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“Desert Storm” Looking To Come Up The Right Way Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley is getting ready to make his fourth appearance on Showtime’s upcoming June 1 edition of ShoBox, this Friday night. After a long amateur career that started at 10 years of age and consisted of two national titles, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …