While most fight fans at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall and those viewing live on HBO World Championship Boxing on September 29th are anticipating the World Middleweight Championship bout between champion Jermain “Bad Intentions†Taylor and #1 challenger Kelly “The Ghost†Pavlik, they will also be treated to a co-main event featuring two of the welterweight…
Branco Sports Productions, in association with SABC Sport and Carousel, present “Perfect Match”, a thrilling boxing tournament at Carousel Casino in Temba, North-West, South Africa on Friday, September 21, 2007. The main event features perhaps the most exciting weight class in the sport as lightning quick WBC International Straw-weight Champion Zukisani “Troublemaker” Kwayiba puts his…
By Per Ake Persson Cristian Sanavia defends the European super middle title against German Danilo Haussler on a Sauerland Event promotion. Site is to be announced. Russian Daniel Peret, who at times fight out of Norway, takes on American heavy prospect Joey Abell on September 15 in Karlstad, Sweden, over four three minute rounds. Peret…
Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing announced today that the 12 round IBF Welterweight Championship title fight between Jesse Feliciano 14-5-3 (8KO’s) and Champion Kermit Cintron 28-1 (26KO’s) is back on the under card of the rescheduled Fernando Vargas- Ricardo Mayorga card November 23, from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, live on PPV.
Boxing films have been an important part of the sports movie genre for generations. Classics such as “On the Waterfront,” “Requiem for A Heavyweight,” “Raging Bull,†and the Rocky classics, and more recently “Million Dollar Baby” and “Cinderella Man, have depicted the Sweet Science and compelling stories on the big screen.
Two time world title challenger Orlando Salido of Ciudad Orbegon, Sonora, Mexico has been added to the “Pride” Bill at Chicago’s Congress Theatre this Friday night, September 14. Salido, 27-9 (18KO’s) will face veteran Marty Robbins in an eight round super featherweight bout. Salido is coming off a twelve round battle with Robert Guerrero last…
Official weights from tonight’s 8 Count/Top Rank shared bill at the Congress Theater in Chicago, IL Fernando Trejo, 132.5 vs. Juan Ramon Cruz, 131.5 ten rounds Francisco Rodriguez, 119 vs. Ivan Rodriguez, 120, eight rounds, Orlando Salido, 133 vs. Marty Robbins, 131, 8 rounds Leo Martinez, 134 vs. Jorge Lara, 132 six rounds, Andrzej Fonfara,…
Click for larger image © Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing Isaac Holder of Heavy Hitters Boxing Gym in Bohemia, Long Island will make his professional debut on Friday night at the pro boxing show promoted by Frankie “G†Productions and Ring Promotions. The Florida native will face Rafael Jastrzebski, 0-4-1, in his four-round opener at…
Fresh off of his thoroughly dominating performance at the US Boxing Trials, where he qualified for the 2008 United States Boxing Team, amateur boxing star Demetrius “Boo Boo†Andrade has shifted his sights on the AIBA Men’s World Championships, October 23-November 3, at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Unbeaten Polish prospect Pawel “Raging Bull†Wolak plans to make a statement tomorrow night (Friday, September 14) against “Flawless†Dan Wallace (9-1, 3 KOs) in the 10 round main event for the IBA Americas middleweight championship, headlining a pro boxing show promoted by Frankie “G†Promotions and Ring Promotions, at the Huntington Hilton Hotel in…
SHOWTIME, America’s No. 1 boxing network, will continue its sizzling 2007 schedule when it pits undefeated World Boxing Council (WBC) Light Heavyweight Champion “Bad†Chad Dawson (24-0, 1 NC, 16 KOs) against unbeaten WBC No. 1 contender Adrian “The Shark†Diaconu (24-0, 15 KOs) on Saturday, Sept. 29, live at 10 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on…
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, One In A Million Inc. will feature the professional debuts of three of the region’s most promising Hispanic boxers, Evette Collazo, Ed Ochoa and Jimmy Perez Jr., on Friday, September 21, at the Radisson at Star Plaza Theatre in Merrillville, IN. Highly touted undefeated middleweight Michael Walker (16-0-1, 10…