Giant Photo Gallery ©Jim Everett/SaddoBoxing Last Saturday night on the eve of the Puerto Rican Day parade, Madison Square Garden was so full of success stories I don’t know what to write about first. Do I start with the excitement of the sell out crowd of 20,685 fans, the instant classic between Cotto and Judah,…
By Ben Lettman Victories For Africa’s Finest It was a great night for African boxing at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in London. Along with Ajose Olusegun becoming the new Commonwealth Light Welterweight Champion, there were points victories for fellow Nigerian Tony Salam and South African Tshifwa Munyai, respectively. Munyai, fighting at featherweight instead…
Last night on a Frank Maloney promotion at the Crystal Palace in South London, flashy southpaw Ajose Olusegun took on Impact Boxing’s seasoned body punching hardman Gary Reid and came away with the vacant Commonwealth Light Welter crown with a unanimous points win. Olusegun started off the bout with his trademark gunslinging style, levelling full…
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…