Last night in front of 10,000 fans at the Bell Centre in Montreal, undefeated super middle southpaw Lucian Bute kept his perfect record by winning an IBF Eliminator with a tough twelve round decision over the rugged Sakio Bika. Bika came to fight, having already tangled with the likes of world champions Joe Calzaghe, Markus…
Light welterweight prospect Frankie “El Gato” Figueroa has signed an exclusive managerial contract with Sal LoNano, president of S&L Boxing, it was announced today. Figueroa (16-2, 12 KOs), fighting out of the Bronx, NY, is the reigning WBC International Mundo Hispano welterweight and New York State light welterweight champion. He has won eight in a…
Firefighters from Five Boroughs to Grill Off for FDNY Charities on Thursday, June 21, at Gallagher’s Steak House. Manhattan, Bronx, Staten Island, Queens and Brooklyn square off in celebration with all proceeds going to FDNY charities; $45 per person It is well known throughout New York’s five boroughs that some of the best cooking is…
Photo Gallery ©Barry Arpin/SaddoBoxing This past Saturday night on Showtime Championship Boxing we were treated to an explosive night of fights. Of the eight fights on the card, five ended with knockouts, one in a split decision and the main event ended in a majority decision. More importantly the two fighters everyone packed into the…
The weigh-in for the vacant Commonwealth light welterweight title took place at Frank Maloney’s South London Fitness Academy yesterday afternoon. Only one pound separated the principals when they stepped on the scales amid the buzzing atmosphere today as Stoke on Trent resident Gary Reid came in at 140 lbs to Ajose Olusegun’s 139 lbs. In…
The hottest smaller-weight boxer in the world, WBC super flyweight champion Cristian Mijares, headlines the July 13th “The Gladiators” pay-per-view event live from the Gomez Palacio in Durango, Mexico. Mijares (31-3-2, 12 KOs) captured the WBC Interim title last September by 12-round split decision (114-113, 114-113, 113-114) against Katsushige Kawashima (30-4) in Japan. The crafty…
Saturday, June 16 at 9:30 PM ET/PT, from the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, CT The main event features a 12-round junior welterweight championship showdown, as Lovemore N’Dou (45-8-1, 30 KOs) of Sydney, Australia puts his title on the line against the flashy and popular Brooklynite Paulie Malignaggi (22-1, 5 KOs). N’Dou is a veteran…
Duva Boxing will present Friday Night Fights: Staten Island Knockouts on Friday night, June 29, at the St. George Theater on 34 Hyatt Street, in conjunction with the Dr. Theodore Atlas Foundation. Duva Boxing president Dino Duva has announced that part of the proceeds from event ticket sales will go to the Atlas Foundation, which…
The documentary feature film “Orthodox Stance”, about Brooklyn’s Dmitriy Salita, a 25-year old immigrant from the Ukraine, who is both a top professional boxer and a rigorously observant Jew, will have its World Premieres at the Silverdocs: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival in Silver Spring, Maryland, now through Sunday, June 17, 2007. The film is produced…
Crown Boxing, a Las Vegas company that has been promoting professional fight cards for the past two years, has announced that the Crystal Clear Sports Network will televise future bouts. Crown Boxing matchmaker Frank Luca said his company will launch its affiliation with CCSN on June 15 at the Orleans Hotel and Casino with a…
Quotes from He’s Baack! Witness The Return of a King: Jones vs. Hanshaw†Los Angeles press conference at the historic Los Angeles Sentinel, the West Coast’s largest African American newspaper. Ken Miller, Editor, Los Angeles Sentinel: “It’s an honor to welcome the media for this historic occasion, for arguably one of the greatest athletes not…
The “fight†doesn’t stop for many boxing legends when they retire and a large proportion of them fall on very hard times when their ring careers are over. Nobody is more aware of this than Branco Sports Productions and has consequently dedicated their “Triple Header Championship†extravaganza at the Orient Theatre in East London on…