Ricky Hatton will meet a losing finalist from the hit US reality show Contender every day in the gym for the next two weeks. Last September Steve Forbes dropped a controversial split decision to Grady Brewer in the final of the second series of Contender. Forbes, a former IBF super-featherweight …
Read More »British Boxing Champ Tony Oakey Achieves Light Heavyweight Dream
By Simon Jackson Tony Oakey’s prediction that 2007 was going to be his year was proved correct on Friday night at London’s Docklands ExCel Arena when the 31 year old produced an impressive boxing display to stop Steven Spartacus and become the new British light heavyweight champion. Oakey has long …
Read More »Boxing Press Conference Quotes: Roy Jones, Anthony Hanshaw, Lou Duva
Roy Jones and opponent Anthony Hanshaw were on hand yesterday at Madison Square Garden to announce their July 14 Pay Per View bout to be held at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum and Convention Center. Roy Jones Jr: “I love to do what I do and I am back to doing …
Read More »Golden Boy Teams With 8 Count For Massive Chicago Boxing Fight Card June 1
Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions and Chicago’s 8 Count Productions are teaming up again for an outstanding evening of world class professional boxing on Friday, June 1 at Cicero Stadium, featuring some of the sports finest prospects and future world champions.
Read More »Ex-Boxing Champion Zab Judah’s Father Impersonates Zab On Conference Call!
Yesterday’s “Zab” Judah media conference call was too good to be true. It started on time. Media attendance was record-breaking. Oh, and the trainer, formerly known as Zab during the call, was, in reality, his father and trainer, YOEL Judah. Shades of Clifford Irving! Yes, the call was a plain …
Read More »Contender Boxing Contestant Miguel Espino Set To Fight June 30
Miguel Espino, who considers himself the real fighter from the “Contender” reality series is put to the test once again June 30th when he battles a fighter TBA at the Sylmar National Guard. Espino, who’s rapidly climbing up the ranks in the middleweight division, will attempt to extend on his …
Read More »European Boxing News: Wladimir Klitschko, Lamon Brewster, Paolo Vidoz
By Per Ake Persson The fight for the vacant European Junior Middle title between Zauerbek Baysangurov from Ukraine and Frenchman Husseyn Bayram could go ahead July 7 in Cologne, Germany in a supporting bout to IBF and IBO heavy champ Wladimir Klitschko´s defence of the titles against Lamon Brewster.
Read More »Silverhawk Boxing: Heavyweight Prospect Cedric Boswell Wants In On World Scene
Fresh off of his first-round destruction of veteran Steve “Storm” Pannell (34-13, 28 KOs) last Friday night in Colorado, Cedric “Bos” Boswell believes he’s ready to take on the any of the world’s top heavyweights. Boswell (24-1, 19 KOs), fighting out of Atlanta, is lucky he doesn’t get paid by …
Read More »Boxing In Germany: K2 Adds European Title Fight To Klitschko – Brewster
K2 Promotions announced today that it has won the purse bid for the European Championship between undefeated Russian star Zauerbek Baysangurov (15-0, 12 KO’s) and French standout Hussein Bayram (24-2, 13 KO’s) for the vacant European Super Welterweight title. The Baysangurov/Bayram fight will be the co-feature for the IBF/IBO Heavyweight …
Read More »US amateur boxing star Demetrius Andrade in own class
The ultimate compliment in boxing is for opponents to try just about anything to take a star such as Demetrius “Boo Boo” Andrade out of his game. Andrade, 19, has dominated the 152-pound weight class in the United States the past two years to the point now that his foes …
Read More »Boxing Profile: English Heavyweight Champion Michael Sprott
No stranger to being knocked down then coming back to win, Sprott injury forces postponement of Matt Skelton Commonwealth title fight With a record of 30-10 (15), Michael Sprott can now be considered a ring veteran. The man from Reading, England was becoming a gatekeeper to the European and British …
Read More »European Boxing News: World Champions Mikkel Kessler, Joe Calzaghe, Wladimir Sidorenko
By Per Ake Persson AMI Production have moved their big show in Marseille one day forward and it will now go ahead June 29 instead of June 30. Headlining the show is WBA and EBU Female Junior Welter champ Ann Sophie Mathis who again takes on Miriam Lamare. Those who …
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