Jones Hails Smoking Ban Midlands based light heavyweight Lee Jones Jr., 2-0, believes the impending smoking ban this summer will give people extra incentive to quit, “I think that for those who are almost strong willed enough to quit but not quite, the public ban will give them that extra push to stop,” he said….
Fresh off a fishing trip in his native northern Florida, undefeated light heavyweight prospect Tavoris Cloud spoke about his move in the rankings to #15 in the IBF and #26 in the WBC. The 25 year old Cloud’s record stands at 15-0 with fourteen knockouts after his brutal first round stoppage of Jim Strohl on…
Welterweight Gilbert Venegas traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico this past Friday and battled highly regarded tough veteran Jesus Soto Karass to a draw in an outstanding battle broadcast internationally on Telefutura’s Friday night boxing series, Solo Boxeo Tecate. The high action, hard fought fight took place at the Isleta Casino Resort in front of a…
Undefeated Russian middleweight prospect Victor Polyakov returns to action in Chicago this Friday night, June 1 at Cicero Stadium as he takes on Puerto Rican prospect Rene Luis Sierra in a six round bout at “Test Of Courage”, another evening of world class professional boxing presented by 8 Count Productions.
Risum Boxing’s three Kenyan boxers, Samson Onyango, David Kiilu and James Kimori all scored victories on Saturday May 26 in Nairobi, Kenya, on a show promoted by Ashira Oure Promotions. For Onyango, it was his first fight in five months, after three cancelled rematches against Kenyan champion Mohammed “Chicken†Orungi. Onyango instead fought another rematch,…
Due to a cut suffered by Cesar Canchila during training, former IBF minimumweight world champion Daniel “El Olympico†Reyes (38-4-1, 30 KOs) of Colombia has stepped up to face NABF Champion Giovanni “The Aztec Warrior†Segura (17-0-1, 13 KOs) of Mexico in a 12-round WBA light flyweight world championship eliminator on Friday, June 8th from…
SaddoBoxing was fortunate enough to interview Bobby Rimmer, formerly assistant trainer of Ricky “Hitman” Hatton and now turned owner of Bobby Rimmer’s Boxing Academy/Stalybridge ABC in Manchester, England and full time trainer to some hot young talent. Click for larger image© Mike Cleary SaddoBoxing: First off, it’s been almost a year since you opened your…
By Simon Jackson Joe Calzaghe has expressed his desire to hang up his gloves after three “super fights” which will enable the unbeaten Welshman to step away from the ring while still at the peak of his profession. Calzaghe extended his unbeaten record to 43 when he stopped Peter Manfredo Jnr six weeks ago at…
Click for larger image © Natasha Chornesky / Saddo Boxing On Friday night at the Orleans in Las Vegas, “Amazing” Layla McCarter banged out a hard fought six round decision over tough Texan Angelica Martinez at welterweight. McCarter, 24-13-5 (5), was coming off a loss just a month ago in a rematch against Melissa Hernandez…
In a riveting return to form last night at the Jako Arena in Bamberg, Germany, IBF Middleweight Champion Arthur Abraham showed no ill effects from a badly broken jaw suffered in his previous bout with Edison Miranda and went right through Canadian visitor Sebastian Demers in three rounds. Previously unbeaten prospect Demers survived the first…
It was another close fight when IBF Cruiserweight Champion Krzysztof Wlodarczyk rematched American opponent Steve Cunningham last night at the Spodek Arena in Katowice, Poland but this time it was Cunningham who came out the winner courtesy a majority decision. The two combatants originally came to grips last November for the vacant IBF title in…
The final press conference between WBO Heavyweight Champion Shannon “The Cannon” Briggs and challenger Sultan Ibragimov is due to take place this coming Wednesday in New York. Given the bad feeling that has been brewing between the two, the media in attendance could be in for some early fireworks as the countdown for their world…