Just three weeks after their highly successful partnering to present “War For 4!â€headlined by the WBC Lightweight World Championship battle between David Diaz and Erik Morales, Chicago’s 8 Count Productions, and Las Vegas’ Top Rank Incorporated team up again to present “El Bravoâ€, another evening of world class professional boxing on Friday, August 24 at…
Click for larger image © Stacey Arpin-Santos / Saddo Boxing Live from Twin Rivers Resort in Lincoln, Rhode Island, cruiserweight Matt “Too Smooth” Godfrey put his NABF Cruiserweight title on the line against Derrick “D-Train” Brown last Friday night. Godfrey entered the fight rated #2 by the WBC after a recent string of impressive victories…
Recap and Analysis of the Recent Televised Fights in the Bantamweight and Super Bantamweight Divisions After back-to-back weekends of exciting boxing matches, boxing takes a much-deserved rest. There is not another meaningful televised fight until Jermain Taylor versus Kelly Pavlik on September 29, 2007. I do not count the September Fernando Vargas vs. Ricardo Mayorga…
Classic Entertainment & Sports, Inc. (CES) president Jimmy Burchfield reports that Team Escalera has turned down an opportunity for undefeated cruiserweight prospect Alfredo Escalera, Jr. (14-0-1, 11KOs) to fight CES’ unbeaten nine-time U.S. amateur champion Aaron Williams (14-0-1, 10 KOs) in the ESPN2 Friday Night Fights opening 8-round bout on August 24 in New York…
“Fast & Furious†is the only way to describe this epic rumble between two of boxing’s top pound for pound superstars — undefeated WBA world welterweight champion MIGUEL COTTO and four-time world champion SUGAR SHANE MOSLEY. Promoted by Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank, in association with Madison Square Garden, “Fast & Furious†will take…
Newly crowned NABF light welterweight champion Frankie “El Gato†Figueroa, in a reality short time period, has gone from counseling rebellious teens to tormenting opponents in the ring. The Spanish Harlem-born, Bronx-raised Figueroa (17-2, 13 KOs), now fighting out of Miami, captured his NABF title belt on July 28, stopping former NABA champion Ubaldo Hernandez…
An Early Look In a fight that I still find difficult to believe is taking place, Floyd Mayweather Jr and Ricky Hatton put their unbeaten records on the line in December. Call me a skeptic or even a pessimist, but I still won’t believe it will happen until both men are in the ring. This…
Heavy-handed punchers set the stage many years ago for David Tua, Roman Greenberg, Jeremy Williams and Co., continuing the strong Utah pro boxing tradition Saturday night in the Pinnacle FiteNite pay-per-view show at the South Towne Exposition Center in Sandy. World heavyweight champions “Gentleman†Jim Corbett and Jack “The Manassa Mauler†Dempsey both had their…
On August 24, respected Michigan promoter Gerald Evans of 1 World Productions, in association with Murack Corporation, will host a night of boxing at the Jackson County Fairgrounds, Banquet Hall in Jackson, Michigan. “The Battle to be King” will feature in its main event a “much better than his record” heavyweight returning from the biggest…
Gerry Penalosa Leads Undercard With Amazing Comeback To Win WBO Crown The Filipino team might have walked away with the second Boxing World Cup, but the night belonged to WBO Junior Featherweight Champion Daniel Ponce De Leon, 32-1 (29). The champ retained his title last night in the main event from the ARCO Arena in…
Earlier today at the City Sogo Gym in the Kobe suburb of Takasago, local hero and domestic bantamweight titlist Masayuki Mitani made an unsuccessful bid to unseat reigning OPBF Champ Rolly Matsushita, suffering a dramatic stoppage at 2:09 of the 12th and final round. Mitani, 20-2 (10), came into the bout riding a ten fight…
Top-notch Legitimate World Championship boxing will revive again in the North West Province on 31 August, courtesy of Branco Sports Productions (BSP). The bustling city of Klerksdorp (James Motlatsi Hall), in the heart of the province’s mining heartland, will be hosting Mzonke Fana’s first defence of his International Boxing Federation (IBF) junior lightweight world title…