the Wyndham Garden Hotel in Hidalgo, Texas when they formally announced the most highly anticipated rematch in years, Marquez-Vazquez II. Click …

In a highly anticipated match and can’t miss candidate for Fight of the Year, WBO welterweight champion Antonio Margarito will defend his belt against undefeated, No. 1-ranked and mandatory challenger, Paul “The Punisher” Williams in the main event of “Pride N’ Punishment” on Saturday, July 14, in the outdoor tennis …

Boxing legend Roy Jones Jr. has an important fight coming up on pay-per-view TV July 14 from Biloxi, MS., against undefeated opponent Anthony Hanshaw. Jones has made it plain that if he loses to the 21-0-1 Hanshaw, he might take his gloves and head off into retirement. But Jones said …

Ricky Hatton’s promoter Dennis Hobson has launched a furious verbal assault on former world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan. The Clones Cyclone has repeatedly criticised Hatton over the past few months, claiming the “Hitman” only had two more fights left in him. McGuigan followed that up by saying his clash last …

The Italian Alessio Furlan is talking the talk ahead of his middleweight clash with John Duddy on the next Hunky Dorys Fight Night at the National Stadium, Dublin on July 14th. After 20 fights Stateside Duddy returns home for his first pro fight on Irish soil as he looks to …

Former World Boxing Council welterweight champion Carlos Baldomir weighed 166 1/2 pounds Thursday for his WBC-mandated weigh-in 30 days prior to meeting another ex-WBC 147-pound champ, Vernon Forrest, July 28 in Tacoma, Wash., for the WBC super welterweight interim title. Baldomir had to weigh no more than 169 pounds or …

Golden Boy Enterprises, LLC, an entity controlled by Oscar de la Hoya and holder of approximately 4.9% of the outstanding stock of Everlast Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ NM, EVST), announced today it is watching with interest the developments surrounding its investment in Everlast. On June 1, 2007 Everlast announced that it …

On July 7 at the Kolnarena in Koln, Germany, we will have what is perhaps the most appealing heavyweight match up of the year so far. Current IBF and IBO Heavyweight Champion Wlamamir Klitschko, 48-3 (43), faces American Lamon Brewster, 33-3 (29), in a rematch from their first fight in …

If Ruslan Chagaev can be referred to as the “White Tyson”, then perhaps we have to ask if Sultan Ibragimov can be called by Evander Holyfield’s boxing moniker, the “Real Deal”. Even though the Russian has languished in relative obscurity throughout his career, he’s managed to capture one of the …